//------------------------------// // Arrival // Story: The Excursion to the Spirit // by Mekanik //------------------------------// Chapter I The party was over, people were leaving, and he was tired. He just wanted to go home, to get the leather jacket off and just sleep. It was like no other party, but still the same in a sense. The booze, the women, preps, LSD, Kush, it was all there. There wouldn't be any other reason to be elsewhere but that party for the Kush, just to get away from work, dealing with cars ready to die on their owners for not paying attention to the gauges. Wanting to forget the stress each customer puts on him for fixing something they didn't want besides the oil and spark plug change, some of them even told him if he could fix the spark plugs instead of buying new ones. Some people... As he slowly approached his car, he giggled at the thought of the party and what a great time he had and reached for his key remote on his left jacket pocket, no wait, that pocket has the bag of weed. As he reached into the right pocket in his jacke... no that’s the pipe and lighter. Searching his right pocket in his pants he clicked the button of his car to unlock the doors and pressed another button in his remote to start the engine. Tossing his jacket in the back seat and removing his wallet from his back pants pocket and setting it on the passenger side. Setting the key to its rightful ignition position, he steps on the clutch and sets it to first and drives off. He drove to his place with tranquility as it was one past midnight, still feeling a bit above from taking the bong. He decided to not drink because he thought it was something that was "overused" by society and made him lose his focus and balance, not to mention the state was planning on putting road blocks to catch anyone who ingested alcohol. And just to stay above (literally) the rest of his friends. Driving on, he could see and perceive his surrounding, but felt his eyes heavy. As he was driving in the same two-lane road he was on, nothing but fields and center pivot irrigation systems passing by, he decided to take a nap or sleep the whole night until morning. He slowly stepped down from 110 MPH in the lonely road by shifting from 5th to neutral and lightly stepping on the brake. Watching the needle moving down, he looked up at the reflection of a bright light coming down the road, "fucking street bikes with HID's" he said to himself. Still looking at the light and reacting, he quickly started down-shifting to slow down seeing as the light was getting brighter and going straight at him. It was too late, he turned his neck to the side to avoid being hit by the air-bag and the blinding light or possibly getting hit by a 450 lb. bike, he just saw light everywhere and felt a bad vibe in his mind, leaving him unconscious. --- “Are you sure this will work?” Rarity said, wanting to know if Twilight’s Remote Object Teleportation spell will work. “Of course Rarity, I’ve studied this spell for over a week now and I’m sure it’ll work out perfectly” Twilight Sparkle said as she walked out of her library with Rarity behind her. While Applejack was approaching the library to find out if her new spell will work or not, Twilight and Rarity came out into the dusk open. “Are ya sure this spell of yours will work?” Said Applejack with a wary eye, ignoring the thought of something bad happening to her apple cart. “Don’t worry AJ, I studied and researched this spell for a while and I’m sure it’ll work like I planned” Twilight said confidently, “Did you place the cart in its appropriate location?” she added. “Like you told me, right outside the farmhouse” Applejack said. Rarity then walked to Applejack's side "After all, I need your cart to haul a few gems and diamonds tomorrow morning” she said. “All I need to do is imagine your cart and where it’s placed to make it appear here” Twilight said while stepping away a few feet from the library. “Okay girls, I’m going to start the spell” she told her friends. She then started to focus on her new spell by imagining the location and spot where the cart is placed in said location and where she wanted to place it, in front of her library. Closing her eyes, her horn started to emit a clear magenta glow as a small bright dot appeared in front of her, expanding as she continued. The bright orb of light then got various times her size, blinding her friends, making them hide their eyes with a foreleg as a black object appeared and moved fast by them with a growling sound but seeming to die down as it slowed down for some reason. It then stopped and lifted the dust off the wheels, uncovering their eyes to what just materialized from Twilight’s spell; they turned to their left to see a black object with a pair of red lights on it. They stared at it in awe. “That ain’t mah apple cart”, said Applejack with a look of confusion. The three of them made their way to the strange cart. As the dust settled, they were staring at what appeared to be the front of it, putting a hoof in front of their faces to cover their eyes from the pair of bright lamps. “I’ve never seen anything like it; it seems like a carriage of some sort, but there’s no harness to pull it”, said Twilight in a somewhat low tone with wonder. Everything outside the strange contraption was all black, from the wheels to the windows. Rarity walked to the side of the vehicle to examine it, “Although I must say, it looks rather luxurious. Perhaps we should try and open this door” Rarity said while pointing to the rear right door. Twilight and Applejack walked to where Rarity was when Twilight stepped in to try and open the door with her magic, pulling on what resembled the door’s handle to no avail. “It’s locked” she said, “maybe we should look at it in the morning with the others, I’m sure there’s nopony in there and it’s getting late” Twilight added. “Ah guess I should get back too” Applejack said while turning to leave. “Well I could get a better look at it tomorrow morning, which means I need to go to Sweet Apple Acres to get the cart Applejack lent me.” Rarity said with a sigh, “Anyways, have a good night darling” she then turned around to leave. Twilight turned towards her library door and pushed it open with her magic. Making her way to the stairs to reach her bedroom, preparing a new scroll and quill on the table of the middle floor of the library, she saw Spike right about to go to bed. “What was that sound? Did your spell work?” Spike said, waiting for an interesting response from the book mare. She then made her way to her bed and undid the covers to allow herself in; she turned to her left to turn off the lamp with her hoof and said to Spike. “Wait until tomorrow, I’m as interested as you are, Spike” she finally said, flicking off the switch of the light for the night. ~~ Comments/critics always welcomed. It'll progress to what the description intends (the technology and drugs part). This is a different take on what would happen if a human presented hallucinogenics to ponies, some fics that include drugs that I've seen here take it as a joke and aren't that serious, and I want to write/see what each pony experiences with psychedelics. I'm not forcing anyone to try them if they don't want to (except these ponies, because they have no clue [hehehe]).