//------------------------------// // Chapter 10 - Must Investigate Further // Story: That time my OC got turned into a waifu // by Leondude //------------------------------// Lion woke up in what appeared to be in a hospital room, his head pounding from the night before. He looked down and noticed he was wearing some sort of gown. He didn't know what was worse, that he was still stuck in his female human form or that someone was playing dress-up with him in his sleep. Next time someone offered him cupcakes, or any confectionary for that matter, he would be certain to ask them if there's any cocaine in the cupcakes. Not that he should need to ask, but how was he supposed to know that a high school girl would bake a well-known Class A drug into a bunch of innocent-looking cupcakes? He turned over and saw Sally's face in the IV bag. "Oh, piss off, you sea-hag!" Lion grumbled in a half-drunken daze. "Is that the thanks I get for visiting you?" Sally asked cheekily. "I am appalled by your lack of bedside manner." "That because it's not my job to use bedside manner," Lion replied sardonically, "Considering I'm lying on a fucking bed!" "I noticed," Sally deadpanned. "And since you've been asleep for about a week, don't you think it's high time to get back to work?" Lion's eyes widened at that statement. "Did you say a week?" "Indeed I did," Sally replied. "Fuck!" Lion shouted. "Why didn't anyone try to wake me up?!" "Ever heard of a coma?" Sally asked. Without a moment's hesitation, Lion jumped out of the bed, ripped off his gown, and caused many patients to flatline and Code Blue alarms to go off before he quickly ran out of the hospital, randy weak-hearted men and women be damned. In an effort to learn more about his waifu from an alternate universe, Lion snuck around Twilight's old high school, Crystal Prep. Compared to Canterlot High, where everyone wore whatever they liked, everyone in Crystal Prep wore the same uniform. It reminded Lion too much of his own school days, having to wear a stupid uniform and learn shit that never really mattered in the grand scheme of things. It reminded him of all the worries of getting detention and therefore throwing a wrench into his routine, even though he was a well-behaved lad in his school years, Magical Kindergarten notwithstanding. The contrast between him now and him in his school years made him want to forget ever being in school, especially since some of his friends moved on with their lives. On the bright side, even though he had plenty of other reasons to do so, at least he didn't run a cult that brainwashed ponies into thinking cutie marks are bad just because he didn't know his friends' addresses. As all the students walked about, Lion tried to stealthily blend in and hid behind several lockers when the opportunities presented itself. However, it was difficult to blend in when one was only wearing a bra and a pair of knickers while everyone else was in uniform and his choice of hiding spots usually left him open to many a slap on the arse. In spite of the mild sexual harassment being very distracting, there was one thing that caught his eye. A dude with long, messy, dark red hair and a beard to match. Lion got a bit closer to look at his human doppelganger and noticed inside the locker was something that really had no place in a school. Having some experience in looting gunpowder for his cannons, Lion knew a gun when he saw one and, while it was definitely smaller than the muskets he was used to, that was definitely a gun in his other self's locker. One that his other self intended to use as he looked at the gun with a wicked smirk. "Lion, don't!" Lion shouted to his human duplicate. The other Lion slammed his locker in surprise and hoped no-one else saw his gun. He then looked at Lion in confusion, as if something was familiar about the nearly-naked girl in front of him but he wasn't sure what it was. Amidst all the wonder was a different kind of arousal. The kind that would compel men to stick electrodes that stimulated certain centres of the brain on a pretty lady just to see what would happen. But such thoughts could wait since he would need to get to class soon. The school day was over and the other Lion waited for his mum to pick him up from school. While waiting, he noticed the girl he met this morning standing a bit too close to him. "Uh...hi?" Lion awkwardly said to the other Lion. "Hello," the other Lion said in an equally awkward manner. The two Lions stood around, trying to figure out how to keep the conversation going. "You didn't see anything weird in my locker, did you?" the other Lion asked. "Only what I assume was a gun," Lion replied. "Other than that, nothing else." "Promise me you won't tell anyone about that." "Why?" Lion asked, "What were you going to use it for." "There's this classmate of mine that doesn't do much work, frequently messes around, and gets in trouble with the teacher," the other Lion replied. "Soon enough, it will get to a point where the entire class will suffer for it. And I will not do schoolwork during my break-time because some idiot slowed down the rest of the class." "So you're gonna kill him for it?" Lion asked with concern. "Pretty much," Lion bluntly replied, "But I'll do it before I go to class so no-one will know it was me." Lion was surprised at how much this other version of him reminded him of himself when he was younger. Sure, he never killed anypony but he wasn't a stranger to using illegal spells if it suited his purposes. Problem was, when it came to his attempts at using magic to alter ponies' personalities or mentally torture them, he never really focused his magic on his classmates the same way he focused his magic on pretty mares. Good thing he mellowed out considerably when he left school and started a career in writing comic books, with a bit of piracy on the side. "Yeah, you really shouldn't do that," Lion said, "What if you do get caught?" "I'll plead insanity." "And what if they consider you sane? Are you willing to throw your life away over something as small as a class clown?" Lion's other self looked away. "No, but do you have any idea how frustrating it is having my routine interrupted?" "More than you'd think. But the thing is shit changes all the time, and those changes include changes to one's routine. The only thing you could do when that happens is take something to calm you down and just ride the wave. Trust me, over time, you'd forget how things used to be." A white car showed up. Recognizing it as his mum's car, the other Lion walked up to it and got in. Lion, on the other hand, just looked for the nearest payphone to call Sunset on and hoped there were a couple of quarters laying around.