//------------------------------// // A New Experience // Story: The Excursion to the Spirit // by Mekanik //------------------------------// Chapter V “Do you like the brownies?” he asked as he approached the table to where Rarity, Twilight, and Fluttershy were sitting, still taking small bites of their chocolate squares. “I must say, they taste lovely” said Rarity while cleaning the side of her lip with a napkin from the chocolate. “Yes, what did you say you put in these?” asked Twilight. “Some of the plant you smelled yesterday” he said while looking over where Rainbow, Applejack, and Pinkie were just to make sure they don’t go out of their ways. “They’re gonna sleep like rocks any time soon.” “What do you mean?” Twilight asked, not knowing what he meant. “Watch this” he said while getting up and got his tablet out and woke it with a swipe of his finger across the screen, searching for the music player and made his way to the other three. “You wanna party?” they just stared at him with wonder as he set his tablet on the table with an Electro-House mix playing at full volume with a visualizer so they can look at it if they wish. “Oh gosh, ah can feel every movement mah body makes” Applejack said with her eyes closed and nodding her head with the beat of the music. “Woooooooooo!” she added loudly while Pinkie Pie joined her in a slow trot with a match of the pumping music. “Wow, this thing looks great!” Rainbow Dash said gleefully, staring closely onto the screen of the tablet, nodding with the beat, enjoying every second of the monochromatic display of exploding colors, matching that of the music. Making his way to the other trio of ponies, he just saw the faces of astonishment and confusion, and just sat next to Twilight Sparkle. “I’ve never seen them act this way. What’s happening to them?” Twilight asked. “It’s the brownies, the plant I put in them is actually marijuana” he said normally, knowing he’ll have to lecture her on a topic he enjoyed to teach. “Mareiwhat now?” Twilight asked confusedly. “Marijuana, also known as Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol or THC or just Cannabis, is a plant that gives a psychoactive and physiological effect when consumed; it’s also used for medicinal purposes to treat diseases and mental conditions. There are many kinds of marijuana plants, but this one in particular will relieve pain, stress, and insomnia; hallucinations, euphoria, losing track of time, and relaxed muscles are its effects, so with any other kind.” He explained while they stopped eating just to hear him. “So this plant of yours will make me act like that?” Fluttershy asked worriedly while pointing her hoof to the three partying ponies. “Well if you take small doses like you girls did, it’ll act like a mood enhancer, if that works it’ll probably make you eat more of the brownies, if not then you have a stronger tolerance towards cooked marijuana” he said, turning once again to look at the party-goers. -- Applejack looked around, her vision started to switch between the 3rd dimension to a flat –looking 2D as she saw the human approach the table next to her and set his glowing picture frame on it as music poured out of it, filling her ears with such strange notes and heavy beats, a rhythm she had to follow. She couldn’t help but close her eyes and let her body loosen up, such movements of her entire body, from neck to hooves, had a rich, slow, warm feel to it. Now forcing to keep her eyelids closed, she felt as if the music started to escalate, and got up to stand on her hind legs, feeling temptatious as to what’s about to be heard, still dancing while hoof-pumping (fist-pumping for those who don’t know) to the beat with her right hoof. “Woooooooooooo!” She screamed loudly with success as the high-pitched/high-excitement part of the song reached its climax, now jumping and pumping exaltedly, wishing this moment never ended. “My gosh, ah can go on forever” she thought while still dancing to the progressive but never-ending music. Now dancing even harder with her eyes still closed as the song got better, and better, and better, she kept on going. After she became bored of dancing, she made her way to the punch bowl because her throat got dry. After drinking a few cups of punch, she happily said “this tastes amazing!”, never experiencing such way of drinking, she could feel the liquid passing through her body, now taking the whole bowl and chugging it vigorously. Almost finishing the bowl, she tried to snap out of it, getting a bit worried of what they might think of her acting like this and set the nearly empty bowl of punch on the table, quickly making her way towards the human. “Hey, is it normal for me t’ act like this?” she asked with a hint of panic. “You must feel great right now” he said, gazing into her bloodshot eyes as she returned from looking at the distance, nothing in particular, to his eyes with an ever so growing smile and laughed hysterically. “Applejack, are you okay?” Twilight asked, not knowing what was so funny. Instead she just sat next to the sleeping Rainbow Dash, now completely tired from dancing and just laid next to her cyan friend, laughing herself to sleep. -- Rainbow Dash was smiling for no reason whatsoever, but she smiled and giggled at her unknown happiness. She then made her way to the table where the human set his glowing thingy on the table, continuing towards the tablet. She stared blankly to what it produced, enveloped in such vibrant and exploding colors, matching that of the music, and sat mere inches in front of it. Now fully focused on the screen, she felt each explosion of color go through her body as a warm wave. As time went on, she kept on watching and ignoring the distractions around her, this was way more interesting. This device was just incredible, is was even more incredible what she was just watching and experiencing, something she has never felt in her entire live, no other moment comes close to this one. As the music started to slow its beat and rhythm, she saw that the display of colors did. She relieved her muscles from the rush of excitement, her smile faded and her face turned to that of realization, she turned her neck to look at the rest of her friends sitting by a table talking to the human, “It all makes sense now…” she said, she didn’t know what made sense, it just did for some reason for her by what she just saw on the screen while the four of them turned to look at her. “What makes sense?” Fluttershy asked, not knowing what she really meant. She just spaced out for a bit, not fully processing what her yellow friend asked, and slowly turned to look at the direction of the human, with a slow but ever so growing smile on her face, “this. is. awesome!” she said gleefully, getting up and ran towards her human friend and opened her forelegs to hug him. “Hug me” she whispered with eyes closed and her chin resting on his shoulder. He just looked at her friends, arm open from the embracing mare and by the looks on their faces, he could tell they were pretty confused, so he just smiled and hugged her back. Now fully content with her hug, she didn’t feel like letting go, so she relaxed her muscles as her mind and body couldn’t take it anymore, still hugging him affectionately. He felt as Rainbow Dash was now fully relaxed and looked at her friends, which were still confused as to what just happened and grabbed her with care to set her aside to rest peacefully. -- “I told you” he said, smirking at Twilight. “Why did they act like that, I’ve never seen Applejack dance so much” Twilight said. “What do you know about this kind of behavior?” “It’s called a trip, Twilight, the chemicals released by the plant metabolized in her system, you tend to hallucinate and everything just seems funny and feels great for a reason. We can do experiments if you like” he told her. She didn’t like the uninformative description he gave her, but agreed to what he said at the end. Her expression faded suddenly, “Have you seen Pinkie Pie?” she asked him, thinking where her pink friend wandered off to. His face turned from relaxed to a worried one, “Oh no” he simply said, thinking what must of Pinkie done all this time while on her trip. I’ll make the next chapter longer, I promise.