//------------------------------// // Sorry... // Story: I hit Celestia with my pickup truck // by aegishailstorm //------------------------------// Nicholas Is by no means your average Colorado resident, He is paranoid, and has a tendency to break down in fits of rage, whenever someone pushes him to far. He also has an uncanny addiction to firearms. You see, Nicholas has a good reason for all these things, He is what other might call crazy, mentally challenged, weird. He is in fact none of these things, What he is, is a doomsday prepper, One who prepares for the time when civilization breaks down and the only thing you can trust is your guts and your firearm. But alas, even a self imposed bachelor of a doomsday prepper needs to put food on the table for himself. And when he first moved to Colorado, He had just the job in mind. A pyrotechnician, Why not after all? It Legally gives you the ability to blow things up. Nicholas loved his work, in fact, aside from hiking in the mountains and the occasional video game here and there, it was one of the few times he actually didn't mind hanging out with other human beings. However, soon would come an event that would change his life not much, but still... It was another, stereotypically nice and sunny day in Ponyville, and Twilight was testing out a new teleportation spell. Much to Spikes concern. "Twilight, Are you sure this is going to work? Last time you set your desk on fire." "Oh, I'm quite sure Spike. Here it Goes!" She Charged up here Horn, but instead of her getting teleported like she had intended, a purple bolt shot out from her horn, flew out the window, bounced right off the pavement outside, which sent it flying in in the direction of Canterlot. "Oh no, I hope that doesn't hit anything important, or anypony for that matter." Unfortunately for her, It did hit something important. Princess Celestia. She was sitting in her throne room, regal as always, When that same bolt of energy flew through the window, and hit her, square in the face. Meanwhile back on earth... It was another cold, dark, august night, and Nicholas had just gotten off work. And had began his drive home, he turned on the radio, and much to his joy, one of his favorite song was on the radio, Back in Black. He set the song on loop and turned the volume up to 30. He left town, and drove into the mountains in his modified surplus Humvee. The road was all dark, there were no street signs out this far from civilization, except for the moon, and the occasional mile marker, there were no cars in sight. He smiled, while other people would have found this situation creepy, He loved it. Peace, darkness and rock music. Yep, perfect. Princess Celestia found herself engulfed in darkness, She lit her horn, and looked around to find herself in a dark forest standing on what appeared to be a pathway of sorts. "Where am I?" She thought to herself, She turned to see a pair of bright lights flying towards her. She was so mesmerized by them she didn't even think that they could be dangerous. Nicholas was so busy enjoying the music, and the darkness of the highway that he didn't even notice what he was approaching until it was to late. "Ah, Musical violence, this couldn't get bet-HOLY MOTHER MARY WHAT IS THAT THING!" Nicholas slammed on the brakes, but not before he impacted the...whatever it was. Sending it flying across the highway. "Uh, What just happened?" He looked over at what he had just collided with. To see that it was glowing... pink? "I Better have not just hit an alien!" I've had just about enough of That Conspiracy Bull####!" He continued looking at it, it looked strangely horse like. Well, I'm not about to call the sheriff, last thing I need is a bunch of creepy government agents crawling all over these mountains. I'm going to have to deal with this myself. He grabbed his Glock 19 from his side. And a gas mask as well as a pair of Kevlar gloves from his glove compartment. He opened his truck door and cautiously stepped out. Flipping on his sidearm's flashlight as he did. He first looked both ways to make sure that no one else was on the highway. As soon as he was at least somewhat sure, he walked up to the front of his truck and made sure that the crash hadn't broken anything. Luckily, Its bumper had taken the full force of the impact, and his truck was completely unharmed with the exception of a few scuffs. "Oh thank god, my truck's ok! Now, the weird glowing thing!" He slowly approached it, until he was right on to of it. He walked around it. At first it appeared to be some strange alien horse, then he saw the wings, the horn and the gold regalia. "So, Pegacorn?" Wait a moment, I feel like I've seen you somewhere... And then it hit him. "Ah, Now I know were I recognize you from! I Was in Denver when I first came to Colorado, and I Decided to go out to a local gun show, Which oddly, was right next to a convention for...What was it again? Ah yes.. My little pony. Of course I didn't think anything of it at the time. But now... He looked over at the strange creature, It was battered from the collision and was bleeding in several places. "Well, I can't just leave her here like this, well at least I think its a her." He ran back to his truck, reached into the backseat, and pulled out a first aid kit. He ran back over to her, and knelt down, "Well, I need to call you something." he looked over the creatures body and spotted what appeared to be a tattoo of a sun on it's flank. "How about...Sunny?" No response from the creature, it just lay there. He felt its nervous system yep, it was still alive. Holstering his Glock, he pulled out a strip of gauze, and began to wrap 'Sunny's' wounds. "Wait, should, I use disinfectant?, I'm going to go on the safe side and go with no, no telling what it might do when it makes contact with her bloodstream." He finished bandaging her and looked back at his truck, then back at the creature. "Aright , now that that's done, I need to figure out how to get you in my truck's cargo bed. You're clearly to heavy to be carried across the whole road, I'm going to have to move my tuck a bit closer." He pulled off his gas mask, its not like he needed it. And ran back over to his truck. He drove it over to the spot where Celestia lay. "That's better" He lowered the bed door and pulled her into the back, not exactly gently. "Up you go! There! It's the least I could do seeing that I hit you with my truck going 50 miles an hour." He shut the door and hopped into the front seat. He kept driving as he had before, only this time, a tad bit more cautiously. Until at last he arrived at his house, a comfy 2500 square foot, two story house in the middle of a small valley, complete with a pond, bomb shelter, and sniper nests. Again, as other might have found a place like this place unnerving. He loved it. And couldn't imagine a more perfect place to live. He pulled into the driveway, turned off the car, and hopped out. "Now, here comes the hard part, Getting Miss 'Sunny' into my house." He groaned. Grabbing the Celestia by her front legs, he slung her over his shoulder, and speed walked over to his front door, stopping only to unlock it. He set her down on his living room couch, and ran to turn of his house's alarm system, then lock his front door. Nicholas walked back into his front room, and looked over at her. He could swear that he could see some of the wounds were beginning to slowly disappear. "Hmm, I didn't realize this at first, but you look stinking adorable! Ok, that sounded kind of weird... but still." He tapped his foot. "Well, goodnight I suppose, hope you feel better in the morning." He swore he could see her make a dim smile. "Jezz, this has by far been the strangest night of my life. It's only 9:30, I guess I better start doing some research on "sunny" over here." He grabbed a bag of beef jerky from the pantry, and some coffee from the fridge. He walked up to his bedroom and turned on his computer. Before entered the creatures characteristics into the browser search bar. "This is going to be a long, long night."