//------------------------------// // Not again // Story: Why me? // by Ice //------------------------------// Brice walked through the town center, getting glances from ponies. He noticed that the town had been cleaned up since the most recent "Event". He saw several restraunts and houses but he didn't found a shop that sold diffrent items instead of specific wares. He walked into the shop which was surprisingly tall considering the hight of most ponies. "Hey there, can I help you?" The voice was old but kind. Brice turned around to see an older stallion at the till, he looked about in his seventies. "Yeah, I'm looking for some ropes, bottles, food and mountain climbing gear." The stallion left the counter and about five minutes later he came back with the requested items. "Food is in the back, I'll keep your stuff here." A minute or two later Brice came back with two loaves of bread, two bags of wheat and a bag of five apples. The stallion looked over everything. "That'll be eighty bits." Brice looked into his bag and counted out what Applejack had payed him before. "60." He thought. "Um take out the bag, the boots and a bag of wheat." "Okay that'll be...fifty five bits." "Throw in an apple pie then!" "That'll be fifty nine bits." The stallion was getting a bit annoyed with the constant changing of the price but Brice was his first coustomer in a long time. Brice handed over the bits and walked out of the shop, pie in hand. "I'm going to enjoy this." He thought as he was about to take a bite out of it he heard somepony shouting. "PIE!" "Wait..what?" He turned around to see a blue figure grab it out of his hands and fly upwards. "HEY GIVE THAT BACK!" He shouted to the mystery figure. "No way, its the last one in town plus you can't fly, so whatcha gonna do about it?" He said with an evil smile. "I can't fly but I do have opposable thumbs!" with that he grabbed his last bit and threw it at the figure, hitting it in between the eyes. Losing its concentration, it fell to the ground with a *thud*. "You gonna talk or I'm gonna be repating history." It was an empty threat but Brice made his hand in a fist to make it seem real. Then he picked up the theif with his left hand. The tief had recoverd slightly so Brice looked it over. It was a stallion who had a light blue coat. His mane and tail were blue but they verged on purple. "Hold on a second.... You are Soarin' aren't you?" ".....yeahthanksforthepiemanbye!" And with that he dashed of with the spoils of battle. "Is he releated to Pinkie Pie?" After about ten minutes, Brice reached the edge of the Everfree forest. "Ipod Whispers in the Dark, Skillet, 50%." He waited for about a minute but nothing happend. He looked down to see his Ipod had disappeared. "Ugh let's see Soarin?... No... Shop?... No... Library?.... Buck." He turned around and began to head to the library. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meanwhile at the library, Princess Luna had arrived. "Do you understand the plan, sister?" Celestia had summoned her sister and fifteen royal mages to the library along with the six elements. "Yes we do but though does not understand why!" "The less you know the better, dear sister." She turned to the mages. "Cast the tracking spell." *thud thud thud* The sound came from the front door. "Who is it?" Shouted Twilight form her seat. "It's the six foot, omnivore, court god, biped." Everpony in the room was stunned at their good luck. "Prepare to grab him." Celestia whispered to her mages. "Come in!" Twilight said approching the door. "Sup?" Brice could tell he was going to regret coming back. "NOW!" Shouted a regal voice which Brice couldn't place. Suddenly his body was coverd in a white glow preventing him from moving. He felt his body being lifted and soon he was dropped on the couch. "Bucking foresight." He thought. "Okay what do you want from me?" "Nothing, we simply were worried about you and brought reinforcements in case somepony had captured you." Brice looked up. It was the same voice as last time. To his suprise, he noticed the fifteen mages and two alicorns. "Um are you serious or kidding me?" "We are serious but we have also come to inform you that due to your age you must attend the local school. Twilight I trust this shall not happen again?" "Yes princess Celestia." She was suprised that her mentor was speaking like Luna. (Had you there didn't I?) After some private words with the six, the two Alicorns and their entourage left, leaving a confused Brice. "You okay? You seem upset!" Ssked Rainbow Dash "Did she say I have to go back to school?" His voice was serious. "Yeah why, it's just school!" It was Twilights turn to speak. "NNNNNOOOOO!!!!" "Wow calm down it's not all bad I don't know what school is like on earth but it's fun here!" Brice beagan to stare at Twilight. "Ugh fine I'll give a shot,who knows maybe it won't be so bad..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next day started out pretty much the same, Twilight was suprised that when she came down the stairs Brice was already awake and having breakfast. "Why are you up so early school isn't till nine!" "Meh same as on Earth, except that I got up at five to get the bus at five past eight." 'Heh Applejack would be proud.' She thought. "So you got what you need?" "I went to the school and I asked the teacher, she said that just bring a pencil and notebook, so I put them in my bag." Twilight's eyes light up at the mention of the mystery bag. "You know what? Give it to me I'll show you what's in it!" Using her magic she passed the bag to him. "Okay, this is a DS, you use it you play virtual games. The one I've got with me is Professor Layton, it is problem solving, you'd like it." He switched it on and passed the stylus to her. "That's the stylus you use that to put in your answer here." He demonstrated it for her doing the first puzzle witth the bridge and cogs. "That's amazing what else have you got in there?" Twilight was obviously excited . "I'll show you later but right now I'm going to go for a walk before school, I'll see you at two." And with that he left. "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS MONSTER SLAYERS,YAY!" came a huge, synchronized shout from down the street. "Oh no not them!" He thought as a dust cloud approched him at an insane speed. "CHARGE!" Brice was quickly knocked to the ground and jumped on by the three fillies. "Yeah get him, Yeah!!" they all shouted for a couple of seconds. "GET OFF OF ME!!!" He shouted, throwing two of them off leaving the third one to get off herself. "Sorry mister, we thought you were a monster!" Said the yellow one with a bow in her mane. "Don't worry about it....until we do dodgeball." He had a slight smile as he spoke. "What do you mean?" Said the orange pegasus. "Well I'm going to your school now." "Wow that's cool" Said the yellow one. "Yeah, well... What's you names?" "Well, I'm Applebloom, this is Scootaloo and this is Sweetie Bell. What's yours?" She said pointing to her two friends and then Brice. "The name's Brice." He said worried what they might pull next. "Is everypony okay?" Brice turned around to see Zephyr approching him. "Yeah they thought I was a monster so they were just doing their business to free the community." "No we weren't, we were trying to get our cutie marks!" "Oh right" Suddenly he had an evil glint in his eyes. "Hey girls come here a second... *whis whis whis whis* "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS HOME DESGINERS YAY!" They shouted as they ran into Zephyr's house . "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU" The anger was evident in Zephyr's voice as he rushed into his house. Looking forward to it!" Shouted Brice as he looked at the town hall clock, it was now 7:30. "Going for a nap!" As time drove on Brice woke up to the sound of his Ipod's alarm. "Oh shit 8:55!" He thought as he ran towards the school. After four minutes of running, (remeber that) he could see the school. It was about two minutes jog and one minute full speed so he decided to bolt it. 'Not gonna make it!' He thought as he reached the gate, catching his breath. "Why were you running Brice?" He looked down to see Scootaloo looking at him. "Didn't want to be late..." He said after catching his breath. "But school dosen't start for another five minutes!" She said pointing at the town clock. Brice looked at his Ipod then the clock, readjusting the time. 'Blasted thing must've stopped when it ran outta power...' He thought. "Is everypony here?" He heard a voice call out. "Yes Ms.Cheerilee" Shouted everbody except Brice. "Okay let's go in then!" She called out. 'Okay first day of school.' He thought as he walked into the classroom. "Ah, nice to see you again Brice!" He turned to see Cheerilee sitting at a desk. "Yeah, well, first day might as well come in." He joked. "So what are we doing today?" "Well I was wondering if you could give a short presentation about your life on earth then I could assign the class to write an essay from it." "Uhm, sure, why not?" He said. "Okay class, this is Brice, he will be telling us about "Earth" so listen up because there will be an essay on it!" After explaining about how things like pegasus and unicorns don't exsist on Earth, he explained how Earth made daily life easier with technology, eventualy getting to his Ipod. He then went onto biology. "Okay so humans are bipeds, can anypony tell me what that means?" He asked after some waiting he saw a hoof go up. "Yes...." "My name is Diamond Tiara." "Okay I'll just call you Diamond, so, Diamond what is a biped?" "A biped is somepony who has two arms and two legs." "You are right and wrong, a biped has two legs but that dosen't limit it's other limbs." "Wait so there are humans with more than one head?" shouted Applebloom. "Yes but I would really prefer not to go into that." He was worried about talking about to much. Thankfully the bell rang for the end of the day. (It was a really long speech.) As he walked out the schoolyard he was approched by two fillies one he recognised as Diamond but he didn't know who the other one was. "Hey dweeb." Said the one he didn't reconise but he would remember her after this for sure. "Cause of you we have to write an essay so you can ours for this!" She said. 'Ugh what a brat.' He thought. "No chance." "Excuse me, I don't think you know who I am." She was getting angry. "No but I can tell: you are a rich snob who dosen't care about others, as long as you get your own way." "DADDY!" 'This gotta be fun!' He thought. "What's the problem honey?" A white stallion approched them. "This weirdo won't do my homework for me and it's his fault we got it!" "My good sir, I do beleive you should be doing it for her if what my daughter days is true." "Why should I do anything for a little spoilt brat?" "I beg your pardon sir what did you say?" "Ugh do I need to spell it out for you?" "How about a bet then?" "Go on." "I just know this is going to be unfair." Brice thought "Soarin' my boy come here!" "Yeah da.....goddess no!" "Me and you still need to talk Soarin!" Brice said. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Screamed Soarin' like a four year old girl, dashing off. "GET BACK HERE!" Roared Brice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Authors note:Thanks again Zephyr.Also does anybody know any good songs if so comment.