//------------------------------// // Chapter 2.5: Jake's Awkward Encounter // Story: The Forge Chronicles // by Sirjadan13 //------------------------------// Chapter 2.5 Jake’s Awkward Encounter Jake here. Now many of y’all are probably wondering, “What happened to me when Alex hung up.” Well, I’ll tell y’all, but this might be a bit painful for you to listen to. You have been warned! --------------------------------------------------- “Wait, Cole made it here as well?! How did that happ-and he hung up on me. Great just great.” After Alex hung up, I decided to study my surroundings. Apparently, I ended up on a path that looked like it led to a small town. When there’s a town, there’s people. When there’s people, there’s a way to fix this mess. Then that’s where I’m going. With vigor running through my body, I followed the road. While I was walking, I viewed the landscape around me. It was a fantastic day, well except for Alex’s whole backfire power-thing. But I ignored that little hiccup, and continued on my way. However, something seemed off about the area around me. There were animals that seemed to give me weird looks. Some stared in wonder, others looked scared. But perhaps the most common look I was getting was of determination. It seemed like they where ticked off about something. Then I noticed a rabbit that was giving me a ‘go to hell’ look. I figured that he was their leader, or the overall jerk of the group. But I paid no attention to the looks I got and continued on my way, only to be stopped at the sight of a cottage. It was getting late in the afternoon, so I figured why not ask the person who lives here for a place to stay. I made my way to the door and knocked...only to hear a startled yelp, as well as frantic hooves galloping across the house. And then everything got quiet. What the hell was that?! Does this person let their horse in the house? Well only one way to find out. I went to open the door to find it unlocked.Weird. Making my way inside, I surveyed the house. One word came to my mind to describe it: cosy. It looked like someone hired a Disney animator to decorate it. There were mice holes, and bird houses everywhere. Just before I could survey the rest of the house, I could hear faint whimpering from underneath the couch. I looked underneath the couch, and I saw something I never wanted to see. Now back home I knew enough about ‘Friendship is Magic’ to understand that its popularity is crazy. But I did not hate it, nor did I find the need to watch it. So, guess what my first reaction to seeing Fluttershy was. Well, out of shock, I fainted. Ponies, why did it have to be ponies? ------------------------------------ Several hours later “*YAWN, w-where am I?” I awoke in a very comfortable bed that was just my size, but barely. Who put me here? More importantly, why did I pass-out in the first place? These were good questions that I was about to find answers to. I got out of the bed to find that my gear had been stored next to the nightstand. Everything I packed was there: pistol, other weapons that I do not want to mention, binoculars, hunter knife and my prototype lightsaber. Gear in check, I made my way outside of the room to find that a certain group of people were waiting for me. Actually I should say a certain group of, ‘ponies’ were waiting for me. And every. Single. One. Of. Them. Was looking straight at me. “You’ve gotta be kidding me,” I said at last. That seemed to kick them out of their frozen state. Then the onslaught of questions broke through them like floodgates to a damm. “What are you?” “How do you stand like that?” “What are you wearing?” “Do you like parties? Just before I could answer any of their questions, my phone rang. “Jake. Can you still hear me,” Alex said. After that happened, They were dead quiet. Then they started whispering questions between themselves. They kept on giving me weird looks; some were shocked, others looked curious, and only one of them smiled at me with a huge grin. Wanting to avoid the onslaught of questions that would return, I made my way out the front door and answered Alex. “Where the heck have you been man!” “Jake, I am deeply sorry-” There he goes again with the bad excuse routine. “I don’t want to hear it. Today was the worst. Day. EVER!” I made sure he felt my wrath through the phone. “First you get the bright idea to overcharge yourself, sending us to lord knows where! Second I come across this cottage who the only one living there is a pink haired pegasus pony, who got the crap scared outta her just by looking at me and finally, the rest of her friends came along and started asking stupid questions like, ‘where do you come from, what is your species, and do you like parties?’ You’ve got some explaining to do Alex, and I’m not hanging up until I get answers!” ...You know, looking back at this know, maybe I was too hard on Alex. And plus I was having a very bad day. Then, following a puff of green fire from within the cottage, a soothing voice calmed my nerves down. “You can find out the answers in person. I have a train set up with a private trip to Ponyville. You can thank me later.” Ponyville. So thats what the town is called. Why am I not surprised. After the call ended, I returned to the house...only to find the ponies frantically galloped out the door. So I decided to follow them. We ran straight through the town, earning some strange looks, and continued to the train station. We arrived, and we waited. Several minutes later, the train arrived. Disembarking off the train was none other than my idiotic brother, my cousin Cole Macgrath, and...was that an older Cole in a white trench-coat? Too many question were going through my head, although one thought stood out from the rest: How did we end up in Equestria, and why are we even here? “Like I said Alex, you got a lot of explaining to do,” I said. Just before he was about to answer, all of us heard a strange noise coming from behind us. (Whhhhooooosshh, Whhhhooooosshh, Whhhhoooooosshh boom.) We all turned around to find a strange blue box. None of us made a sound, until the door of the box opened. A strange man stood in the entrance. He gave us a once over and said, “Well...this is new!”