//------------------------------// // Arrival // Story: I hate Mondays // by Malaggar00 //------------------------------// "This is so bullshit!" Shouted a young man as he sprinted through a forest pursued closely by a large man in a torn cloak, as fast as he could muster the young man sprinted into a clearing and spotted a massive tree. Without hesitation he ran for it, dodging low branches and leaping over logs. As he reached the tree he glanced back over his shoulder at the creature following him. It was large, sharply dressed, humanoid but not human, it had arms that ended just a few inches above the ground, which trailed massive razor sharp claws. It was the Revier, the trans dimensional beast from the void between universes. Immediately he started scaling the tree adrenaline pumping through his veins, 10 feet. 15 feet. 20 feet. 25 feet. as he reached thirty feet, he looked down, to see the Reiver also scaling the tree, he quickened his pace, he reached the hundred foot mark. A brainwave hit him like a sledge hammer. He looked down as he tore out a branch and stared at the Reiver as he raised the branch the Reiver looked up. Starting to emit short bursts of white noise, which seemed to be laughter. The young man felt a grin pull at his mouth, as he brought the branch around like a sword smashing the branches in its wake, broken twigs and leaves showered down, Reiver evaded them still laughing, the young mans grin spread a cross his face as Reiver looked up, and instantly stopped laughing at what he saw. The young man had shattered all the other branches around him, except for a few which he started shattering, after a few minutes where Reiver was highly astonished he started up again, but the youth had gotten out of his reach, and had removed the last of the branches for a five meter space, Revier snarled in anger as he tried to scale the space. -meanwhile 70 or so meters up the tree- Back up in the higher parts of the tree, the youth kept climbing until he could find an area to rest, after a while he found an area where two thick branches collided to form a massive fork. As he sat the young man reflected on what had happened over the past few minutes. He was Sasha Nicholls, a 16 year old boy who had recently passed his exams, and had gone camping with his friends to celebrate. While he was away from the camp, Reiver had ambushed him, trapping him in another dimension, tearing a hole in the universe. Now he was stuck here until ether he died, the Reiver caught him or the dimension he is stuck in implodes. Seeing as Reiver will send him to the void if he was caught, and the dimension is maintained as long as Reiver lives he came to one conclusion, it was risky but it might work, he continued climbing, when he reached an altitude of 12000 meters and he waited, after a few minutes. Reiver was almost at him. Then Reiver saw the human peek over the ledge and smile a smile that sent shivers down slender’s spine “Sup Reiver.” said the human as he leaned over the edge, “think fast!” He yelled as Sasha, diving over side feet first and landed on Reiver's head, grabbing his flailing arms and pulling them up avoiding the claws as they flailed, they fell, it was hard to keep balanced on a point like a head while holding onto an inter dimensional horror, but he steadied on firm, he looked down to see the ground rushing up to meet them, just as they hit the ground, they shattered a dimensional weak point and pelted into the void. As they plunged into the void Sasha brought Reiver's arm up and touched them to his left shoulders before the void tore him apart. -meaner while in Equestria- What's that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a-(alright enough of this reference). Rainbow Dash was trying to teach Fluttershy to be a better flyer, so Rainbow decided to try flying over the ever free forest. It wasn't going that well. Fluttershy had barely used her wings in the past few years. Rainbow’s hands and face were really getting sore from all the face-palms, when suddenly Fluttershy let out a shrill shriek, that almost made Rainbow topple out of the sky. After Rainbow’s ears stopped ringing, she looked around searching for the cause when her eyes saw a stallion, lying face down in a spreading pool of blood. She sped to the ground as fast as her wings could carry her. As she landed, she sprinted towards the fallen figure, to suddenly realize that he wasn't a pony. She pushed that out of her mind. As she reached the prone figure, she looked around to see Fluttershy behind a tree, sobbing quietly. But she ignored that too as she flipped him over. Okay he was definitely not a pony. He appeared to have fur on his face around his chin and mouth. And a short mane cut. As she examined his face, she saw his eyes open, just a fraction and his body started shaking as if in laughter. “just great.” Whispered the figure, so quietly that she could barely hear. He pulled himself to his knees, and started crawling towards the tree that Fluttershy was behind. He leaned over and appeared to be calming her down. As soon as he stood, Flutteshy rose to. As he started his way back to Rainbow, he collapsed against a tree. falling to his knee clutching his left side where there was a massive gash from his shoulder to his knee. As Rainbow approached he raised his head. As she reached him he looked into her eyes, they were... Well a word has to be made to describe them. They were conflicted, fighting themselves to find out what color they were. Green. Blue. Red. Purple. They kept shifting until they finally rested, at a sort of pinkish color that match Rainbow’s eyes. They just stared at each other eye to eye. Oblivious to the world around them. And in that moment she saw all the pain, the anger, the sadness and the longing to belong and for peace. But it was short lived, as a wave of pain flashed across his body. Causing spasms of pain which shot all over him. His head suddenly shot up. A burst of light that almost blinded, them burst from his head. After a few seconds the light dissipated, and he fell forwards collapsing onto the ground. As quick as a flash Rainbow sprinted to Fluttershy who had returned to her behind brethren and pulled her to her feet. “Come on Fluttershy we need to take him to the hospital.” “Umm is he okay?” “Not if we don’t take him to the hospital.” Getting Rainbow’s point Fluttershy got up and ran to the prone figure, followed closely by Rainbow, who reached him first. Grunting slightly, Rainbow lifted him up and heaved him onto her shoulder. Fluttershy took hold of his left side, causing him to clutch it in pain. His head shot up and he gritted his teeth in a grimace of agony. “Can we get going.”Said the stallion gritting his teeth “Yea lets get going.” Said Rainbow -five hours later- “Okay we’re going absolutely no where.” Said the stallion with a defeated look on his face. He looked over at Rainbow and a his eyes lit up. “One sec.” He said and concentrated. At that moment a flash of golden light blazed for a second behind him. When it disappeared it reveled a pair of enormous, pure white, feathery wings. “What?” said Rainbow gawking at his wings “What?” He said looking back at her. “How did you grow wings?” “Oh that. Simple really.” He replied with a small grin. “Seeing as I fell through the void, it pumped tonnes of void energy into my body. Causing me to be able to morph my body and matter around me. Allowing me to create or change the properties of matter around me.” “Wat.” “...” “...” “I screwed Darwin over” “Oh. Darwhiney.” “Sorry what?” “Darwhiney? You know the pony that found manticores, dragons and Cerberus in the gallopigus islands.” (Crapy horse puns away!) “Gallopigus? Really?” “...” Sasha faceplamed. “... Anyways.” He said and sent a psychic probe into Rainbows head, filling her head with his memories and knowledge. don’t worry i’m just constructing a neural link between you and me. You’ll see my memories and i’ll see yours. “Let's take off.” Said the stallion known as Sasha. As he raised his wings, Rainbow felt her wings doing the same. “Allons y!” He yelled as he flapped his new wings. “To the hospital!” Yelled Rainbow taking off after him. “Omigoodnes omigoodnes omigoodnes omigoodnes.” Said Fluttershy following them. -Meanwhile thousands of meters away- A wormhole opened in the middle of the forest and a squad of marines fell out. They wore green jungle camo with matching bulletproof vests. They were human soldiers. A commando team that were snatched out of time from the Vietnam war. Driven mad by what they saw while whirling through time and space. Seeing and knowing the whole of the space-time continuum. Watching everything burn and die for what felt like eternity. When they arrived they were batshit crazy. Believing that they were high on the battle field and that all other life was the Vietcong forces. “Move out men!” Yelled the Sargent “Sir,yes sir!” Yelled the hallucinating marines raising their weapons and took aim searching the area. A bird squawked, and at once, automatic fire danced around the bird who just sat there passively. When the marines ran out of bullets, the bird squawked again. To have a following chorus of swear words from the soldiers below.