Isaac tried to open his eyelids but they felt heavy as did the rest of his body. His muscles ached so much, making it difficult to move. However he found the strength to lift one hand before resting it back onto the ground in front of him. He eventually managed to find the energy to speak.
"I'm... alive"?! He barely muttered to himself.
The second his brain put two and two together, millions of questions began to explode in his head.
"How am I alive? Where am I?! What about titan station? What about... Ellie"?
He stopped bombarding himself with questions as soon as the thought of Ellie crossed his mind.
"She had escaped right?... Of course she did. She's too tough and stubborn to accept death so easily. She coped well enough with having one of her eyes being ripped out after all".
Isaac ignored his feelings for a split second and made an attempt to lift up. He pushed off the ground with both hands, struggling under his own weight. He knew that if he was alive. Of course, the ringing in his ears made it sound as though whoever was talking was miles away when they were in fact, right below him.
But even still it mattered little as his ears were still ringing and his vision was hazy. He only hoped that whoever it was would help him out before he collapsed again.
Once his vision came back to him within a matter of seconds, he looked round, he couldn't see anybody. He wondered if he was hearing things? It couldn't have been the marker screwing around with him anymore. Destroying it meant no more signal, no more fucked up visions. Right?
His hearing slowly increased as the ringing in his ears faded. Eventually, he heard...
"Excuse me but... are you okay"?
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From the CMC's point of view.
Applebloom looked at the metal monster before her, taking in every detail she could. It was big, black and had some sort of object attached to its hip. Before long, the creature raised one of its front limbs in the air for a few seconds before collapsing back onto the ground with a soft thump, scaring all three ponies enough to shuffle back an extra foot or so. They tried not to scream lest they invoked it.
All three fillies watched in awe as the metal machine rose to its full height, pushing its claws onto the ground in an effort to lift itself up. An amazing six foot at least!
Soon all three ponies let their jaws drop to the ground. It began to speak! Not at them however, in fact it didn't seem to have noticed them just yet. Even still the black machine stood there, talking to itself about somepony called Ellie.
Rather than stand and watch any longer, all three ponies whispered among st each other, trying hard not to move or even make eye contact with each other, just in case the towering beast saw them.
"What do you think it is"?
"I dunno".
"What should we do"?
"Panic"?
"That's yer answer ta everything"!
"I say we make a run for it. That thing doesn't look like its seen us yet".
"Ah dunno, it seems a little sad ta me".
"How can you tell that, it doesn't even have a face".
"Can't ya hear its voice? It sounds... lonely".
"Lonely"?
"I think you have a point Applebloom, it does sound a little down".
"So what do we do with it"?
"Ah guess the only thing we can do".
Applebloom walked up to the metal creature and spoke with a small amount of fear hanging onto her words. However, there was always the chance this conversation could end with a cutie mark. If the machine didn't eat them or whatever.
"Excuse me but... are you okay"?
The machine stopped moving for a few seconds before slowly tilting its head downwards Applebloom and her two friends who were more focused on Applebloom, giving her a look which plainly said "Are you insane"?!
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Isaacs view.
Isaac paused for a second before looking down to see three small horse like creatures looking terrified. He stumbled slightly before asking the same question.
"What are you supposed to be"? He managed to splutter, standing at his full height.
"Hey, we asked you first"! Squeaked the white one, finding some strength to talk. Isaac tilted his head Judging by their size and high voices, they must have been kids.
"Holy f...". He thought to himself. "I'm Isaac, Isaac Clarke. And you three are...".
The three fillies stepped closer, not too much as they still felt nervous with Isaac being a little over three times their own size. Applebloom found the courage to speak first out of her friends.
"Ma names Applebloom". She spoke cheerfully, forcing a small smile onto her face before pointing one of her front hoofs to one side with the white pony. "This ere's Sweetiebelle". She then pointed to her other side with the orange pony. "An This is Scootaloo".
Isaac tried to take in everything that he was experiencing. So far in his opinion, he somehow survived from Titan Station, he fell unconcious, woke up and met three talking horses. What. The. Hell? That's impossible. None of this could have been real, Isaac refused to believe it and just went with the belief that he was still unconscious.
"Are you ok Mister"?
Isaac shook his thoughts from his head. He looked down at the three miniature horse before turning round and headed towards the forest in an attempt to leave. Unfortunately for him, all three filiies galloped up and tried to block Isaacs path by standing right in front of him. This got Isaac to stop lest he wanted to tread on them. Real or not, it was against every muscle in his body to take another step and take another life.
"... What are you doing"? Asked Isaac impatiently, as though he wanted to be left alone.
"Y'all can't go in there"! Cried Applebloom.
"Why not? Its just a forest". Isaac asked calmly and crossed his arms, getting impatient.
"Don't ya know how dangerous the forest is"? She questioned him. Both her friends nodded to show how much they agreed. Sweetiebelle even tried to make her own point as well.
"Animals care for themselves and clouds move all on their own"!
Even though the three fillies couldn't see Isaac's real face, they were sure they heard something along the lines of laughter coming from him. This just seemed to make them angry once hearing him.
"Hey, We're serious"! Scootaloo harshly replied. Isaac stopped laughing, upon hearing her change of tone and bent down in front of him, ignoring the pain he felt in his muscles.
"Look, I don't know what's going on here but I'm not going to let a bunch of namby pamby horses tell me what to do. I don't care what is in that forest, you can't stop me, okay"?
All three fillies nodded, hardly managing to speak. Not because they were afraid but because they didn't think they were able to convince the machine no matter what they tried. Isaac stood up and stepped around them before heading towards the forest once more. He was only a few feet away from the tree line.
"Could you at least apologize"?
Isaac stopped for a second and sighed before turning round. He found the white unicorn grasping onto his left leg in an attempt to stop him for a few precious seconds.
"Apologize for what"?
"Crushing Wilma of course"!
Isaacs skin froze over.
"What? Oh shit"!
Isaac entered panic mode, believing that he had killed a small horse by accidentally stepping on it and looked around, forgetting that he was supposed to be ignoring the ponies.
Applebloom just stared at Scootaloo who shrugged, having no idea why the so called machine was so upset about a crushed sapling.
"Do you think he's one of those tree hugger ponies"? Asked Scootaloo to Applebloom in hopes for an answer. Applebloom looked at Isaac who now seemed to be questioning Sweetiebelle on who Wilma was and were her body was. She turned back to Scootaloo before Sweetiebelle gave her answer.
"Ya mean like Fluttershy? Ah guess so".
"...A tree? You got me worked up over a tree"?
The two ponies faced Isaac and Sweetiebelle, seeing them calm down as quickly as he had panicked
.
"umm... yes"? Sweetiebelle put on the most apologetic look she could.
Isaac face palmed.
"I don't believe this. Why can't I just go home or something". He said to himself.
"Excuse me, mister Isaac".
Isaac was starting to get why so many people didn't want to have children back on earth. They can easily drive you to the brink of insanity in only a short matter of time. He looked at the pony with the big bow in her hair.
"What"?
Whatever sweetness Isaac had in his voice, which was very little to begin with, had disappeared and was left with bitterness.
"Why don't you just do that weird portal trick like before if y'all want to go home so bad"?
"...Excuse me"?
"Yeah, you came from that weird purple portal in the air just over there".
Isaac looked at where she was pointing, just above the patch of soil that was home to "Wilma".
Isaac was at a loss for words, again. A portal? Seriously? Wasn't that the sort of thing you would find on a sci fi movie or a book or something? With this new information he dropped his theory about still being unconscious and decided to tell the little ponies the truth.
"I... don't know how". Isaac spoke calmly. Upon hearing his words, all three fillies seemed be simultaneously shocked.
"What"? The White pony squeaked.
"It's true. A portal isn't something that's supposed to exist back where I'm from".
The three ponies lowered their heads feeling sorry for Isaac. That was until the orange pegasus raised her head within a millisecond and looked as though she had an idea.
"What about Twilight? She's bound to know, what with her being an egghead and all".
"Great idea Scoot". Replied Applebloom, liking the idea. Both fillies looked at their other friend, Sweetiebelle and allowed her to speak.
"Mister Isaac, I think we can help you".