//------------------------------// // Stay right where you are and hope for the tunnel to open again // Story: Choose Your Pony Adventure // by palelordhiphis //------------------------------// "I really need to get back," you say to the white unicorn with the purple mane. "Oh, don't be silly, you need to get to the hospital and that's just what we're going to help you do," she replies while smiling at you. "But, I don't belong here... I have to find the tunnel... I'm not a pony... I'm-" you say while turning to the pink one. "You're really a hairless ape from another world where you use machines instead of magic and you fell through a tunnel into our world and forgot your name! Right?" "Exac-" you start to agree but Rarity cuts you off midway. "Oh, Pinkie Pie, really! Don't bother the poor thing. He's obviously had a hard enough time of it as it is today without all of your... special kind of reasoning." "Okie dokie Loki." As they begin to chat with one another you continue to look around for the tunnel that brought you to this crazy world. You can see a shady woods not far from where you're sitting with the two strange ponies and figure it could be a decent place to hide. If they take you to the pony hospital, who knows if you'll ever find the tunnel again. "What's that over there?" You shout while waving a hoof in the opposite direction of the woods. As the two ponies turn to look, you stumble to your feet, or hooves, and try to run towards the woods as fast as you can. "Oh, is it cotton candy clouds with chocolate milk rain?" the pink one shouts. "There's nothing over there," Rarity says as she turns to face you again and instead sees your flank charging towards the forest. "Wait! That's the Everfree forest! That's no place for a pony with a head injury," she shouts as they both start to run after you. You manage to get to the edge of the forest before them and burst through the underbrush into the cool dark interior. You quickly look around for any kind of cover and, as you hear their hooves closing in on the edge of the forest, you spot an uprooted fallen tree with a mostly dead bush near it. You dive into the hole where the roots have been torn up and pull the dried, but still leafy bush over yourself. "He just went in here, he can't possibly be very far," you hear the one with the transatlantic accent say. "I dunno, Rarity, maybe he knows how to teleport. I mean, how'd he get into the sky before he fell out of it?" "Don't be silly. Only unicorns can cast spells. Come now, he must be further in." You hear the ponies take a few more steps into the forest and then suddenly stop. "Maybe we should get Twilight and the others," Rarity says with a shudder in her voice. "Yeah, I think you're right." You hear their hoof-steps clack away into the distance, away from your hiding place. Choose your pony adventure: Stay under the bush and wait so you can go back to the meadow after they leave Change your mind and decide to go to the pony hospital after all Go deeper into the Everfree Forest