//------------------------------// // More of day 5. // Story: Good, bad, and why me? // by Normalguy //------------------------------// More of day 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ With me still on my new mother's back I just watch the amusing scene of Twilight's face shifting from one emotion to the next. With all the faces she's making not one of them seem to have the emotion of joy what so ever. Twilight is the first of her friends to come up from her bow and walks over to us. " Can I get off now?" I ask Celestia. I'm still not comfortable to referring her as my mother. It just seems suspicious. " Sure, why don't you go to Luna and ask her to get you something to eat." The natural reply from common family's. " Got it." I walk away from her at a moderate pace passing the amusing Twilight and her friends. " Hey everyone what's up?" " How in tartarus did you come back?" Replies Rainbow first, the others nod in agreement. " Cause i'm awesome. Duh." I say nonchalantly, as I walk by to Luna. The four ponies look to each other making a face only friends could understand. Being the person of who I am, I just walk by to Luna and get some food. " Hey Luna what is there to eat?" I ask. " There is oatmeal, waffles, haycakes, or something you want from the staff?" she points at a pony wearing a chefs hat nearby. I sit at the table and think. " I could eat bacon, right?" " Your're a pony, you aren't supposed to have meat of any kind. " Is it a biological thing?" " Yes. Now go eat something healthy." When did she start caring about my health? " Fine... I turn to the chef and tell him my order. He arches a eyebrow in interest, but nods and walks off to I assume the kitchen. "What did you order?" Asks Luna. " Food? Why?" I say sarcastically. " That is not what I meant, but food is good to eat." " Uh huh." I sit and wait for my food. The same pony came back with a silver tray in hoof. He walks over to me and places it in front. He then lifts off the lid and leaves with a quick ' Here is your order.' What I ordered is oatmeal with strawberry preserves. It's simple healthy(ish) and tasty. Luna looks in interest. " Now what is that pray tell?" Luna then asks. " It's oatmeal, why do you ask?" " We have seen oatmeal only with cinnamon or fruit, but jam? Never." " It's not jam but preserves, princess, kinda like jam it's sweet to eat and oatmeal is bland, so putting those two together I got this, I'm pretty sure others have tried this, but I don't know them in any way." I lift the spoon that's included in the tray with magic and start to eat. I'm not much of a food critic but I can say its good. Food is food, unless it's pretty then it's art. I soon finish breakfast and sit and wait for something to happen. And something did. Discord did. " Hello everypony! I decided to wake up slightly earlier to cause more chaos- I mean gifts for pony kind!" Discord now opens his eyes to see a crowd of more familiar then the usual nervous wreck guards. " Oh company! Hello Fluttershy!" He says in a excited tone." And everypony else, hello to you to." his tone went to normal, is there really a normal with this guy? Fluttershy flutters up towards Discord hoping to talk only to be interrupted by hugs and talk. "Ah Fluttershy! It's so good to see you. What are you doing up in Canterlot? I mean I was about to go visit you down in Ponyville. How long has it been? One, two days?" Fluttershy only stayed quiet not interrupting him, but Fluttershy's answer and Discords ramble was then cut in by Rainbow dash. " Jeeze Discord, can't you tell Fluttershy was going to tell you?" She says that after she flew up at eye level at him. " And if you haven't heard the news were here for Jon." Discord's eye opens with vigor and a mix of surprise. " Jon's here! Oh my Faust! I can't wait to see him again! ,last time he was here..." Discord rambled on about the adventures we had or something, but what all I can remember is a window, hang gliding and probably a crash mixed up in there somewhere. Rainbow Dash then decides to say something that made him stop. " Didn't you hear? He's dead." From where i'm sitting I could see a slight smirk appear then disappear for the sake of the joke she made. To my friends back at homeland i'm usually a jerk but still not over the lines a total douche-wad-maximus-assholian, but kinda close, I always ask him why were still friends.... Maybe I should be nicer..Nah. Should I tell them that i'm right here, or just watch it? Hmm, the choices oh the choices. Iris decides to speak up all of a sudden. In my head of course. " Think like this Jon, New place- Clean slate. No past." A new place huh? " I'll say this to you now cause there would be no point in the future, new place-new consequences. I decide to speak up for the sake of something. " I'm not dead!" I say as I turn to the two... entities. "I use to be, but here I am." I finish with a quick sigh and brace myself. Don't know what but it doesn't hurt to be ready. " Who said that?" Said Discord still holding Fluttershy while looking around. I could be a sarcastic ass ,but you know... " Over here! At the table, sitting, eating, waiting... I don't even know." I say, Discord turns to me and his eyes widen slightly in surprise. Or so I thought. " Bwahahaha! Look at you Jon, you's a pony." He rolls in the air taking it all in. Maybe we could be friends. " Yeah, yeah, laugh it up now, but watch your back cause karma is a botch." Yup, lady karma is a botch, with a capital B. Seeing that he's a magical person in high powers maybe we could fix this. Maybe. " Psh, bet you can't even do anything about this." He stops and arches an eye brow as motion towards myself. " Hah! You don't think that the god of chaos can fix this predicament of yours? Me, wielder of chocolate milk. Maker of cotton candy clouds. Can't fix this?" He waves both arms at me. It's working. " Yeah. So what?" I say snidely. " Tell me your problem, and i'll prove it to you that I, Discord , can fix it!" He summons up a fake knight helm and points towards the ceiling with his lion paw hand. I open my mouth about to tell him the problem, but I can't remember." Hey girls." I call over to the five mare just chatting or watching said conversation with Discord and I. " Do any of you remember what did this to me?" I ask. " Wasn't it poison joke dear?" Spoke Rarity. the other four ponies put some thoughts on and nod in agreement. " Yeah dat thing. That's what did this. So can you fix it, or not?" " Hah! Easy peasy!" he snaps his talon claw and in a flash i'm back, from their point of view. For me it's definitely a one of a kind experience. For what it felt like to me, it wasn't hurtful just like a transformer kinda, it just shifted my body around and bam! I got legs and arms again. Even my clothes! Neat no more worrying. I float down to the tile floor and just grasp my hands and release them with a small sigh of relief and a smile of happiness. " See? Done! Even with clothes." He does a quick victory dance in celebration of doing something good. I realize that the gauntlet turned bracer is gone. I look on my arms quickly only to not find it. It's not that important as of right now. I do a quick pat down to find: crappy cell, keys, ipod and earbuds, an my charms, the lucky ones, my natural ones though.... let's not talk about it. I then take a step forward towards Discord to give a friendly thanks. But as soon as my forward foot touched the tile I heard something. *Clank!* Clank? Rubber doesn't go clank. I look down at my shoe to see the gold bracer has turned into, a gold boot of armor. The Golden knee high has a single circular purple gem on the knee part while gold plates just layer downwards. Neat. I lift said leg with boot and balance on the other leg to inspect the mystical shoe. " I'll have to change it to something else on my owe time later." I quickly thought. The new boot is going to annoy me here with all this clink and clank, wonder what I could change it too. Iris seems to have an answer though. " I'll go look for something you could use." She says. I don't really know what she means by that but i can trust her enough to know it's helpful, probably. " Uh... Sure, you do that." I walk towards Discord giving a clank step and alternate with a silent step, and the cycle repeats. As I get to him I stick out a hand. all he does is stare. " What are you doing?" He asks. I could lie about this. Say some Sci-fi crap, but I think I could do better. " It's a way to say thanks in my world. Called a handshake." " So we shake?" He looks at my out stretched hand quizzically. " I think the equivalent would be a 'hoofshake' I think." His eyes widen as if he just got an epiphany of some kind. " Ah I see." He takes his lion paw and gives a firm shake. As we finished the shake of hands new mother and Twilight came over to see what was going on. When they came over Twilight went back to her friends and 'mother' by Luna, she would be my aunt, right? " So now what?" I ask to none in particular. " I'm sorry but I must go, duties and such. Goodbye my little ponies." 'Mother' said. She left out the double doors and towards someplace. " We must leave also, we have duties as well. Farewell." Luna then takes off in the same direction as 'mother'. " I'm sorry as well Jon, but I must leave as well." Said Discord." Lots of chaos to do. Ta-ta." He left in a flash, literally " Now what?" I ask to the mane 6. " We should head home now, it would be so nice just to stay at home or go to the spa. Oh the things to do..." Rarity answered and rambled. She has more to say of course, about beauty and stuff. " So how are we going to get to Ponyville?" I almost slipped and called it home. I'm getting to use to this place I shouldn't get to comfortable, it would make leaving a bitch. " I could cast a spell of invisibility on you till we get to the train." Twilight says. " Were going by train?" I ask back. " Yes, what's wrong with it?" " Never been on a train before, this is a wonderful first." " You never been on a train? How do you humans even get around?" Twilight asks with much disbelief. " Could tell you on the train ride." I'm not going to tell her." The faster you get us there the more I can answer your questions." I say some what snarkly. These ponies are somewhat easy to manipulate." Maybe if you teleported we could get there-" ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ *teleporting sound affect* ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ "- Faster..." I look around to see the 6 mares and an empty, what I assume, train station. "*Sigh* I guess were here?" " Correct! Everypony wait here, i'll go get the tickets." Twilight trotted off to get the tickets. The others started to converse with each other, I didn't want to have a conversation but it seems i'll probably be dragged into one. "HI!" A high pitched voice said. that gave me a little jump. I turn to face the new coming voice. " Hello... Uhhh. Who are you again?" The pony that's in front of me has a pink coat and a pinker mane. " Haven't we already met? But to tell you again my names Pinkie pie, but all my friends call Pinkie, or pinks, or maybe even-" She continued to ramble on from nicknames to food." - And then he asked if I wanted hay, but I was watching my weight and-" More rambling, now about weight problems. I've heard some girl rants sometimes but they don't go this long. Usually. "-On? Hello? Equestria to Jon?" She must want my opinion on something. " Yeah?" " I asked you, Do you think i'm chubby?" I missed something, something more important than learning about math crap. Why would she ask me this? Me a human, when she, a pony, is asking a boy if she's fat. Why couldn't she ask someone else, like Rainbow or Rarity? Is she fat? I can't tell. Everyone at home always said one of the following two things. Never call a girl fat in any kind of word, and be nice to them. I've broken both before. Should I direct her to someone else, or take the so called 'politicians answer'? Did I ever tell you that my friends think I would be a bad politician? Why would they think that> " Why are you asking me of all peopl-" " Ponies." Pinkie interrupts. It's nice to know that there's grammar people here to. " Fine, Why are you asking me of all 'ponies' Pinkie." " Well, a secret somepony told me that I should get a stallions advice on how I look." She stands up on her back hooves and gestures at her body with her two front hooves and sets back down to all fours. " Well Pinkie, I can't give you a accurate answer on that." She gives a quick 'Why?' and I continue. " Because, as you can see i'm not a stallion aren't I?" She sits down and puts her hoof to her shin to think. "Also I can't tell you if your thin or fat, you all look the same and I can't tell. I could lie to you but lying is bad right?" She nods and responds. Hows that for a politicians answer? " I guess you right Jonny." Ooo a nickname, didn't think we be this close already. " Oh thanks for the insight though." She brings me in for a hug. I don't really know what to do. Never got hugs like this before, so I pat her gently. She soon let go and walks off to another of her friends to ramble about miscellaneous topics. I decided to enter Rarity's conversation right now she's talking with Fluttershy. I walk over and listen in. "- And so one of them bought me a egg with a scroll next to it." Said the quiet pony softly. " Did you open the scroll?" Replies Rarity. " Oh no! I couldn't, what if it's someponies and they lost it." She started to have a slight panic from it's from a pony to animals and or stolen. " Don't worry dear. When we get home we'll open the scroll and see if anything you just said could be true." Rarity says in a reassuring way. I just decided to stand next to Rarity. She's actually the only one here that i'm comfortable with. And now they decide to put me in a conversation. " So Jon what was it like over there?" Rarity asks. " What do you mean by that?" I ask back. " You know umm... Death." Oh, that. " Why would you like to know, You have plenty of time ahead of you, as do I." I really don't want to talk about it really though. " I guess your right... But-" " I got the tickets!" Interrupts Twilight. Oh nice save. Rarity decides to save the question for another time. As Twilight walks back the others group up and listen, or get a ticket from her. I walk besides Rarity to see what Twilight has to say. Rarity soon got her ticket and walked off into the train. " So Jon... Um, there's a slight problem. " She has a look that would probably be called ' Don't hurt me when you get angry' look. "*Sigh* What is it?" I ask. " Well they ran out of tickets for ponies and they really don't want you on it." I think I know where this is going." So I had to say that you're the Princesses..." She mumbled the last part so I couldn't hear her well. " What did you say? Speak louder." I tell her. " I had to say that your her pet." She was still quiet but I could hear her. I think I should confirm what she said. " You said pet right?" I ask her. She nods her head while looking away. I look to the sky and sigh. I look back to Twilight. " So how is this going to work out?" I ask her thinking she has a plan. " We have to put you in the luggage hold, come on." She has a sad tone, maybe more disappointed though. She leads me to the back of the train and opens the door. " You'll be okay right?" She asks as if I would get mad at her, if we were better friends I would. But as they say 'patience is a virtue'. But my patience is starting to slowly slip away. " Yeah i'll be fine." I look around to see some crate boxes and a couple bags of luggage. It's kinda dark but there's at least a roof window so there will be some sun at least. " When you come back to find me i'll be in a corner sleeping or something." She nods and walks off as the door shuts. You know how adults are like 'Don't go through other people's stuff.' and all that jazz. Well they're ponies so... Time to see what ponies usually carry. Bag number one! The bag has no zippers whatsoever but has a latch mechanism like a watch or belt. The fabric is rough and seems durable, also the color is a deep red. I unlatch it to find, pans? Oh but not just pans, but pots too. Must be some kind of salesman or something. I quickly put everything back where it was and move on Bag number 2! Same mechanism, but there two of them, coincidence? I think not! The color is a blue and in the shape of a duffle bag I undo the two latches and open to see the inside of this crappy treasure chest. I open it to find... What is it? What I found is a bundle of cloth in the bag. Twine and rope rap around to hold it together, it must be some kind of vase or something. Moving on. Last bag! This one is different from the last two. It's more like a sack with a drawstring on the top, the bottom seems to be made of... Leather? I haven't seen lots of leather in my life but I can tell it's not fake, don't think there would be cause ponies wouldn't need this kind of material, also i don't think they like to kill animals for hide. I open it to find... A sword, rock rings, and rope? A lot of it too. Either someone is very, very kinky or into that kind of stuff. I close up the bag and move to a corner only to find a similar bag like the last one. it can't be a coincidence right? " Iris what do you think?" I ask her about her opinion about the two similar bags. " Well look around, see something else?" I look around as she says, only to find a lot more similar bags. Around fifteen total from what I could see. " Think it's just a shipment of swords, rocky rings, and rope?" I know what i'm talking about but does she? " Jon, weapons in this time would probably be shipped in a crate of some kind. Rings like that are probably not for selling and if there is as much rope as there is in that one bag, there might be as much as the others. I think you should get ready." " Ready? Ready for what? " Let's say something hostile, what would you do?" " Wack it til it stays down. Simple. " What if it's aerial? Can't wack that." " You underestimate my power." I say in a old like voice. " But I would go for shooting something at it." " With what?" She has such a skeptical voice right now. " A bow and arrow?" " Maybe? It can transform." " Try it." I mentally shrug and walk over to the light from the ceiling window. Lifting my foot with the gold boot to the light hoping it will transform it does. I turn my head away from the flash to hear a clatter on the wooden floor. I turn back to inspect the assuming gold bow, which it is. Ever like something and then you just lose interest in it, that's the color gold for me. the bow itself seems normal except the part where my hand holds bow is slightly bigger then the rest. I lift from the floor to get a closer look at it light weight as usual, golden string, nice and a dial? Dials don't go on bows do they? No that's wrong, completely wrong. I take a closer look at the dial and see a word above it engraved ever so slightly. 'Time' it said. Okay, so what I was going for was a bow that wouldn't kill I guess it went for some kind of bow that has something to incapacitate someone, that's the word for it right? I pull the bow to see what would happen, seeing as I have no arrows. something interesting happens of course. An arrow formed out of the light itself, it didn't look like a traditional arrow with the feathers in the back or the pointy tip that stabs someone, but it looks as if made of glass holding light. The light inside of it almost seems to swirl when inside of it. I release said arrow at a the wall. A loud ping is heard from the bow. The arrow flies to the wall hitting it the glass arrow just disintegrates into nothing. I look back to the dial and see what it means by 'Time'. Is it a timer? or something? I know I do some stupid things but there is a way to test it out. I turn the dial to lowest setting which is at one notch and lightly pull the string away from me. The arrow forms up and I release the arrow, towards myself. The arrow flew a lot faster than I thought so I panic by flinching. The arrow struck. I look at the arrow seeing it stick out but it soon disintegrates. Okay I couldn't feel that but why do I see the floor all of a sudden. I fall down to the floor and can't move. So this is what the time probably means. how long someone is stunned or something. " Hey Iris, how good is your time keeping skills?" " Average at best, but I could keep up to a minuet or two at most." " Good enough, start counting. Please." Gotta remember manners, kinda. She starts counting to herself seeing as I don't have ghost numbers in my head. good thing I can't feel anything right now and that i'm in a corner so none can see me unless they went deep. Other then that I don't think they can see me. I hear the door open as light floods in, questions run through my mind. Are we done? This train couldn't get us there that fast, right? Well if it's Twilight or some other pony they should know what to do. I could see the just barely the bottom of, 'whoever just came in's' legs. I can hear the legs not clopping like a ponies would, but scratching? They kept moving with two skritches on the wood and then silence for a moment. They're definitely moving, but where? Still can't move. I'm glad I chose a corner, From where whoever is inside with me just came into my vision. A griffin! going for the leather bag! I don't think this will be good at all. Worst vacation and train ride, ever.