//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: A new beginning // Story: FEDEX 727-100QF // by MLPFIM6444 //------------------------------// Chapter 4: A new beginning "Please..." whispered Mike as he struggled to move. "No..." Back in the 727, Mitch woke up in a panic. "MIKE! The throttle! If the engines are at different speeds..." His words trailed off as he noticed the pilot was no longer there. He looked outside the aircraft to see the airplane was sitting in an open field, and back to the control panel to see the landing gear lights off. He quickly realized there was an emergency landing while he was asleep. "Mike, ugh, you could have at least left a note!" With that he opened up the cockpit door to step outside, only to be greeted by, a Pegasus. "Oh, hello," "What the fudge cakes!" "oh, um, sorry if I startled you..." "YOU DON'T EXIST!" And with that, Mitch fell over on to the floor of the cockpit, unconscious. He had fainted. "Calm down, alright?" "You! Get your paws off me!" Mike was restrained under a branch, but he thought it was the cyan Pegasus. "Dash, I think you had the wrong approach." said Twilight. "How was it wrong?" "...You forced him to the ground and put a heavy branch on top of him." Mike now realized what restrained him. "Get this thing off me you dumb horses!" "Should we take it off just yet?" asked Rainbow Dash. "Maybe it would be a good idea to keep it on a little bit longer." replied Twilight. Mike continued to struggle. He got himself around so that he was on his back, and was looking at the faces of the Pegasus and the unicorn in front of him. He became to take note that the branch wasn't pushing down on him very hard. Why, he could easily get out in the position he was in. "Dumb... horses..." he said again, trying to fool the ponies he was about to go unconscious. "Should we go get Fluttershy?" asked Twilight. "You get her. I'm stay here to watch him." replied Dash. Mike noticed their attention was away from him. He pushed up on the branch with all his strength, until it was high enough that he could pull himself out. "Freedom!" he yelled as he ran into the woods. "Run all you want! I don't care!" yelled the Pegasus from behind him. "We were trying to help you, but you turned it down. This is your fault!" Help him? By pinning him to the ground with a rough branch? "Dumb horses." he said to himself as he sprinted into an incline. "That's all they are. Dumb, dumb, horses. --------- Mitch woke up. Wherever he was, he liked it. The smell of cheese was in the air. Though he didn't tell any of his friends or family about it, he was a man of cheese. He woke up to see the butter-yellow Pegasus floating above him waving a hunk of stinky cheese over is nose. He had woken up with a smile, and it was no longer there. "Get out," he said. "What? I..." started the Pegasus. "GET OUT! I AM NOT INSANE!" "What are you..." "YOU DO NOT EXIST! GET OUT!" the Pegasus held a hoof over his much to keep it closed. Mitch's eyes narrowed. "My name is Fluttershy. What is yours?" Mitch smiled again. He was going insane, he knew, but at least in a good way. "Mitch," he told Fluttershy. "It's very nice to meet you, Mitch. Is there anything you need?" "what I need," said Mitch, clearing his throat to continue. "I need to know where I am." "Equestria, just outside of Ponyville." There was a long pause between the two. "Where's Mike?" Mitch broke the silence. "Mike? Who's that?" asked Fluttershy. Mitch groaned. This would be hard to explain, wouldn't it? --------- "Oh you stupid moron!" yelled Mike, as he once again failed at climbing the steep incline. "I will kill you to death when I get up there!" he started up again, and slipped. "You mother... Stop doing that!" he yelled. "I WILL GET YOU EVENTUALLY! YOU'RE TRAPS CAN'T GO LIKE THIS FOREVER!" he yelled at the very top of his lungs. "I'm going insane. No no, I'm not insane. I am not insane! I just can't see him! He's up there! I'll get him!" he started up again, but slipped. Before he could go sliding back down the hill, he grabbed a branch. "Haha! You lose, I'm com-" the branch snapped, and he slid back down. "YOU SON OF A MICROSOFT WEB CAM!" --------- "Mike?" said Mitch, and sat up quickly. "What is it, Mitch?" asked Fluttershy. "I heard Mike!" "Um, are you sure about that?" "Yeah! He said something about Microsoft!" "About what?" asked Rainbow Dash. "Microsoft!" He ran out the door of Fluttershy's cottage. "MICROSOOOOOOOOOOFT!" he yelled. --------- "Yes! Microsoft!" said Mike, his sanity very low. "I need a new Windows computer. No need for delivery, I'll come to you!" he ran through the woods in the direction of the voice he had heard. He saw someone ahead of him. "Mike?!" the person yelled. "It's me! Mitch!" "Microsoft! I said no need of deliv-" Mike tripped over a branch and dove head first into a tree. "Mike? You alright?" Mike was knocked out cold. He was running full speed when he hit that tree. He had to have a concussion, or worse. "Mike?" Mike was not moving. "What happened?" asked Rainbow Dash, flying in before the others. "I found Mike, but he took an insane blow to the head." "How serious is it?" Fluttershy asked, coming in after Dash. "He's not moving, he's barely breathing," Mitch put two fingers on Mike's neck. "His heart rate's okay, but, oh my gosh!" he turned Mike over onto his back, to show the gash in his forehead. "Is that... Bone?" asked Twilight, trotting in lastly. Mike looked at the injury more closely. Mike's skull was showing, very clearly. "Why is there a crack in it?" asked Rainbow Dash, hovering over the humans. "Rainbow, you're fast, right?" asked Mitch. "Only the fastest in Equestria! Why?" "GET HELP!"