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// Chapter 5: Frosty 
// Story: Frosty's AU Adventures, featuring probably everything! 
// by TheBobulator 
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Chapter 4: Frosty


“Small steps, big dreams.”


Date: Undetermined.
Time: 4:22 PM, Local time.
Location: Unknown.

When I opened my eyes again, everything had changed. If it wasn't for the swathes of dying grass and turf stretching across the hilly terrain, I could have mistaken it for the wasteland. With nopony- or nobody- in sight, I used the time to take inventory. Of course, that also meant I needed to check what my body was. Hoovsies, check. Wings? Check. Tail? Check. Excellent, I was a pony again. Oddly enough, I was actually wearing clothing- badly fitting pants, some sort of funny shirt-like thing, and a somewhat worn and plain hoofball cap. A small duffel bag was tightly tied on my back between my wings, whose contents felt heavy and uncomfortably shaped. I untied it to check, and was somewhat disappointed by the results.

"Why am I even carrying a can of beans without a can opener? Oh, I guess that's what this knife is for." I set aside those two items and peered into the empty bag. "Wow, this is totally useless." 

As I repacked my disappointing equipment, I didn't have time to react to the crack of a rifle in the distance. A fraction of a second later, I was knocked onto my side. 

"Seriously?! Who did that?" I coughed and wheezed, desperately trying to stop the bleeding. Luck or not, the bullet had punched through something important and a lung. The dirt under me was turning an alarming shade of red, and breathing was making me both drown in my own blood and making me bleed out faster. A blurry shape appeared in my peripheral vision, and I reached out to it for help.

It didn't make any difference. The pony simply sauntered over to me and unzipped my duffel bag and disinterestedly dug through it. "I do love me some beans. Stupid bitch. Ha!" Like the dirty scumbag he was, he had the nerve to victory crouch over my head and steal my hat in the process.

Thank goddesses I bled out before anything else happened.