For fifteen minutes Martin stood atop the hill staring with an expression which could only be described as a mixture of puzzlement, fear, uncertainty, and complete and utter confusion. He soon began to pace from side to side muttering to himself, “How the hell is this possible, did that door do this to me, no that can’t be right, this kind of stuff only happens in sci fi movies or horribly contrived works of fiction”, he then let out an anguished sigh and sat on the grass. He had to think of a way to contact someone for help, although judging by the circa of the buildings he could see, it didn’t look like they had electricity of any kind, with that in mind he didn’t even bother taking out his cellphone to see if he could even call out from where he was. Well the silver lining of this situation was that he was on a peaceful hilltop on a gorgeous day; even though he was still freaked out he was OUTSIDE even though he was inside a few minutes ago, the warmth of the sun bathed him in a warm peaceful blanket as he shut his eyes with a relaxed smile and laid down on the grass with his hands behind his head and slowly drifted off to sleep. But as Martin slumbered, he had no idea he wasn’t alone, or the fact he would be an unfortunate victim of three fillies who were prone to shenanigans on a daily basis.
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The Cutie Mark Crusaders had been going through a brand new list of potential ways to get there cutie marks but as usual, there were no results. Currently they were hiding in the trees with black bandanas tied around their heads pouncing down on any unfortunate creature, who dared venture under said trees. Applebloom was barely holding on to the tree branch she was on and was currently hanging upside down on it, Scootaloo was leaning against the trunk of the tree across from Applebloom trying to steady herself on the branch she was on, Sweetie Bell was sitting down on the branch just above Scoots balancing with ease.
Applebloom yelled over in Scootaloo’s direction with her Texan accent, “Scoots, how long exactly are we gonna stay up in these trees fer?”, Scootaloo trembled slightly as she almost lost her balance, she then regained herself before replying, “As long as it takes, if we’re going to get our cutie marks in stealth we need to be patient, and I told you to address me by my codename Solid Scoot”. Sweetie Bell just sighed as a bored expression appeared on her face, “Appleblooms right Scootaloo we’ve been up here for hours and no one’s walked by, I say we chop this up for a failure and go to the next thing on our list”.
Scootaloo was about to give Sweetie Bell grief for not addressing her by her codename when Applebloom lost her grip and dropped on the ground, soon followed by Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell. All three groaned in unison as they all untied there bandanas and checked there flanks on instinct, nothing showed, they all walked out of the tree line ready to head back when they noticed something sleeping on the hill in front of them. All three yelped and hid behind a nearby tree, then Appleblooms head popped out first, followed by Sweetie Bells then Scootaloo’s, all their heads were stacked on top of each other when they peaked out.
Applebloom spoke first, “whatcha think it is?”, Scootaloo walked off from her friends and began to walk closer stopping a good foot from the thing, “it looks like some sort of monkey", soon all three were looking at the creature with intrigued looks, Sweetie Bell examined his face, “it looks happy for some reason, and that must be it mane, it pretty short though and such a weird mixture of colours, Rarity would faint at the sight of his clothes that’s for sure”.
Sweetie Bell noticed Scootaloo was poking the things leg with a stick, Applebloom ran over to her, “what the hay are you doin, you could make it mad by pokin it like that!”. Scootaloo rolled her eyes and dropped the stick she was holding, “fine then what do you think we should do?”, Applebloom thought hard for a second then perked up, “I’ll go get mah sis, she’ll know what to do”, she then ran down the hill toward the farmhouse leaving her friends with the creature.
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Martin had no clue how long he had been snoozing or when he started, all he remembered was shutting his eyes to relax for a second, then he felt something jabbing him in the leg, he paid it no mind when it stopped, but was curious what was doing it. He waited about a minute then slowly opened his eyes and sat up, and then he jumped slightly when he noticed what was before him, two fillies were staring at him with looks of fear/curiosity, one had eyes that were a grayish purple, a mane that was a shade of purple called fuchsia and her coat was a light brilliant gamboge, it also seemed to have wings. The other had sap green eyes a light gray coat, and a mane that was a grayish mulberry and had pale, light grayish rose portions to it, it also had a horn on its head.
Both he and the fillies stared at each other, and then Martin started laughing, if he looked back at the fillies he would’ve seen that their expressions had changed to annoyed and confused ones, he settled down and wiped a tear from his eye as he looked at them once more with a smile, “sorry, for a while now I’ve been questioning whether or not this is real or a dream, and I’ve finally come to the conclusion, thanks to both of you, that this is completely a dream”. Martin was still smiling as he pointed, “I mean come on a Pegasus and a Unicorn, my mind can come up with the weirdest things”, the Pegasus was red in the face, it opened it mouth but shut it quickly as it smirked, It picked up a stick and jabbed Martin in the leg and he stumbled back from it. Martin rubbed his leg slightly, “ow that….hurt”, Martin’s eyes widened when he came to the realization this was real, then he also noticed the fillies were rolling around laughing at him. He backed up more and bumped into something that made an “oof “sound, he slowly turned around and saw another filly accompanied by a pony. The filly had a red mane, a yellow coat and orange eyes; it also had a big pink bow on its head. The pony, which was currently giving him a look that was cautionary and skeptical immediately stepped up to him in a matter which made him slightly uneasy, it was orange and seemed to have freckles, it also had green eyes and a blond mane and tail which were seemingly tied up in a ponytail like fashion, it also wore a brown stetson and had three red apples on its flanks.
Martin just smiled at the pony, “wow, a pony that wears a cowboy hat, I gotta say, now I’ve seen everything”, Martin by now had accepted he was on another world thanks to the stick jab, and was trying to make light of the situation.
The pony beckoned for the fillies to get behind her then it spoke in a female Texan accented voice, “ya know I was gonna forgive ya for smacking in tah me, but just fer that comment, Im debating whether or not I should buck ya into that there tree or give ya a chance tah explain yourself”, Martin still smiled as he just looked at the pony, “you just talked didn’t you?”. The orange pony rolled it eyes at the remark, normally she would have treated the question with a straight answer, but spooking the CMC and smacking into her and not apologizing had irritated her a bit, “yeah, I spoke, been doin it since I was just a filly, everypony here can talk”. Martin just nodded, if his mind could make noises, and these ponies could hear them, they would have heard the sound of crashing metal and electric fizzing, he nodded once more, “ponies can talk”. He then did the most legitimate thing a man in his position could do, he inhaled deeply…..then fainted.
As Martin laid in a heap the CMC approached him, Applebloom looked at her sister, “Applejack, is he alright?”, AJ approached the downed Martin and sighed with a slight smile, “he just fainted like Rarity does, he’ll be fine”, even though Applejack didn’t know what the creature was she felt bad that she scared it, and decided she should at least help him out since he probably had nowhere to go, “Applebloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Bell, could yall help me bring him inside, the weather team is planning a shower in an hour”, soon AJ and the crusaders help him indoors just as the clouds were being positioned in the sky by other Pegasus ponies.