//------------------------------// // Chapter One // Story: The Story of 'Mutey.' // by Et Cetera7 //------------------------------// The Story of 'Mutey.' Chapter One: A Strange World This chapter is the result of insomnia on a saturday night. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The device did nothing at first, but soon the gauges began to flicker on the sides, and a thrumming noise filled the room, similar to a cat's purr. As as the arrows on the gauges rose, plants quickly grew where Etc stood, and began to overtake the room. Creeper vines inching up the walls, grass spreading on the ground, among countless other species of plants.. All of a sudden, It stopped. Every single plant shriveled and died within seconds, coating everything with dead leaves and detritus, all colored some shade of brown. Then, a rainbow light shot out of the machine, the room seemed to bend at impossible angles, then everything turned a brilliant white before fading to black. ------------------------------ Rainbow Dash Rainbow was floating on a cloud, snoring softly, when a large, booming noise shook her awake. Peeved, she looked up, and what she saw caused her jaw to hang open. The sky seemed to be rippling, lights flashing seemingly at random, and a Pegasus pony wearing strange clothing shot out of one of those lights almost as fast as a sonic rainboom, and slammed into her cloud house with a muffled thump. "What in the hay was that?!" She shouted as she then shot towards her house, both checking to see whether the strange pony was hurt, and to see if her house was damaged. ------------------------------ Etc Etc opened his eyes slowly, but the world refused to focus. There was a cyan blob above him, with a second multicolored blob on top of it. He blinked a few times to clear his eyes, then immediately did a double take. Staring straight at him was a cyan colored horse with a mane that had every color of the rainbow as well as... wings? What on earth is THAT?! He mentally screamed. Eyes wide, he took a step back, willing the horse-thingy to leave him alone. It then said "what's the matter? never seen a pegasus before? pretty strange, seeing as your one yourself." After that, it chuckled as Etc looked behind him and found out that she hadn't been lying. He then began shaking, and thought: I've finally snapped. Ten years in the wasteland. Ten years, and I've just snapped. Etc then had a revelation. If he was a pegasus in this twisted world, that means he could fly, and get away from the other pegasus. He lifted off and flew away as fast as he could, which is to say, not fast. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ That's the end of Chapter one. I love cliffhangers, they make me feel evil :3.