//------------------------------// // [FIXED] Episode 1: Weirdest. Sight. Ever! // Story: The Life of a Wanted Changeling Season 2: Debt to a Doctor (Comment Driven Story) // by Down with Chrysalis //------------------------------// *sigh* You sigh for what feel like the hundredth time as you walk though the Everfree forest (you finally learned this stupid forest's name last month when you ran into the sign that said 'Everfree forest' at the forest entrance) towards Ponyville. Now I know what your thinking, Why are you heading to the one place that has caused you nothing but trouble for the past year? Well you see it's quite simple, yesterday you, Bugze the changeling, got a TARDIS-colored letter from the Doctor to come to Canterlot immediately so that you could pay off the 10,000,000,000,000,000 bits of debt you owe him (and also get a time out from Derpy for making her think you were dead). You decided that this would be a better way to pay off your debt than actually getting all those bits, so after a good night's sleep, breakfast, and telling Braeburn that you were off to visit a friend in Canterlot, you headed off. Unfortunately for you, the train station in town has been closed for maintenance (you offered to help, you being "The Patcher" and all that, but they told you to leave it to the professionals) so you had to walk to the next train station to get a ride to Canterlot. Sadly, the closest train station is in Ponyville which is why you're now walking down the path in the Everfree forest towards it. You're sighing because you're supposed to be dead! Ugh... I fake my own death to protect eneryling from what's inside of me so of course half a year later I have to go back into the thick of enemy territory through the worst forest in the world just to go to the front door of the sun and moon controlling goddesses who'd want me dead if they knew I was still alive! You'd think someone with a time machine which doubles as a spaceship would be able to meet somewhere more safe and convenient like an erupting volcano or the middle of a hoofball riot! Okay, game plan: get to the train station without anyling noticing me, hop on the next train to Canterlot ASABP (as soon as bucking possible), and lay low till Canterlot. Right now you're wearing your "El Hunko" suit which is really annoyingly inconvenient for you since it's your best suit, but the suit's neck gait, pants, cape, and long sleeves do a good job of covering your changeling features (wings, fangs, holed limbs, etc.) since your shapeshifting power has repeatedly proven itself to be very unreliable. At least you're also wearing your favorite Stetson hat. You also decided to pack some supplies just in case something happened on your way there. You've fought some of the creatures that live in this forest (a chickzard (which Nightshade would later inform you is actually a Cockatrice) and Ursa Minor to name a few and you even just defeated a pack of timberwolves a few minutes ago with just your staff), so you know that you should have some stuff with you. In addition to currently wearing your potion sash (Current Reserve: 2 Healing Potions and 3 Stink Bombs) around your chest beneath your suit and Nightshade is currently asleep in The Inventory (or her bedroom as she likes to call it), you are wearing The Inventory and you put this stuff in it: INVENTORY Brown pouch with 80 Bits in it Your awesome hooded black coat (you may have retired as the Hooded Offender, but it never hurts to have a fireproof coat that has a hood that hides your face in darkness. Might come in handy) "How to be A Gentle Colt 101" book (A little class could go a long way) "Kung-Fu For Dummies" book (Learn some new moves on the trip to Canterlot) All Four Sherclop Holmes Novels and all fifty-six short stories (You've gotten up to the last book in the novel series "The Valley of Fear") Used History Textbook (You got it really cheap due to it being worn with many missing pages) "Animals, Nature, and You" book (Nightshade's taken a shine to learning about animals and nature so you brought it along so she can continue her homeschooling) Patching supplies (Vise-Grips, several rolls of duct tape, and several cans of WD-40. Never leave home without them) List of all your powers and spells Note with your debt to The Doctor Nightshade's crayon drawing of you (You would have put it in a frame, but this picture will always give you hope when you look at it, so you decided to keep it) Magic black staff with a red crystal on top of it (You're currently using it as a walking stick/thing-poker) Pink "Lover's Jewel" Necklace (you haven't found a safer place to put yet, so you decide to keep it) Orange Bandanna Purple Top Hat (Normally goes with the "El Hunko" suit, but your Stetson is just more comfortable) As you're walking towards the forest exit (you can see the light at the end of the path... No you're not heading towards that kind of light) you start to think, Huh, it's been so long since I've been to Ponyville. Maybe if I'm lucky I won't be chased, shot at, tackled, punched, bucked, or set on fire this time. I could even visit Flut-No... They can never know. Fluttershy, Zecora, can never kno-What the hay...? You stop your mental rambling as you walk out of the forest to see an... interesting sight. There appear to be pink clouds raining a brown liquid (you have the weirdest hunch that those are cotton candy clouds raining chocolate milk), but what's really interesting is the fact that a hoard of rabbits with super long legs are chasing after a mint green unicorn... You just stare blankly at the scene for a few seconds before saying... "Why do I get the feeling that I'm somehow going to get blamed for this..." What do you do?