//------------------------------// // [FIXED] Episode 2: Here We Go Again. // Story: The Life of a Wanted Changeling Season 2: Debt to a Doctor (Comment Driven Story) // by Down with Chrysalis //------------------------------// Theme First things first, let's try to get our bearings on the situatio- Is that a table and chairs made out of red velvet cake? So after you and Nightshade consumed the red velvet cake furniture (which turned into blue velvet cake halfway through) A few possibilities for how all this happened fly through your buggy head: - The Doctor's time machine is malfunctioning and it's bringing all of Equestria down with it. - Pinkie discovered how to use magic, and accidentally broke reality in an attempt to throw the biggest party the multiverse had ever seen. - Aliens from space have invaded and as a result, disrupted the fragile magic balance that keeps the world in check. - It's opposite day. You stop and watch dumbfounded at this occurrence and proceed to go through the possible causes. After some thinking you decide that it's just mother nature, but a voice that sounds like Q from star trek continuously laughs at the back of your mind. As you continue to stare at the strangeness in front of you with a dumbfounded look, you can't help but think, You know, considering how I have a psychotic DFV (Dark Female Voice) inside me, a daughter that literally lives in a bottomless saddlebag, a mysterious 'friend' who gave me said saddlebag and my awesome faceless coat, and the fact that I've survived multiple situations that should be sudden death, you'd think I would be used to this kind of stuff by now... As you think this a frog and a snake that have been blown up like balloons, as well as a giant lizard with a butt for a face go by you. But this... this is just plain nuts. As you continue to look around the area you see crazier and crazier things. Like a giant lion head attached to a octopus body, a walking pitcher of some sort of red drink smashing through walls, a blue hedgehog running super fast while wearing red shoes, and even a stinking green ghost ship flying though the air. You can't help but think, What could have caused this? Is reality caving in on us? Have I been trapped in someling's personal toy box? Is The Doctor's TARDIS malfunctioning and it's bringing all of Equestria down with it?! Has the laws of physics finally taken too much strain and are failing? Is it opposite day? Did I get drunk again (last time you got smashed... let's just say Appaloosa was condemned for almost a month, you were put in a straightjacket, and you had a MASSIVE hangover)? Oh no... PINKIE TURNED INTO AN ALICORN! THE END IS NEIGH! THE END IS NE*smack* You slap yourself mid thought as you try to calm down. Focus bug! There's noway an earth pony, or anypony actually, can become a alicorn. That just sounds like a cheap way to sell toys. In another dimension, millions of middle aged men and women nod their heads in agreement. After finally calming yourself down, you begin to think, Okay, so the world is either turning upside down or I've gone crazy. That's fine, that's okay. It's probably just mother nature and every other deity out there having some fun. Yeah, that's it... For some reason you hear what sounds like Q from Star Trot laugh in your mind. You shrug it off as your imagination as you think, I just need to-is that a table and chairs made out of red velvet cake? Your thoughts are interrupted as you see the tasty looking furniture in front of you. Nightshade, waking up now of all times (when you want that filly awake, she's out like a light, but when you don't expect her to wake up she's a ball of energy), sees the velvet cake furniture in front of her and says, "Daddy... are we in delicious heaven?" You nod your head dumbly as you say, "Honey... it's time to join the madness, BANZAI!" And with that, you and Nightshade dive into the red velvet furniture. Drink the chocolate milk! All of the chocolate milk! All of it! Nightshade pops out and starts drinking the chocolate milk rain (while also being upset that she can't fly to eat the cotton candy clouds) before joining in on devouring the chocolate-milk-filled cotton candy clouds, popcorn field, and giant apples (it's been a while since breakfast so you join her, but the apples taste different with every bite for some reason) MULTIPLE FURNITURE MADE OF SWEETS AND OTHER STRANGE FOODS LATER After eating the red velvet furniture (which turned into blue velvet halfway though for some reason), you and Nightshade continued to devour the strange food that was popping up. From apples twice the size of your head (that changed taste with each bite for some reason), to the rain which you can now confirm is chocolate milk (you even heard a deep-voiced pile of apples singing about it... somehow before Nightshade pounced on it and devoured it mid-song). But what was really strange is that whenever you or Nightshade thought of a food you wanted, you would hear a laugh and then that food would pop up! You shrugged it off as the weird new world's logic. You put a now asleep Nightshade (she fell asleep inside a giant Cookie Cake Pie which was just adorable) back into her bedroom and you're about to leave for the train station (which, from what you can see, is the only thing not touched by all this craziness) when... You turn around about to walk away until you hear a scream. You shout, "IT MUST BE RABBIT SEASON!" and No Shadow Kick into the hoard of rabbits chasing the unicorn, scattering them. You turn to the unicorn as smile, saying "If only there were some ducks around, too." She looks at you blankly. You chuckle. "'Cause then you could say, 'No, it's duck season.' And then I say 'Rabbit season!' And you say, 'Duck season' again. And..." She quirks an eyebrow at you. You sigh. "Just got back and I'm already 0-for-1 on the references. Brilliant." "SOMEPONY HELP ME!!" You turn around in alarm as you see the mint green unicorn still getting chased by the rabbits with long legs. You chuckle in embarrassment as you think, Oops, forgot about her. You run and jump between the unicorn and the rabbits with long legs, causing the pony and rabbits to stop in shock at your appearance. You smile as you shout, "IT MUST BE RABBIT SEASON! NO SHADOW KICK!" And with that you jump forward with a flurry of kicks at the rabbits. The kicks do their job as you send most of the rabbits flying back. But, there're still two left and they charge at you. You smirk as you shout "CAUSE YOU'RE GOING EXTINCT! FALCON PUNCH!" With that you slam the flame-encased punch into the first charging bunny, sending it smashing into the bunny behind it and they both go flying into the sky and off into the distance. You give a small chuckle as you look over to the dumbfounded unicorn as you say, "Now if only there were some ducks with hooves around, too." You chuckle some more at your joke, until you notice the unicorn giving you a blank look, so you then say, "Cause then you could say, 'No, it's duck season.' And then I say 'Rabbit season!' And you say, 'Duck season' again. And..." You stop trying to explain your joke as the unicorn mare just tilts her head and raises an eyebrow at you in confusion. You sigh in defeat and mutter, "Just got back and I'm already 0-for-1 on the references. Brilliant. Where's Flash when you need him..." Lyra says something about humans, hands, and/or worries about where Bon Bon is The unicorn mare just gives you a strange look before smiling and saying, "Thanks for saving me dude, name's Lyra." the now named Lyra looks around worriedly and asks "Hey, have you seen a mare earth pony around here named Bon Bon?" You look behind her as you say, "Does she have a beige coat and a pigment blue mane with a rose pink streak?" She looks as you surprised and says, "Yeah! That's exactly what she looks like! Do you know where she is?" You simply point behind her in response. She looks confused before she turns around and sees... the mare she was talking about floating away. The mare looks down and screams, "LYRA, HELP ME!" Lyra gasps in shock and horror before she starts to run after the mare as she shouts, "HOLD ON BONNY, I'MA COMING!" You just stare blankly at her retreating form as you say... You decide that A this isn't your problem "Okay, I'm not gonna get involved in that, she can handle saving... 'Bonny.' As for me..." You turn to the train station as you say, "I have a train to catch before something happens to it like.. I don't know, suddenly turning blue, growing a face, and starts taking orders from some fat guy in a top hat." After a brunch break, get on a train to Canterlot, only for the Mares to also be on that train ONE HOUR LATER You stare intently at the book you're reading as you are walking down the hall to the train's bathroom (what is with you and needing to go to the bathroom on trains?). You paid for your ticket (66 Bits left), got on the train an hour ago, and you've been reading "The Valley of Fear" the entire time. You're at the climax of the book, so when you had to... ahem "go" you decided to just read the book on your way there, As you're reading the book, you don't notice the pony in front of you levitating a bunch of scrolls. You're about to look up, *thud* but it's too late. You and the pony collide, sending the pony's scrolls and your book across the train floor. You both mutter apologies before beginning to pick up the scrolls. As you hoof the last scroll to the pony, the pony hoofs you your book. As you look up you say, "Thank yo-" You stop mid sentence as you see... Twilight Sparkle giving you a apologetic smile. All you can do is stare at her blankly with a feeling that you're going to have to do alot of running soon. As you continue to stare, you can't help but think in a grim tone, Here we go again... What do you do?