//------------------------------// // Momma's Colt. // Story: The Loser's Booth // by Pickleless //------------------------------// "THIS IS HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE !" I yelled. This did nothing to stop them from dancing around me, chanting in what I think is Latin. I pulled against my restraints, currently tied to a cross, as I watched a horde of changelings do a dance maneuver before setting me on fire. Ignoring the fact that my Mom went out of her way to set up a cross and synchronized singing just to kill me, I find myself wondering... How did these changelings successfully invade this country? Why has nopony noticed the singing and dancing yet? Oh. Because they've been brainwashed into singing and dancing as well, great. "THIS SYMBOLISM IS STUPID AND MISPLACED!" I continued to scream. "PSSSHHH!" That is the loudest whisper I've ever heard. "Hello?" I call out. "BE QUIET DUDE! THEY'LL HEAR YOU!" a familiar voice calls out. "Vinyl, you are shouting into my ear." I monotone. "WOAH, HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?!?" Oh yeah, I still look like Flower Fields. Man what is with DJs and shouting? "Vinyl, it's me, Elmer! Now shut up! I just realized that I have way too many names. "ELMER?!? WOAH DUDE! YOU MADE IT OUT OKAY! HOLD ON I'LL HAVE YOU DOWN IN A SEC! How has nopony heard- "Hey! What are you doing over there?!?" A changeling yells. I shouldn't have jinxed it. "There, you're free, now let's get out of here!" Vinyl pulls me down. Oh now you're speaking at a normal volume. Still I have half of my job to do and only minutes to spare. "Vinyl, I need to where Celestia is going to raise the sun for the Summer Sun Celebration," I yelled. "What are you gonna do?!?" "I'm gonna overdose on love!" Vinyl stopped and stared at me. "What?" "Did I stutter? Come on, less talking more moving!" The two of us ran till nopony or noling was chasing us anymore... Wait, why was nothing chasing us anymore?!? "Vinyl! Where is this? Is this even the castle?" "Dude, I ran the heck out of there right as soon as I untied you!" What?!? No! "TELEPORT US." I shoved my snout up against hers. "Uh, dude-" "TELEPORT US TO THE CELEBRATION, NOW." "I uh, I don't really know how to teleport." I started to laugh manically, probably due to the stress finally breaking me in. "THAT'S A RISK WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE! TELEPORT US TO THE CELEBRATION, THE FATE OF CANTERLOT DEPENDS ON THIS!" "But I live in Ponyvill-" "AND I'M DYING IN PROBABLY LESS THAN 24 HOURS, BUT THAT'S NOT STOPPING ME! TELEPORT US, NOW." Vinyl backed away in fear. After a few seconds she started to light up her horn. "I mean, I've read about how to do it but... don't say I didn't warn you dude." There's no time for this, come on come on come on- I was knocked out of my thoughts as Vinyl teleported us. Trying to shake away my nausea I looked down and almost cried in joy. There it is, the celebration! I'll make it in time, especially at the rate we're falling towards it! ... From the sky, because we were teleported miles high into the sky above the celebration. "AHHHHHHHHHHHH- Wait." I'm a pegasus right now. Grabbing Vinyl I tried to steer us towards the banner while pulling up, hopefully it would break our fall a little... and saw that I was going to crash into a small foal behind the banner. Veering to the right, I flipped Vinyl and I around so I would break her fall. Agonizing pain shot through my body as I lost all feeling in my left hind leg. Shakily pushing myself up, I find out much to my horror that something lobbed my left hind leg right off. I resisted to urge to vomit I transformed my open wound into a nub to stop it from bleeding. I don't even know if that's how it works honestly, I could just be internally bleeding now, but hopefully it did something. Man, I must be the only mindless stupid doll of a drone to go and get my leg cut off for a pony. The things I do for love... At first I started to panic, as everypony around me started to scream and riot, but when I thought about it, this probably worked to my advantage. I turn to Vinyl and- oh. She's knocked out cold, plastered into the ground. I thought I fell on something soft. Guess I flipped us too far and just rotated her all the way to the front again or something. This would explain how I'm still alive I suppose. ...Good, she's still breathing. I put her up against a wall so she wouldn't get trampled on. As long as she's not dying, Vinyl can wait, Chrysalis cannot; That goes for the both of them. I picked up my black, hole filled hoof and tried to stealthily limp my way towards where Celestia was going to make an entrance and avoid attention. Which pretty much translated to I loudly and slowly hobbled over to where everypony's attention was previously while holding a disgusting, torn off limb that was leaking blood everywhere. "Hey you, halt!" A royal guard barked out. Oh great, just what I need, what could I do to... ah, I know. "HELP, A GHOST HAS POSSESSED MY LIMB!" I screamed. I revealed my horn and used a little bit of magic to shoot my limb towards a civilian nearby. The mare screamed in horror as the limb landed on top of her, she tossed it towards somepony else. The guards were knocked down as ponies started to thrash about and play hot potato with my leg. Today has been really weird. Taking advantage of the chaos, I slipped into the small entrance that led into the castle that Chrysalis would be heading through any minute now. Taking a deep breath, I focused. I almost vomited from trying to transform. No! I'm so close! I can't be out of juice now! My family's love is worth more than that! I have what it takes to do one more transformation, come on... come on!.. I grit my teeth in agony, it felt as if three days of starvation was condensed into seconds. Trying to make a leg, even as a illusion, was impossibly hard. I'm close... "You!" the voice I fear the most snarled. I'm so close! SHUT UP!!! another voice I didn't recognize screamed out. Chrysalis turned back towards the waiting room in shock. That gave the time I needed. I transformed into Celestia, and quickly trotted out towards the crowd, trying to maintain my composure.