//------------------------------// // blast to the past; part 1 // Story: Runway, US... EQUESTRIA? // by Tik-Tok-deerpony //------------------------------// “Doctor your computer thingy is going off again! Derpy yells from the main room of the Tartus. I put down my stick of butter and hurry out of the kitchen. I then take a close look at the screen. “Indeed, it appears that a temporary rip in the fabric of this universe has transported two ponies out of Equestria into the humans universe.” I say to Derpy. “Humans universe?” Derpy asks. “Yes”. I reply. “But I do not know the where or the when. To find that, we have to go to the scene of the crime.” “Where’s that?” Derpy asks. “Just outside the Bluemoon pub.” I reply. I open my eyes to see desert for as far as the eye can see, broken only by a small town in the distance. “Where am I?” a small voice says next to me. I look down to see a young red-headed girl lying next to me. I raise my arm to see that I have hands again. The young girl looks up at me. Then see screams. “What, do I have something on my face? I ask, jumping up. The girl gets on her hands and knees and tries to run. Then I remembered that there was a filly with me when I was hit. “Oh, shit.” I say as I try to think of something to do. I decided to tackle the filly. “Will you knock it off? You might attract something that we don’t want to attract!” that shut her up. “Good, now tell me your name.” “Applebloom.” She answers. “Ah, well Applebloom, I’m Shadow, from Cloudsdale.” I tell her. I get off of Applebloom and stand up. “Where are we?” Applebloom asks. “The human world, somewhere in the desert, but I can’t be more specific than that.” I reply. “But I thought humans weren’t real.” She says. “Oh there real all right, after all I was a human up until a couple of weeks ago.” I tell her. “Wait, what!?!” Applebloom says in shock. “I was born somewhere on this planet, I ended up in Cloudsdale after I crashed my plane.” I explain. “Well then how do we get out of here?” she asks. “I don’t know.” I reply. “But you said you went from here to Cloudsdale.” She says frowning. “I did, but I didn’t say I knew how I did it.” I reply. I started walking towards the town in the distance. “Where are you going?” Appleblooms asks, jogging to catch up to me. “To that town.” I reply. We continue on in silence. I reach into my pocket and pull out my small bag of bits and count them out. I have about 29 gold bits. As we got closer to town, I see a gold money exchange booth and I quickly detour towards it. “Where are you going now?” Applebloom asks “We need money, so I’m going to sell some of these gold coins.” I reply. I walk up to the guy at the counter. The clerk is dressed in old fashioned clothes so I’m starting to think that I’m in the past of my world. I put the coins on the counter. The clerk puts them on an old weighing scale. He then takes out old 10 dollar coin coins that you would see in them old western movies. He hands me 14 of those plus 5 1 dollar coins. “Have a nice day.” The clerk says as me and Applebloom leave the gold exchange store. “What do we do now?” Applebloom asks. “I’m going to buy a newspaper to see the date and find out exactly where we are.” I reply. I walk up to a newspaper stand and pay for today’s newspaper. The paper told me that we were in Dodge City, June 6 1889. “I know where we are and when we are.” I say to Applebloom. “Where are we?” Applebloom asks. “Dodge City, 125 years before I end up in Equestria.” I reply. “I’m hungry.” Applebloom complains. I sign. I look around. I see the old Dodge City Hotel. “Come on, I found a place to eat and stay the night.” I say. We walk into the hotel and go up to the bar. “Excuse me, but where can we find the owner of this here establishment?” I ask. “That will be me.” The bartender replies. “Well then, how much is it to rent one of these here fine rooms?” I then ask. “5 dollars.” The bartender informs me. I give her the 5 dollars and he hands me a set of keys with the room’s number on them. I then order some food and drink and take it over to a table. As Applebloom starts to eat, I couldn’t help but hear the conversation at the table behind me. “Hey Todd, what do you think, should we win or lose tomorrows horse race bet?” one of the men ask. “Dakota, we won the last 5, so we need to lose. Hand me that sports almanac.” Todd says. I turn around to get a glimpse of the cover. It’s the Sports Almanac; 1850-2000. I then get a good look at the men’s faces. I walk over for a talk. “Well I’ll be darned, it’s my good friends from the Blue Angles, cheating on tomorrow’s horse race.” I say, as Todd and Dakota look up in shock. “How do you know who we are?” Todd asks. “What don’t remember your old friend, Frank Martly?” I ask them. “You’re alive?” Dakota says in surprise. “Last time I saw you, you were a ball of fire on the ground. While we were talking, Applebloom had finished eating and had wandered over. “I thought your name was Shadow.” Applebloom says, frowning. “I had to change my name when I got to Equestria because my real name would raise to many questions.” I explained to Applebloom. “Equestria? Where’s that?” Todd asks. “Well, when I went up in a ball of fire, I somehow survived and ended up in a weird place called Equestria, where everyone is either a Pegasus, a unicorn, or an earth pony.” I explained. “I had just lost my first drinking contest when me and Applebloom was hit by a bolt of lightning and ended up here in Dodge City.” “Well, shortly after you “died” I bought this book and went on vacation in Fiji where I met up with Todd. We both where in my car when we were struck by lightning. When we next woke, we found ourselves here in Dodge.” Dakota says. “Oh by the way, did you get a gun yet? It isn't safe in Dodge without a gun.” Todd says. “No, I haven’t given it any thought.” I reply frowning. “Here.” Dakota says as he hands me one of his peacemakers. He then takes off a gun belt and gives me that too. “Thanks.” I say as I put the gun on. “It’s getting late, me and Applebloom need to get some rest.” I tell my friends. “Come on Applebloom, I got some things that I need to discuss with you.” I say as I head up to the room we had rented for the night.