//------------------------------// // Chapter 7: A Sort of Good Night's Rest (Revised) // Story: Gamers in Equestria // by Neoandermcd //------------------------------// Pedro’s PoV: “That no good backstabbing mother fucking asshole” I mumbled still being drag to god knows where. Rariy or is it Rarity…I don’t know, anyways the chick with purple hair was still dragging me while I was face first to the ground with her telekinesis thingy, surrounding me in a light blue aura and every once in awhile a rock would smack me in the face. She was going on and on about something, but I wasn’t paying attention because I was still feeling betrayed. ‘I mean what did I ever do to him…except the whole fight thing with the ponies…and that time I broke his step dad's lamp…and that time I broke his DS…and that one time I used his toothbrush to clean my shoe….Man how the hell are we still friends’ I thought till Rarity, I’m just going to go with that name for now, stopped dragging me and sat me down on a couch. ‘Huh how about that, didn’t even noticed we got here already’ I thought while I glanced around the room I was set in. It was a pretty spacious living room, but it gave off a store like feeling to it. The room had a shit load of different colored fabrics in shelves and drawers, a couple of female mannequins with half finish outfits that still looked like to be in the process of being made and a desk with some sewing equipment on it. “If you would just wait here a moment while I go check on Sweetie Belle we can then get down to business” Rarity said as she walked away. ‘Uh  business? What kind of business? The only kind of business that I know of when you put ‘get down to’ is usually in porn… OH MY GOD SHE WANT TO SLEEP WITH ME’ I thought and started to panic. Why? WHY?! I’ll tell you why it’s because…well you know, because of that…ummmmmm…wait why am I panicking and then proceeded to calm myself down. ‘Ok think this through Pedro why would she want to have sex with you, I mean besides the obvious of being funny, smart and damn good looking why would she want to…BJ that best friend anyone could have must of said something that made her see me in a new light’ I thought silently praying a word of thanks to my friend. Getting over my little panic attack I decided to snoop around, yeah I’m nosey like that get over it scrub. Anyway there was nothing of real interest until I noticed a little red box with dull gold edges, it had a lock on it and when I tried to open the box, it was unsurprisingly locked. I mean who’s ever heard of a locked box totally unbelievable right. I then heard footstep signaling Rarity was coming back down stairs, I panicked and put the box back where I found it and plopped on the couch acting like nothing happened. “So shall we get started” she said a glimmer in her eye and motioned me over towards her work space ‘kinky’. Wasting no time I got up and headed over towards the desk while she went over and turned on an old record player playing some relaxing music ‘Oh sweet baby Jesus this is going to happen’. She then walked towards me, eyeing me with a look of excitement.  Now even though this is wrong on so many levels, what? She’s suppose to be a girly pony cartoon made for girls, but right now she was probably the hottest chick I’ve ever seen and little me couldn’t argue. She then placed her hands on my shoulders while I looked at her with a goofy smile ‘BJ I swear I promise never to mess with you ever again so long as I live’ I thought as I lost myself to the music and the girl in front of me. Two hours later ‘BJ I swear to god I’m going to kick your ass’ I thought while I sat down  next to Rarity still pretending I was listening to her talk about fashion and clothing. Apparently BJ told her I loved designing clothes like her and she wanted me to come over so we could talk and discuss about possible ideas, however I don’t give two fucks about fashion I mean the most fashionable thing I’ve ever worn is a black shirt with blue pants. So two hours, two long hours of listening to her nonstop talking about clothing after clothing after clothing, I mean I could only handle so much of one girl talking about something before I lost my mind. “So what do you think about this one darling” she asked and then went off on a tangent about the pros and cons of the dress. “Uh huh” I said staring off into space. I guess she noticed finally that I wasn’t paying attention to her and asked “Are you even paying attention?” “No, no I’m not”. “Well if you didn’t want to talk about fashion right now darling you should have tol…” “That’s the thing Rarity I don’t like fashion. BJ only told you that to get even with me because he knew that you would annoy me with your nonstop talking about fashion” I stated bluntly. “I…I see sorry to annoy you” she said her eyes starting to water up while she packed away her designs. ‘Aww fuck’ I thought feeling, which rarely happens, bad. “Wait” I said stopping on a particular design she was going to put away. “This outfit looks alright, but the design could use some improvements (grabbed a pencil) here, here and here” I said adding a little additions to her design. She looked at me shocked and said “This…This is…Amazing simply amazing, but I thought you didn’t like fashion”. “Well I still don’t I mean a shirt and pants is all I need” I said dryly and continued “However I want to be a graphic artist so I’m pretty keen on the whole logo/designing aspect of art and fashion”. “Oh then what do you think about this one” she said bringing out another drawing. We then spent the next hour talking about her work and where she could use some improvement, but in reality she was not that bad at making up designs. I mean back home I was pretty savvy when it came to drawing, but some of my work was pretty much a rip off of someone else’s work, but she did her own work through inspiration alone and I was honestly impressed. She then went into the kitchen ‘Ha’ to go make some tea for us while I went back to looking at that mysterious box trying to figure out a way to open it. “Would you like to see what’s in it?” Rarity asked making me jump and scream like a gir…I mean a manly scream. “Oh I’m sorry darling I didn’t mean to scare you” she said handing me a cup of tea. “No, its fine” I said with a half smile and continued “And yes I would like to see what’s inside it”. She then brought out a small silver key from nowhere ‘So wait can all ponies to that or what’ and unlocked the chest and inside was the biggest looking gem I’ve ever seen. It was a red colored gem about the size of my fist in the shape of a heart with a gold casing going around it. “Spike gave it to me on his birthday it’s a fire ruby which is very rare to come by” she stated looking at it with a smile. “Spike?” I asked taking a sip of tea ‘Like a sir’. “Oh that’s right you never did meet him. He’s Twilight’s number one assistant and one of the cutest, cuddliest and hardest worker you’ll ever see” she said sounding like she was talking to a baby or something. “So he just gave you a very rare gem for no reason?” I asked. “Not exactly” she said trying to avoid answering the question. ‘Let’s see here even if she’s technically a girly pony she’s still pretty hot and…oh I see not cool’. I frowned at her “He has a crush on you and you used him”. “I wouldn’t state it so bluntly” she said defensively. “Oh and what would you call it?” I asked. She seemed to be in thought for a moment until she lowered her head “Using him” she said with guilt. “You know this is just my opinion, but you should either tell the kid to take a hike or tell him you like him” I said. “It’s just not that simple darling” “Oh and why is that?” “….” “Whatever if you don’t want to talk about it that’s fine and truth be told I really don’t care, but at least talk to someone else about it, now I’m feeling tired and want to go to sleep” I said finishing up my tea. “R-right please follow me” she said and lead me upstairs to a room. Manny PoV: “Wait why do I have to go with Pink…” I tried to say before a pink blur clouded my vision and started to drag me outside. “Oh my god help! Help! I need an adult! I need an adult!” I screamed trying to get loose from this pink monstrosity. “I am an adult silly” Pinkie whispered into my ear making me freak out even more. We then all of a sudden stop, my vision starting to come back to me and what I saw in front of me made me recoil in surprise. ‘What the fuck is that’ I thought staring at a building. The building looked well for a lack of a better word like a giant gingerbread house, just staring at it made me feel like I was gaining weight. “Well come on silly let’s go inside” she said bouncing her way inside with each step…wait she’s doing what? ‘Why the hell is she not walking like a normal person pony…thing’. “Because silly it’s more fun this way” she replied back. “Yeah but it’s still…WAIT WHAT” I said staring at her with fear and disbelief. ‘No way. She can’t read my thoughts it was just a coincidence’ I thought trying to calm myself down. “Don’t worry Manny I’m not a mind reader, but I can read text” she said with a toothy smile. “…” I just stood there mouth a gap. “Well come on in silly” she said and dragged me inside a little bell ringing as we entered. The inside was unsurprisingly a bakery; it had a counter for selling baked goods and some tables here and there. “I’m sorry but Sugarcube Corner is clos… Oh it’s just you Pinkie” said a female voice. “Hi Mrs. Cake, where’s Mr. Cake?” “Right here Pinkie, I was just putting Pound and Pumpkin to sleep” said a man walking downstairs. “Say who’s your friend?” “This is Manny, Manny this is Mr. and Mrs. Cake and I was hoping he could stay here for the night”. Mrs. Cake was about the same height as Pinkie Pie and looked pretty young maybe late twenties to mid thirties, but still had that mother feel to her. She was wearing a light blue shirt, maybe cerulean, with tan pants and a yellow apron with pink looking feather coming out at the top. She had rose colored eyes with a light crimson hair mixed with grayish crimson going in a spiral; her hairstyle reminds me of an ice cream cone top. Mr. Cake was about my height and about in his thirties. He wore an amber shirt with light brown pants and a white apron. He had pistachio eyes with freckles above his nose and has orange hair. “I don’t know Pinkie by the sounds of it he’s new in town and, no offense, can we really trust him?” Mrs. Cake asked. She then explained what happened earlier today including the whole fight between us, which I thought was stupid to add, but surprisingly they decided to trust Pinkie and went off to bed leaving me and Pinkie alone. “So your parents seem nice” I said awkwardly. “Mr. and Mrs. Cake aren’t my parents silly, but they do act like my parents. Sometimes they scold me telling me don’t do this or don’t eat that or that one time, don’t walk around the store naked” she said with a straight face. “Wait wait you walked around the store naked? Why would you do that?” “What who said that?” she asked me with a great poker face. “You…you just did” I said looking at her with disbelief. “Hmmmmmmmm nope doesn’t ring a bell” she said with a smile. “But you just and I just....ughhh” I said rubbing my head in frustration ‘This chick is going to drive me to insanity. How does everyone handle this chick?’. “In small doses of course” “WOULD YOU STOP READING MY MIND…” “Text” “Whatever just please promise to stop reading my mind text thing” “Okie dokie lokie cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye” she said ending with poking her eye ‘What the hell…you know what I don’t even want to know anymore’. “So, what now?” I asked trying to forget what just happened only a few minutes ago. “Well I need to prepare for tomorrow so you can help if you want. Oh we can be baking buddies” She said jumping up and down with excitement. “Sure I guess” I said since I wasn’t feeling tired and didn’t want to sit around doing nothing. “Or” she said her entire attitude changing in an instant from friendly kiddy girl to seductive woman. “we could always cook some cupcakes or maybe” she said sitting down on the counter spreading her legs apart and staring at me seductively “we could always make a nice, gooey, delicious cream pie” she said running her tongue over her teeth. I literally stared at her for the longest time, my emotions and facial expression ranged from shock to surprise to panic. My thoughts were running amuck between should I or shouldn’t I go through with this, my face turning a whole new color of red in embarrassment. I panicked for five minutes trying to think about what I should do until I head Pinkie giggling a little bit. As I looked at her she was trying to hold back her laughter covering her mouth with her hands. “Did…did you just troll me?” I asked, her response was falling on the ground and laughing hysterically snorting every once in awhile. “You know I don’t know what’s worst: the fact that you just trolled me or the fact you know what trolling is” I said as I walked past her into the kitchen. Outskirts of Ponyville…Midnight: A cloaked figure could be seen walking around the far edges of Ponyville, moving with haste and purpose. The figure was wearing a dirty torn up brown coat with a dark dull red color going along its side was a dull gold crossing back and forth along the sleeves. The figure had reached the highest pasture that belong to Ponyville and was now looking over the town with disgust. “Is this where they are located master” the man called out to the darkness. A faint whisper could be heard speaking to him in an unknown language. “Yes my master I will dispose of them quickly, so that they may not get in your way” he said with a slight bow. Glancing around in the distance he could see the many sites of Ponyville, but one stood out in particular, one that made him smile. “But first I must summon up some…friends” he said and started to make his way towards the cemetery. Canterlot Castle…a little past midnight: “Sister did you…” Luna said as she walked towards her sister. “Yes Luna I did feel it, it is…most troubling.” Celestia said staring out a window in the distance the small town of Ponyville could be seen. “Shall we send out the knights or perhaps we should go meet our mysterious guest for ourselves.” “No we cannot act without a reason, but yes tell some of the knights to increase more patrols around Ponyville” “Sister if I may? Wouldn’t it be easier to just go and deal with the situation now why must we…” “*sigh* because dear sister we do not know anything about this strange guest that has come into our lands and…I would never forgive myself if I put you in harm’s way.” “Alright sister I understand, I shall inform the knights right away.” Ben’s PoV: the next day “Guess it’s six in the morning” I mumbled as I slowly woke up, the sun barely shining through the curtains. We arrived back to AJ’s home pretty late last night and with nothing to do or really talk about decided to go to bed right away. The room I was in was a normal guest room, it had a wooden dresser, a table stand with a lamp and a mid size bed. As I got up I headed towards the window to see that the sun was still barely coming over the horizon radiating the farm in a beautiful yellow glow. ‘It’s still hard to believe that I’m in Equestria with my friends. Heh if only I had a camera or something on me then when we get back home I could…’ I thought before I recalled the conversation with the Doctor a feeling of dread washing over me ‘That’s right we’re stuck here for the rest of our lives. Granted I’m ok with this, but what about my family...our families. What will they think happened? That we just ran away, that we just had enough and committed mass suicide and hid our bodies so people wouldn’t find us’ I thought my thoughts going deeper and deeper to the darker region of my mind. “NO” I exclaimed followed by me slapping my face with both hands “Got to stay positive and make the most out of our situation” I said quickly forgetting my previous thoughts.  *growl* “Right after I get something to eat” I said making my way towards the kitchen.  As I was about to enter the dining room I could hear the apple family talking about me “and that’s why Ben’s goin’ to stay with us for awhile” AJ said finishing up her summary of what happened last night I mused. “That’s sounds fine AJ besides ah reckon it’s the least ah could do considerin’ what ah did to him yesterday” Big Mac said. “Ahhhh why didn’t yah bring BJ over? Y’all would have been a perfect couple” Apple Bloom whined. “Now Apple Bloom for starters we don’t need yah to be playin’ matchmaker again like ya’ll did with Big Mac” she said gesturing towards Big Mac who just nodded in agreement. “And second that’s no way to talk about a guest.” “Ah know sis, but you two are so similar that y'all would have been perfect for one another while Ben seems more like Twilight’s type a uh egghead” she said as she finished off her plate of food ‘Oh so I’m an egghead huh…well I can’t deny that, but I do feel the need to troll now’. “Apple Bloom…” AJ tried to say before but I beat her to it. “Oh is that what you think about me?” I said surprising everypony. “No I didn’t…”Apple Bloom tried to say. “No, no I can see that I’m not wanted here, maybe I’ll just go out into the wilderness and survive off the land…alone” I said acting like I was rejected. “But…” “No your words are like daggers to my heart in fact I think I’m dying because of your words. Oh cruel fate to be done in by a child’s word” I said acting like I was dying, by holding my hands around my neck and making a gagging sound. I then fell to the floor with a loud thud and proceeded to act like I was dead. Apple Bloom, like planed, started to freak out thinking this was all her fault as she rushed over towards me and started to shake me to wake me up while blubbering out apology after apology while crying. ‘Oh I’m so messed up, but this is still hilarious’. After a couple more minutes of her crying I decided enough was enough and to put the final phase of trolling into play. “Why didn’t you clean your dishes” I said in a creepy voice while grabbing her. She ‘epeed’ and ran off towards her sister for protection. I just laughed while AJ and Big Mac snickered at their sister’s expense while Apple Bloom's face became a shade of red which changed to a little pout. “That wasn’t very nice” she pouted. “And it’s not very nice to talk about somepony behind their back” I replied back getting over my laughing fit. “Sorry Ben ah didn’t mean anythin’ by it” she said apologetically. “Hey its cool no harm no foul” I replied with a dismissive wave and joined everypony at the table sitting across from the Big Mac and AJ. “Ah’m surprised that you’re up and about, thought yah would’ve been still asleep” AJ said handing me a plate of pancakes. “Oh why is that?” I asked in-between bites and let me say these were the best apple pancake I’ve ever eaten, granted they were the first one I’ve ever eaten, but nonetheless the best. “Uh well…” she said trying to find the right word. I just gave her a blank stare and said “Because I’m an egghead, honestly do I look like that big of an egghead?” their response was to stare back at me with a sheepish smile. “Ok yes I’m an egghead, but that doesn’t mean all eggheads stay up late and sleep in till noon or one” I said defensively. “Right~” they said in unison. As I took another bite of my delicious pancakes I noticed one pony was missing “Where’s Granny Smith?”  I asked. “Granny Smith went down ta Appleloosa ta help our cousin Braeburn with the crops seems they’re having some problems over there” AJ said. “Problems? Like buffalo problems or soil problems?” “Soil, tah land there ain’t very good for growing crops ta begin with, but that don’t mean they’ll just pack up and leave. We’re Apples and Apples see things through” she said with pride. We then sat there for a couple minutes mostly them talking about the chores they had to get done today. Big Mac and AJ were the first to leave while I helped Apple Bloom clean up breakfast. She still seemed to be pretty upset with my joke “So you still mad about what I did?” I asked her handing a dish to her. “It wasn’t very nice or funny” she said with a pout. “But you did have it coming and besides would you rather have been embarrassed or chewed out by your sister?” I replied back handing her another dish. “Well…” she said thinking for a couple of seconds and continued “no, but ah really thought that ah did k-k-k…” she tried to say, but started to tear up a bit. “Hey now” I said comfortingly and brought her into a hug. “Look I’m sorry I did that to you ok” I said she started to cry into my shirt for a little bit, sniffling every so often. She calmed down after a minute and escaped my hug and said “Thanks”. “No prob and oh Apple Bloom” I said patting her head “Trust me when I say this, but nothing can truly kill me” I said with a smile. “What’s that suppose ta mean?” she asked looking at me confused and started to put dishes away. “It’s complicated” I replied back and started to help her put the dishes away. “So what’s on the big agenda?” I asked as we but the final dish away. “Gotta feed the animals and help move some baskets till ah go ta school” she said with a sigh. “What’s up?” “Ah have ta come back home right away cause of being still grounded.” “Which means you girls won’t be crusading for a while.” “Yeah” she said disappointed. That’s when it hit me “Couldn’t you still hang out early in the morning?” “Well they should be up by now ah guess, but with my chores an’ all ah can’t see them any earlier than goin’ ta school.” “But if I were to help you do some of your chores…” “No way are ya helping with my chores Applejack and Big Mac will scold me if they see ya helping me with my chores.” “But I feel like a freeloader if I don’t at least do something and besides you want to see your friends and I want to help around the farm a bit. It’s a win-win situation.” “Ah don’t know” “Trust me Apple Bloom I’ll talk them into if it becomes a problem” I said confidently. Three hours later “Ah told ya so” Apple Bloom said for the twentieth time now. “Yeah yeah I’m sorry ok” I replied back. “But in my defense I didn’t think it would have been that big of a deal.” So basically I helped Apple Bloom for a bit and we were more than three fourth of the way done when Applejack spotted me helping her with her chores and scolded both of us. “Also we made pretty good timing so now you’ll be able to go crusading for a bit until school starts” I said as we reached the outskirts of Ponyville I could see ponies  going about. “Ah guess” she said warily. “So before you go off crusading with your friends can you show me where the library is?” Pedro’s PoV “Well, well, well. We meet again and here I thought I could escape you” I said as I turned over and stared right at the clock that read seven o five. “Why the hell am I awake so damn early” I mumbled staring down the clock, hoping it would change to sometime later like nine or ten. *sewing machine noise* “And who the hell is up so damn early making that noise”. ‘*sigh* might as well get up’ I thought and stumbled out of bed. I was in a pretty suave guest room, even though it was a normal guest room everything looked like it was worth a fortune and I would’ve gone more into detail, but I’m too tired for that kind of shit. I then shuffled my way down stairs, almost tripping, to the same living room area to see Rarity sewing some sort of dress. She was wearing a plain white t shirt with some gems on it with normal pants to my surprise since I figured she was one of those girls to wear fru fru stuff all the time, but I wasn’t in the mood to question anything right now. As I continued to shuffle my way towards a couch she took notice of me and said “Oh I’m sorry darling did I wake you up?” I just mumbled a bunch of swears as I reached the couch. “I’m sorry I didn’t quite catch that” she said as she approached me. “Yes you’re partly responsible for me waking up six in the f-ing morning” I said with hostility and flopped down on the couch. She must have taken note that I wasn’t in a very good mood and asked nicely “Would like something to eat or drink?” “Coffee, black, if you got it” I said my voice muffled by the pillow I was laying on. I could hear her footsteps leaving and in a couple of minutes she returned with a nice cup of coffee and set it on a table next to me. Wasting no time I got up, grabbed that sucker and chucked it down, now feeling more awake I gave her a nod of thanks which she returned with an understanding smile. “I’m sorry for waking you up again darling, is there anything I could do for you?” she asked as dirty images rang throughout my mind. ‘Oh there’s plenty of things you could do….wait are those what I think they are?!’ I thought when I took notice a large chest of jewels. Making my way over there I could see a huge assortment of jewels ranging from diamonds to sapphires to rubies to emeralds and many more. ‘Holly crap this chick is loaded’ I thought as I ran my hands through the chest, believing this to be my mind fucking with me, but it wasn’t. “You can have some if you want, there’s plenty more where those came from” she said dismissively. I just stared at her with shock and disbelief “You’re just going to give me them, just like that?” “Think of it as an apology for waking you up this morning” “You…you do know how much these are worth right?” “Yes darling and like I said its fine there’s plenty more where those came from” she replied back concerned and asked “Uh do you know how much these are worth?” “This” I said and grabbed a diamond about the size of a jumbo bouncy ball “is probably worth a couple million” I said like it was common sense. “Oh dear how do I explain this” she said and proceed to explain about how all gems are common and are, for a lack of caring about what she told me, pretty much worthless here. “Well if that’s the case then you won’t mind if I take a couple of diamonds then right?” “No help yourself” She said and went back to work on her dress. “Oh I’m going to be so rich” I whispered to myself and grabbed as many diamonds as I could fit in my coat pocket. Making sure my gems were secured I decided to go for a walk since there’s nothing else to really do here. “Hey Rarity I’m going out for a walk” I said to her as I headed towards the door. “Will you be alright, Ponyville might not be big, but one could still get lost here quite easily” she replied back. “Naw I’m good, I’ve got a map of Ponyville right here” I said pointing to my pip-boy “But can you tell me where Pinkie lives again I want to check up on Manny” I asked her. “She lives at Sugar Cube Corner just follow the path to the market and follow it for a bit you can’t miss it” she said losing herself in her work. With a shrug I headed out following her directions, in a matter of an hour or so, what I got lost and had to *sniff my manly pride* ask directions, I found the building I was looking for. “Wow how did I miss this?” I said looking at the giant gingerbread like store in front of me. With a shrug I headed for the door only for it to swing open and have someone run right into me, sending us both to the ground. Manny’s PoV: I was dreaming about my life back home with my parents and little sister. It was a typical day really I woke up saw my family eating breakfast. My sister was talking to my parents, probably telling them about what happened at school, my father and mother laughing as she finished her story. I just leaned against the wall with a small grin on my face, watching this happy scene until my family noticed me and beckoned me to join them. As I tried to walk towards them the table seemed to be going farther and farther away with every step I took. I started to panic and ran towards them calling out to them to wait or to come back, but to no avail as they slowly got farther away, my family and surrounding being swallowed up by the darkness. Then I fell screaming for this nightmare to be over. I woke up standing in a blank white void it’s only inhabitants a simple wooden door. Out of curiosity, and nowhere else to go, I reached for the door only to be pulled in as the door slammed behind me, trapping me in this strange new area. Getting a look around I was in a dark hallway with a simple table with a lamb on it, a dark green rug ran down the middle of the hall with purple on its edges and a dull gold color criss crossing from one side to the other. The walls had a few window spaced out and the colors of the walls had a dark violet schema with a strange shapes that looked like a figure 8 pattern going down it’s wall with an even darker purple than the carpets ‘Ok seriously brain purple I don’t even like purple that much’ I thought as I got up taking note that I was wearing a purple ‘oh come on!’ t shirt with a pair of blue jeans. “Where the hell am I?” I asked out loud walking over to one of the window to see only dark clouds in the sky and below a very thick looking fog. “This is one fucked up dream I’m having” I said out loud. That’s when I heard the sound of footsteps heading towards my direction, happy to hear someone else here I called out “Hello”. There was no response as the footsteps started to increase in sound. I called out again with uncertainty in my voice “Hello anyone out there?” Again no response, but the figure was close enough to make out her silhouette or I think it’s a female it was too dark to tell. “Hello…” I was about to say when the figure came forwards from the shadows “Oh it’s just you Pinkie” I sighed with relief happy to see a familiar face. Pinkie didn’t respond and stood there it was…creepy really. “Uh something wrong Pinkie you’re not acting like yourself?” I asked stepping a bit closer to her. She just stood there with a strange yet disturbing smirk on her face. I stopped and got a better look at her, she was wearing the same clothes from last night, but her hair wasn’t all puffed up like cotton candy it was deflated going down in a long streak covering a small part of her face. Instinctively I took a step back while Pinkie took a step forwards matching my pace. I don’t know what came over me, but without thinking I turned and ran as fast as I could away from her. I ran and ran for like five minutes till I decided to slow down since I couldn’t hear her perusing me. As my jog started to turn into a slow walk I heard the sound of footsteps mixed with the sound of Pinkie Pie humming a familiar tune, but the way she was humming it made the hairs on my back stand up. Not even thinking about turning around to see if she was behind me I began to run again, but no matter how fast or how far I ran the sounds of her footsteps and humming seemed to get louder and louder by the second. Then all of a sudden the sound of her footsteps and humming just stopped like she vanished. Daring to take a glance behind me I was filled with relief to see she was no longer pursuing me and released a breath I didn’t even know I was holding, when out of nowhere I ran into a wall or something and fell backwards towards the ground. “Oww” I said and tried to get up only to be shoved back down now pinned to the ground. As I opened my eyes I could see Pinkie holding me down and she started to hum that same song again. I tried to struggle from her grip, but she was surprisingly strong and pretty damn heavy for someone so small. “What do you want?!” I screamed at her while she just held me in place. Her smirk turned into a small creepy smile and she bent down low enough to whisper into my ear. “Do you really want to know?” she asked her voice on levels of creepiness that should never even exist. “What the fuck do you want?!” I screamed again trying to get loose from her grip again to no avail. She came face to face with me, her blue eyes staring into my brown eyes and began to sing, her voice drastically changing back to her normal one “I know a song that get’s on everypony nerves, everypony nerves, everypony nerves, I know a song that get’s on everypony nerves and this is how it goes.” She sat there on top of me singing for five minutes until I screamed “NOOOOOOOOOO” then everything went black. I awoke with fright and started to breathe heavily scanning my surrounding to only be satisfied to see I was in the room that I was staying in temporarily, along with my normal or I guess not so normal clothes still on. The room was packed with boxes of different labels, shape and size, Pinkie explained to me that this room was being used for a storage area till the attic got cleaned. It was quite cramped in here, but I was still able to reach the bed and the only other option of sleep was to share a bed with Pinkie, which I declined pretty damn quickly and slept here. Calming myself down and taking slow breaths I laid back down staring at the ceiling for a minute to collect my thoughts. ‘That was the most bizarre and fucked up dream I’ve ever had’ I thought, turning over towards the left to take a look at what time it was only to meet a pair of pale violet lizard eyes. “What the!?” I said scooting back a bit from the creature to see a little cartoonish green alligator with no teeth. It just stood there on the nightstand where the clock was and was just staring at me with a blank expression every once in awhile it would blink one eye then the other ‘Creepy’. I just stared at the little guy for a few minutes and with a tired sigh I said “Just stay over there” and proceeded to turn the other direction only to bump into a pair of light blue eyes. “Morning sleepy head” Pinkie said with a cheery smile making me recoil back in surprise. “Oh I see you’ve meet Gummy” she said reaching…REACHING!?!?, for him and bring him towards on the bed holding him up too my face. “Gummy this is Manny, Manny this is Gummy” she said keeping that same tone in her voice. “Uh…Hi” I said warily, Gummy just blinked and walked off ‘The hell just happened?’ “Oooh I think he likes you” she said ‘…..the logic’. “So is there a particular reason why you’re laying uh next to me?” She took one huge breath and started to talk so fast that I could only get bits and pieces of what she was saying, something about Pinkie sense, bad dream, wanted to play a joke, oatmeal? “…and that was how Equestria was made” she finished her long winded speech. I just laid there while she watched my every move with a strange glee in her eyes “Ok then” I said slowly getting off the bed and backing away from the crazy lady. “So are you, oh wait of course you’re hungry let’s go get some food” she said jumping off my bed and hopping her way downstairs. “Who’s say I’m even *growl*….” I just sighed and made my way downstairs. Half way down the stairs I could see Mr. Cake getting their shop stocked up with different kinds of food like muffins, cupcakes, bagels and etc. “Morning Mr. Cake” I said. “Ah good morning Manuel, Sorry about the room, but the contractors that were suppose to clean the attic reschedule on us at the last minute. Did you get a good night's sleep?” “Yeah it was no problem, but how do you know my actual name I don’t think I’ve introduced myself to anyon...pony except for the CMC?, I think that’s what Ben and BJ called them.” “I still see you’re getting used to our way of talking and Pinkie told us” he said with a shrug. “Of course” I said with a sigh “I’m actually more surprised that you and your wife are so calm by this, I would think most peop…ponies would freak out to know that we’re from another universe” I said taking a seat on a stool near the counter watching him work. “Well when you’ve been around Pinkie Pie for so long strange things seem pretty normal” he said with a hearty laugh. “Somepony call me” Pinkie said from behind me causing me to jump out of my seat in fright. “Opps sorry Manny oh and before I forget here you go” she said pulling a bowl of what looked like cheerios out of nowhere. “Uh thanks” I said staring at her with disbelief ‘Where the hell did she get this from and how come they look like cheerios?’ I thought. With a shrug I dove right into my cereal and wasn’t surprised to find out that it was in fact cheerios. Finishing my meal I noticed Pinkie was just sitting next to me and looked like she wanted to ask me something. “Uh something wrong Pinkie?” I asked as I chucked the milk that resided in the bowl. “Wellll my Pinkie sense went off last night saying that one of my friends was going to have a bad dream, buttttt when I went into your dream and saw you and your family having a good time I almost left until they started to…” “Wait you were in my dream” I cut her off. “Of course silly. I always want my friends happy so when they start to have a bad dream I hope on in and turn their frowns upside down” she stated like it was the most obvious thing to do. “So let me get this straight” I said earning the attention of Pinkie and Mr. Cake who was leaning on the counter next to Pinkie. “You just happened to know that I was going to have a nightmare because of some strange feeling… “No silly tingly back and chattering teeth tell me that ponies going to have a bad dream.” “Whatever, you're also telling me that you’re the one who sent me into that creepy hallway, chased me down, pin me to the floor and start singing that annoying song just to cheer me up?” I asked her not sure to be annoyed, scared, confused or just pist off. “Yup” she said with a big toothy smile. “Arggghhhhhhhhhh” I said while rubbing my head furiously and proceeded to smack my head against the counter. “Trust me when I say this son, Pinkie is just being Pinkie” Mr. Cake said patting me on the shoulder and walked back to the kitchen.   “Although I’m confused why such a wonderful dream like that would be considered a nightmare. I mean your family looks so friendly and peaceful…” “Because that wasn’t my family” I mumbled. “Not your family? Of course that was your family sil…” “That wasn’t my family” I said angrily shutting her up. “My father left my mother when I was eight years old, my sister died when she was only three and my mother, ha I rarely see her now a day’s probably drinking herself to death. So don’t you dare tell me otherwise” I yelled at her. “I’m sorry” she said tearing up a bit. “*sigh* no Pinkie I’m sorry, you didn’t know and I shouldn’t have snapped at you like that just please don’t bring it up alright.” “Okie dokie lokie” she said sadly. “But I have to say you do know your way around scaring people…ponies” I said trying to cheer her up. “Heh heh well me and Dashie always like to prank other ponies, but are you going to be okay?” she asked. “Yeah I’ll be fine it’s just a sore subject is all” I said bluntly letting her know I didn’t want to talk about it and quickly changed the subject “But still that was a pretty creepy prank you did on me”. “Oh oh I could teach you a way so you wouldn’t be so jumpy all the time” “Hey I’m not jumpy I’m just…overly cautious” “Uh huh” “Ok miss I’m not afraid of anything what’s this secret technique then?” I asked and she started to take in a deep breath like she was going to sin… oh hell no. “You’re not going to sing are yo…” “When I was a little filly and the sun was going down~” she sang. “OH GOOD GOD NO” I yelled, jumped out of my seat and ran out the door until I ran into Pedro. “Ow” I said positioned over Pedro’s body. “You know Manny people usually have to take me out to a nice seafood dinner before I lie down on my back and take it” he said with a grin. I would have replied back to his lame ass joke if I didn’t remember the singing pink menace that was coming after me. I quickly got up and hefted Pedro up and said “No time run!” and sprinted away. “Wait why?” I heard him shout. “Pinkie’s going to sing a musical” I shouted back. “OH GOD NO” Pedro yelled and started to catch up with me. “The darkness and the shadows, they would always make me frown~” she continued to sing while hopping after us, surprisingly she was catching up. “Oh shit she’s getting closer Pedro what do we do?!” “How the hell should I know?!” “ I’d hide under my pillow, from what I thought I saw, but Granny Pie said that wasn’t the way, to deal with fears at all~” she sang springing up in front of us causing us to recoil back and change our direction. But no matter which way we went or how fast we ran she would always come out of nowhere or just spring out of random places like barrels, windows…rocks? “She said: Pinkie, you gotta stand up tall, learn to face your fears, you’ll see that they can’t hurt you, just laugh to make them disappear~ Ha! Ha! Ha!” Then for some strange reason the random passer byers start to join in on Pinkie’s singing: “So, giggle at the ghostly Gauff at the grossly Crack up at the creepy Whoop it up with the weepy Chortle at the kooky Snortle at the spooky” they sang while a random pony would laugh like how they sang. Then the ponies went silent to let Pinkie sing the finale “And tell that big dumb scary face to take a hike and leave you alone and if he thinks he can scare you then he's got another thing coming and the very idea of such a thing just makes you wanna... hahahaha...heh... Laaaaaaauuugh!~”. All the ponies in the vicinity start to cheer and clap while Pinkie just bowed for a bit. The group of ponies then started to drift off to go back to their business and Pinkie said “And that’s what you do” with a smile. “…” Me and Pedro just stood there unsure about what to say. “Well I got to go back to Sugar Cube Corner have fun you two” she said with a quick wave and started to hop back to her home. “Manny?” he asked. “Yeah Pedro?” “What the fuck just happened?” “I have no idea” I replied back as we stood there dumbfounded at what just happened.