Crossroads - The Hopeful Saga

by Heisenberg


Episode I - Lost Without Nopony

**Chapter 1 - Pushing and Pressing**

As Slade peered out of his wonderful cottage window, he thought to himself "How did I end up here?"
Now that was a question that was on everypony's minds.

8 months ago, Slade had been running through the Everfree forest when suddenly he was in Ponyville.
He couldn't for the life of him remember how he ended up being in the Everfree Jungle.

Not even I, the narrator, know how Slade got to be.
What I do know is that Slade was different than most ponies, how different you may ask?
Slade is a human, the ONLY human in Equestria.

In the 8 months that Slade had been in Equestria, he had many adventures.
From meeting the Mane 6 to defeating Queen Chryssalis.

Alot of the stallions in Ponyville were very jealous of Slade, seeing as how alot of mares were very fond of Slade.
One by one, Slade had rejected them all, why you might ask?
We'll get to that in a moment.

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Slade's cottage was fabulous, as you might say, it had shelves with leather bound books and the door smelled of rich mahogany.
It was built on the finest soil in Ponyville and Slade had done it all himself.

As Slade peered out the window some more, there was a surprise knock at the door.
"Now who could that be?" he said to no one in particular.

He opened the door to find the Mane 6, and they did not look happy.
"What is ever the matter?" he asked.

It was as if the Mane 6 was speaking in unison, "Why don't you want to date us?" they asked in an exasperated way.
"It doesn't matter why or who, now if you don't have green eggs or ham, I must ask you to shoo!" he replied in a rhyming kind of way.

"You cannot avoid the question this time Slade, we want to know!" they all yelled.

As they pressed and pushed, Slade was sick of everything so he decided to tell a lie.
So shush, let's watch.

"Because I'm gay!" he yelled.
The Mane 6 was left speechless, as Slade ran up the stairs into his room.

Well... Wasn't that awkward?

**Chapter 2 - Awkward Silence**

The Mane 6 just stood there, frozen.
Fluttershy was the one to break it, "What does gay mean?" she asked in a completely innocent way.
Rainbow bursted out laughing, "You are such an egghead!"
Fluttershy just stood there clueless.

"It means that Slade is attracted to stallions, not us mares." explained Twilight.
"Oh... Ewww" replied Fluttershy.
"It is a normal thing, all we have to do is be respecful towards Slade." explained Twilight.
"I know! We can throw Slade a party!" squealed Pinkie.
"That's ah great idea Pinkie!" said Applejack.

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Slade was upstairs, planning how to get away from all the nonsense.
He suddenly had a thought, "I know a way I can get over this evil planning mood!"
"Oh wait... I left my Guardians of the Galaxy blu-ray disc downstairs..." he sulked.
He decided to put on some music, he opened up his sock drawer and pulled out a Frank Sinatra cd.
He put the disc into his stereo and turned it to track 8.

(Frank Sinatra's 'Just The Way You Look Tonight')

"Ah Frank... You never fail at calming me down..." he sighed.

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When Slade was finished his evil planning mood, he decided to go downstairs for a snack.
He noticed it was completely dark downstairs so he turned on the nearest light.

"SURPRISE!" was all he heard.

**Chapter 3 - Forever Means Never**

"How do you like the party?" asked Big Macintosh.
"It is fine, not a lot of good looking stallions though" joked Slade, remembering he had told the Mane 6 that he was gay.
"Not me?" jokingly sulked Big Mac.
"Well maybe... Let's just keep it PG-13, okay?" replied Slade.
"What?" asked Big Mac.
"Nevermind..." said Slade as he walked off, unwilling to lie to Big Mac.

"We all support you and we will still love you for who you are." said the Mane 6.
"Forever" they added.
"I may not remember much from where I came from but I am pretty sure they had a saying." replied Slade.
"What saying?" they all asked quizzically.

"Forever really just means never." said Slade as he opened his front door and walked out.

They all ran outside to see him entering Everfree Jungle.
"Stop!" they yelled but all was too late, Slade was gone and that's all that was said.

**Chapter 4 - Thrill Seeking**

4 months later...

Slade hasn't done so well out here in the Everfree Jungle, his clean shaven face is no more.
He looks like Walter White in the finale of Breaking Bad than anything else.

Out in the Everfree forest, he has needed to kill to survive.
Anything he finds, he kills it out of fear that it will kill him.

Slade lives in a cave underneath a waterfall, he finds it a place of harmony and serenity.
But his flatmates were not so welcoming, changelings used to inhabit this waterfall cave but not anymore.

Slade killed them all just for the thrill of being a killer, he liked it.
It soothed him.

Slade also liked to seek out thrills wether it is surfing down a waterfall or using a mosquito for toilet paper.
Slade literally went insane.

**Chapter 5 - Awakening**

As Slade swung from tree to tree, he noticed a ritual going on down below.
He dropped from a tree vine into a bush.
He had a peek at what was going on.

Changelings were circling around a tombstone.
Suddenly Equestria went dark, it was suddenly midnight.

A beam of light shot from the sky to the tomb.
The tomb disappeared but what was in it's place was... Nightmare Moon!?

Slade got up and walked out of the bushes.
He got 1 metre away from Nightmare Moon and dropped to his knees.

"Forgive me, your highness." he said as he kissed her hoof.

**END**