//------------------------------// // 1. Stupid Train // Story: Better than jail // by Whitetashi //------------------------------// That is the most stupid train I have ever seen., you think to yourself. Where the hell am I going?, as you ride a much to colorful train through a much to colorful landscape. Kind of looks like you're on some kind of weak but chilly trip; it's not uncomfortable. Nevertheless you really don't want to do the social work the judge condemned you to, but after you got caught uploading 34 TB of Porn to the Sony Servers for banning your account, you are happy it's only 2 Month of social work in this little village and not 2 (or more) years in jail. Ponyville; what a fitting name for a little village at the ass of the world, in a land you never heard of before: Equestria. Sounds like some 6 year old came up with the names, but whatever. As much as you found out about this place, it's inhabitants are some kind of sect or something with radioactivity or shit like that, because they have definitely too varicolored skin in pretty weird colours and have some rites about talents and tattoos. Sounds like a bunch of freaks to you, but as long as they don't try to eat your hands and you will be a free man afterwards, it will be alright. Even if it will be hard living in a village without electricity, not to mention without Internet. You heard something about "Magic", but you don't really want to know what that means. And as you take a glance at your phone, you add cellular to the list of not available things. You sigh as you look out of the window and watch the intense colored, but pretty trees go by. At least it is idyllic around here, and "helping the people around the village" didn't sound so bad as a job description. Helping some "mentally challenged" but hopefully nice people with their chores is better than most of the jobs you did before. Maybe it's even a nice one, you might even stay there in that case, it's not like there is anything that holds you elsewhere. Somewhere to stay with the feeling of being home....that would be nice, you guess. Enough of the sentimental nonsense, you tell yourself. I don't want to fuck this up, so I better go through this once more. You're going to Ponyville, a little village in the middle of a country called Equestria, whose capital is named Canterlot, where the ruling royalty resides. There is no king or anything, just four princesses, two of them in Canterlot, one in the Crystal Empire, somewhere around the country, and one in Ponyville itself, named Twilight Sparkle. Six year old namegiver strikes again, you interrupt your own flow of thoughts, but you will accustom to that you guess. And exactly that Princess Twilight Sparkles Castle, you pick up the flow again, I will have to look for once you arrive at the station in Ponyville, what should be like any moment now. You were told you will stay there during your worktime, to be looked over; even if you're not exactly sure what to think about that. And as you still worry about dungeons and getting the most ridiculous names getting tacked on you, the train comes to a halt and you see a little colourful train station to your left.