//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Where Am I Again? // Story: Person In PonyLand // by Z-A-C //------------------------------// When I came to I was in someone's house several hours after the events in the woods, my wound had been bandaged up but was still bleeding but not as bad as it had been. As I looked around studying my surroundings I noticed that I couldn't move, I felt like death, and I was on the second floor of the house, I also noticed that my shirt and jacket were gone. I wanted to leave but the weakness from blood loss was to great but it could be worse, I could be in that creatures den about to be eaten "It feels like I've seen that thing before" I thought to myself "I'm not sure but...it seems oddly familiar". I looked over at a book shelf and saw my weapons, tactical vest, and all the ammunition but not my jacket. About the time I was trying to move I heard a knock on a door, it open and then voices but not the ones I usually heard (we'll talk more about that later) these were from downstairs. "Oh hello Twilight please come in" This was the same voice I heard before I passed out. "Thank you Fluttershy" Fluttershy? Twilight? where the hell am I? "Where is he?" "Oh sorry....hes um...upstairs i...in my room" I was what?!?! Now the reason that was my reaction is because i'm quite shy around girls i first meet and i don't know these ones at all. I managed to get out of bed and stand up, I went over to the bookshelf and grabbed my pistol loaded it and looked out the nearby window. There was a forest about I don't know 20-25 minutes away? I heard them talking just outside the door "Hold on let me just check on him" Fluttershy? said I jumped a little but didn't move and just kept looking outside. "Oh y...your awake" She said "I....I was so worried about you." I coughed and winced as I realized that i had small cuts and bruises all over. "Oh no are you ok?" she said worried. "You really shouldn't shouldn't be standing." "You know what this is?" I said holding up my pistol but not turning around. That startled her "U..um...n..n..no" she said sounding like she was shaking. "Really?........Ok then this is a gun, a weapon or a device of death," I paused waiting for a reply but she said nothing "Before I choose which one it is I need to know now......miss?" After a few seconds she finally replied "Oh.....I'm....Fluttershy" she said just loud enough that I could hear. "So Fluttershy I need to know now what you are. Are you a friend or a foe? Then I will choose" I asked in fake Russian accent. "Um....I...I um.." I could tell she was starting to cry, I guess my accent made me scarier. "Now now its just simple question, no need to cry" I said in my normal voice and paused in thought "Actually my dear I think you already answered, but i need to hear it." "....I....I'm a friend..." She said as her tears started to dry up "I'm the one that brought you back here and tended to you." "Good to hear because I have very little ammo" I laughed but the energy in the room told me she didn't think it was funny. "Well anyway all joking aside....I know. I heard your voice before I passed out, I just needed or wanted rather to know if I should just shoot you now but I now know I don't have to. So thanks for answering me or you might be dead." "Y....you wouldn't hurt the one that saved you, would you?" she said a little worried. I laughed "No I wouldn't" I said as I turned around with my eyes closed "Actually I was just messing with you this whole time hahaha but this thing in my hand is dangerous." "Yo...your hand?" she asked which I found weird "So that's what you call those!" "Huh?" --------------- "Fluttershy! Is he awake?" The other voice said. "Yes you can come in now.....if you want." and then the door opened again as i opened my eyes. "Good I was starting to get worried, its been a few minute and.... whoa hes tall" I stared for quite a few seconds ".....you're kidding me right?" I asked in disbelief "What is this? Where're the cameras? I'm going to kill who ever did this to me!" I said angrily. In front of me was a light yellow pony with wings and a purple pony with a horn. "I don't know what your talking about." The horned one said. "And what are you?" "I would ask you the same thing but I think already know but first what is your name? I said again in my Russian accent. "I'm Twilight Sparkle and this is Fluttershy, and you are?" she asked "I....don't....remember." faking amnesia "Just call me by my CodeName and that's Ezekiel, ok? "Ok" they both said "Now what are you?" Twilight asked. "Hmm? You mean you really don't know?" I asked surprised. "Surely they are more of my kind around somewhere?" "N...no we haven't seen anything like you, at...at least I haven't have you Twilight?" Fluttershy said. "No the closest I've seen to him is a monkey......but those are smaller, have fur, and are incapable of speech." She said now walking around me studying and examining me "So that means you.....you must be some kind of species that evolved from primates!" She said excitingly. "Well some people thinks so but for simplicity's sake yes.....I'm a human" I said finally telling them what I am. "And don't tell me you're a pegasus and you're a unicorn, right? So that means that thing in the woods was a...." "Manticore." said Fluttershy "And they're very dangerous." "And yes I'm a unicorn and shes a pegasus." Twilight said confirming my thoughts. "Are there any of us where your from?" "Well yes.......but with no wings or horns and they don't talk" I answered now sitting on the bed "Do you have those? and are they as colorful as you?" "Yes they're called earth ponies and they talk" she replied "And yes they're different colors" "Interesting and are there any other animals here?" I asked "Why yes there are birds, rabbits, frogs, cats, dogs, and all sorts of other animals" The light yellow pegasus said happily. "Do you...um...like animals?" "If I hated or disliked animals you all would probably be dead already.........that's a yes by the way." I laughed but they didn't find it funny because Fluttershy was starting to cry "But yeah I love cats and dogs they're my favorite animals but I would never hurt any animals unless I absolutely needed to, like that manticore." "Oh I...I see..that's very good to hear, oh dear are you tired?" She asked as I started to lay down. "Yeah a little bit I suppose, is this your bed?" I asked sitting up again. "Well I'll be going then. Twilight interrupted. "Can come to my house tomorrow? I want to ask you some questions, ok?" I thought for a minute "Yeah sure I mean if I'm feeling better" "Ok see you later then." She said as she walked away. I didn't reply --------------- They said their good byes and when I heard the door close I yelled. "HEY SMALL YELLOW PONY!!" I heard an "Eep" in response and she came up the stairs. Poking her head through the small crack in the door she said "Y...yes what is it?" "Come closer please I want to ask you something." she walked in and stood at the side of the bed. "Are you scared of me? and be honest." I asked looking at the ceiling. "A....a little yes but that doesn't mean I'll stop taking care of you when you need it." She answered warmly like a mother taking care of her child. "I see that's good to hear......and also this is your bed, right?" "Yes i..i..it is" she answered blushing for some reason. "I see...... then you sleep here tonight" "Wha.....eep!" I grabbed and put her on the bed next to me making her blush even more. "Don't be afraid, you saved my life I have no intention of hurting you." She curled up beside me as I started to fall asleep "Good night fluttershy" then I dozed off. I woke up strapped to a table and large cloaked figure walked up to me "You didn't have to that you know? You could have let them live and killed yourself instead, but no you had to take a couple with you and prove your parents right huh? You're nothing but a coward. Look what you did, they were innocent and you killed them for no reason....I wonder what you will do with these ponies hmm...." It paused I tried to speak but my lips were sown shut "Well this will be interesting all the same and remember before you go.....I'm always following you" I ripped the stitches out. "I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!!!" I shouted as I really woke up scaring the poor yellow pony that was surprisingly still in the bed and now cowering in a corner. "I'm sorry I'm so sorry for whatever I did please don't hurt me!" she said crying "I wont do it again!" I got up and went over to her and hugged her "Don't worry you didn't anything wrong I just had a really bad dream that was all, ok? So don't worry about anything, besides I promised not to hurt you." I said as gently and warmly as I could, damn these nightmares. She slowly shook her head and awkwardly hugged me back and said. "Its ok you can go back to sleep....if....you...want..." "I understand if you don't want to join me like earlier......I'm sorry." I said as I laid back down and started to doze off, a few seconds later she curled up beside me again. "Thank you." she said. Not knowing why she said that or just to tired to care i didn't respond and fell asleep. --------------- I slept in, it was noon by the time I woke up. I went downstairs and in the kitchen was fluttershy making lunch. From the look of it was all vegetarian which made sense considering she was a pony but sucked all the same. "Your awake! Are you hungry?" She asked happily. "My head hurts heh heh I didn't realize how low the ceiling were." I shook my head which made my headache worse "Ugh ouch yeah whatcha got?" "You really should be more careful hehe, I made dandelion sandwiches." "Um....ok then uh....have any meat?" what? I had to ask. She gasped "N...no is that humans eat?" "Well we eat both meat and vegetables, some even switch to nothing but vegetables." I explained. "But I eat meat primarily." "Oh.....is that what you were doing in the Everfree Forest....h...h...hunting?" She asked slightly scared of the answer. "So that's what you call those woods or that forest rather evil evil place, but no I wasn't hunting thats were I was teleported to from my world, same with all my stuff that's upstairs." I picked up a sandwich and tried it. She sighed in relief "Oh good.....h..how do you like your sandwich?" At this point the sandwich was gone and "It tasted better than I expected but all of this is going to take some getting used to." "I understand this must be a big change for you" "Indeed it is but hopefully everything's going be ok, heh can't be any worse than what I had going back home and no I don't want to talk about it." "Oh o..ok." She said sheepishly. "By the way have seen anything that might belong to me? anything strange that you haven't seen before?" "Well there was something..." She said as she left the room, a short while and she was back with something. "What about this?" She put it on the table, I looked at it and it was the bayonet for my rifle. "Yes thank you this will be perfect!" I said excitedly She giggled and said. "Oh I also found this." And laid my survival knife down. "Awesome now all I need are my night-vision goggles and i'll be set!" I know, I know I have a lot of stuff. "Those sound interesting what do those do?" "They let you see better in the dark, simple really." "We don't have anything like that." "Really? Well maybe I'll let someone take a look at them and duplicate and adjust them to fit ponies haha." "You would really do that?" She asked. "Well maybe it involves some science-y stuff I'm sure" "Science-y stu.....oh Twilight! Come on we're late I..I..mean um.... you don't want to keep her waiting do you? "Oh right the interview. Well maybe not but yeah let me grab my stuff and let's go." And with that we went off towards Twilight's.