//------------------------------// // A new friend // Story: Crashed and Burned in Equestria // by Gaz1997 //------------------------------// Matrix POV It had been an hour since I had put the sleeping Pegasus in bed and yet she still hadn’t woken up “well that’s heavy sleepers for ya!” I was sitting on the sofa in twilight’s living room playing/singing owl city’s ‘to the sky’ on my guitar, images of RD in my mind as I played. play this Shipwreck in a sea of faces There's a dreamy world up there Dear friends in higher places Carry me away from here Travel light, let the sun eclipse you 'Cause your flight is about to leave And there's more to this brave adventure Than you'd ever believe Birdseye view, awake the stars 'cause they're all around you Wide eyes will always brighten the blue Chase your dreams, and remember me, sweet bravery 'Cause after all those wings will take you up so high So bid the forest floor goodbye As you race the wind and take to the sky You take to the sky On the heels of war and wonder There's a stormy world up there You can't whisper above the thunder But you can fly anywhere Purple burst of paper birds this Picture paints a thousand words So take a breath of myth and mystery And don't look back Birdseye view, awake the stars 'cause they're all around you Wide eyes will always brighten the blue Chase your dreams, and remember me, sweet bravery 'Cause after all those wings will take you up so high So bid the forest floor goodbye As you race the wind and take to the sky (Take to the sky) (As begun the solo I hadn’t noticed the door to my room open slightly as I was being watched by a certain blue Pegasus) There's a realm above the trees Where the lost are finally found Touch your feathers to the breeze And leave the ground Birdseye view, awake the stars 'cause they're all around you Wide eyes will always brighten the blue Chase your dreams, and remember me, sweet bravery 'Cause after all those wings will take you up so high So bid the forest floor goodbye As you race the wind and take to the sky You take to the sky (You take to the sky) You take to the sky End music. As I finished the song I heard hoof steps coming from the stairs, I turned my head and I saw twilight walking down the stairs she must have heard my singing. “Hey twilight you alright” “Yes, I’m fine, thanks, that was a really beautiful song you just played, what’s it’s called It called ‘to the sky’ by owl city. It’s one of my favourites and listening to his music calms me, and it reminded me of a certain pony that has caught my attention a few days ago” I say in a very relaxed tone “And who is this certain pony” she asked Fuck I said too much “erm no one you’ll know” yes saved It. “Well I’m going out to do some things. You don’t mind being on your own do you?” “Of course not I’ve got my own plans for later anyway, see you later Twi” “See you later matrix” replied twilight then she walked out the front door closing it behind her. I sit there for a few minutes enjoying the peace until Paranoia took over again and I immediately begin to scan to room to see if I was being watched. My gaze comes to the door to my room and I see that it is open slightly but as I look closer I can see that there is some pony there, they must have noticed I was looking at them because they let out a small gasp before running downstairs. Play this in a new tab for the mood mood music I let out a small chuckle and put down my guitar before making my way over to ‘my’ room and went down the stairs. I then saw rainbow dash in the bed pretending to be asleep. Although it looked convincing I knew she was faking it, I just smirked at this and walked over to the side of the bed and sat down, I raised my hand onto her head and stroked her multi-coloured mane. She seemed to smile a bit from me stroking her mane, she obviously enjoyed it, so I thought I would do this again to surprise her and see her reaction, I leaned forward and kissed her on the cheek again, when I kissed her, her eyes shot open a turned her head towards me. “Hehe I knew you weren’t asleep, I saw you watching me playing on my guitar a minute ago and also you’ve been acting strange ever since I got here, and out of curiosity I want to know why you’ve been acting odd. She mumbled something that I couldn’t understand and she looked at me with her amazing crimson eyes. She didn’t say anything so I stood up looking at her and simply said “Rainbow it’s ok if you can’t say what you want to say so I’ll come back later when you’ve sorted your emotions out yeah” and with that I picked up my backpack with my stuff in it and slung it over my shoulder but before I got to the bottom of the stairs rainbow called out “Matrix wait!” I stopped and put my bag down “What’s wrong rainbow-OOF” Before I could turn around I was tackled to the ground on my back by dash locking her lips with mine. After a few seconds she broke the kiss and just stood there on my chest looking at me, I was dumbstruck at her sudden outburst, my mouth couldn’t move at all or even produce words. She looked like she was on the verge of tears and looked away from me “i-i-im sorry matrix, I don’t know what came over me, I can understand if you don’t want to be near me or anything” What surprised her was that I pulled her face back to face me, I smiled then pulled her into another kiss. This time I broke the kiss and looked into her beaming eyes. “Now why in god’s name would I not want to be your friend, ever since I got here you’ve been acting strange ‘but’ only around me, I didn’t notice at first but I then realised why…….you like me don’t you…..dashie” She blushed slightly when I said her nickname “Yes….I do, it’s just that there’s something about you that I like but can’t put my hoof on it, and then there’s all those things that you’ve been through, they reminded me of my own memories of being bullied back in flight school”. Now she was crying again into my chest so I put my arms around her and rested my head on hers trying to comfort her as much as I could, I then sat up with the Pegasus in my arms. “Hey, hey come let’s not talk about that now, that’s all in the past, just try and forget about it, also I like you to” I said whilst hugging her, she hugged me back the pulled away from me with teary eyes and a smile on her face. “Dash…..do you want to now a secret” “Yeah, tell me” “Well I was hoping to say this later but here goes, you the show my little pony that I showed you and I said that some people back on earth say they have their favourite character’s” “Yes why?” “Well back on earth you were my favourite of the show, I didn’t exactly have a crush on you but that was because to me back then I thought you weren’t real, but now that I’m here it’s become more than a crush” Her smile grew bigger as she leaned forward and kissed me again, she broke the kiss and looked at me with a happier expression then spoke. “So….does that mean were…. “Colt friend and mare friend, yes if you want to be and we can keep it secret for now if you want to” “But we’ve only known each other for three days” “Hey don’t worry about that, we have plenty of time to get to know each other then plus I’m surprised that your actually wanting to go through with this, I mean were not even the same species but looks don’t matter, its what’s on the inside that counts from what is was told” I said putting on a smile “I guess your right” she says before pulling me into another hug which I return. We sit there for a few minutes enjoying each other’s embrace before we break the hug. “Well dashie I’ve got some things to do I’ll see you later ok” “Ok matrix I’ve got my own things to do too” she says as I stand up to leave but not before she fly’s up to me and plants another kiss on my lips “By the way when you were playing the song earlier you said it reminded you of some pony, who was it?” “Isn’t it obvious” I said giving her a wink, she responded with a wink as well before flying up the stairs and of to wherever she’s going, I just sat there trying to understand what just happened. end song Ok, I’ve only been here three/four days and already the majority of the town accept me, I’m friends with the mane 6, I have a job and small reputation as a DJ and now I have rainbow dash, my favourite pony as my mare friend. This is all happening so fast, am I on a fucking luck streak or something because it sure bloody feels like it, and I’m liking it, a lot. I broke out of my thought trance and remembered what I was going to do today. I walked over to where I had dropped my rucksack and rummaged through it, finding what I was looking for. My berretta 9mm, my combat knife and penknife. I’m going to need to keep myself in shape and train a bit, haven’t done any in a while and I hope that I never have to use these but it would be wise to get some extra practise but I gotta go easy on the ammo, unlucky enough that I don’t have infinite everything . With that thought in mind I put them back in the rucksack, slung it over my shoulder and walked upstairs’ I was feeling a little peckish so I quickly grabbed and apple from the kitchen twilight won’t mind, I’ll pay her back, whilst grabbing my iPod also and left out the door and headed towards applejacks farm………. hoping I was going in the right direction. Half an hour later I’m standing in the middle of a clearing in the apple orchard, I had asked AJ if I she had any wide open spaces for me to train in and do other stuff, she happily said yes, I also asked if she had any spare hay bales and paint which she had, she asked me why I needed any of this stuff so I simply said “it’ll all help me in training, trust me”. I had three hay bales set up against the treeline with makeshift targets painted on them. I was using another bale as a table for my gear. On said table laid my pistol with the extra magazines, I was practising throwing my combat knife at the hay bales, let’s just say when I first tried it, I sucked, but after a few tries It was easy, I could hit the bulls eye or somewhere near it. Satisfied I could throw my knife at a target I walked back over to my make shift table and picked up my gun, I pulled back then slide and held it with both hands facing the target in a sturdy stance. I inhaled and then exhaled slowly and pulled the trigger, I absorbed the recoil and lowered the barrel and went to inspect the target, not too far from the middle, not bad, thankfully the guns hadn’t made much noise and I was pretty far out in the orchard so no pony would have heard me unless they came looking for me. I walked back over to the bale and lined back up to take another shot repeating the technique from the previous attempt, but before I could pull the trigger a burst of three bullets came shooting past me from behind and hit the tree a few metres in front of me “THE FUCK” I shouted before diving behind the bale that would serve as cover, I leaned back against it with my combat knife in one hand and my gun in the other. “Ok who the fuck is this and how do they have a gun!” I peer over the top of my cover and try to see where my attacker is but can’t see any visual of them so what I did next was stupid, I got up from behind my cover and held my weapons in a tactical knife position. “OK WHOEVER’S OUT THERE FUCKING SHOW YOURSELF?” I heard a rustling noise from the tree directly in front of me, I could something moving around in the canopy of said tree so I fired of a warning shot at the base of the tree. “WHOA WHOA WHOA easy there I’m not gonna hurt you” came a male voice “Well then show yourself!” I answered with my weapons still raised, whoever it was took their sweet time climbing down from the tree. When he finally climbed down I got a good look at him. He was a unicorn, he had a brown coat, brown mane and tail and brown eyes and His cutie mark from what I could make out from behind his saddle bags is a 5.56mm round standing, the tip pointing upwards and at his side he was holding a pistol that looked like a crude rundown version of a colt .45. “okay this does not look like your average pony” “Ok who are you, how did you find me and where did you even get a gun?” “Ok first things first I’m not an Equestrian pony. You don’t say, I come from the Republic of Karalia, it borders Equestria and the Changeling nation. It's a gritty nation, and the zebras or 'Insurrectionists' are constantly rebelling against it, and the changelings harass our borders. Never heard of those places before and wtf is a changeling, I might want to have a chat with the princesses about this later “well I’ve never heard of those places, well up until now at least, and why are you here?” “To simply get away from it all” he stated “Well I can say that you’re defiantly not trying to kill me so I think introductions are in order my names matrix and I’m the only human in Equestria”. “My names Sean silverstein but you can call me silver” I cringed when he said that and turned to look away “hey dude are you ok, was it something I said” “Yeah I’m fine it’s just that I had a friend that was called silver not long ago” “What happened to him?” “He’s………he’s gone” “Oh…..I’m sorry you have my condolences” “Thanks” I said “Hey you said you’re a human, right, you wouldn’t happen to be the DJ humanz right” “Yeah how’d you know?” “Dude I may have only been here for a few days but news travels fast around here I can tell you” “Hehe you aren’t wrong about that, and like a said before where’d you get a gun?” “The other guy didn’t need it” “Well it none of my business but how good can you shoot” I asked “I can hold my own” he replied I turned back towards the targets and unleashed a volley of bullets at the closest one, the gun made a clicking noise telling me the mag was empty, I pulled out the empty clip and placed it onto the hay bale with the rest of my gear “Dude that was impressive” “Thanks” I looked back at my gear and came to a realisation “damn I only got two clips left” “I can help with that” said silver as with horn began to glow and he grabbed hold of my pistol and it was encased in brown/yellow aura as he did whatever he was doing to my gun, the suddenly the gun seemed to split and now there was two of them and they both had some cool looking design’s etched into the sides. When he finished he dropped them both back into my hands, he was panting slightly but he regained his composure enough to speak “Well I hope you like them there both enchanted now so they have unlimited ammunition and don’t need repairs” “Man, are you bloody kidding me that was cool do you think you could make another copy of my holster” I said pointing to it of the bale. “Of course” he said then proceeded to make another copy of it “Thanks” I said “Hey no probs” he said whilst waving a hoof in front of him. “Well I think I’ve had enough training today do you fancy coming back to town with me silver” “I don’t see why not” he replied “Ok just give me a few minutes to pack up my gear” He nodded at me before putting his gun away inside his saddle bags “Can I ask you sommat” I said “Yeah what’s up?” “Why did you try to shoot me?” “Well one I wanted to get your attention and two I wanted to see your reaction" "fair enough" i replied before we set of towards the town 20 minutes later We had finally got back to the town and were walking through the market area. My and silver had explained to each other a bit about ourselves and shared a laugh or two, silver’s actually quite an ok guy once you get to know him I was still curious how he had a gun but that would have to wait for later he also told me he was staying at the local inn somewhere on the other side of town for now until he could find work. We were now in the town square part of the market and ponies were going around their daily business, I’m surprised no one had recognized me yet which was good because I didn’t want to get swarmed after last night’s performance, I was feeling hungry so I offered to buy silver some grub but before he could answer my gaze was caught towards a blue Pegasus on the other side of the street next to a fruit stand surrounded by three Pegasus stallions rainbow dash? And who are these guys? I could now see clearly that is was rainbow and she was forced up against the wall of fruit stand with the three pegasi surrounding her and from what I could hear they were insulting her. Her gaze fell upon me beckoned me with pleading eyes to desperately help her out. I looked towards my new found friend and dropped my bag and pulled out my combat knife “Silver, watch my stuff please for a minute” “Sure but what are you planning?” “Oh nothing just planning on kicking some ponies ass” I said enthusiastically as I begun the sneak up behind the group where I could hear then more clearly. I waited until the one that was closest to RD was standing by the stand got my knife ready. He was almost in her face now. “Hahaha guys look here rainbow crash is all alone and cant do anything about it, right fellas” He said to his lackey’s who laughed in agreement as he turned back towards dash, what happened next from what I saw pretty much nearly made him shit himself as my knife flew right past his face and embedded itself in a melon on the stand next to him. His eyes turned to the size of saucer’s as he was staring at the knife that had merely missed his face by inches then someone called out “HEY FUCKNUTS, LEAVE HER ALONE!” I shouted as I slowly walked over to him looking intimidating as possible. The look on their faces said it all. what's up readers RM here, hope you liked the new chapter and sorry it took a while i had to try and proof read it myself since silverstien222 said he had to resign from being my pre reader because right now things for him have gotten worked up sooooooo yeah sorry if this chapter is a little bit odd in anyway. but were still friends silver will still be part of my story's as well as matrix in his.so now im looking for a new pre reader or two if you would like to volunteer to be my pre reader/s just send me a PM this is RM laters also have some muffins for you being you