Applejack's Spare Barn
‘Purrrrrrrrrrrr’
The first sound I here when I wake up is the sound of cat purring.
When I open my eyes I see my favorite calico cat Mace curl up on my chest. She looks pretty much how I remember if it weren’t for the faint glow in her eyes you wouldn’t even notice that she just as dead as I was.
“Hey their girl.” I say stroking her. “How are you holding up?”
Mace just continues purring, she’s such a good kitty.
A look around reveals that I’m resting in a bed of hay in someone barn, and a look at myself reveals that I wasn’t dreaming earlier.
Damn, that’s, just damn.
“Hey.” I sit up and turn to the direct of the voice to see the rainbow colored Pegasus from earlier approaching me “Are you ok big guy?”
“Uuuuh well I guess I’m as ok as a person can get after finding out they’re dead.” I say rubbing the back of my head “Thanks for taking care of me during my little breakdown I can’t imagine that would have been easy if what that Unicorn said about the undead is normally true.” As I talk my cat changes position so that she’s now sitting in my lap.
“Yeah well we thought it that you were kind enough that we could give you the benefit of the doubt.” The Rainbow maned Pegasus walks up to me and extends a hoof “I’m Rainbow Dash by the way it’s nice to meet ya.”
I shake her hoof in response. “It’s nice to meet you too Rainbow dash I’m John Greywood…Say what happened to the others?”
“They’re off taking care of other things.” Rainbow Dash shrugs “I had the day off of work alongside Pinkie Pie so the two of us decided to watch over you while you recovered from…well your complete breakdown. She’s just outside playing with your cat.”
Meanwhile Just outside the barn
“Stay back! Stay Back!” Pinkie Pie shouted at the angry orange cat staring at her from the bottom of the tree. “I have a stick and I know how to use it!”
The cat for its part was content to wait at the bottom of the tree and hiss at the pink pony whenever she tried to get down.
Back at the Barn
“Wow” I say “She must be really good with others if she can play with Rose and not get shredded like paper. That cats as ornery as they come.”
“I wouldn’t worry about it.” Rainbow Dash waves off my concerns “Pinkie Pie’s so nice I don’t think anything could hate her for long.”
“Someone please help me!” I hear the pink pony’s voice from outside. “This cat is pure evil!”
I raise an eyebrow. “Are you sure? Because I can go out there and lend her a hand if she’s having trouble.”
“Eh” Rainbow Dash just shrugs “I’m pretty sure she’s just being herself. Pinkie Pies very easy to excite.”
“I am not just being crazy!” Pinkie Pies voice rings out in distress “Please get this little monster away from me!”
“Ok that tears it.” I say lightly taking Mace off of my lap. “I’ve got a cat to take care of.”
“Ok colt.” Rainbow Dash follows me outside “I still think your overreacting.”
Outside the Barn
When I exit the barn the first thing I see is Rose chasing Pinkie around in circles.
Oh Rose can you even one day without making somebody’s like difficult.
Well only one thing to do now.
I knell down. “Here kitty kitty kitty. Here kitty kitty kitty.”
Almost immediately Rose stops chasing the Pink Pony and walks slowly over to me.
“Meow” Rose starts rubbing her head against my leg.
Good kitty.
“Sorry about that.” I apologies to Pinkie. “Rose has always been a nasty cat. My names John Greywoods by the way, it’s nice to meet you.”
“Oh don’t worry its fine!”” The pink pony moves closer to me but stops when Rose hisses at her. “It’s nice to meet you too John my names Pinkie Pie!”
Technically Rainbow Dash already gave me her name, but I don’t feel the need to ruin her introduction by mentioning the fact.
“Say” Pinkie Pie circles around me “How do you keep that cat from trying to bite you anyway?”
“I don’t” I shrug “She just doesn’t do it to me as much as she does it to other people.”
“Oh” Pinkie Pie says as she walks up the side of the barn “Well mean cat aside it’s still nice to meet you!”
“Right.” I say as I watch her walk up the barn “So you have any pets that you get along with.”
“Yes!” Almost immediately Pinkie Pie right on the ground close to me. “I have a pet alligator named gummy! He doesn’t talk much be he’s really fun to hand around with if you to know him!”
Apparently pones are strong enough that they can have pet alligators without worrying about getting eaten, or they can communicate with the alligators well enough to keep it from happening, either way that’s good to know.
“I’ll take your word of that.” I let out a small laugh. “Thanks for watching over me while I was out of it by the way.”
“Well we couldn’t just leave you out there in the cold! Especially not when you were all sad like that!” Pinkie Pie replies as she puts her hoof on her chin in contemplation “Oh I almost forgot! I need to get a welcome to ponyvile party started for you! It’ll have” Unfortunately I stop listening at the word ‘party and repress a shudder. While I don’t mind being friendly large social gathering have always been stressful times for me.
“Well.” I turn to look at Rainbow Dash “She’s an excitable one isn’t she?”
“Yeah.” The rainbow maned Pegasus agrees “But she’s a great friend. In all honestly I’m surprised you’ve been unfazed by her for this long. I was sure you’d start questioning things as soon she started walking up the side of the barn. Did that sort of thing normally happen to you?”
“No not really.” I shake my head. “In all honestly I’m pretty sure I’m still burned out from my meltdown earlier. I mean don’t get me wrong she is strange but when you wake up as a member of the living dead in a world hat’s completely alien to you a pony that acts like a cartoon character isn’t that shocking.”
“Cartoon Character.” Rainbow Dash looks at me with a strange eyebrow. “What’s that?”
“You guys have some form of animation here right?” Rainbow Dash nods her head. “Well a cartoon character is basically an animated person, usually capable of treating reality like it was a polite suggestion instead of way things where.”
“Sounds weird” Rainbow Dash shrugs. “Anyway Twilight told me I should probably go get her when you wake up…you mind if leave you alone with Pinkie for a little bit.”
“Sure” I say as I watch the Miss Pie jump around in excitement. “She seems nice enough.”
“Ok then.” Rainbow Dash spreads her wings. “I’ll be back in a flash!”
And then she jets off at incredible speed leaving a trail a rainbow in her wake.
Well at least her names accurate I guess, I can only imagine how ironic it would be if she was named Slow Molasses or something like that.