Martin's Unreal Life

by CrypticMetaphor


Chapter 10: An Old & New Face

Everypony in Equestria was gathered around Alan Washington brandishing cheese graters and made up to look like evil clowns, Trixie walked through the crowd dressed like the queen of the mimes and pulled out a rubber band along with a cattle-prod.

She then smiled evilly and spoke in a Microsoft Sam voice, "enin retfa semoc etalocohC"

Alan’s left eye twitched at this comment, but then a look of complete terror appeared on his face as all of the ponies advanced on him as Rebecca Black’s "Friday" played in the background….

*

Alan immediately sat straight up in the bed he was currently taking residence in, he then grabbed his side in absolute pain and was pulled backwards into his pillow by a purple magical aura. He immediately turned his head and saw the worried faces of the six and Martin; Alan weakly smiled as he noticed that he was lying in a hospital room with an IV hooked into his arm along with a hospital gown and a heart monitor which was steadily beeping.

Alan stared at the ceiling as he addressed his friends, “You can all say I told you so…”

Rainbow stood up and walked over to Alan’s bedside, “they already did while you were out…”

Alan was about to speak but stopped when Rainbow bent down and hugged him, “you saved my life dude…thank you”

Alan smiled as he returned the gesture with equal gusto, “Hey it was no big deal… you’d do the same for me Dash”

She let go of him and smiled at him before she walked back to her chair, Rarity addressed Alan with a concerned tone, “I must ask Alan, why were you thrashing around a few minutes ago?”

Alan shivered at the memory, “let’s just say painkillers mess with your head when you sleep”

Martin spoke next, “Well dude I got good news,” Alan looked at Martin with a raised eyebrow, “The doc’s say the bullet passed through you and thankfully didn’t damage any of your organs, however they say they have to keep you here about three weeks along with an extra two days for observation”

As Martin talked, he noticed Alan grab his beds recliner controls and elevated himself to properly look at all of them with a mock dramatic voice, “Oh god, three weeks how will I survive!....maybe I’ll take up reading”

When he said this he looked right at Rainbow Dash with a smirk which she returned with an eye roll as Pinkie Pie approached very fast, “Alan, when you get out of the hospital can I throw you a welcome back party?”

Alan nodded, “What kind of a brony would I be if I said no”

Pinkie was immediately all smiles as she began to fire off ideas on what she would do for the celebration. The conversations that followed lasted for several hours until they were asked to leave by one of the nurses to which they complied with no struggle. Martin looked back toward the hospital as all seven of them boarded the bus that would take them back to his house and sighed.

Rainbow tapped Martin on the shoulder; Martin read her mind almost immediately, “It wasn’t your fault Dash…”

Dash’s eyes were watering, “I just want to know why he did it for me, and I understand I’m his favorite pony but…why?”

Martin put a comforting hand on her shoulder, “It’s because he cares about you Dash”

*

(Three Weeks and two days later)

Pinkie Pie was holding a clip board in her hand as she observed the decorations being suspended from Martin’s ceiling; she nibbled slightly on the cap lid of the pen she held as she saw Rarity put several streamers on the roof and spread them out evenly. She then checked off streamers as she saw AJ finishing of a cake she and Pinkie had made prior to the decoration of the home that spelled out in white frosting, “WELCOME BACK ALAN!!”, and finally she checked on Fluttershy and Twilight who were currently on lookout duty.

Pinkie approached after checking off the cake box, “Is he here yet?”

Twilight looked away from the window, “Not yet”

Pinkie pouted as she turned to face Martin who was munching on a chip from one of the snack bowls to which she threw the pen at his hand yelling in a strange voice, “NO CHIP FOR YOU!!”

Martin crossed his arms after shaking his hand a few times as Rainbow chuckled beside him, “Rule one about Pinkie parties Martin, never eat snacks before the party starts”, Rainbow shivered slightly, “it never ends well”

Pinkie then made an “I’m watching you” gesture toward Martin as she sat down on a chair and turned back to Twilight, “Is he here yet?”

Twilight shook her head without looking away, “no”

Pinkie leaned forward, “Is he here yet?”

Twilight sighed sounding a bit annoyed, “no”

Pinkie then appeared beside Twilight hopping impatiently, “is he here YET?”

Twilight was now very annoyed as she turned to Pinkie, “No….”

Pinkie paused for a second, “ISHEHEREYETISHEHEREYETISHEHEREYETISHEHEREYET?”

Twilight was about to yell her answer when Fluttershy gave a calm, “Yes”, and pointed out the window to reveal Alan dressed in jeans and a white shirt with his casual leather jacket draped over his shoulder. The second Alan raised his hand to knock on the door, it was opened extremely fast and a pink haired girl grabbed him with a large smile on her face and pulled him in.

*
(Meanwhile in Equestria)

Discord was reclining on a cotton candy cloud literally playing yoyo with the sun and moon as he began to look around. All the buildings were either floating on separate pieces of land off the ground or were just suspended upside down, ponies were running around in utter panic as the streets were covered in soap or in some cases grape juice and water was levitating into the sky whenever it was poured, he had his chaos in all of its unbridled glory. Yet for once in millennia….he yawned in complete boredom which actually caused him to sit up and look around in complete confusion at this action which also caused the sun and moon to drop out of site.

Discord looked around the darkened landscape as he snapped his talon and summoned a lamp which he flicked on to examine a checklist with a pair of horn rimmed glasses, “Let’s see here… wake up dramatically…Check, take care of annoying royals…check, cause complete and utter chaos…”, he then looked once more at the landscape with a grin, “checkaroo”

Discord sat in silence for a few seconds contemplating; he had everything he had ever wanted but why oh why did he feel bored, he then threw the clipboard in the air which then flew away like a bird as he sighed in frustration, “WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME!?”

He then looked toward the castle and appeared in front of the stained glass window that depicted the frozen princesses, “What do you think Celestia”, he shrugged as he looked sideways for a second, “I have my glorious chaos”, he then gestured indicating the outside world from within the throne room, “All of Equestria is under my heel once more”, his shoulders sagged, “And yet I feel bored…almost like I’m missing something”

Discord then leaned against the wall beside the window and spoke in a slight feminine voice, “Maybe it’s more than that”

Discord warped to the opposite wall with a sarcastic tone, “Oh please Celestia do go on”

He went back to his original position a “Celestia” continued, “Think about it, you’re at the top of the mountain with everything you ever wanted, but isn’t it lonely up there?”

Discord thought on this, “Hmmm, whats your point?”

“Celestia” then chuckled, “Isn’t it obvious?”

Discord then responded very flatly, “If it was obvious, would I be asking you”

“Celestia” then huffed, “alright fine I’ll tell you since your completely incompetent”

Discord grinned slightly, “Well well Celestia, it seems somepony is a little agitated”

“Celestia” ignored this, “You climbed all the way to the top and claimed victory, but let me ask you something, what was missing”

Discord answered immediately, “A fanfare?”

“Celestia” sighed in agitation, “NO! A CHALLENGE!”

Discords eyes widened in realization, images of the princesses defeating him appeared along with the one of Twilight and her friends stopping him, “Of COURSE!,” he then began to pace, “Sure I have everything I want at my disposal, but there’s no fun in it if no one tries to stop me”

He then took on a thoughtful expression, “come to think of it…I’m curious to where the Twilight and her merry mares wondered off to”

Discord then conjured up his radar screen and adjusted the dials to only seek out the six’s magical energies, no blips appeared in Canterlot or the surrounding areas, “Odd”

Discord then appeared in Ponyville and began to look around with the radar only to be met with the same result, “this is truly odd”, and he then expanded the search margin all over Equestria to be met with nothing.

He paced once more, “Where could they have gone”

Discord then heard a mumble to his right and noticed a pony by the name of The Doctor stuck inside of an hour glass that was filled up to his neck and never rose above that level but sand continued to pour in on his head.

Discord approached The Doctor, “I’m sorry, what was that?”

Doctor just stared at him in response

Discord just sighed as he snapped his talon and levitated the hourglass and flipped it upside down causing The Doctor to land on his head as the hourglass started to fill up, Discord then leaned against it as he examined his lion paw looking for imaginary dirt, “If you know anything I suggest you spill it now before your head is buried”

The Doctor yelled something before his mouth was buried; this caused Discord to flip the hourglass again, “Say again?”

The Doctor spoke in a defiant tone, “They went with Martin”

Discord blinked a few times, “Who?”

The Doctor smiled, “Oh you don’t know do you?”

Discord shook his head, “afraid not, could you fill me in?”

The Doctor just laughed, “You think I would tell you anything?”

Discord looked downcast immediately, “No”

Discord snapped his fingers and Ditzy Doo appeared in front of him, “But she might”

The Doctor was about to yell something when duct tape appeared on his mouth and he was immediately buried up to his neck, Ditzy immediately reeled in Discord, “Let him go right now!”

Discord pondered this for a moment, “I will let him go on the condition that you tell me about who this “Martin” is…”

Ditzy was about to object, until Discord tapped her on the head causing her colours to become grayish and her eyes to straighten out, he then conjured a box of muffins, “I insist”

Ditzy immediately spilled the beans on everything that was Martin Fairbridges, when she finished, Discord turned her back to normal and turned to leave, Ditzy immediately yelled after him, “you said you would let the Doctor go”

Discord stopped for a second, “funny thing about that…”, he snapped his fingers as Ditzy was strapped to a hypno disc which began to slowly rotate, “…I lied”

He then teleported in front of The Carousel Boutique and examined the door, he then ran his claw along the wood of the door and lightly licked it, “Hmmm…marzipan with mint, oh and a slight hint of ripped dimensional barrier”, Discord placed his lion paw on the door and snapped his talon, the door then erupted in white energy which forcibly swallowed him.

*

Alan was on the couch playing a guitar controller as Rockband 3 played on the TV, Rainbow was on drums as Twilight sang the lines for The Power of Love by Huey Lewis & The News. Martin was clapping in tune with the beat as Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie danced along, Applejack was munching on a nacho sitting beside Martin on a kitchen chair.

AJ turned to Martin, “Hey Martin...”

Martin took a sip of his coke as mumbled a yes, AJ then blushed slightly as she thought hard on her question, “Ah’ve been thinkin about what you said after me Rarity and Rainbow went a bit cuckoo…”

Martin raised an eyebrow as she continued, “ah mean we ARE stuck here an all…”

Martin was getting a little fidgety when she finally dropped the bomb, “…Would you do what you said an be our special somepony if either if us asked”

Martin choked slightly as he looked at her completely surprised, “Wh...What!?”

Alan looked over after the song had finished and gave him a smile as Martin tried to form words; AJ immediately waved her hand frantically, “It was nothin! It was just a….”

Twilight helped her, “rhetorical question”

AJ nodded with a smile, “Yeah, what she said”

Martin was about to answer only for the doorbell to ring, he stood up and walked to the door with eyes following him. When he opened it a women about the same age leapt through the door and hugged him, Martin and everyone else was taken completely by surprise.

The woman’s left eye was electric blue where as her right eye was forest green, she had copper coloured hair that was naturally curly that cascaded to just below her shoulders, she also wore dark blue jeans with a grey shirt and black heel shoes complete with a black winter coat.

She stared at Martin with a smile, “Hey Martin, long time no see”

Martin looked at here very confused, “Uh”

She raised an eyebrow, “It’s me, Lupe Stewart”

Martin just stared blankly at her to which she rolled her eyes with a grin, “I was in your grad class, we didn’t talk to each other until 12th grade in history class”

Martin looked very embarrassed when he finally remembered, “Sorry about that, I haven’t seen you since the grad dance”

Lupe shrugged, “Yeah sorry about not keeping in contact, I have been WAAAAY busy with family and work stuff”

She then noticed Alan who waved at her with a welcoming smile, and then her eyes fell upon the six, “Who are they?”

Martin smiled, “My friends, just met several months ago, wanna come in?”

Lupe continued to stare at the six girls until the one with the pink hair grabbed her hand and pulled her in, “Come on in Lupe, the more people the merrier the PARTY!!”

*

Discord appeared in an alleyway looking around intrigued, “Interesting”, he then walked down a side walk and saw a trench coat in a window. He looked around and noticed a 20 year old guy speed past him in a sports car, “Hmm… I may have to blend in”

Discord then snapped his finger and transformed into a twenty year old clean shaven guy with grey hair and red irises with yellow sclera, he wore a black muscle shirt with black casual dress pants complete with black loafers. He then looked at the trench coat and tiled his head; he then snapped his new fingers and a trench coat made of every known fabric sample appeared on him as he rotated to look at the new him, “nice”, he then covered his mouth as his voice matched the age of his disguise. Discord then proceeded to strut down the sidewalk, “A new world”, he saw more humans, “new inhabitants”, He then smiled evilly as he caught sight of himself in a window, “and a new Discord”

He then summoned a snapshot of Twilight fighting with her corrupt friends, “Where are your elements now Twilight?”