A Whole New World

by Nick the Brony

Chapter 9: Trapped

Author's Note:

Yes finally done. Sorry with the wait. School is starting to pick up speed. I also did some changes to the original prduct. It seemed a little rushed for me, so I did some changes. Funny thing is, I already have the sequal in my mind. I have the main story, characters, and more being planned out in my spare time. Details won't be released for awhile though, so you can just worry about this for now. Anyways, enjoy.

I looked up, and saw a gigantic wall of snow heading our way. "Oh come on." I thought. I desperately tried to get up and run, but the pink pony kept holding me down.

"Don't move, your hurt." I wonder how she figured that one out?

The rumbling became louder and louder, as the wall of snow came towards us. "Well, this is the end." I said to myself. I laughed a bit to myself, "Never thought I would go out like this." This laughter soon turned to horror as the avalanche was right above us. I closed my eyes, waiting for death's sweet imbrace. It never came. The rumbling sound was still there, but now there was a new sound added to the mix. It sounded like.... a laser beam. I slowly opened my eyes, and looked up. There was this strange pink and blue force field blocking the snow. I turned to my side, and saw the reasons for this shield.

The pink pony and the white pony were shooting a laser into the sky, creating a barrier between us and the avalanche. "Wow. They are tough." I thought to myself. Sadly, both ponies atarted to show signs a fatigue, especially the pink one.

"Honey. I can't hold it much longer." The pink one said, sweat forming on her head.

"Just keep going dear. Just a little longer." Are these two dating or something? Anyways, I looked at the pink ponies beam, which started to become more dim and weak.

I had to think of something quick, she probably only has a few more seconds. I looked at the cave, which was only a few steps away. I then switched my head to the pony, and then to the barrier, which had some cracks forming. I laid down my options, and made my choice. "Fuck it."

Quickly as I could, I stood up, grabbed the pink pony, and jumped into the cave. I looked back for a split second, and saw one of the barriers break.

"Cadence!" I heard someone yell as the snow blocked the entrence. Must be her name.

Once it was pitch black, I collapsed. I was completely out of energy. My vision soon went dim, and I passed out.

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LATER 3rd person

It was about an hour since the avalanche accord. Shining Armour and the guards were nowhere to be found, and Cadence and Joel were now trapped in a cave.

Cadence right now was tending to Joel's broken body. She couldn't have thanked him enough for saving her, now she was trying to repay the favour. Sadly, holding that shield up had almost completely drained her of her magic. She had to wait awhile for it to recharge, and because they were in the cold, it would take even longer. All she could do was stoping the blood from pouring out.

As she tended to his body, she couldn't help but study his figure. She had never seen anything like him before. But she knew he matched the description from the letter. One thing worried her though, the letter also said he disliked ponies. She didn't know why, but it was a good thing he was not out for blood.

The body suddenly came back to life. Joel breathed heavily as he slowly opened his eyes. He was in so much pain, he tried to ignore it, but that worked as well as trying to stop a flame war. His vision soon came back to him, all he could see was darkness.

"Am I dead?" He said to himself.

Another voice soon answered, "No your not luckily." Joel recognized the voice. It was the one from that pink alicorn from earlier. But he wanted to make sure he was right.

"Show yourself."

A blue light appeared near him, and it came towards him. The mystery pony was soon visible, and Joel could make it out. She was an alicorn, with pink fur all over. Her wings had purple tips, and her hair was all sorts of colors. She seemed a little taller then Twilight, but it was hard to tell.

"My name is Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. But you can call me Cadence. You must be Joel?" She greeted with a slight bow.

"Who the hell would name their child Mi Amore Cadenza?" Joel thought. He then answered. "How do you know my name?" He asked.

Cadence chuckled a bit. "It's kinda a long story. Thanks for saving me back there."

Joel only grumbeled at her, "Yeah whatever. What do you want?" He said in a semi harsh tone.

Cadence relised she needed to take this more slowly. "Well for you of course. We heard about you running away, so me and my husband went looking for you."

"You aren't worried he's dead?"

"No. I know he would make it. Anyways, why did you run away." She said in a soft calming voice. She reached out a tried to strock Joel's back, but was interupted by his screaming.

"To escape from you ponies of course! All you are are just a bunch of back stabbing losers." He yelled loudly, which startled Cadence. But she kept her cool, she knew there was a problem, and she wanted to fix it.

"And what makes you say that?" She asked calmly.

"Well, this other princess named Twilight Sparkle." His face showed anger at the name. "She thought I was a monster from hell, for your terms, Tartarus. And you know what!? She acted like there was nothing wrong with me. She intentionally tried to hide her and her jerk friends plans. Plans to put me in prison, and probably do experiments on me. Cause that's what happens to all strange beings in a new world."

Cadence knew Twilight would never do experiments on somepony, well, not the gory kind. Let alone put them in prison. According to the letter, he had done nothing wrong. She then started to stare into Joel's eyes, and Joel started to stare back. Cadence saw anger in his eyes. But there was more, sadness, loneliness, confushion, she could see it all. She didn't see a monster, she saw a tortured soul. She then proceeded with another question.

"Joel. Is there something wrong?" Such a simple question hit Joel like a bullet. He fell to the ground and started to cry.

"Yes! My whole life is wrong!" He cried. He curled up into a ball, and cried into his knees.

"Why do you say that?" Asked Cadence. "Is there something that happened to you?"

Joel looked at her with wet eyes. "You want to know, fine! I had a boring childhood, my mom died when I was eleven, my dad has used me as his personal slave, and now that pony named Twilight wants me in jail! There, you happy!?"

Cadence was happy to hear the reasons for his sadness, but one thing she never got was Twilight wanting him in Jail. The Twilight she knew would never do that to somepony, unless they did something really bad. She went on with more questions. "Why does Twilight want you in Jail?" As far as she is concerned, Joel hasn't done anything against the law, but she wanted to make sure.

Joel looked to the ceiling and responded, "I don't know, something about me being a monster from Tartarus."

"Twilight would never jugde a pony like that. I'm her sister in law." Defended Cadence.

"Well then you might want to get to know her better, because you don't seem to know what she is like. Some sister in law you are." Joel grumbled.

Cadence was starting to get angry, and for a split second, she looked at Joel with daggers. Just as quickly it came, it vanished as Cadence calmed down. She then responded. "I still stand by my claims. I promise if you were ever to meet her again, she would not throw you in jail. You don't even look like a monster anyway."

"That supposed to be a complement?" Asked Joel.

"I guess you could say that." Cadence blushed. "So, will you come back to Equestria Joel?" She put her hoof forward, waiting for a shake.

Joel thought for a moment and answered. "You promise I won't end up in Jail." He asked in a serious tone.

"Cross my heart, hope to fly. Stick a cupcake up my eye." Cadence said this while acting out the things she said with hoof gestures.

"Um, what was that?" Joel asked.

"It's a Pinkie promise. When you make a Pinkie promise, you can't break it." She explained.

"Forever!"

"What was that?" Joel thought he heard somepony say something.

"What was what?" Cadence didn't hear the voice.

Joel responded with a small smile. "Never mind."

Joel just laid there and thought. She seemed legit, and this Pinkie promise sounded official. "Well, got nothing else to do." Joel thought.
"Ok, I'll come back." He smiled and grabbed on to Cadence's hoof, and sat up. As he did, he clenched his teeth as he felt the pain intensify in his leg, and whole bady in general. "Ow ow ow ow ow!" He yelled.

Cadence stopped Joel from sitting up and layed him done. "Oh dear, are you alright?"

Joel couldn't help but just stare at her in confusion. "I have a broken leg andI'm bleeding everywhere. Do I look fine to you?"

Cadence lowered her head ashamed. "Sorry."

Joel couldn't help but feel like a jerk. So he calmed down. "Listen, do you think you can fix my leg with some magic or something." He pointed at his disfigured leg. Cadence took a good look at it, he got pretty messed up. She sighed and shook her head. "Sorry, I don't know the autonomy of your kind."

"Well could you teleport us out of here? You can do that right?"

Cadence sighed again. Jez, sighing is like the new no. "I do know how to teleport, but I'm basically drained of my magic. It will take me awhile to recharge."

Joel turned his face away. His head then dropped to the floor in defeat. "Well how long will it take?" "Please not be a day, please not be a day." Joel quietly told himself.

"In these conditions, about a day."

"Dammit!" Joel loudly whispered to himself.

There was a moment of silence for awhile, Cadence just sat there looking at Joel. "Wow. I feel sorry for him. His whole life just seems to go down hill. No pony should ever go through a mothers death, or a fathers abuse." As her thoughts kept on running, she noticed something about Joel. He was shivering. All his warm cloths were now rags, and he had no protection from the cold.

"Joel, your freezing. You need help." She walked up to him.

"I guess your right. There should be a sleeping bag attached to my backpack. Can you get it?" He took his bag off and pushed it to Cadence.

She nodded at looked for the sleeping bag. She found it and gave it to Joel. "There, this should help."

"Thanks." Joel went in the bag a covered hi whole body. Sleep soon took over him.

Cadence was happy to help. She then put the bag beside her resting spot. As she looked at it, she had a strong erge to see what was inside. Just as she was about to open his bag, she hesitated. This was not her bag, and snooping was very rude. She looked away and tried to think about something else. But the erge grew only stronger. She was so curious what might be in the bag. "Maybe just a peek."

She opened the bag and looked at its contents. She saw so many strange objects she had never seen before. She took out what seemed to be a flat box. It didn't feel like a box though, it felt like metal. As she examined it, she noticed a sign on the back. It was a apple with a bite on it. "What do apples have to do with this?" She wondered. She put it back in a continued to snoop.

She suddenly froze as the sleeping bag moved a bit. Her heart was pounding, was he up? She didn't want to find out. She closed the bag and set it aside.

"Yawn. I guess i should get some sleep as well." Cadence laid down on the floor. She tried to sleep, but couldn't stop shivering. She looked at Joel and thought of an idea. She slowly moved towards him and laid down on his stomach. This way they could share precise warmth. The warmth of his body and the slow rising and setting of his stomach seemed to hypnotize her to sleep. She needed all the rest she could get. Because tomorrow, they were getting out of there.

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[jamaican brony]

bro great chapter every time u leave a cliff hanger i wanna punch in the face but i wont keep up the good work and make us fans proud cuz dis is gettin real good

[jamaican brony]

y u no chapter 8 r u on vacation or maybe hes dead probably not but can u speed up even in the slightest i dont care i just wanna know if it will be coming out or if its cancelled and it better not get cancelled

[Nick the Brony]

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Sorry, but life (school) has really gotten in the way. I wish I had more time, but I need to keep my grades up. I will try to find more time for writing as soon as possible.

[jamaican brony]

i under stand i dont have to worry im in grade 7 and good grades come easy to me i dont need to study