My Little Pony: Once in A Lifetime

by BoCpony

Part 3: Face Hoof Turn

PART 3: FACE HOOF TURN

Day 9

Nick peeked out the window. The van was gone. Nick sighed with relief.
Twilight was fast asleep, and Nick decided to use this to his advantage to watch more Ponies.
He turned on the computer but was welcomed by a booming "You are going to LOVE ME!!!!!"
Twilight jumped and scanned the room.
Nick turned the computer off just in time.
"Fluttershy????? Where did I hear that from?"
"It must be in your head," Nick said with a nervous smile.
"I hope. Fluttershy can't afford to lose herself in this world. Too many people."

Erik woke up.
Fluttershy was still playing Little Big Planet. She was in no good condition.
Her mane was ruffled up, she had bags under her eyes, and she was sweating.
"I--am---going to HELP YOU MY LITTLE SACKBOY, IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!!!!!!"
"Fluttershy! Calm down, it's just a game."

Fluttershy looked back. "But this adorable thing needs my help, and that's what he's getting."
"How long have you been playing?"
"All. Night. Long. I'm on the last level, and I haven't taken a single break."
"You should take a break."

Fluttershy sighed. She got up.
"Here, take a nap," Erik offered.
Fluttershy squirmed into a sleeping bag on the floor. Erik dropped a blanket over her, put on some Everclear on Youtube, and left the room.

Phoenix and Rainbow Dash were taking a walk next to Whidbey High.
"Where are we going, Phoenix?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Is it somewhere awesome?"
"It could be. Your mileage may vary."
The two hiked up a grass hill and stopped next to a small playground.
"A....playground?"

Rainbow Dash seemed upset.
"We didn't come here for that. I want to see you do something."
"Anything for you, Phoenix!"
"Can you do a sonic rainboom?"
"Here? Do you think it'll work?"
"Probably. But be careful, physics are different here."
"Physics smisics!" Rainbow retorted.
"I can do a sonic rainboom on the moon if the oppurtunity comes!"

Rainbow Dash flew straight up into the air.
"WOO! YOU GO RAINBOW DASH!"
"Playing with yourself again, Phoenix?"

Phoenix whipped around and saw Buck and his goons approaching Phoenix.
"Buck, not now, I'm busy. Please."
"What, making out with your imaginary friends? Hate to break it to you, but.....they're not real. Just figments of your imagination. Just pieces of your forever alone self!"
"Just leave me alone Buck!"
"You can't make me, can you? Actually, I'm glad we're here. I've been wanting to do this for a long, long time."

Buck shoved Phoenix.
Phoenix rolled down the grass hill.
He got back up, struggling to get his spinning vision straight.
Unfortunately, Buck beat his vision, and Phoenix felt a sharp pain speed through his jaw. He stumbled back.
"You're outnumbered, Phoenix," Buck taunted. He signaled his friends to hold Phoenix's arms back.
"Rainbow Dash please help me!" Phoenix pleaded.

He took sharp jabs to the stomach.
"How does it feel to be so hated, Phoenix?" Buck punched Phoenix.
Phoenix couldn't breath. His eyes hurt. His mouth was bleeding.

Buck grabbed the back of his head and yanked it down to the floor.
Phoenix grabbed his neck in agony.
"Please.....stop......" Phoenix begged.
"What was that? I couldn't hear you!"
"Please......stop........"
"Say it louder!"

Buck kicked Phoenix, knocking the air out of Phoenix.
Lack of air was the exact reason he couldn't beg louder.
"Please.......stop........."
"LOUDER!!!!!"

Buck kicked Phoenix again with all his might.
Pain spread through his abdomen and a sharp pain jabbed his chest.
He couldn't get back up. He heard his heart pounding. He felt like vomiting.
All he could do is hear his surroundings.
"Phoenix! Are you alright?!?"
"Holy crap! A monster!"
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FRIEND?!?!?"
"It's coming after us!!!"
"STAY AWAY!!!"
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Thud.
"Oh my God. OH MY GOD."
"Let's go before the cops get here!"
Phoenix passed out.

He woke up looking at the night sky.
Phoenix slowly got up to sitting position.
"R-Rainbow Dash?"

He scanned the dark field and saw a lump on the ground a yard away from him.
"Rainbow Dash!"
Phoenix limped to Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash was curled up in a pony version of a fetal position, shivering. Blood was flowing from where she was covering herself.
"Rainbow Dash. Let me see your wound."
"No." Rainbow Dash weeped.
"I wont know what I can do to help you if you don't show me your wound."

Rainbow Dash relaxed her legs. Nick maneuvered them and saw a bullet hole in her stomach area.
"Oh no."
"Phoenix?"
"Yeah?"
"Who were those people?"
"Nobody important. I need to get you to safety."

Nick attenped to life Rainbow Dash's body, but failed.
Rainbow Dash slowly got up and Nick put her front leg over his shoulder.
"Come on, let's get out of here before something creepy pops out."

Amy heard knocking on her door. She answered and gasped.
"Oh my gosh!"
Phoenix and Rainbow Dash limped into the house.
Phoenix flopped on the sofa and Rainbow Dash just dropped on the carpet.
"Oh no...." Amy gasped.

"My parents will kill me when they find those stains on the furniture."
"Furniture is all you care about? I need you to tell me if Rainbow Dash will live!"
"What happened to her?"
"She was shot."
"OH MY GOSH!"

Amy darted to her room and pulled out a medical book.
Phoenix examined the wound.
"What do we do? It's not like we can take the bullet out the wound."
"Are you kidding me?!? That thing hurts like crazy!!!" Rainbow Dash objected.
"That bullet is the only thing keeping you from dying. The least we can do is let you rest. Amy will check you out and see what we can do to help."

"It'll only take a while," Amy assured.
"At least she'll get some rest," Phoenix replied.
Amy nodded with a smile.

Fluttershy flew up the stairs.
"What happened----Rainbow Dash?!?"
Fluttershy sped to Rainbow Dash.
"What happened to her?"
"Bad things. But she'll be alright."
Amy said with a smile.

Nick woke up from watching television only to hear the inevitable.
He heard the My Little Pony theme song from downstairs.
It wasn't the normal one either. It was a horridly parodied version of it.
Nick ran downstairs as fast as his leg brace would.
His blood ran cold when he saw Twilight gaping at Apples.mov.

Twilight quickly took notice of Nick's presence.
"What is this?" Twilight asked sternly.
Nick was speechless.
"Answer me Nick. What is this?"
"It's......it's a long story......"
"Long story?!? So that explains all the videos of me and the others in your browsing history????"

Nick cursed at himself in his mind. He forgot to erase his browsing history, assuming Twilight would never bother looking on the computer.
"Not only that, but people are editing those videos and making us do the worst things!!! WHY ARE THERE VIDEOS OF ME ON YOUR COMPUTER????"
Nick sighed.
"Because......"
"Because WHAT?"

"You're a.......cartoon."
"A what?"
"A cartoon, Twilight! You're just a character one person thought up of and drew on a piece of paper! You are just a drawing that is animated for little kids to watch on television....."
"I'm not......real?"

Twilight looked down, hiding the pain in her eyes.
"No! You're just a cartoon version of a pony! You barely look like a real pony!"
Nick cracked. He lost himself. He couldn't help the outbursts he's been holding back for days.

But he regretted everything he said when he saw Twilight Sparkle crying.
"I thought I could trust you," she said with a quaky voice.
"I thought we were friends. But you were just keeping me here because I'm some pony that millions of people dream of meeting."

Without warning, Twilight galloped past Nick.
"Twilight!" Nick called.
He tried to run as fast as he could, but his legbrace gave up on him.

Twilight magically opened the front door and she ran out.
Everything was quiet after that.
Nick slammed his fist on the wall.
"What have I done?" He muttered.

Fluttershy trotted out through the backdoor.
She laid out some lettuce on the soil in front of a deer.
"It's alright, little deer," she smiled.
"I won't hurt you."
"This will."

Twilight Sparkle emerged from the bushes.
The deer panicked and ran.
She was holding some pictures in her jaws.
"Oh Twilight! It's so lovely to see you!" Fluttershy had an adorable smile with light in her eyes. But those change to complete shock when Twilight set the pictures in front of her.

"Oh....my. That's........so..... wrong......" Fluttershy gasped.
"I know Fluttershy, but Nick's been keeping things from me. From all of us."
Fluttershy shivered.
"You mean there's more where........THIS came from?"

"Sadly, yes. It's a long story. I'll explain to you on our way to warn the others."
"You mean we're going out there?"
"Yes. Don't worry, I'll be with you the whole time."
"Alright......and please get rid of those pictures. Except for this one, whoever drew this was a great artist."

Pinkie Pie snuck into Lucy's room.
But Lucy was completely aware.
"PINKIE PIE GET OUT."
"But I came here to apologize."

"I don't want an apology."
"But I just came to apologize about all the trouble I caused you!"
"All you're doing is ruining any chance of me forgiving you. AT ALL."
"But I thought maybe we could start over-"

"Oh yes, I'd love to start over."
"Wonderful!"
"Back to the part where I don't take you home with me. And instead of letting you come home, I'd ditch you so you'd get lost and be brutally murdered by a bear!"

Pinkie Pie gasped.
"I don't even think you're 'fun' or 'funny'. Not even cute. All you are is a cartoon depiction of a real life pony. I can't deal with you any longer. You ruined the living room-twice- you overused the oven so now it's broken, AND your voice runs through my head ALL NIGHT LONG!"
"So.....does that mean I apoligize?"

"NO! GET OUT! GO FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO ANNOY UNTIL THEY WANT TO KILL THEMSELVES!"
Pinkie Pie's mane suddenly turned straight, and her color went through a dark transition like day becoming night.
She galloped out, devastated.
"Pinkie?"

Lucy ran out the door.
"Pinkie, I didn't mean----"
Pinkie was gone.

Lucy stood in the middle of the street.
"I forgive you..."

Day 10

*Or, it probably wouldn't be a day, since it's actually dawn, but I'd figure nobody cares.*

Nick knocked on Amy's door.
When Amy opened it, Nick fell over.
Amy gasped.
"Nick! What happened? Where's Twilight?"
"She ran away. She's who the heck knows where and I can't do anything about it."

"That's strange....Fluttershy's gone too."
"Is anypony else gone?" Nick said struggling to catch his breath.
"I don't think so. Lucy called, saying that she made a big mistake, and that Pinkie Pie ran away. Henry and Jennifer are alright, and Rainbow Dash is right here."

Rainbow Dash limped near Amy.
"What's going on?" She asked worridely. But she could tell what happened by the look in Amy's eyes.
"Where are my friends?" She demanded.
"We don't know."

"It's all my fault," Nick said.
"I should have deleted my browsing history."
"What did you look up?"
"Ponies. But the internet's a sick, sick place."

"Where could they be?"
"If my worst nightmares are true.......they may be taken hostage. Or worse.......dead......."
Erik climbed up the stairs, listening.
"I think I know where they are," he chimed in.
"How do you know?"
"Hoofprints. In the soil."

Nick, Amy, Phoenix and Erik followed the hoof-prints with flashlights. They lead to the forest, but stopped.
Nick kneeled down and felt the marks.
"Ugh," he grimaced.
"There's something sticky on my hand."
"What is it?" Erik asked.
"I don't know. The flashlight won't take it well."

The sun slowly rose, preparing the kids for a surprise.
"Blood!" Amy gasped.
"It's blood," Nick touched it again.
"I sure hope it isn't Fluttershy's blood."
"Looks like the sun....." Erik put on his sunglasses.
"Put a little light on the subject."

"Erik! Now's not the time for your stupid sunglasses jokes!" Amy scolded.
"What? The sun hurts my eyes. I need these!"
"Not now guys!" Nick interupted.
"We have to find these ponies!"
"What's the use?!?" Phoenix complained.
"We'll never find them! There's not enough evidence to pro- oh look a yellow feather."

Phoenix picked up the yellow feather. He showed it to the others and then sniffed it.
"Mmm.....daisies."
"Why in the world are you sniffing that?"
"Because there's only one place that makes daisies smell this sweet."

Nick looked up the flower company on Amy's computer.
"Sniffma Flowers? What kind of company name is that?"
They heard a knock on the door.
It was Henry and Applejack. Jennifer and Rarity. And Lucy. They were going to plan a heist.
"Alright guys," Nick started.

"Smellma Flowers was shut down ten years ago, but the building itself hasn't been knocked down or anything, though people have reported seeing exotic animals entering the building.....and never returning."
"Now who'd do that?" Applejack wondered aloud.
"Surely people with no sense of good shelter," Rarity retorted.
"Do you not see the spiderwebs and dust?"

"We need more backup!" Amy said.
"Eh-hem! Mind if I share my idea?"
Rarity barged in.
"Twilight taught me a spell to bring objects from other universes to our presence. So, therefore, I will try it."

Rarity strained. A small spark came out of her horn, and three figures appeared.
"What? Where are we?"
"What is this place?"
"Why is Rarity here?"
Amy frowned.
"Out of all figures, you summoned.....the Cutie Mark Crusaders????"

"I meant to summon Big Mac, but, I'm too tired to do it again."
"I was thinking you should've summoned Nathan Drake," Erik snapped.
"Twilight did say the spell has its backfires...."
"Well, at least she got something WORTH helping us!"
"Hey! You aren't challenging us are you?" Scootaloo objected.
Nick shrugged.
"We'll just have to ask around."

Nick walked into the police station.
"May I help you?" the person at the reception asked.
"Um, yes, but don't laugh. I wanna ask you if you've seen this."
Nick put down a paper.
"Deen's Nuts?"

Nick turned the paper around, embarrasssed.
"A.....cartoon pony?"
"Yes!"
"Are you on drugs?"
"No!"
"Tell you what. If you can prove that you're right and don't have the need for speed, then I'll believe you. Hit me."

Nick signaled Henry
to approach the officer with a suitcase.
The officer set his hand on his gun.
Henry opened the suitcase and out came Scootaloo.
"That human is HUGE!" she commented.

"And that's how we got this-" Nick showed Amy a map to the Smellma Flowers location.
"So we go here?"
Amy asked.
"Eeyup."
"But we can't just barge in. We'll get shot at."
"We'll prepare."
"How?"

Phoenix grabbed a pellet gun and mounted it on his back.
Lucy grabbed a machete.
Henry grabbed a baseball bat.
Nick equipped himself with a ultra strong flashlight.
Jennifer supplied herself with a butcher knife.
Erik grabbed dual BB guns.
Amy grabbed a picnic knife.

"What are we doing, killing people?"
"If we must."
"Fine by me."
"I'm not lettin' those crooks hurt my friends!"

"I MUST have brought my camo hat!"
"I know how to get our cutie marks!"
"Friend savers!"
"CUTIE MARK FRIEND SAVERS!!!"

Nick put on his sunglasses.
"WAIT!"
Rainbow Dash limped up the stairs.
"You're going without me?"
"Rainbow Dash....you have to heal. I'm sorry."
Rainbow Dash's ears dropped and she limped back down the stairs.

Nick exited the front lawn.
"Guys, get on your bicycles. We're riding to the Heist of the Horses!