Down With Chrysalis’s Comment
"BUCK NO! A THOUSAND TIMES BUCK NO!" B2 jumps at your sudden outburst and looks at you in confusion.
"Whoa hey man! I know the Everfree has some creepy rumors behind it bu-"
Not allowing your counterpart to finish you send him a glare as you semi-shout,
"Rumors!? On my world practically every type of rumor that forest had is true! I've almost been maimed by practically every creature that lives in there, including the chipmunks!"
“Well…I seriously doubt you’ll come across violent chipmunks here. There is an animal preserve not far from the camp but-“
“Oh that’s even better, wild and exotic killer critters coming for my soft human hide! Do the plants spray knock out gas as well?!” you grunt.
While this only causes B2's confusion to soar, you hear Selena sigh in your head as she says,
Bugze calm down! I know that forest has caused us problems in the past but now isn't the time to-
Some problems!? I've gotten my flank kicked more times than I can count in that forest alone! For Luna’s Sake, I'm pretty sure that forest has a personal grudge against me for the amount times its almost killed me!
Yes, in our world. I'm sure in this dimension it is a perfectly normal place where no magic or dangerous creatures exist...
MEANWHILE AT CAMP EVERFREE
"Achoo!"
"Whoa Gloriosa you coming down with a cold or something?"
"No no I'm fine Timber. Through I feel like someone just said something very ironic about me."
"Huh...weird."
BACK TO YOU
...
Why do I feel like I've just been disproven?
Because the universe is conspiring with Lady Luck to make our lives suck, that's why. There is nothing on this earth that will make me go to that camp! Nothing!
TRANSITION
Fireheart1945’s Comment
“Gorramnit!” you shout into the accursed trees as you try to erect the cheap tent you bought at the thrift store.
“I comically said hours ago that I wouldn’t come here, yet here I am. What compelled me to do that?!”
I did, Selena says sternly. Because I pointed out that you not following up on a lead that could give me my own body was breaking a promise to me, and if that happened I would make your life a living Tartarus.
“…Oh yeah,” you think guiltily. “Still, why am I out here when it’s nearly night time with such a stupid flimsy tent?”
Tent is too good a word for this thing. It’s more like worn rags with sticks, Sombra chuckles.
“The point remains chucklebuck, why are we out here so late with such shoddy protection?” you counter.
Because you putzed around with what seemed to be outdated technology on this world, and you acted like a fool in public again. To punctuate that statement, the tent falls down in a pile and you sigh.
“Okay, maybe I skimped on shelter, but I mean, come on, a lot of that stuff is surely going to be useful for whatever machine Jack’s building.”
FLASHBACK
After throwing your hissy fit, and being reminded of your promises and obligations, you decided that it was best to get the forsaken woods over and done with as soon as possible. To help with supplies for such an endeavor, B2 took you to a thrift shop.
“It’s been a long time since I went camping with Grandad. Shame I won’t be able to come with,” he says forlornly.
“Believe me ME, if your Everfree is anything like mine, you’re not missing a danged thing.”
“Yeah, but you get to go out and be in the fresh air, and eat beans from the can. I have got to deal with teenagers tomorrow,” he complains.
“More like a nice hungry bear is going to attack me for trying to eat my lunch, or killer bees that want to sting my chitenless skin…or Bears that shoot bees!”
“Whoa…that’s a metal image,” your counterpart says in contemplation. “Still, teenagers are a pain man. I should know, I used to be one.”
“Oh you’ll be fine,” you hand wave. “Just keep cleaning up things and look for the magic mirror that will be my ticket home when I’m done with this world.”
“Yeah, and how easy is that going to be if I’ve also possibly got to deal with mentoring some high school girl on revenge pranking?” he points out.
“You can multitask, now quit complaining when I’m the one that has to face a giant sea monster and have to take their family heirloom.”
“Good point,” he nods. “But if you do see it, take a picture would ya? That’s gotta be worth something.”
“I don’t have a camera…I should probably get one considering I promised my baby that I’d bring back pics.”
“Oh dude, that’s easy, your phone has a built in camera.”
“It does?!” you say fascinated.
After showing you more functions of your Star Trek looking piece of tech, you both arrived at the thrift store.
Just_another_guy’s Comment
“Alright,” B2 starts, “If you’re gonna keep in contact with me out in the woods, we’re gonna have to get you an external charger for that phone. Preferably one that’s solar powered.”
“Wait, this magic phone can be powered by the sun? Can anything else like my Nook?” you ask in fascination.
“Hmmm. Might have to get a multi cable too. But anyway, you get the camping supplies and I’ll look for those.”
He then walked off into the store to do just that. Shrugging, you were about to look for supplies, but then something caught your eye.
Fireheart1945’s Comment
Down With Chrysallis’s Comment
“OH MY GOSH! Is that a Joy Boy?” you squee. Indeed the gaming device you find on a shelf with other so called “outdated” tech looks exactly like the gaming system back home. The only difference is, it’s called a Game Boy.
“And what’s this game inside…Pokemon? Humans have that too?” you then look at the picture on the cartridge and see a familiar looking red monster with a fiery tail..
Jackpot! You think happily.
But this is a technology we already possess in Eques-
JACKPOT!!! You interrupt Selena causing her to sigh.
“Even without hooves, this will be easy to play.”
Game Boy Added to Inventory.
“Now, back to getting camping su-Oh My Gosh What Is That?!” you yell aloud pointing, causing the mare in your head to sigh again.
Falx_of_Lume’s Comment
“A hoverboard?” you say curiously as you look at the little device with two wheels. “I gotta be reading that wrong, hoverboards are supposed to hover right?...Well only one way to find out.”
Only ten seconds later, and you were regretting that decision.
"W-Whoa! How do you stay uprig-*WHUMP*” you promptly faceplanted into a display case after the board tipped over.
“Ugh! Stupid human legs!” you growl. “Get good at hover boarding!” you then began dusting yourself off from the reused second hand items collected on you, and as you did, you realized there was an arachnid perched on your shoulder.
"Gah!" you panic and flail, not realizing that the spider is in fact made of plastic.
Bugze, calm down. It's just a-
"KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!" You exclaimed and threw the misleading hoverboard at the toy, which somehow caused the thing to catch fire.
"I…uh…OK,” you muttered in confusion. Whistling nonchalantly, you stomped out the fire and put the destroyed hoverboard in your bag, just in case it’s tech can be salvaged.
Destroyed Hoverboard added to Inventory.
You then grabbed the nearest thing that looked like a tent and high tailed it to B2.
“Hey Bugze, I found the cable and charger and…is something burnring?”
“Nope, just you’re imagination,” you lied.
“I…Ok,” he said unsurely. “Also, if you are gonna be in the woods, I got you something to defend yourself with.
Master of Shadows Comment
WARGAMES’ Comment
“Oh please tell me you have an ion cannon for me?” you asked hopefully.
“Ummm…nooooo,” he said trailing off, looking at you as if you were crazy.“It’s a tazer, you know, because you’re whole non killing fighting style.” He then handed you a square box like thing that emits a small electric current.
“…You know, back home I could create much more than this with my bare hoof right?”
“Yeah, well you don’t exactly have hooves right now do you?” he said smugly.
“…Touché,” you admit and pocket his items.
Tazer
Solar Powered Charger
Multi Cable Added to the Inventory
After that, the two of you walked to the bust station, where B2 got you bus tickets to this accursed camp. You then wished him luck on his first day tomorrow, and he reciprocated. You then boarded yet another evil bus…but…
Randomfastreader’s Comment
Let’s just say, you’re still not comfortable with public transportation,
“All of you bucking smell! How can you stand this death machine! AAAAAHHHH!!!”
And you attempted to use the newly acquired taser on your fellow passengers which resulted in you being thrown off the bus before arriving at your destination, which resulted in you being lost in the woods.
FLASHBACK END
“…Okay, maybe I could have handled things better…but hey, we have a human Joy Boy, some chords and chargers and a nifty tazer.”
And how is that going to get us to this Camp in the Everfree? Selena pointedly asks.
“I…haven’t figured that part out yet. But I’m sure if I just keep walking north tomorrow I’ll find it.
After a few more tries of trying to erect the tent and failing, you just wrap yourself up in the cheap canvas and prepare for a long night in the woods.
A FEW HOURS LATER
Kichi’s Comment
After nearly falling asleep, you are startled when you hear rampant hooting noises in the woods.
“The Buck is that?” you ask in fear. “Is it the Siren?”
Siren’s don’t hoot Bugze, Selena deadpans.
“Well I wouldn’t know, I never met one!” glancing around your campsite, you suddenly spy several eyes staring at you from the trees.
Crapbaskets! You panic as you stand up and brandish your taser. In the light of the small electric current though, the owners of the eyes reveal themselves.
A Monkey! Sombra squeels in glee.
Or rather Monkeys, since there are more than one pair of eyes in the night.
“Well that’s a relief. I thought we were gonna have to deal with Cockatrices again…Although what are monkeys doing in this kind of forest and not the jungle?”
Didn’t your counterpart mention something about an animal preserve?
Yeah. But still I’m glad it’s harmless little monkeys and not-
Without warning, the monkey in your light lets out a maddening hooting chant that gets the others all riled up, and a look of anger comes to their eyes.
“…I knew it, I bucking knew it. Every goramned thing wants to kill me in the Everfree, no matter what world it’s in,” you whimper as you try to take a few steps back. That’s all it takes though for the dam to break, and the horde of monkeys pounce on you.
“AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!” you scream to the heavens as you run with several monkeys clawing and biting you.
SEVERAL MORE HOURS LATER
So it turns out that monkeys are incredibly territorial. You found that out first hand as you ran all night with the little bucks trying to claw your eyes out. You stumble out of the trees with ripped up clothing, and more than a few scratches.
“Selly…when we finally get you a body, I want you to remember last night. I want you to remember that I got scratched up and nearly eaten by bucking MONKEYS for you…” you growl grouchily and sleep deprived.
…I’ll not forget it, I swear, she says sounding a bit guilty at your current state.
“And that’s all I ask.”
“Oh My Gosh! What Happened To You?!” comes a startled female voice. You look your left and see a human woman with redish pink skin and a raspberry mane with flowers in it. She has a walking stick and backpack with her and looks extremely worried.
“Monkeys, you filthy humie. It was monkeys,” you groan.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
The red-haired woman blinks in surprise before it morphs into understanding. "You wandered into the reserve, didn't you." She states knowingly. "You're not the first person to do that, and I doubt you'll be the last. They really need to put a fence or something around it's border so people stop walking into those animals' territories." She says with a frown directed at the forest behind you.
You groan into the dirt in response.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Let's get you up and over to the lodge. We've got a first aid kit and we can lend you some of Timber's clothes when we get there." She offers, kneeling down beside you to put one of your arms over her shoulder. She helps you to stand up and helps you walk in the direction she came from.
She pulls out a gun and says "why are you trespassing" you try to flee but she says "you shall not pass!" and then wacks you over the head with the gun.
note i did this JUST for the reference
And so, the human woman gently leads you to a rather small, yet quaint lodge. The base is alive with moss, and the wooden seem chipped and old, but it’s a far better sight of a shelter than the cruddy tent that you slept in. Just by seeing it, you could feel your situation instantly getting better as you entertained the idea of a proper roof over your head.
Hopefully.
“Ugh…” A delirious groan, and you stumble toward what looks like the entrance. “Better not be any crawlies in there. I think I already have a few in my mane…”
The woman blinks, a hand pausing on the door handle. “Mane?” When her eyes trails toward your hair, she glances away with a not-so-subtle grimace, the disgust bleeding through her voice. “I-I think we can get you bath, too...”
“...Please.” You gulp, and a shudder courses through you. While you couldn’t see it, you can definitely feel something slithering along your scalp...and it may or may not have more than eight legs. It’s taking all your newly born common sense to NOT give into your burning desire to incinerate your own mane—and Sombra’s obnoxious laughter in the back of your mind isn’t helping!
“Ahhah—ahahahah! You’re a bug-pony! And you’re afraid of bugs in your mane? Ahahahah!”
“Bugze, just ignore him.” Selena sighs. “Focus on cleaning up for now.”
“Can do…” you mutter, and you follow the woman into the lodge.
You feel the air shift as you step inside. You could still smell the nature in the walls, but the punishing elements of the wild aren’t there anymore. The almighty blessing of the indoors soothed your aching skin, and you glance to the side…and stared. You see cots. And by cots, you mean proper beds. Beds so pristine and white and fluffy that you could just feel yourself sinking into its sweet, succulent softne—
An icky hand grabbed your shoulder, shattering your illusion. “H-huh, wuh?”
The woman pulls you aside, guiding you to a chair. “Sit over here.”
The moment you sit your exhausted flank on it, there is a creaking so high-pitched that you swear it’ll break, if not by your physical weight than by your horrendous juju. It actually holds, but the stiff, hard wood rubbing against your lower back and, uh, lower makes you wince. That was where one of the monkeys decided was a good place to bite.
“Nnngh…” Gritting it out, you bare a stiff posture. “Okay, uh, now what?”
The woman pulls out what you assume to be a medkit from her bag. “I’ll need to check you over.”
“Right, right…. Guess that’s fine as long as—” The words in your throat suddenly dies. “Uuuh...” You look down on yourself, at your ravaged clothes, your reddening skin and your useless limbs. Completely defenseless. “Um...” Back at her, and then silence.
...
The woman purses her lip in concern. “...I-Is something wrong?”
In the seconds that follows, you began to have a revelation, a recollection of ALL the times you’ve participated in medical services of some kind. A ninja nurse appears in your mind, followed by the flash of a faulty doctorate of a certain quack, which then unravels into an inky black and bleachy white that barely resembles the horrifying faces of crazies from a certain asylum.
And with that flushing through your head, your brows went razor straight as you proceed to make the most logical response in the sanest manner possible: “You’re not gonna do anything weird to me, are you?”
“I...” The incredulity shot up to her face as her arms flop to her sides. “I’m sorry—What?”
How's it hangin' bitches?
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You blink from her tone, and several warnings start blaring in your mind, which probably annoyed the heck out of the other two occupants within but-that's-beside-the-point. You forge on and repeat what you said despite the warnings. "I said, you're not going to do anything weird to me, are you?" You answer. "Because I've had a lot of weird and unwanted things happen to me from people with medical knowledge in the past. Particularly from people with the words "Doctor", and "Quack", and "Silver" in their names. Usually in that order." You're not sure why you thought of him just now. Although it probably has something to do with him being present in at least seventy-five percent of those weird things.
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Grey Rebl you wonderful basterd where've ya been!? Wait, don't tell me, the curse of school has gotten you too! Or job problems perhaps? Cause I can relate to the first one, while the second one not so much.
Joking aside, nice to see you commenting again.
Anyway, for my comment let's pick up where 8896870 left off shall we?
The women gives you a stare for a few moments before she facepalms and mutters,
"Oh not that loon again."
Your eyes widen in surprise at her comment, and you briefly snap out of your dazed state as you ask,
"Wait, you know Quack Silver!?"
She sighs before saying,
"I wish I didn't. That nut job comes by once every year to volunteer as the camp nurse, and every year we kick him out for performing illegal kidney transplants."
"What! How has he not been arrested yet!? And why would you keep hiring that nutjob!"
She looks confused at your question for some reason before her eyes widen and she says,
"Oh no no no, not on the kids. The wildlife however...."
The growl she gives off as she trails off reminds you of the Ursa Major's after you beat up her cub, and that makes you start to fear for your life before she sighs and says,
"As for why we keep hiring him? Well...what other medical professional do you know who would work on minimum wage at a forest camp?"
Her question causes you stare at her before you think,
Well...she's not wrong.
True, that mad doctor would care more about the 'medical' aspect then anything else.
With that conversation done you feel the monkey's injuries to your body return as you let out a groan. The women decides that this is her cue as she says,
"Well I think that's enough for now. Let me get this shirt off you so I can see how bad those monkey's got you."
Not really paying attention due to the pain you nod your head and let the women get to work. As you do you hear Selena say,
Uh Bugze...I do not think it would be wise for her to unclothe you.
Why? She needs to dress my injuries and all that. What's the worse that can happen?
Surprisingly its Sombra who answers you as he says,
I feel as if you've forgotten your battle scars all over your body.
You quirk your eyebrow at this as you think,
What about them? Sure they aren't exactly good to look out but I doubt that means anythi-
*Clunk*
Stopping you mid thought is the sound of something falling to the floor. Looking up you see that the women has dropped what looks like a medical kit. Staring at it in confusion you look up at the women...and see the absolute look of pure horror on her face.
It takes you a few moments, and the air no on your chest, for you to realize why she is so horrified.
Oh crapbaskets
So yeah, I figured Bugze's scar from Alt-Cadence from season 2 would cause anyone, human or not, to stare in horror at it. Plus considering I doubt any normal humans can survive that kind of wound well...things should get interesting!
Feel free to add on if you have any ideas!
Get hit in the face with a tree branch at some point.
"Doctor Quacksilver is not that bad... now" Say the girl as she treat Bugzee
"Now?" Ask Bugzee
"Well... It's only a rumor, but there a rumor of gorillas with two heads and four arms in the middle of the forest, and others commented about a group of chimpance talking and debating about the theory of relativity, but I don't think they are true" Comment the girl
"Of course..." Say Bugzee still doubting
"Why I have the feeling that we are going to find some strange danger? Ask Selena suddenly worried
"Because we almost find strange things" Answer Sombra
"But they are only strange rumor, or horror stories... Just like those flying things stealing cows or baboons doing strange magic during the full moon... The most you could find is a monkey throwing you shit" But then she is interrupted by Bugzee
"Wait... Can you repeat the last thing?" Ask Bugzee
"What? The monkey throwing you shit? Well, it's a little problem that happen sometimes, but don't need to worry" Say the girl but Bugzee negate the head
"No, the thing about the baboons" Say Bugzee
"Oh, that? It's only a creepy tale that someone told me, it seems that someone wanted to sleep under the stars or something like that, but then when he was walking around, he found a group of baboons wearing scepters and throwing strange monkey chants to the moon" comment the girl
"Do you think it could be related to the things we are searching?" Ask Bugzee in his head to Selena and Sombra
"This smells to side-quest" Groan Sombra
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On with the Show!
You look back up to see Gloriosa Daisy starring at you in horror. Your scar you received from the other Cadence evident on your chest. It practically covers two thirds of your chest. The wound has long since healed however with how severe it was the damage is still evident. Plus when you removed the small piece of Chryisalis's throne didn't exactly help either. The wound having been cauterized left an imprint of burning on your skin. Needless to say, it looked like you were stabbed by a massive blade, then had a large part of your upper chest blown off by dynamite. It also seemed to appear much worse than it did back in equestria. Probably because you didn't have chitin instead of human flesh. Gloriosa looked all over your exposed top, scars littered your body. It even shocked you, considering your wounds always healed fast. But now all of your battle scars were showing most likely due to the absence of magic. You look back to Gloriosa who looks like she's going to puke but is trying to hold it in.
"I *gulp* see you've been through a lot." She said shakily. Before you could explain yourself another human with green hair stepped in,
"Hey sis, I heard a noise and I thought you hurt yoursel-" He stopped mid way seeing you. He screamed, "JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU?!" You slump facepalming.
"It's gonna be one of those days isn't it?" You thought.
"Yep." Selena sighed. You could hear Sombra chuckling at your predicament in the background.
And that's all I got. I thought it be good if I described how the scar looked in his human form. You know considering how weak and flabby the human body is.
Please make a cutaway Involving Quick-fix Getting drunk, Impersonationg celestia , Getting discord totally drunk, And while chaos becomes super weird(er), He steals Something, (maybe a draconeqqus tooth, Which is like a wild card, Or Liquid luck) waking up With a hangover , And looking at the apocalyptic world(Discords Hangover) And then pointing out "Oh thats where the arson gene came from"
Quick fix is one of the best infiltrators ,Right?
Amazing. After monkeying around, the plot thickens once more!