Cliché

by Khanathara

Cliché 1

Waking Up In Equestria As A Quadruped

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I woke with a groan as I felt cool blades of grass move with me.

Wait...

I cracked an eye open to see if that was right but winced and closed it as the sun stabbed like a spear. "Owww." I wined petulantly.

Once again, wait... That wasn't my voice, was it?

Turning my head so the sun wouldn't dagger my eye's again I looked around myself as best I could. I was outside in what was at least waist high grass, so probably a field somewhere in the nearby country side. 'But how did I get here? I don't do drugs and I didn't go drinking last night, so how?'

I pushed myself up to a, surprisingly uncomfortable, standing position. I looked down at my legs and just froze as I took in the why of my uncomfortable standing. The calf area between my knees and ankles had shortened while my feet themselves had lengthened to seemingly compensate for the change. Not to mention that instead of having ten toes I had two large toes, more precisely known as hooves. And fur, there is fur as well. Light violet-pink white-ish fur and white-blue hooves at that.

"Alright then..." I said in once again not my voice. I raised what I knew to be my arms and hands to see if they where different as well and, surprise surprise, they were also covered in fur and caped with hooves of the same color. I didn't get long to look at them however as a curtain of brown fell in front of my face. "Well, my hair is the same color at least."

Now wide awake and doing my best to force myself not to panic, do to the fact that I don't know how safe this field is, I looked around myself but saw nothing as the grass was actually taller than I am. "Okay, slightly closer to panic now." The young voice I spoke with not helping things at all.

'Alright, step one; find a safe place. Step two; panic. Step three; survive and try to understand what the fuck. Step four; profi-NOT now brain.'

Choosing a random direction I started walking, then had to adjust from walking like a plantigrade biped to a ungulate quadruped. It was easier than I thought it would be, I guess that is some form of consolation.

"I can't see anything with this grass damiiiiiii-oof!"

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"Ow, ah thin' I bith mah thougn. Oooh, tain tacks. Cithilithathion!" I shouted in excitement as I stood up. I can follow the vibrating train tracks to a town. 'Wait vibrating?' I looked behind myself and felt my eyes shrink to pinpricks as I saw a train barreling up the tracks towards me.

'Move, move, move, MOVE, MOVE BRAIN, FUCKING MOVE!!' At what was probably the last second of safety my body finally moved and I leapt to the side of the tracks that I came from. I tumbled for a good few feet before I stopped and turned to dazedly watch the speeding train. And a terrible idea struck me.

'If I can get on the train then I don't have to walk to a town.' Unlike when I was in danger my body responded immediately to chase the train before it fully passed me by and I started trying to time a jump to land on the platform that would be on the back of the train. 'I hope that platform is actually there and it's not just a popular media thing.'

And I jumped before I even noticed it was time to and latched on to the rail of the thankfully real back platform. 'Now how am I going to get in the train? 'Cause I'm pretty sure that hooves where not made to climb a railing and that trains lock there doors while in motion.'

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Maudileena Daisy Pie, or Maud Pie, was on her way back to her seat on the train when she saw a foal running along side the train. She shrugged it off as the foal most likely lived in some extremely rural town near the tracks here. Or at least she did until she saw the foal hanging off the back of the train as she neared her seat. 'I should get the Conductor to handle this.' Maud began to turn till she saw the foal almost slip and fall and she was out to help the child before anyone was capable of seeing where she went.

"What are you doing?!" She asked, worry just barely noticeable through her omnipresent monotone.

The foal jumped and nearly lost its hold on the train at the sound of her voice. Maud didn't wait for a response as she grabbed the filly before she could fall and pulled her over the railing. "That was stupid. You could have gotten hurt!"

The foal just trembled at her hooves not saying anything. *Sigh* "Come on, let's go find the Conductor. Can you tell me your name?"

'Still no response. *Sigh*'

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I was running different ideas of how I could climb the railing through my head when I was startled by a voice. "Was machst du gerade?!"

I almost lost my grip but managed to save myself from a fall and looked to where the voice came from. I opened my mouth to ask what the... horse, I guess, said but didn't get the chance as I was pulled over the banister. That is the right word, right? I looked up to thank the wo-mare(?) but stopped as I saw the apathetic and possibly angry look on her face. "Das war dumm. Du hättest verletzt werden können!"

'Yep, she's angry.' I thought to myself as I cowered at her hooves.

She sighed before saying more in a blank voice and motioning for me to follow her. "Komm schon, lass uns den Dirigenten finden. Kannst du mir deinen Namen sagen?"

As I silently followed along I had to wonder just what shit I got myself into. And why was I so small?

Comments

[Nitro Indigo]

Is this supposed to be a parody? If so, I like the jokes about overly-wordy descriptions, such as this:

Not to mention that instead of having ten toes I had two large toes, more precisely known as hooves.

[Khanathara]

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Well yes, but actually no.

I intend to parody and break a number of different cliches I've seen.

[Nodqfan]

Guessing this is a parody of HIE fics?i