[i][b](This story is not canon with 'Your Human and You' or the spin-off by MadMaxtheBlack but is set in the YHaY-verse made by MadMaxtheBlack)[/b][/i] A mute is transported to a strange world where humans are slaves to this planets inhabi
(This story is not canon with 'Your Human and You' or any spin-off by MadMaxtheBlack but is set in the YHaY-verse made by MadMaxtheBlack, go check out their work)
A mute is transported to a strange world where humans are slaves to this planets inhabitants. He is captured immediately and thrown to the hooves of a small town that goes by the name of Ponyville. Little does he know that during his transportation to this world, he inherited a gift.
"Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy." ~Bill Pullman
"Bertram! Get your ass over here!" a loud, overly pudgy woman yelled.
As soon as the words came out of her mouth a young man came sprinting into the door way wishing not to anger his boss further than she already was. The person standing in the doorway was tall, around the mid-twenties, with long black hair that covered most of what face he had left since he had grown some stubble since the last time he shaved.
"Jesus Bertram, get a hair cut you look like a hippie." His boss said with a much calmer tone than a couple seconds ago.
Bertram smiled at his bosses jab towards his haircut, he always had.
"Do you know what this is Bertram?" She said holding up a folder with his name on the side.
A look of dread shoved the smile off his face, this was the day he had abhorred, the day he was let go from his job, he looked at his boss, then back to the folder, then back to his boss with questioning eyes. His boss sighed.
"You knew this day was coming Bertram, you knew, even though you might be the best at your job that we've got, you're somehow unable to teach the recruits how to do theirs."
Bertram shrugged, if they needed to be taught how to do their jobs by him, than they shouldn't have the job in the first place, either way Bertram was never good with words
Bertram was heart broken, he loved his job, it was his life, but ever since they started receiving influxes of new recruits, he has been having trouble keeping up with work. As he made his way back to his desk he thought how they were going to replace him.
He stopped when he had reached the foot of his desk, looking over what he had, he reached for a box underneath his desk, a box of souvenirs from his business meetings and started to shuffle his stuff down into the depths of the box where the items would not be disturbed or broken.
As he reached the door to the front of the building he remembered one thing that he got to keep, the company car. Whenever someone got let of due to natural causes be it death or the inability to do your work, you got to keep your mode of transportation in the company, his vehicle was a flat-black jeep with bullet proof panels in between the car and the passengers. The windows and tires also bullet proof, basically, a rolling tank without the guns. If he had died, the company would have sent the car to his relatives living over in Germany, but he didn't. So he got to keep it...
Bertram smiled as he reached the foot of the car, he always loved his job, some people might have thought that his job was dangerous having the need for armored cars, but in all actuality it really wasn't. He worked as the planner for his company, he was the one who decided what the people who do field work would need, although being taught self defense didn't hurt.
Bertram reached into his back pocket and pulled out a key and his phone, his phone was the one with the number to deactivate the electric skin on the car, and the key was just for opening and starting the car. He gets into his brand new car and activates the ignition, wondering what else could go wrong...
Ponyville
Derpy always lived a simple life, two story house, a white picket fence, and a green lush yard, Derpy herself wasn't so simple. Derpy had a peculiar set of eyes that would attract the attention of anyone trying to hold a conversation with her, making it an awkward conversation.
But Derpy always had somepony she could always look forwards to seeing, her daughter Dinky. Dinky was always there for her when other ponies had called her names on account of her being... derpy.
Today was like any other day for Derpy, an insult or two there, botching a delivery, but she never let that get her down. Derpy was off from work today, so she took the time off to go shopping in the market, today was a special day, it was Dinky's birthday, and Derpy wanted to make her favorite treat, Banana Nut Muffins.
"Good morning Derpy, hope you're doing alright." A yellow stallion said from behind the vendor. "Can I help you with anything?"
Banana was always nice to Derpy, and she always liked him for that.
"Oh I'm alright Mr. Barrel, how are the wife and kids?"
Small talk was a common thing in Ponyville, everypony was always looking for something to talk about when they got back to their families.
"They are just peachy keen, just yesterday we got a human so the foals could have someone to play with at home, a little feisty but we had him neutered and he cleared up his act." The stallion said with a wide smile.
Buying humans was also a common thing here in Ponyville, although the fact that they were against the thought of slavery, humans were a must have when it came to work, the demand for it became to much to handle for the working ponies who had business' to run.
Derpy was one who had no problems with the hardships of running a business, she was a mailmare for Ponyville express. But humans were at her workplace also, most had to be light weight and fast to deliver packages, some humans would stray, they were corrected by a shock collar that was synced up with a unicorn back at HQ who detected whenever the humans would go off course.
"Derpy hello? Derpy you there?" Banana asked waving a hoof in front of Derpy.
"What, what? What happened?"
"You spaced out on me there, you sure you're okay?"
"Must be the heat getting to me... oh well, I need some bananas for today Mr. Barrel, how much for a bunch of them?"
"Well, for you I have to say... how 'bout you just take 'em? think it as a gift from me eh? oh yeah can you tell Dinky I said hello?
"Oh thank you, I'll tell Dinky, don't you worry"
Derpy, the mare loved by all, resented by few.
Edge of Seattle
"I could go anywhere, do anything, since I basically lived at work, the small fortune I made is probably going to hold me off for a while, once it starts to run dry I'll get another job to fill the gap, perhaps a position as a body guard? or maybe a cop... have to find something to do for work, but not right now, I have my whole life ahead of me, and I am not going to waste it thinking about more work" Bertram thought.
Bertram was always a person who had to keep busy, he couldn't stop working or doing something that might take up his time.
As Bertram rounded the corner to a local airport he thought to him self,
"This is it, this is where I start my life over."
As Bertram watched as the ground below came into view he wondered what he would do here, he always needed something to do. Just as he was about turn his head back towards the front an alarm went off and the intercom came to life.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the pilot speaking we are having some slight issues with the engine of the plane, it seems like it has begun to fail, no need to panic here, we have everything under control."
As soon as the intercom died down, the whole cabin of people started to panic, screaming, crying, praying to what ever god they might believe in. Bertram looked around as everybody had a look of fear in their eyes. For Bertram, this was something he saw everyday, while he was afraid of Death itself, he was not afraid of dying, it came with the job.
"What was it my grandma used to say? What was it now?" Bertram thought before his eyes lit up.
"Oh yeah! Now I remember..." Bertram thought as his mind got lost in the lyrics. His Grandma always loved that song.
Death was something he saw everyday, this changed nothing, he was human, death is something as natural as breathing. Be it, people, animals, something dies everyday, it doesn't change anything.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the pilot speaking, it looks like we aren't going to make it today, pray to whatever god you might have and hope for the best, I'm sorry" The intercom cuts off as the screaming intensifies. The ground coming closer and closer, people crying and praying to what ever god they might have, to ask for forgiveness or repentance.
"In death there is only peace, in death, I find judgement to be passed, my life here has been great, it had its ups and downs, now, in the face of death do I laugh." Bertram thought as he watched the ground get closer and closer.
"Goodbye Mother, Goodbye Father, I hope to join you in the ethereal planes beyond our own world." Bertram thought, whilst watching the engine on the wing burst into flames, sending the plane dipping down even further towards the ground.
"Come on Death! Just do it!" Bertram thought as the smile of a madman came over his face as a wave of calmness came over him.
"Dinky can you come down here? I have a surprise for you." Derpy said.
Dinky called back from her room upstairs, "Coming mom, just... just give me a second I'm working on something... And done! Okay, I'm coming."
The moment Dinky came down the stairs a smell wafted over to her and began to pull at her, drawing her to the kitchen.
"Surprise! I made your favorite muffin, I hope you like it." Derpy said while squeezing Dinky with one of her famous hugs.
"Banana Nut, oh mom, you always know what I like..." Dinky gave a pleasure sigh through her nose as she bit down on the muffin.
"I've also been thinking about something, since I just got that pay raise and we won't be able to spend as much time together I was thinking we could go out into the market and get you a friend to protect you... how does that sound? Your very own pet human?"
"But aren't most humans dangerous mom?"
"Yes, but I have a feeling we might find the right one, we'll go next week okay, for now I need to work on some stuff."
"Okay, thank you mom, I love you." Dinky said nuzzling her mothers leg
" I love you too, my little muffin, now go play with your friends while I work some things out, okay?
"Okay, bye mom"
The door shut behind Dinky and Derpy wondered if there were such things as tamed humans for sale, she knew you had to train most into being tame, but she didn't know if you could buy them like that... a thought for next week, not now.
Bertram Wolfgang was a simple man, about as simple as a mercenary is going to get but still simple.
"Damnit, I feel like shit, where the fuck am I?"
Bertram look around and all he saw were cages, cages and other people, said people were in said cages and they did not look happy, but they didn't look angry either. No, there was a different word for what they looked like, they looked like rabid dogs, drooling waterfalls from the mouth and snarling at each other. They looked like they had lost a few marbles.
Bertram heard a door opening and looked over towards the location of the noise and what he saw made him do a double take, he saw a tiny horse, a pony.
"Alright everypony, feeding time." The grayish pony said.
Not a moment later, the humans started to hiss like mad cats at the pony, as he was handing out chunks of bread to the humans, who ate greedily.
"Okay new comer, here you go." The stallion said.
Bertram looked at the tiny horse, and then to the bread, and back to the pony, Bertram was giving the horse a look of confusion as if asking, why?
Bertram reached for the bread and took it into his hands, the stallion just stood there looking at him with a puzzled looks.
"Hm, you're the first one who hasn't tried to bite me, you must have been tamed."
"Whoever buys you, they are going to be one lucky pony, the fact that they don't have to tame you makes you worth even more."
"Tiny horse slave traders, they are so adorable, but yet so evil, which makes it even more adorable." Bertram thought as he nibbled the bread.
"So, what are we going to call you? We have to call you something..." Not a moment passed before the humans in the cages started howling, barking, and snarling.
"Shut up! You all sound like a gang of rabid wolves circling their prey... why must you all be so noisy?"
"Why must they be so stupid?"
"You know what? Wolfgang, I think it's a suitable name for now."
"Huh, that's weird, that's my last name... What ever invisible force is out there, thank you."
"Red Hoof we're here, get the humans out of here, we need to set up in the market before sundown."
"Okay boss." Red Hoof shouted.
"Come on you first Wolfgang, since you are the one who is going to give me the least trouble."
"Why must I stay in the cage? can't I be tied to a post to show how good I am?"
Bertram watched as ponies passed by him, watching him and the other humans out of the corner of their eyes.
He huffed in boredom and thought.
"I honestly hope I get a good owner. From what I saw on the train, the humans here are picked out for their strength at manual labor... why did I have to be a pencil pusher?"
Bertram sighed.
"What ever, I might not be the strongest of the bunch, but I can hold my own."
One Week Later
"That's the last of them..."
"What about Wolfgang over there? He was the only one who hasn't been bought... poor guy, he looks a little down" Red Hoof said.
"Whatever, we'll give him another day, either way, it's going to take a day for another train to come by that would allow humans, or in this case human."
"How come no one bought me? I was behaved well enough, this whole week, I just watched as ponies bought my brethren, the ones who did come my way were put down when the traders said I acted weirdly when compared to the other humans."
"Mommy, quick they're this way, we have to get there before the market closes." Dinky said pulling her mother by both hooves ushering her to hurry up.
"Hold on Dinky, the market won't close for another couple hours, we have time."
"I know, but I want to get him so we have time to hang out." the filly said still pulling her mother by the hoof.
"Okay okay, just promise me you will behave with him or her."
"Pinkie Promise, now let's go!"
As Dinky and Derpy rounded the corner to the market, the cages were in view immediately. As they got closer and closer, they had realized that all the cages they could see were empty. A look of disappointment washed over Dinky's face.
"Oh there there, they'll have humans next week, we'll come back then, okay?"
"Little filly, Ma'mm? How can I help?" Red Hoof said trotting up to the two ponies.
"Oh we were wondering if you had more humans on the way next week."
"Yes we do, but we have a human left, if you want to take a look at him...?"
The look of disappointment in Dinky's face had disappeared.
"Oh we thought you had run out, I guess we can go see him"
"Right this way."
"Well it could be worse... I could have been bought by a pony who abuses humans..."
A moment of silence had passed before it was broken by faint talking.
"Customers? I might have a chance of getting out of this cage yet."
"He might act weirder than the others but it's in a good way, when we found him he was the most behaved out of all the humans I have seen." Red Hoof said as the rounded the corner to Bertrams cage.
"Well that's good, I was hoping to buy one that was already trained so it would save me the time."
"Well you're in luck, we never really get ones that are already trained, but Wolfgang over here is the first exception."
"How does he act around the foals?" Derpy asked nuzzling Dinky.
"Just fine honestly, I even think he prefers them over older ponies." Red Hoof said looking over towards Bertram
"Well why not? They are just the cutest things I have ever seen." Bertram thought as the ponies got closer and closer to his cage.
"Here he is, a little thin but nothing that can't be fixed with some food and loving care."
"How about it Dinky, what do you think?" Derpy asked as she watched her foal get closer to the cage, a thought of panic shot through her brain, but quickly silenced it.
"Hmmmm, mommy, his eyes are the same color as mine!" Dinky said as her smile got wider and wider.
"That seems about right, I always had golden eyes and her eyes are the same color."
"Huh, never noticed that, usually it's the exotic details about a human that make them popular, wonder why no one bought him earlier." Red Hoof said rubbing his chin with a hoof squinting at Wolfgang.
"I guess that settles it then, we'll take him. So, how much for him?" Derpy asked as she had one eye on the cage that held Bertram.
"Usually, with something as strange as his eye color, it would run him up a few more hundred bits, but seeing how no one bought him and he is our last human until the next shipment, I would say around only 300 bits."
"Where am I?" Bertram thought as he tried to get up off the floor. but failed due to the
"All I can remember is the plane and something about a crash and..."
"Oh god I'm dead aren't I?" Bertram thought as he looked around at his surroundings.
All Bertram saw were bars and a cloth covering whatever he was in. And he was moving, definitely some kind of transport, not a plane, this was much to bumpy for that. A car? no, he couldn't hear the engine, possibly a train.
"Well... I have woken up in worse scenarios." Bertram thought as he continued to look around.
SCREECH
At that moment, whatever he was in, began to come to a stop, and his cage started to slide forward and slam in to something else.
"Christ, what the hell was that? And what the hell is that noise?"
There definitely was a noise, but it didn't sound all that human, more like an animal that was growling. A moment after the growling started a hand shot under the cloth and reached out for Bertram and grabbed his arm. The growling then became snarling.
"Fucking hell!" Bertram thought before he grabbed the hand and forced the forearm against the bar where he then snapped it. Blood started flowing from the wound where the bone protruded from the arm and a small shrieking was heard.
Bertram used his hands to position himself to where he would sit on his backside, he then kicked the hand back under the cloth where it had come from. Other howls began to pick up where the other thing had left off.
"Ever heard of personal space ya dick?"
Not a minute passed before Bertram heard a door sliding open.
"What the buck is going on in here?!"
"Buck? Really? Why not just say fu-" Bertram thought before he got cut off with the sound and sight of the cloth being removed from his prison and possibly others. The sight he was greeted with was a small horse wearing a cloak of sorts, a key chain was just within eyesight from under the cloak.
"... I honestly have to be dead, that or I've gone insane, and if none of those has happened... A HORSE!?"
"It's feeding time so all of you need to quiet down or none of you ain't getting any food!"
At the stallions statement the whole room was silenced.
"That's better, now stay quiet while I pass out the food." The stallion mumbled.
"This bastard has me in a cage naked, and he is the one who has the keys... he isn't getting out alive!"
A moment passed before the tiny horse reached Bertrams cage.
"Here you go new one, enjoy." The stallions said.
Bertram reached out and grabbed the horse by both of his hooves and pulled him against the cage, the first strike sounded with a cartoonish clonk, Bertram then started repeatedly pushing the stallion away and pulling him back in the more force than the previous time.
Blood started oozing down the metals bars and Bertram saw that as a sign to stop the process. He let go of the small horse and reached under his cloak and began to feel around for the keys.
"Come on, I just saw them... whoa, those aren't the keys." Bertram thought as a full body blush covered him from head to toe. And the tiny horse let out a small moan from his unconscious state.
"Okay, pretending that never happened from now on... finally, I've got them." As Bertram pulled the keys out from under the cloak, he began sifting and testing the keys out on his cage. After a couple of minutes of searching he opened his cage door and made his way to the exit.
"So we have enough humans for everyone to get their fair share of the cut and after the next couple of stops we are headed towards Ponyville, so if we want to make more money than usual and get a bigger cut, we need to save the strong ones for that town, that means we don't pull the humans from the last cart."
"Got it, don't pull them from the last cart."
Bertram was listening in on the two ponies conversations through a crack in the train door. He had made it through the other carts without barely any violence, he just had to stick to the shadows.
"So, these little guys and gals are slave traders, pretty adorable, but I still need to get out of here. And it looks like there leader is a unicorn. The last ones I fought were Pegasi, so why not? I'm just going to need to be extra careful around this one."
"Hold up, I think someponies listening in on us." The unicorn said.
"Shit, they found me!"
The Unicorns horn flickered as the door was slid open, and a moment of utter silence filled the room.
"Sweet Celestia! One of the humans got out, sound the alarm!"
The other pony in the room smashed her hoof down on a big red button, not a moment passed before an alarm started thundering throughout the train, alerting the others that a human had escaped and there were possibly more.
"Why can't they make this easy?" Bertram thought as he saw the unicorn levitate a small baseball bat upwards with his magic.
"Don't worry little guy, this will only sting for a second." The stallion said before bringing the bat down onto Bertram's skull with a mighty crack.
"Listen, you're the new colt while were on our way to and from Ponyville, okay?" The unicorn stallion said.
"Sure, I got it, how hard could it be?" Red Hoof asked
After Being Bought
"Yeah! Someone bought me! this is what dogs at a kennel must feel like... just one big relief that my owner won't be abusive because my owner is a child, or at least the pony equivalent to a child."
"Come on Wolfie, were going to have so much fun! But we'll have to go to sleep soon and then I'll take you to school and show you to everyone."
The moment Dinky said that, Derpy came to a stop and looked over towards Bertram.
"Hey Dinky, do you think that would such a good idea? I mean, we don't even know if he has been trained yet."
"But mom he has been trained! Watch this, Wolfie sit!" Dinky commanded, giving Wolfgang her best serious face.
"... That was the cutest thing I have ever seen, you know what? It might be degrading, but i'll do it for this kid, hey, anything to keep a roof over my head." So he sat down on the dirt path they were on.
"See mom? He's a good human, he won't try anything."
"Fine, but if something does happen, we can't keep him."
"Yes! Thanks mom, you won't regret it."
On the way to school
"You're going to love it there Wolfie, everyponies so nice, well not all, there are a couple of the fillies who tease me and make fun of me."
The moment Bertram heard about that this filly was being teased and bullied made him turn his head towards her. What he saw made his heart sink. Dinky was looking towards the ground with misty eyes, sniffling, but still walking.
"Well, let's try and change that, my owner shall not be the subject of such acts of rudeness."
"Let's see if we could find out who are the fillies who are being mean to my master and do something about it to make them stop."
"Well, were here." Dinky said wiping the mist from her eyes in order to make herself look presentable.
"We're here early so lets just get inside and introduce you to my teacher Ms. Cheerilee. Best teacher ever in my opinion, she cares so much for us, she'll do anything to see us succeed."
"Hmmm, okay, time to meet this Ms. Cheerilee."
Bertram opens the door and behind an oak desk sits the pony named Ms. Cheerilee. She was a purplish-pink pony with a lighter two-tone pink for her mane color. She had three smiling sun flowers on her ass. Her eyes were a light green color, maybe a mixture of silver and green?
"Oh, hello Dinky, who do you have here with you?" Cheerilee asked walking up to the two.
"Ms. Cheerilee, do you mind if my human comes into class today? I just got him yesterday and I wanted to show the rest of the class how good he is."
"Fine but if he misbehaves he can't come here anymore, you remember what happened with the last human who came here..."
"What happened last time?" Wolfgang raised an unseen eyebrow at this.
"I remember... but Wolfgang isn't like the last human, he's trained already." Dinky stated.
"Okay, now get ready for class, it starts in thirty minutes."
"Thank you Ms. Cheerilee! Come one Wolfie, let's go sit down and read something." Dinky said as she began tugging at Bertram's leg.
"Okay everypony, today we have... another human!" Cheerilee said looking towards Bertram as the class gave out varying levels of cheer. It seemed like most really did enjoy his presence, while others could care less.
"Well, can't really please everybod- everypony, now can I." Bertram thought as his eyes scanned the room. Looking between all the fillies and colts, one thing that working at a private security office had taught him was that, even though someone might seem innocent, everybody is guilty of something. But this wasn't earth, so things might be different.
"Okay, since this is Dinky's human, she get's to introduce us to him. So, what's his name Dinky?" Cheerilee asked, turning her head towards Bertram and Dinky, who were with her in the front of the class.
"Uhh, okay, I guess his name is Wolfie, well actually his name is Wolfgang, but I like my nickname for him better." Dinky said holding a hoof up towards Bertram, she was visibly nervous from where Bertram was standing.
"I just got him yesterday for my birthday, and he is actually well behaved, because apparently he was trained before we got him."
"Okay, she is not liking the spotlight for one second, come on little one, you can get it." Bertram thought as he was watching Dinky start to shake.
"And uhm, he's... he's...he's." Dinky started to visibly sweat along with the shaking.
Seeing Dinky's condition, Cheerilee decided to intervene before she got any worse.
"Okay, everypony, we are going to take a little break, thirty minutes outside to start the day, sounds good to me." Cheerilee said as she was looking at the fillies and colts that inhabited her class, the one she was looking at the most though, was Dinky.
The whole class room erupted into cheers as the children jumped from their seats and dashed towards the door to the play ground.
"Oh well, come on Wolfie, let's go and read one of my books, I need to do some work anyways." Dinky said looking towards her saddle bag.
"This day shouldn't go to badly, what could go wrong." Bertram thought to himself. The thing that he didn't know was that you shouldn't think that, here in Ponyville.
"Well look who it is, the towns retards daughter, what you got there? Eh Dinky?" Diamond Tiara asked, tearing the book away from Dinky's hooves.
"Give it back Diamond, it was a gift." Dinky said staring at the two fillies in front of her.
"A book as a gift for someponies birthday? How lame could somepony get?" Diamond asked.
Somewhere in Ponyville a certain librarian princess flinched.
"I said give it back Diamond." Dinky said, staring at the ground.
"If you want it, you will have to make me, blank flank." Diamond said.
"Yeah, make her blank flank." a filly named Silver Spoon said.
"Why can't you guys just stop bothering me? And I said to give it back...please?" Dinky asked, continuing to look towards the ground, only occasionally glancing up at her foes.
"What was that, did you just say something to me? Silver Spoon, I think this accident is actually speaking to us..." Diamond said, staring at the look on Dinky's face.
"Wow, even for a bunch of kids, these little shits are brutal. Come on Dinky, don't just let them push you around like that." Bertram thought as he watched the scene unfolding before him.
"Shut up! I'm not an accident!" Dinky said, tears forming in her eyes.
"Dinky, it's plain as day, your moms a retard, and your dad left when you were still in your retard moms tummy."
"My moms not a retard, she just has special eyes." Dinky said, now crying.
"No, she's definitely a retard, always smashing into stuff, I don't know why anypony even lets her work for them, she can't even fly straight." Diamond said, now smirking towards Dinky.
"I said, SHUT UP!" Dinky yelled as she turned and reared up on her front legs and kicked outwards with the back. But she just barely missed, scratching Diamond on the cheek with her hoof.
"OW, you'll pay or that! Come on Spoon, time to teach her a lesson."
The two fillies began to back Dinky into a fence and proceeded to punch and cut Dinky with their front hooves.
"Okay, I've seen enough of this! These little shits need to be put into their places!" Bertram thought as he began to approach the scene.
As soon as he got the the fight he picked up the pink one by one of her front hooves and lifted her to eye level, he was about to give her a look but he was cut off as she screeched.
"Get off of me, you damn dirty human!" And she twisted around and bucked Bertram right in the throat. It wasn't anything strong but it made him choke. And as soon as he began choking he blacked out.
"Daddy! Why are you hurting mommy!?" Bertram asked in a slightly off pitch voice, as he tugged on his fathers arm to stop him from hurting mommy.
"My fucking god! Shut the fuck up will you! Your voice is so FUCKING ANNOYING!" His father shouted as he punched Bertram square in the throat. The smell of alcohol was the last thing Bertram knew about before he passed out choking.
Bertram woke up in a hospital bed, tubes and machines attached to him. He started crying once he noticed his mother in the corner of the room covered in bruises, crying also.
"Don't worry mommy, everything will get better now." Bertram said, as soon as he had stopped his mother started sobbing even more.
"Don't worry mommy, everything will be okay, I promise." His voice changing pitch every second. There was something he noticed though, it was the smell of alcohol. Cans and bottle littered the ground around his mother. He went up to his mother and tugged on her shirt to see if she was still awake.
The next thing he was his mother's lifeless eyes as he looked at her face and then to her hand, where a bottle of mommy's medication lay.
"Shit, what the hell happened? I feel like someone crammed a ten pound weight into my gut..." Bertram thought as he looked around. And what he saw shocked him.
Diamond Tiara had her head shoved through the gaps in the fence, her ass was swollen and her face was bloody. She had marks all the way from her left Cutie Mark to her cheek.
"What the fuck happened?"
"There he is guards get him!" Cheerilee shouted with tears in her eyes.
"Shit, I got to get the fuck out of here!" Bertram thought as he picked up Dinky and hopped the fence and ran towards the rest of Ponyville.
"Ha not so tough, aren't ya human?" Diamond asked with a victorious smirk on her face.
"Now back to what I was doing." Diamond said turning around and looking towards a beaten Dinky.
But something grabbed her by the hoof.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!" The human behind Diamond screamed as it held onto her hoof.
She turned around to see that the human called Wolfgang was on fire. His skin burning away, giving way to any ashy looking coat underneath. Markings on the ashy coat began to appear as if being seared onto his skin, making their way up to his hand holding her by the hoof. Bertram's head shot up and he looked at the filly with burning yellow eyes that seemed to get brighter and brighter.
His teeth started to elongate and sharpen as they made their way out of his gums, most of fell out by the root followed by a torrent of blood. His scream then became laughing as he saw the look on the fillies face. Clumps of his hair began falling out with the skin still attached, ashy on the surface from where the hair protruded but underneath, there were clumps of flesh still hanging onto the scalp.
Along with the markings along his body, cuts were being formed along his wrists and legs, his laughter did not fall on deaf ears. The filly named Diamond Tiara began to cry and plea.
The markings, although alien to Equestria, were English writing to any human that may be able to read, and they read. Freak, Retard, Faggot, Failed Abortion, Failure. And the biggest one branded into his chest... Unloved
"You wish to be spared?" The being asked with a tone that shifted every so often. To which the filly began to nod her head furiously.
"HA, that's rich, your peers wished nothing but the same. But you still went on and tormented them. Calling them names and and physically abusing them. Do you know how many wished they could do the same to you?" He asked.
Diamond Tiara, fear pumping throughout her mind, did not respond.
"For your silence and your wrong doings against your peers, you shall be punished!" To which Bertram began to slam the fillies face into the gate, earning a more and more bloody, swollen face with each impact.
"We need to hide god dammit! Where can we go?!" And off in the distance he saw a castle.
"If that's a city and these ponies are as primitive as I think they are, they shouldn't be able to catch wind of me until a little after I get there..."
Bertram looked down to Dinky who was still unconscious underneath his arm.
"I might be able to find help there for you too, if anybody would actually help us..."
As he looked up at the castle in the distance Bertram nodded, "To that castle it is... probably going to be the worst idea on my part... but what do I have to lose?"
"The safest distance between two points is a shadowy line." Bertram thought as the view of the castle began to grow larger and larger, until he was stopped by a gate. The one thing that could actually stop him. The way he had actually made it to the city was the train and the tree line next to the tracks. He had bandaged Dinky as much as he could, but that left him without much clothing to cover him. As he watched the guards at the city gate he had noticed that there was no way for him to get in without just walking up to the guards.
Bertram sighed and thought " I actually have to get captured to get my owner the help she needs... the things I do." He looked towards the gate and nodded. He got up from his position next to the tracks and began to walk towards the gate.
"You there, human! Stop right there." One of the guards said as she raised a spear with her magic towards Bertram. Bertram took Dinky from his arms and handed her over to the guards. The guard took Dinky in her magic and said, "This is the filly that was kidnapped from Ponyville. Private get over here and take her to the hospital!"
Another guard took the filly into his magic and ran back to the gate, it opened and they both slipped inside.
"This is also the human that took her... the description matches, it's him. Grab him before he does anything else."
"Oh no you don't!" Bertram thought as he felt the unicorns magic begin to wrap around him. He saw the glow envelope his left his and he grabbed at it with his right hand. The magic he had grasped at was a solid mass, he tugged it off his wrist and it lost it's color, turning a clear grey ball of magic.
"What?! How did he do that? Guards! get up here and help me!" The mare said.
"That's awesome! Maybe I can do this..." Bertram thought as ball of magic began to take form into silver canister with a blue tube running down the side, there was a round cream colored button on the top.
" So, I can't make magic, but when I get it I can do whatever I want... hehehe." He looked at the button on the canister and slammed his fist down onto it and chucked it at the group of guards making their way towards him.
"Get down!" One of the guards screamed, but it was too late. The canister began to spin like a top and spray liquid at the group, the resulting liquid began to freeze them in place.
Bertram looked upon the group in awe as the guards turned to ice, but a moment later he doubled over and vomited. " I don't think I want to do that again, it must have been the magic." Bertram thought as he watched the captain of the guard walk over to him with bleary vision and buck him in the face. The next thing he knew, everything had went dark.
"Again? Wait, what is this? Betram thought as he reached around, all he had felt was soft to the touch as if he was wrapped in silk. He tried to open his eyes but his head screamed out in pain as the blinding white light pierced his vision.
"Shit, that hurts... let me just wait a moment." As Bertram laid there his thoughts went to Dinky and her mother.
"Not a day with them and I kidnap the daughter and brutally harm two others... this... what the hell happened?" Bertram shook his head tried to open his eyes again, this time yielded better results as the pain in his head had calmed down. He was in a room, brightly colored, much to his luck. But he wasn't alone. He looked over to the darker parts of the room, in which stuff had been casting shadows along the walls. He squinted at what looked like to him a mass of shadow, he barely saw it, but it was there. He unwrapped himself from the bed in which he was laying and limped over to the mass.
He reached out with a hand and pulled the mass out from the dark with a hard tug. What he caught startled him it was another pony but this one had both the appendages of a Unicorn and Pegasus, the coloring was a dark blue and the mane was an ethereal blue as if it were the night sky itself, was trapped on top of the ponies head.
"Unhand me human! The Princess of the Night commands it." Luna demanded. But Bertram didn't let go, he was still in shock.
"They have Unicorns, Pegasi, and a mixture of both, what kind of world is this, next you're going to tell me they have dragons and that everyone shits skittles..." Bertram developed a smirk at that last thought.
"Okay, if that's the way it must be..." Luna said as she charged up her magic.
Bertram noticed the glow from Luna's horn and reacted as the magic left her horn. He grabbed the bolt of magic and it had pushed his arm back with some force, but he managed to stop it. Bertram looked at the magic and then to Luna. He then brought the hand full of magic to Luna's face and with a loud resonating SLAP, Luna flew across the room and slammed into the wall with a loud thud. But she quickly recovered, and was clearly flustered.
"H-How dare you slap me, y-you-" But she was cut off as the door was opened.
"What's going on in here?" A motherly tone voiced into the room.
What Celestia saw next was something she wasn't prepared for. The human that ran away from Ponyville with a filly, was in a defensive stance as he stood half naked. Luna, was all the way across the room with a red hand print on her cheek and a crater in the wall which was the exact same size as her. She smirked as she looked upon the scene before her. This was a change of pace from paper work.
Bertram looked at the white pony and back to the blue one, and then to his hand. There was still some magic left on it, but not much. He used what he had left to make a flame at the tip of his hand... gun. And he blew it out and motioned like he was putting into a holster. "I'm a goner either way, might as well have some fun before this all ends."
"Well, even if this scene is most amusing to me, you human, are going to have to come with me, this is about your court hearing, you're special to somepony and me, so if you could please come this way." Celestia motioned towards the hall. Bertram started walking towards the door and looked at Luna, she just sat there feeling the mark on her face.
"I like her, she's feisty." Bertram thought as he entered the hallway.
"You do know that I can hear you right?" Celestia asked as she kept walking. Bertram froze in place as his eyes widened and locked onto the white pony in front of him. Celestia stopped and turned. "I'm surprised that you haven't felt me inside you yet."
"That's what she said 'cough'." Bertram thought as his smile grew.
Celestia lost her smile as she looked at Bertram and said. "This is serious, you hurt two fillies and saved your owner, but I can't just let you go free, that would seem unjust and cruel to the parents of the fillies you almost killed." The tone of her voice went cold and unforgiving. "We can't let you just get off without any punishment, there will be consequences for what you have done. And if it happens again, I'm afraid, more, how should I put it, drastic action will be put to work. "
Bertram looked at the princess with a stern look on his face. His serious look became a amused look as he approached Celestia.Bertram only stood a head taller then Celestia but it was enough to make him look intimidating, but Celestia didn't falter. His left eye began to twitch as he looked Celestia straight into the eyes. He was only a few inches away from Celestia before his face returned to the state it was previously. His eye still twitching madly.
"Listen here pony and listen well, no one here is going to punish me for what I did, even if you want me punished, it's not going to happen, all my life I stood up for the "little guy" and was punished for it, because my actions were extreme. Even before all of that, I was punished because I was a little guy, and I was still punished. But now?" Bertram looked at his hand.
"I'm not the little guy anymore, in fact... I'm the biggest one here, all the magic in the world couldn't stop me because, apparently, I'm immune to it, and I already know that magic is the biggest threat you have against everyone else, but now? Your magic won't work, it'll only feed me the energy I need to destroy anyone who might try to harm me or my owner..." Bertram thought as he, yet again. doubled over and vomited. This time he had noticed what his body produced, it seemed to be some sort of black bile. Bertram brought himself shakily up to his feet and looked over to Celestia, a number of guards had surrounded him and Celestia had a look of fear stricken on her face. At the sight Bertram's back to burn as if someone were branding him. He fell back to the ground and his face contorted into a silent scream as he grabbed at his back desperately trying to get rid of the pain from his shaking body.
The guards raised there brows at the display. Celestia shook her head ridding herself of the vision in her head and looked towards Bertram. His thoughts speaking all that she needed to know.
"Quick remove his clothing, somethings happening to his back!" Celestia yelled the command. Her guards complied and started to tug the shirt off of Bertram's writhing body. He got up to his palms and knees and screamed for the first time in years.
"Aaaaaaaaaggggghhhhh!" The scream itself made the guards and Celestia cringe. Smoke began to rise from Bertram's skin as a mark took form over his whole back. The mark itself was a winged sword pointing downwards with a chaos wheel behind it. Bertram's screams were heard all around the castle, but his thoughts told of another story. In his mind a sickening voice yelled out two words only, and it was accompanied with a maniacal laugh.
"Righteous Fury! HAHAHAHAHA!"
Celestia froze as soon as she stopped hearing the screams, what were screams, were now bouts of insane laughter. All her guards were frozen in place along with her. Bertram was now laughing along with whatever was in his head. Celestia's horn lit up as she was about to cast a spell but before she could something grabbed the tip of her horn, her eyes went down to where Bertram had been but her view was blocked. The only thing she saw was a pair of glowing golden eyes. Wisps of light seeped out of them, moving just like her mane, perpetually in a breeze.
The next thing she noticed was that, everything had went silent. No laughing, no screaming. Nothing. Celestia jerked back from Bertram's face and she fell to the ground. She looked over the rest of him, he was fully clothed in regular attire, and his once unkempt hair was now slicked back and his beard was gone. Bertram smiled at the sitting Celestia and the rest of her guards who stood there staring. The laughter started back up again, but just as it was reaching the peak of volume Bertram blinked out of existence. This was definitely not good.
"Dinky... where did you go Dinky?" Derpy said as she sat there crying, but she was silenced as a knock came to the door. She bolted up from her chair and made her way to the door. Derpy answered it but nopony was there, she looked around and found nopony even on the roads. She stepped forward to make her way outside, but a crumpling noise came from her foot. It was a letter and it read.
Dear Derpy Hooves,
We are delighted to say that your daughter has been found and is in the hospital up here in Canterlot, a train ticket is available along with this note. Please hurry up here and see her, she misses you dearly.
-Canterlot Hospital
As she read, a smile spread over her face as she looked over the letter to see if it was real. A moment later a chill ran up her spine as she thought somepony was watching her, so she looked up from the letter and looked around, but still, the roads were empty. She shrugged and happily looked at the ticket as tears filled her eyes. Behind her in the hallway of her house a human stood there smiling before disappearing to where ever it came from.
Today, it was like any other day. The sun was shining with all of its celestial might, the moon was reflecting said might on the other side of the calm planet. But, everything was not as it seemed, underneath the calm was the fear of something new, something unheard of, a revolution. The humans and their numbers grew ornery as tension grew between the nations. Word broke out among the citizens as the acts of the humans were noticed. Most said it was sign of the humans ill treatment, others said it was the lack of harsher treatment. Opinions clashed and view points were shot down, one by one as neither of the sides were proven to be right.
But there was one human that was unknown to the general public of any and every nation. The strange happenings were blamed on him, but they were not his fault. No, they were anything but his fault, how could they be? This couldn't be his fault... could it? Could everything that has been going on, be because of his own lack of judgement?
"Why did this happen? Why me?" Bertram asked himself as he paced in the ethereal plane that he now called home. His surroundings were nothing more than wisps of light blue smoke. A moment later, a voice sounded out from thin air that cause Bertram to stop in his tracks.
"Why not you? With all the stuff that your world has put you through, you were the prime example for your people."
"We have been over this for the past two weeks now! These are not my people, we aren't the same!" Bertram thought as he kicked his legs into the clouds of smoke out of frustration.
"You are the only one that could lead them though, the beings here are clouded with the years of slavery, and happiness, they cannot see past the simple form your own are putting up. Even though they are the least dominant ones in this realm, All it takes someone worthy of being their leader, and they will follow."
"But why me?! Why was I chosen to be put in this role?!" Bertram thought as he stared up into the sky, or what he thought was the sky.
"Like I said before." The voice sighed as it continued. "The trials and tribulations you have been put through, show that you can prevail over any type of challenge, be it physical or mental. And the trials ahead of you, will test that."
Bertram was silent for a moment before nodding and saying. "Fine, but what can I do while I'm here?"
"You can do anything you want, just be ready, it is your job now to save this world, to right the wrongs."
"I miss Wolfie. Even though we had him for a day, I still think he was the only one who was my friend." Dinky said as she toyed with her bowl full of corn flakes with a spoon in her magic.
Derpy sighed as she watched her daughter. Honestly, this was better than to have a monster living under their roof. But with her daughters mood and behavior after she lost her first human, she would rather have a monster in her house than see her daughter sad as she was now.
"Come on now Dinky, cheer up, I'm making muffins this afternoon after I get home from work, okay?" Dinky's mouth lifted into a slight smile at the thought of one of her mothers muffins. The sweetness of the bread could already be tasted as the thought of biting down into one of the blueberry muffins with the berries inside bursting with the juices even sweeter than the cupcake itself.
"I have to go now, don't be late for school, okay?" Derpy said as she kissed Dinky on the forehead and left the house.
The thought was short lived as something caught her eye from the edge of her vision, it was like an orange light glaring from a reflection. She looked over to whatever it was that she had seen but all she saw was an empty doorway to the living room. Shrugging, she proceeded to eat her cereal.
But the light came back into the edge of her vision as she turned away, she looked to her left again and saw nothing but empty doorway. This time, her eyes didn't leave the location, in hoping that whatever was there would appear again. And her hopes were anything but dashed away as a orange spark of electricity sparked from the middle of the door way. Bit by bit, more and more sparks came from the doorway as extremities began to make themselves present. A single finger became a whole hand, more and more of the human became present as it squeezed through the tight opening.
The next thing that was noticed was the screaming from the human as it continued to get pushed out of the hole. The extremities that were out were covered in a slick pink goo. It was a slow and methodical as the human was pushed out, but, in one final motion the whole human slipped out of the hole yelling profanities as it tried to wipe the goo from its clothing. Even though it was yelling and cursing, the humans mouth wasn't moving.
Dinky took one look at the human and said. "Wolfie?" To this, Bertrams thoughts were silenced and he looked towards the filly and thought.
"That's me, now let's get you to school." Dinky gasped as she saw her human standing before her.
"Where have you been? I was so worried when the hospital said you escaped, I thought you were gone forever."
"I'm not going to do that to you, even if this world is crazy, I'm not going anywhere anytime soon."
"Wait... How are you talking?" Dinky asked as she looked up at Bertram with confused eyes.
"I'm not really talking, these are my thoughts that you're hearing."
Dinkys head cocked sideways in even more confusion as she said. "How can I hear your thoughts?"
"It's a long story."
"Well, we've got time, tell it on the way to school." Dinky said as she picked up her saddlebags in her magic and moved towards the door.
"Hey Dinky, I've got to tell you something." She turned to look at Bertram as she stood in the doorway.
"What? Is something wrong?"
"Kind of, right now, when I'm with you, you're the only one who can see me."
"Okay?" Dinky said as she turned to exit the house and shut the door.
Bertrams eyes widened to her reaction.
"She questions why I'm talking, but not about the fact that she is the only one I'm letting see me? "
Bertram blinked out of the house and next to Dinky. Bertram looked down to her as he continued to walk with her.
"So... School huh? How has that been?"
"Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon have been gone for a while, but I hear they're coming back today."
"Oh... I might have had a hand in that but... never mind."
The school house came into view as the two came around a corner, silence prevailed over the two as they continued to make their way to the school house. "So, what do you want me to do while you're in there?"
"I guess you could sit next to me, it shouldn't be a problem since no one else can see you."
"Okay. It might even be fun to learn something while I'm there." Bertram thought as he watched Dinky push the door open.
Everypony was already in class just waiting for the bell to ring, Bertram looked over the class room to see mostly smiling faces, but there were two that had a scowl written all over their face as they watched the filly enter the room. This was going to be a long day.
Recess was out for the school and everypony was out in the yard doing something Dinky was back in her usual spot reading a book by herself, Bertram was on his way back from getting ice cream for the little filly, a small token of an apology.
"I hope she likes vanilla, why wasn't there anything else but vanilla though? It can't be that bad..." He looked at his cone of cream and gave it a lick. It tasted like regular vanilla, but that didn't explain why ponies didn't want to eat it.
"Oh well, not my problem." He thought.
As he got closer to the fence which Dinky was reading the first voices he heard were ones that he didn't very much like.
"You going to cry? Not so easy when your human isn't here to save you is it? You can't defend yourself, you can't even use your magic."
"I can use my magic just fine!" Dinky cried as Diamond Tiara pushed down onto old bruises.
"Yeah, just like you mom can use her wings." said Silver Spoon.
Bertram watched the scene unfold before him. His fists crushed the cones of ice cream in his hands, as the chunks of the desserts fell to the ground, Bertrams back began to itch with a familiar burn. If no one could see him earlier, they could definitely see him now as the enchantment dropped from his body, revealing him and the embers engulfing his clothing.
"Come on blank flank, fight back." Diamond Tiara said as she continued to torture the filly.
Bertram began to sprint to the fence, as he reached it he jumped and pulled himself over, his eyes never leaving the scene before him.
"Fight back blank flank." Both Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon taunted before, a slap was heard from the figure of the three fillies. Everything near the fence went silent as Diamond Tiara held a hoof on her cheek.
Time seemed to slow down as Bertram watched a pink hoof being raised.
"When will they ever learn?!" Bertram shouted in his mind as he took off towards the group of three. Just before the hoof connected Bertram scooped up Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara and punted the grey one before turning the pink one towards him.
Diamond Tiaras face was filled with disbelief as she looked at Bertram. He smiled as he positioned the filly above the ground dropped her. Another filly was sent squealing through the air as Bertram turned towards his owner.
Dinky was looking up at Bertram with tear filled eyes as he picked her up and made his way out of the schoolyard.
"Hold it right there." A familiar voice said from behind before clamps were shut on his ankles and neck. Bertram turned to see Celestia and a plethora of guards smiling at him. He frowned and laid Dinky on the grass.
"You're not going anywhere this time." Celestia said as Bertram tried to use his powers to jump.
Celetia trotted up to Bertram and gave him a smug look. "Now... What are we going to do with you?"
"Welcome back, I thought we would find you here..." Celestia said as she eyed the human in her magical grasp.
"Your world is corrupt, the magic that you call friendship is a lie!" Bertram yelled in a hoarse voice as he struggled with his magical bond.
"...How can you say that? You see that-"
"You promote equality, but no one is equal to you ponies! Not even the races that you hold back from your borders."
Behind Bertram, a couple of paces away, was Dinky, as she had been struggling against two royal guards.
"Wolfie!" Dinky yelled. Bertram twisted in his bond and saw Dinky struggling to get away from the two guards.
"Touch her and you answer to me!"
"And what will you do?" Celestia asked as she stepped over to the struggling guards. "Sleep little one." Celestia said as she raised a hoof to the little filly. And with that, Dinky had stopped moving all together. The spell itself had put Dinky into a sleep-like stasis. Bertram saw this, but didn't understand. His mind flooded with adrenaline as thoughts began to fill his head.
"Is she dead?!"
"She's dead! They killed her!"
Tears began to streak down his face as the sight of his owner laying still on the ground. Bertram began to grasp at his magical bond as if it were a physical thing. He got a good grip on it and released himself from Celestia's magical prison.
"What!?"
He wrapped the yellow aura around his forearm and pulled with all of his strength. This launched the Alicorn towards him. Bertram whipped his head back and just as Celestia was close enough, brought it back forward with a loud crack to the base of Celestia's horn. And this knocked the Alicorn unconscious. Also leaving a large bruise in the middle of Bertrams forehead. Bertram stumbled backwards a couple of feet as his hand rose to his forehead. A sudden sick feeling washing over him, he bent over and vomited.
The two guards who had seen what happened, watched the human buckle over. They just sat there, wide-eyed as one thought ran through both of their heads. "Did he really just headbutt the princess?" But their eyes went even wider as the human brought his face away from the floor and looked over to them. Tears streaming down his face and the look of rage and hurt present. He lifted a hand to point towards the two guards. Bertram got up off the ground and wiped his mouth with his forearm and walked over the two guards. The guard Bertram had been pointing at, fell over as they had gotten weaker and weaker. The other guard, just now noticing the white aura moving towards the human.
"Let's see how your 'frienship' handles against this huh?"
"Wowie Zowie! Was that a doozie!" Pinkie shouted. "I have to get Twilight and the others!" Pinkie said as she left her room and out into the roads of Ponyville.
