Gamma Ray an homeless colt struggles to survive in the cold winter, but he eventually finds somepony that will take him in.
"It's so cold. No home, no family, no nothing. Please, I need a home." Gamma Ray asked.
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Gamma Ray, ten year old colt with nopony to turn to. He was thrown from his famly, starved, famished, sick, and depressed, but that all changes when he comes across a mare by the name Coco Pommel.
Out behind a business building lays a colt bundled in ratty blankets in the gentle moon light. The night was cold, below freezing to say. Each breath he exhaled he could see a white puff of breath. He looked at the many homeless ponies that dwells within that ally. He locked his gaze on a stallion that is singing drunkenly by a small bonfire set up by his tent. In his magical grip floated a bottle of hard cider. Every passing moment he wold take a swig and sing.
He looked up to the clear night sky and made a prayer to Celestia and luna "Luna, Celestia pleas let somepony give me a home." After saying the prayer a tear ran down his matted, light green coat.
Soon he was in shambles, crying, holding his only procession - a small, tattered, Daring Do plushie- in between his hooves holding it tight. The doll had a special meaning to him.
The doll was given to him by the only member of his family that cared for him, his older brother Doodle, which passed away a year ago, that day.
The homeless drunk turned to the young colt and shot him an annoyed look "Oh, sut-shut thee buuck up!" He yelled. Then the stallion thrown the now empty bottle of Sweet Apple achors hard cider at him.
The bottle was thrown way off course and hit the brick wall behind him. He jumped in fright of what this stallion might do next, but to his relief the stallion turned and crawled into his tent to rest.
The young colt then buried himself deep in his blankets and shut his eyes tight to welcome himself to the land of dreams.
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In small home the colt sits with his older brother, Doodle on the sofa. Doodle asks "Hay, bro how was school today?" His older brother asked.
Gamma Ray absent mindly said "good." He currently had his face buried in the new Daring Do book which was about her finding a long lost facility in which they froze people alive, then billions of years later she finds a lost sole in that facility.
"Hay,Gamma. How's the book?" Doodle asked curiously.
Gamma turned to his older brother with a massive smile on his face"GRATE!" he yells in happiness and joy.
Doodle asks "What is the name of it again, I forgot and I was the who bought the book." He finishes with a low chuckle.
Gamma turned to his brother and answered "Daring Do and the lyeberth of science!" He finishes with childish glee. He has been reading for about twenty minutes now and each passing minute the book got better and better.
The door bell rang repeatedly several times before Doodle stands up to answer the door, but to Gamma's horror, when Doodle opened the door it opened to an never-ending black abyss.then this massive black tar-like tentical shot out and wrapped around Doodle's waste and started pulling him toward the darkness. Doodle quickly shot both of his fore legs out and gripped on to the frame of the door. Doodle gave Gamma an look that told him that he is pleading for help then whispered "help", but before Gamma had any chance to help hos brother, he was gone.
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Gamma shot up out of his cloth cocoon, sweating with tears running down his face. He looked over to where the drunk was dwelling to only see an dark shadow behind the thin cloth. He looked up to the moon to judge the time to only find out that it was Three in the morning. He sighed and rested his head down in the blankets to go back to sleep, but his stomach growled loudly I need some food, I better check behind the Doughnut Joe's up the street. he thought. So with that he got up and wrapped himself in various different cloths that he scavenged from various dumpster, trash cans, and trash bags.
Once he was wrapped in the disregarded cloths, he started his trot to doughnut joe's. Once he rounded the corner onto the sidewalk he trotted onwards. He passed a particular boutique that is owned by one of the Elements of Harmony, Rarity, the element of generosity. It had several poniequins in the windows equip with various pieces of fine cloathing. The cloths were finely crafted at first look.
He turned his head foreword and saw this nerd, she was the definition of NERD. She had this plaid winter coat, glasses, braces, and two pony tails in her mane. Her coat was bright orange and her mane is purple. He watched to see where she was heading, she turned to cross the street to reach her destination, the boutique across the street.
He watched as she used theses robotic claws to handle the keys in her hooves. Once she grabbed the keys and inserted them in the key hole she twisted them to the left and opened the door. Much to his curiosity, he crept up to the boutique to see what it looked like inside. His eyes widened when he saw the cafe. It had cakes stored in an refrigeration unit. Gamma quickly snuck through the many articles of clothes.
Just as he was about to reach Saddle Row's cafe, the orange and purple mare with a plaid hart as her cutie mark decided to trot over to check the supply of cakes that were left. "Crap, Crap,Crap. I need to get some food in me." Gamma said quietly.
The mare's left ear twitched and she lifted her head to see if anypony were there. "Hellow, anypony there?" She said with a lisp. Then she surveyed the area before spotting a dark green tail sticking out from a rack of dresses. "Hay, you get out now, you can't be here at this hour." Before she could get to the colt, he bolted out.
"Crap!" Gamma yelled as he bolted towards the cakes on display and throwing himself into the glass, braking it. The mare stood there shocked at what this colt just did, HE BROKE THE GLASS WITH HIS BODY. Then Gamma quickly stood up and snatched five cakes and bolting out the door.
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Twenty minutes later back in the alley
Gamma silently read his only book, the Daring Do book from his dream. He let out an loud yon before placing the book down by the Daring Do plushie. He quickly scarfed down the last of the delicious vanilla cake and resting himself in the cloth cocoon once more.
Gamma awoken to the sound of snow crunching under somepony's hooves. Then he herd several young (but older) voices murdering. Gamma looked to his right to see two colts and two fillies. The purple coated and green mained colt looked to be the oldest out of the grope.
The colt walked right up to him and spit in his face and laughed "Dose the little blank flank want a home, too bad nopony wants you!" After he said that, the unicorn filly with the gray coat and red and green main came up to Gamma and bucked him in the side and then levitated an lid from an trash can and hit him in the face. Gamma fell to the ground, crying with two large noticeable bruises forming under his green coat.
Gamma looks up to the filly whom just beaten him with the lid and asks silently "why are you doing this, I never did anything thing to you?" Then he started crying out in pain and quivering from the cold snow that he lays in.
"Why, because you are a bucking blank flank and you are homeless. We always target the homeless. We call our selves The Homeless Hunters and we bully homeless ponies." After she answered his question the grope laughed hysterically. Whale they laughed Gamma charged the lead filly and tackled her, slaming her to the ground. Then he sprinted away with book and doll in tow.
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Meanwhile a particular orange and purple pegsus waltched as a colt runs past her. Another filly walks up to her and asks "Ah, Scoot? Why are you just standing there?"
Scootaloo turns to the filly that just asked her the question" Um I don't know maybe because I might have just saw a colt run by me with no cutie mark." She answered to Applebloom.
Applebloom turned and gazed at Scootaloo "Why are you moody Scoot?"
Scootaloo returned Apple Bloom's gaze, and answered, "Why? Because somepony stole my scooter! And when I find who did it, I'm going to kill them!" She finished with no small amount of anger in her voice, it was clear to those who were listening that she was angry at the theft of her beloved mode of transportation.
Sweetie Bell peeked from behind a dumpster shaking like a pant shaker due to Scootaloo's yelling. She looked to Applebloom and asked in a shaken voice "Is she done?"
Applebloom looks to Scootaloo to see if she was going to rant some more. When she herd nothing but a few mudders from Scootaloo she turned to Sweetie Bell "Ya can come out now she's done." Applebloom said.
Scootaloo turned to Applebloom and asked "What are we going to do because I'm board." Scootaloo said in frustration.
Sweetie Bell piped up and adjusted her thick purple and pink winter coat and said "Oh, how about we help that colt fund his cutie mark?" After she suggested that Applebloom looked to Scootaloo to see if she agreed.
When Sweetie Bell seen that they agreed she reached her forleg out and yelled "Cutie mark crusader, cutie mark finders!she just went with what she know.
Scootaloo turned to Applebloom and asked "Whare in tartus is he anyways?" They all turned to each other and gave questioning glares.
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Meanwhile behind a ally way, Gamma sat in a tattered, snow covered, and old armchair. He sat there warring the same rags he had on when he stolen the cake from saddle row.
He is currently reading the same Daring Do book he had for the past year. He sat there quietly hopping that the "homeless hunters" won't find him hope they don't find me he thought. Just as he finished that thought he herd three voices yelling loudly at the same time. He quickly closed the book and scanned his surroundings to see nothing out of the ordinary. All he seen were several disregarded icy and rusty garbage cans, an old dumpster, an ally cat and her kittens sitting by a heating duct, and litter all over the place, so he went back to reading.
A few minuets later he heard three voices chattering, so Gamma decides to stay quiet for the time being, but at that moment he sneezed loudly drawing attention to him self "Oh, by Celestia please don't let that be t Homeless Hunters, Please don't let that be them." he silently chanted to him self.
To his relief it was three fillies, a white unicorn with a light purple and pink mane, a yellow earth pony with red mane, and an orange pegasus with a purple mane. The unicorn turned to him and said "hay, there's the colt you mentioned earlier, Scootaloo! he looks kinda sick and dirty." she said with an worrying frown.
The other fillies turned to look at him and there jaws dropped due to the state he was in, his coat green coat is matted with dirt, his mane light green mane ran down to his legs, his blue eyes are slightly clouded and blood shot , and his apparel were made up of a few towels, shirts and rags.
The earth pony spoke up "Excuse me, are ya ok?" she asked in a Southerner accent.
Gamma answered her after a short pause "Ummm...... Yes i guess?" He said with a raspy voice. then he went into a caughfing fit and passed out.
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Sweetie Bell turned to the sickly colt that lays before her on the snow covered pavement "Maybe we should get him over over to my sisters friends house, she only lives up the street from here." Sweetie Bell suggested to her friends.
The two fillies turned with unsure looks on there faces. Scootaloo is the first to ask " Who might this friend of Rarity's you are talking about.' Scoot asked.
Sweetie Bell answered the question "Coco Pemmal, she is a designer just like Rarity." Sweetie finished.
The group walked laughing to each outer while walking down a 'heavenly' stretch of ally way. The lead filly by the name of Trash came up to her coltfriend and nudged him on the side and asked with a sinker "How about our latest victim? That little whimppy blank flank in that ally?" She finished with a loud laugh. During that time she was not paying attention to her surroundings and tripped in somepony's frozen urine that created a of disgusting ice. as soon as she placed her hoof on the patch she slipped onto her flank and earned a big black and blue spot right by her cutie mark.
Keven (Yha, thats a strange pony name.) looked to her and laughed histarrcaly at the seen in front of him "Oh, by Celestia..HA HA HA...She-she fell on her- then-then....." He is cut off by a stick making contact with his face and he fell to the ground cradling his face and crying like a baby.
Trash turned to the orange colt and yelled "NOW THAT SHOULD TEACH YOU TO LNOT TO LAUGH YOUR LEATER, DIRTBAG!!!!!! " she finished with bucking him in the face and causing the rest to laugh.
After that moment, a crazy, old drunken mare threw some used toilet paper at them "Ya' better shut up now, before Ah' shove ya' all in the binn...HAHAHAHA...AH!"
Seesaw turned to the old mare and got the bright idea to have her as there next victim "Yo, Hunters why don't we show who's, who's." she finished with a evil smile on her face.
The others turned and looked to her with agreeing smiles on there faces.
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"LET US OUT!" The for yell all at once. The crazy mare just tapps a hoof on the lid and laughed.
It is late night when the small colt, Gamma ray awakens, he is greeted by a small enclosure piled with material for crafting clothing. He looks around confused and tired. Just then he realizes that he has this sharp pain pulsing threw his head. his face turns to one of pain and disconfert . He soon gets up and yells "Hello, anypony there?" just then the door to the room opens and a earth pony comes in. her coat is light tan, her mane is two shades of sky blue, her eyes are also sky blue and her cutie mark is of a light purple feathered hat with white border going around it.
Gamma looks towards the mare and asks shyly "Who are you."
The mare responded with a gentle French accent "Hi, I am.. Coco Pommal." She responds while she froze mid-sentence and looked straight at the colt in front of her. Astonished by how filthy and scarred he is. His mane is caked with dirt, his coat is caked with dirt to garbage. She had not gotten a good look at the colt before her, now she notices that his left eye is cloudy (a clear sign that he is ill) and his right eye is red and swollen. Coco emedidly runs to the colt and sits by him and asks a little shyly "Um... are you feeling alright? You look very sick, you should lay down." She then reaches her right fore leg up and places it across his shoulders. Gamma looks up to Coco and gives her a small smile and awncers "Yes, I uuu... feel fine." Clearly lying through his teeth. Then he rests his head down on the mattress and says " My name is Gamma Ray."
"Nice to... meet you Gamma." She given him a soft smile while Gamma notices that Coco had been pausing a lot while she spoke, but for now Gamma needs some rest. Then a terrifying thought came into his mindwhat if this is all an act, she could be a homicidal maniac or a Foul molester, na, I am just getting worked up over nothing.he thought. Gamma then looks over to notice that Coco has left, he shrugs and lays down and closes his eyes, drifting off to dreemland.
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Gamma appeared on a train with several passengers, most of them he seen before, but don' remember there names sitting to Gamma's left on the comfortable blood red seat is his ever-loveing big brother, Doodle. Doodle sits patently as he reads the Equestria Daily for that day.
Doodle turns to Gamma with a smile on his face "Hay, Gamma I seen an ad for the new Dairing Do book in this weeks news paper. It says here that it is about her finding a strange underground facility that dates back 400,000 years and finds a thought to be mythical creature frozen alive in a strange pod called a cryo chamber." At the end of the revue of the next Dairing Do book, Gamma's eyes lit up like a flashlight.
" THAT. SOUNDS. SO. AWESOME!" Gamma says with so much childish excitment. Gamma then pulls from his side a safari hat just like Daring Do's and puts it on. He then takes a rope that is hanging just above him and Doodle and trys to imitate Daring Do by clinging on to it and trys swinging back and forth on it and ends up falling on his flank. This caused Doodle to laughf at his younger brothers antics.
"Hay, what's so funny?!?!" Gamma announces to his big brother with no small amount of anger in his voice.
Doodle looks to words Gamma with a small smile on his face " Gamma, what the hay are you doing?"
Gamma responds "I was trying to be Daring Do!" He yells at his older brother.
Doodle shakes his head slowly in amusement "Gamma."
Gamma Ray awakens feeling noxious, not from the dream, but sheer sickness. He looks for something that he can vomit in, but to his luck, nothing but an hat, a hat similar to Coco's. He quickly grabs the hat and throws up into it. Feeling sicker than he did before, he stumbles toward the door to be greeted with an hallway, a pretty bland one to be exact. He stumbles down the cordoor looking for one thing, his Dairing Do book. The one from his dream. The one that his brother got him, Dareing Do and them Liberyth of Science.
He looks all down the hall, In room, containers, in anything and anywhere that the book could have been placed. He remembers three fillies, three particular fillies, the ones that walked up to him before he passed out. "They might know where it is." With that he ran down the stairs and out into the manehatten streets looking for those three fillies...
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Mean while Coco lays in her bed thinking about the poor colt, Gamma Ray. "I don't know how he did it, but made it at the age he is at now. I hope he is alright, he did not look so good when he was brought in by Sweetie and her friends." Coco then drifts off into a peaceful sleep unaware that Gamma ran off insertch of his book and doll.