> Kidnapped1-5 > by Jaiden > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kidnapped. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- As Zac walked past a couple of houses he entered a specific walking area he liked best. He examined his surroundings. There was a small cavity in the tree to his left, it contained a squirrel, birds where heading up to the treetops to roost, Zac swore that he saw a deer in the woods for the left. Zac still had his un-comfortable-half-made ghillie suit. Zac heard a BMW engine roaring. He turned around and started to walk backwards and looked as a car drove by him probably faster than the speed limit, Idiot. Zac swung round and began to walk forwards again but as he completed his 180 degree spin he noticed something. A hole in the ground? This is weird. This wasn't there coming to school.. Zac stopped walking. As he ducked down to examine the seemingly blocked hole he thought This is like something out of portal. Hehe. He chuckled to himself. He finally decided to peer into the hole when a own Flew out of it. Whoa! that is WEIRD. The owl landed on a Tree branch "Who." it said. "Huh?" Zac said. "Who." The bird replied "Stupid owl" He murmured and started to take a look at the owl a bit closer. It can't be.. It was. Owlicious was sitting right in-front of him on a branch. Could be.. "Are you Owlicious?" He said The bird seemed to nod. Then that means... Suddenly a wave of blue flew up in-front of him and stopped above him. He looked up My god.. The only thing he could think of is that TV show he watched three days ago.. If that's Rainbow dash then why is she here..? The realization hit him like a ton of Bricks. Fear seeped across his body, his legs began to wobble. He ran; Jumping over the hole in the ground, his bag left behind. Zac sprinted as fast as he could to get away from his possible captor and to get into the safe haven that was his house. Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ! What do I do! I'm doomed! Is she following me? What do I do?!? He didn't look back because of a couple of things; One was fear, Two was the easiest way to run fast was to keep your head down and remain in a good running posture. Flapping noises where heard and before he could dodge or react he was tackled to the ground, HARD. "Get off of me!" Zac Protested. "Oh no you don't!" Rainbow dash replied. Zac's Adrenaline was pumping through him like a fire, he bucked his backside up to Dis-place the creature on top of him and it worked. Zac shoved rainbow dash off of him, got up and ran. Oh my god what is she going to do is she taking me to be experimented on?? what if that fiction cupcakes is true! He realized his own thought If cupcakes where true rainbow dash wouldn't be here.. His thought was cut short by a moaning behind him. He turned around and saw the Pegasus laying there. Did i hurt her? Oh god.. His fear was gone now as he approached the Pegasus. "Why?" He asked. "T-T-Twilight wanted to see what was in another.. W-World.. So she opened up a P-Portal and sent me to get the nearest creature.." She Grumbled Zac examined the creature further and saw a scratch on her left wing joint. "Well not me. At least let me help you back into your world." He persuaded. "Fine. But i can't move my wing so be careful!" She moaned After about five minutes of almost dragging the Pegasus back to where they started she seemed to start to walk on her own but quickly stopped. This is a trap. He was Right. As he walked to get his bag he was pulled by his neck backwards, and quickly felt vertigo Build in his body. "Damn you!" He Screamed Admiral Ackbar would be ashamed of me.. > Why am i here? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only thought going through my head as i fell into the dark abyss was that i was going to either die from the fall or be experimented on.. Or worse.. (Just a quick note, im going to try my best at detail and things like that but im not very good at extending my chapters so lookout for Daily chapters that are short instead of long chapters that are slow updating) As i looked up towards the exit where i got pulled through, Rainbow Dash was flying after me, a worried look on her face. She got closer and closer and closer until i could grab her hoof, i said to her; "Help me! I can't fly!" "You will be fine!" She replied. This didn't change the situation however, she could fly but i couldn't so i kept falling.. And falling.. And falling.. Does this hole ever end!? I looked below me and saw a light approaching quickly. I knew from science that this wouldn't be the center of the earth because we had only been falling for about a minute. After falling for another Fifteen seconds, the light approached with terrifying speed. Im going to die.. This is the end. I closed my eyes. The noise i heard next entered my ears with such force and determination it startled me. The noise could only be described as.. Before my brain could process it i blacked out. (Don't you guys love cliffhangers?) Don't worry i'll update again today this is just to tide you guys over. > Waking up to the smell of coffee > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- As i awoke i smelled coffee That's weird mum hates coffee.. I decided to open my eyes. A library? My town doesn't have a library.. The thing i saw next startled me. What seemed to be a small-childlike dragon walked down the stairs to my right. What in the... I quickly closed my eyes and feigned sleep "Twilight, that thing Rainbow dash captured is still asleep." I guessed that was the dragon. "Just leave him Spike, he will wake up eventually." This was Twilight then I decided to be bold and open my eyes. "Uh. Twilight.. He is awake now!" Spike announced. A purple pony looking thing walked down from the stairs the dragon walked down from and looked at me. Is that a unicorn? Wow.. She approached where i was laying down which was apparently a sofa. Fear began to spread across my body once again as the unicorn presumably 'Twilight' Stood a meter away from the sofa i was laying on. Silence was everywhere as we just stared at each other. In a attempt to break the silence the dragon, presumably 'Spike' approached too and asked me "What are you?" I thought about this for a moment. What do i say? Should i be angry? I know what i am but would they even know what a human was? My thought was once again cut short by Spike asking me another question "Can you speak?" I decided it was best to answer him. "Yeah.. I can speak. An I'm a Human." Twilight and Spike both jumped back quite far actually as i spoke. "What? i didn't do anything!" I said, confused. "Y-Your teeth." Spike replied Oh yeah! My K-Nines! Oh wait. "I'm not going to eat you. Don't be scared of me." i reassured. To be honest im more scared of you.. The unicorn approached me again. And with some kind of Telekinetic power she lifted the cover that was on me. "So your bi-pedal then. That explains your height but why do you need those teeth?" She asked. I sighed. "I eat meat. Our schools say that if you don't get enough 'Protein' , that's a thing that comes out of meat when you digest it, you become un-healthy." I explained. "So you aren't going to eat us?" Spike said worryingly. "Don't be silly spike. Anyway i could just lift him up and move him away" She said while tapping her horn. I instantly remembered that show that my sister always watched when she was younger. 'My little Pony' it was called. he had saw clips of it while walking passed the TV and saw that she could lift things. "So. Why did you bring me here?" I asked her the all-important question. > Meanwhile back at Earth > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "WHERE IS HE!?" Kim shouted "Calm down ma'am he probably got lost, have you tried his phone?" A policeman replied. "Yes i have! And no. He wouldn't have gotten lost, he has been walking from that school for a year now!" "We have a patrol car searching down that road and up the housing estates, if this is a Abduction we will know about it soon enough." "Thank you officer" "Just doing my job ma'am" As the policeman finished his sentence he left the house and said something into his radio, quickly got into his car and signaled Kim to get in "We could have something, get in i'll take you." The officer said As they drove down the slightly curved road that Zac had been walking not a Hour before they came across a hole in the ground with several more officers around it. "Is this it? A hole in the ground? Zac wouldn't have fell down the- THAT'S HIS BAG!" she said worryingly The police officers had set up a diversion and blocked off that part of the road, so the officer stopped the car and got out, Kim followed. "Have you found him? Is he down there?" Kim demanded to know. "So far ma'am we have no signs of him, but his bag being here suggests that he fell here." The officer replied "Wait a moment. Zac would never be so blind as to fall down a obvious hole. Someone must have pushed him." Kim explained "Well if someone DID push him down there then we have a proble- Woah!" As the officer started to say 'Problem' a Owl flew down said hole and didn't come back up. "What in.. This could lead to somewhere ma'am we are going to have to bring in a rescue team and send someone down there." The officer explained and lit up the hole with a flashlight. "Seems quite deep." He said. "Well as long as you get Zac back im fine with it." She said through closed eyes. ************* "Oh there you are Owlicious!" Twilight said. (Cookies to anyone who gets that reference) "Who." The Owl sounded serious. "Is there a problem?" Zac asked. "Owlicious seems to have stayed at your world until just now apparently." She replied "Wait the portal is still open?!" I said worryingly. "Yes." *Sigh* "I can't close the portal. It stays open forever." She sadly said. "Twilight what have you done! My people will probably try to send someone down here to come get me!" Zac said She walked over to the portal and peered through it. "I can see something! It looks like a light.." She explained ******************** "Im going in" The Rescue operator said "Just be careful. We operated a scan earlier to see how deep the hole went and it was so deep that it was off the scale!" Another operator Replied. "We have ten thousand meters of cable here ma'am we, will find him." A officer explained. "Oh good. I hope he is okay.." Kim said. Almost sobbing. ******************** "Alot of my friends are away on a trip but i can show you the two that are here." Twilight explained "Alright then." Zac replied As the two walked out of the front door Zac got ALOT of stares from other ponies I guess they have never seen a human before.. Walking through the town Zac noticed a few things; there where no birds flying overhead although he did see something.. Blue fly over him however, it was too fast to examine. Alot of the houses are uniform, apart from the odd house that had a garden in it, and it seemed very cheerful, there where no shady characters that looked like they had committed a crime. Twilight and Zac finally approached what seemed to be a area that housed wildlife, with a small cottage siting in the middle of it. Wow it is kinda cool here, more cheerful than back home.. i guess i could get used to living here.. Well that is if the rescue team doesn't find me.. Twilight told Zac to stay a bit further back and out of sight. Twilight also told him that the pony he was about to meet was very shy. Zac was shy also but he had started to grow out of it. "Hey Fluttershy. You know I said to you yesterday that i was going to open a portal and experiment on the creatures there." Twilight began to say but Zac's thoughts cut him off Oh no they ARE going to experiment on me.. I had better get out of here! Zac began to run but his shirt had been caught on some wire mesh that caged in some rabbits. Damnit. "Zac? Zac you can come now!" Twilight called. Zac didn't reply Twilight started to walk to the corner where Zac was supposed to be hiding but he wasn't there.. "Oh no.." Twilight said. Zac had gotten free of the mesh and ran behind a hill so he could see Twilight but she couldn't see him. Damn mesh almost got me caught.. "Fluttershy! Zac must have heard me and thought the wrong thing! i'll get Rainbow Dash and Rarity. You search the area!" Twilight commanded. "Okay." Fluttershy replied. Twilight teleported to Rarity which gave her quite a shock "Wahaha! Twilight darling you mustn't do that! I could have ruined my latest design!" Rarity Fumed. "No time to talk Rarity! The creature that i bought through the portal has run away! We have to get him back! Do you know where Rainbow dash is?" Twilight said "I do believe she went to.. Umm. Oh! Yes! That's right, she went to her home to look for something!" Rarity replied. Twilight casted a spell that allowed her to walk on clouds and teleported to Rainbow Dash's House. She furiously knocked on the cloud-door. "Rainbow Dash! We have a problem!" Twilight screamed. Rainbow dash appeared through the floor next to her "What is it Twilight?" She sounded bored. "You know you didn't have to come through the floor? Whatever. The creature you captured ran away when i was talking to Fluttershy! I need you to search for him!" Twilight Explained "Sure. He put up a good fight but i know how to beat him this time!" She boasted, Then flew away. Twilight teleported to the ground and started to search for him as-well Damnit. That Pegasus is searching for me. Better retreat to the treeline. Zac was wearing a almost full-on ghillie suit that he had worn for school for a costume contest. The leaves and branches where in his bag so all he had for camouflage was his t-shirt and trousers. It worked effectively because he had reached the treeline and blended in perfectly! Hahah! They will never find me now! I need to get back to the library so i can get home! > The Rescue Team > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rescue operator - formally known as Jake, entered his dark decent into, what they thought was a hole so he had no fear as he got deeper and deeper.. Jake said through the radio "How deep did you say it was?" He asked. "About a mile deep, don't worry we have alot of wire here, you'll make it." a rescue operator responded. "You are almost at the bottom, Jake be careful if he fell down there and there is actually a bottom, he is probably already dead. But if he isn't you have to get him out of there, wherever that may be.." a feminine voice announced over the radio. "Wait there Jade, I think I see a light, standby." Jake said "Yeah there is definitely a bottom to this but I can't see him." Jake said. "Be careful, the mother is getting anxious, if he is alive we are going to zip-line a drink down." Jade said. "Okay but im meters away from that light that I said about.. Just a little more.. Okay Touchdo- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!" Jake was sucked into this 'Light' but it was actually the portal end that lead to Equestria. "Jade can you hear me? im in this.. Library. Im going to see if I can find him." Jake announced There was alot of static and all he could hear was 'Untie yourself.... We wont pull the wire.... Be careful' Jake understandingly replied "Alright." ********************** God damnit the whole town seems like they are looking for me.. Almost the whole town was after him. Twilight managed to convince most of the ponies to look for him and to tell her when or IF they did. Rainbow dash had flew DIRECTLY over Zac a few times but because he was wearing his partly-camouflaged-outfit it made him VERY hard to spot in the treeline. There it is; the library. All I have to do is stay out of sight and get to that portal. Zac was mulling over his plan when he saw something that almost made him gasp. ANOTHER human?? Oh no.. he will tell everyone about the ponies! and Twilight said that you couldn't close the portal! this is bad! Jake quickly saw the ponies and backed back into the library Oh thank god. PLEASE stay there! Now. How do I get from here to over there? it is impossible without sticking to high grass or some kind of heavy foliage. hmm. Rainbow Dash flew over him again but landed Directly Infront of him. Just don't move. Keep your head down. Un-aware of Zac's presence, she walked over to where he was hiding. "Hmm. Ah Hah!" she kicked a bush that was RIGHT next to him Please don't see me. Please! "Yeah I have you, come out." She said Its a trap just don't move. "Wow that always works with other ponies" She said. Zac thought about his situation for a moment. If I go home mum will never let me go out by myself ever again I bet. If I stay here I get to stay with nice ponies and a nice atmosphere.. Damn this is a hard choice. He decided to wait until Rainbow Dash had left to decide. "Well i guess he isn't here then" She said. Rainbow Dash quickly flew off and Zac sat up. That was a close one. I think I might stay here. He stood up and walked towards the hill that he hid from Twilight before-hand. Twilight decided to head back to the library to see if Zac had tried to escape through the portal. She walked through the door. Jake who was dumbstruck by seeing all the ponies outside decided to stay in the library and look for Zac inside. The only thing he found was a purple mare walking towards him. "Um.. Hello?" Twilight said. "Aah!" Jake was startled by the pony and ran behind a wall. Im seriously tripping out.. I better hide. "Im not going to hurt you.. Please don't be scared of me." Twilight persuaded "Are you real?" Jake asked the stupid question. "Uhh. Yes. I am real." Twilight responded. "Okay then.. I. Um. Where is the other human?" Jake asked "Oh, him.. He is hiding. I don't know why." Twilight answered. "O-Okay then. I think I'll stay here.." Jake said, trying to figure out whether this was a dream, hallucination or if this was actually real and he was talking to a pony. "Alright then. I'll look for him" Twilight said then left. *********************** I'll hide in this cottage I think that. Oh who was it? Oh yeah. Fluttershy, I hope she doesn't mind.. It's just until I think this through Zac ran to the building and looked behind him - Nobody was following. That Damned Pegasus is out to get me. He opened the door and looked inside. Nobody was home. He opened the door enough so he could fit through it and closed the door. The small bungalow was cosy and smelled of fresh air. Ornaments on the shelves reminded him of his nan's house, how she liked to collect small wooden animals, like the ones on Fluttershy's shelves. This is nice.. He approached the stairs. What is that tapping? He decided to be brave and silently climbed the stairs. "H-Hello? Anyone home?" Zac asked. The tapping Abruptly stopped. He walked into the first room - It was a bedroom Well I guess Fluttershy likes simple things.. The bedroom wasn't decorated or fancy lined or anything. it was just a bed with a table next to it a alarm clock, mirror, more ornaments and a window. What Zac didn't notice however was the cupboard that housed not only clothes but a sneaky mare too. As Zac walked into the second room - A bathroom he saw something on the shelf. It was another wooden rabbit. She REALLY likes wooden rabbits.. He decided to head back down the stairs. He was greeted by none other than MORE wooden rabbits. Damn. I didn't notice them before.. He sat down on a sofa. Yawned, then closed his eyes. Heh. As my granddad would say 'Im only checking my eyelids for holes' Heh. He quickly fell asleep. > The Decision > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fluttershy decided that it was alright to exit the cupboard after Zac had wandered through the house. After creeping out of the claustrophobic hiding place, she checked all the upstairs rooms without making a sound. Zac was downstairs sound asleep as Fluttershy crept down the stairs. "Eep!" Fluttershy shoved a hoof into her mouth to stop her from gasping anymore. Zac didn't hear the noise and was still asleep. Fluttershy made up her mind. She climbed the stairs and flew out the window searching for Twilight. "Oh! There you are Twilight!" Fluttershy said in her usual whisper. "Oh, hey Fluttershy. Did you find him?" Twilight asked. "Um. I," Fluttershy paused for a moment "Everything alright Fluttershy?" "Yes I'm ok and yes I did find him." "That’s great Fluttershy! Where is he?" Twilight asked. "I-In my cottage." "Oh… Well lets go get him..." "Okay..." As Twilight approached the same cottage that Zac was asleep in Fluttershy announced a fact; "He is asleep so be careful," Fluttershy announced. "I doubt he is harmful." Twilight reassured her. They opened the door and peered in. Zac wasn't sitting on the same sofa Fluttershy saw him on before. In fact, he wasn't even on the sofa! "Um. Fluttershy? Where is he?" Twilight asked. ***********(Back in time, Just after Fluttershy left)********** Haha! It worked! this is the perfect opportunity to get out of here! By tricking them into thinking that I like them, it gave me the perfect opportunity to get that Unicorn away from the library! Oh I am good... Zac got up and exited the house shortly after Fluttershy had flew off. Just in time too. Twilight and Fluttershy approached the house... "Um. Fluttershy? Where is he?" Twilight asked. Haha! They have no idea where I am! this is perfect! Twilight had called off the search because of Fluttershy and it was begging to get dark so everypony had wandered inside their houses. This is perfect... I'll just creep round the alleyways an- "Oof!" Zac gasped as the wind was knocked out of him. "Oh look I found you when I wasn't looking for you!" It was Rainbow Dash. That damned... Aaah! The Pegasus decided that it would be a good idea to lift Zac about six feet off of the ground. "Let go of me!" Zac demanded. "Not this time," Rainbow answered. As Rainbow Dash got higher, Zac realized something. He hated heights. Instead of trying to get out of the hold, he clung on to the hoofs that where holding him. "Don't you dare drop me!" Zac cried, fearful that the Pegasus wouldn't be able to hold him. He was wrong. Rainbow Dash had flew all the way back to the town square, right in front of the library. If I can escape, I would be able to get home! He was wrong. Twilight had given up searching the house and started to go back to the library, where Zac was being held up in the air by Rainbow Dash. "Oh look. Nice job Rainbow," Twilight said "Well you know... I’m just awesome!" Rainbow boasted. "Don't milk it, Dash," Twilight reminded. "Yeah yeah…" Rainbow said in a sarcastic tone. "Right, Rainbow, you can put him down now." Rainbow lowered her altitude and dropped Zac. Zac landed safely... But now was his chance! He could escape home! He decided that he would try the easy way out first. "Can I go home?" Zac asked. Twilight sighed. She knew it would come to this, just not as early as she had hoped. Twilight was at least going to study him. She didn't know why, but some kind of conscience told her to keep him. "No. You will stay here," Twilight commanded. In a final effort to escape, he picked up a rock, threw it towards Twilight and ran towards the library. It was a no-win situation. Either Twilight could use her telekinesis to stop the rock from hitting her or she could stop Zac and let the rock hit her and possibly disrupt the holding spell. She chose to stop the rock. Wrong move pony! Zac sprinted as fast as he could towards the library. He moved faster than he did before being captured. He sprinted as fast as his legs, his muscles, as fast as his heart could pump, as fast as his brain could control them. Rainbow Dash flew fast, but apparently not fast enough. Zac reached the library, opened the door and slammed it on Rainbow Dash's face "Why that little..." she murmured. Zac quickly found the rescue operator. "You! It’s time to go they are after me!!" Zac told Jake Jake lead Zac to the portal, clipped himself on to the line that was still there. He grabbed Zac and radioed in "Jade, I have him pull us up!" Jake practically screamed down the radio. All he got back was 'About damn time.........I’m reeling you up.... -on' The wire pulled quite quickly up and through the portal. Zac caught a glimpse of Twilight charging through the door attempting to stop him. It was too late. Zac was pulled into the portal and was pulled up to the surface quickly. *******(Epilogue)******* 4 days after the incident the portal was sealed with concrete, however the concrete was very thin. Zac had decided to not tell his family and friends about what went on down in the other world and Jake decided not to tell anyone too. Twilight is planning on getting Zac back into Equestria and keeping him there this time. Twilight also had sent a spell to follow him until a code-word was said. This spell was a curse, a VERY harsh curse. > Kidnapped2: Nightmare > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After escaping Equestria, Zac did some research. 'Pegasus Pony' his fingers danced across the keyboard, Zac could type very quickly, on allot of forums he visits his signature is usually 'Fingers dance across the keyboard' they did and allot of his buddies at school called him 'Jazz hands' because he could type so fast. Zac's room consisted of a LCD TV, a Xbox360, a bed, his computer and posters, allot of posters. Zac's headphones blasted out 'King nothing' by Metallica and all of his posters where Metallica themed. He had slightly curly hair that grew to just above the shoulders, he was six foot four, he thought to himself My teachers are tiny.. hehehe.. Google finally responded with his search query and came up with allot of mythical creatures. Some of which resembled Rainbow Dash but none of the pictures where picture-perfect so he expanded his search and searched 'pony' as usual Google was running slow due to the lightning storm outside. After loading the page ninety percent of pictures where of horses that he recognised but a couple of them where coloured pink and blue. he highlighted them and brought up some text from the website. it read; 'My little pony' So he dug deeper. he searched 'My little pony pegasus' the results didn't really surprise him. the ponies that came up on the search where plastic dolls of some sort. The lights flickered, Zac thought nothing of it because it was storming outside. He scrolled through the pictures and saw the exact same pegasus that he fought months ago. "Shit." he whispered to himself. The lights actually flickered harder, as if to scare him of this discovery but after playing and completing Amnesia: the dark decent he wasn't afraid of the dark. Stupid storms, slowing down the internet, trying to scare me.. He approached the window and looked outside it. It was almost pitch black outside apart from the occasional flash of lightning and street lights flickering outside. Trees where attempting to break off their bases from the wind. Apparently one actually did and flew At the window! "Shit shit shit" Zac fell backwards, startled from the tree flying at the window. he waited for the tree to hit the house.......... Nothing. Zac got up and looked outside. No tree. No broken fences. No damaged house. What the hell? Zac's parents where out for the night going to some stupid movie. Zac refused to go and was left by himself so he just played on the computer. He liked to have allot of the lights off because he was training himself to see in the dark, this lead to hallucinations when he was scared of something. Hallucinations like people standing still and staring at him or people outside of windows. He knew that these where fake and had gotten used to them and at times he actually spoke to them.. Of course they didn't reply because the where just a trick of the mind but he hoped he could have a conversation with it. Just to see what it knew. Zac looked outside the window again. After about five minutes of waiting he felt like something was watching him. Fucking hallucinations.. he manned up and turned around. It wasn't a matter of something watching him it was a matter of a Animal watching him. Huh. What is that I can't tell. He had to turn the hall lights on to see the creature (Remember, he likes the lights off) so he approached the switch and flicked it. The creature had vanished. Zac laughed. "Ohhhohohho! Ahahah! heheehehhe.. You had me there fake things. You had me there.." Zac was hysterical at his own failure. He went back into his room and sat down on his chair. As he turned to face the computer screen he heard a scraping at the window. "Bloody hell you don't let up!" Zac said to -- well nothing. He visibly jumped when he recognised what it was; "Oh shit. Here we go again." He knew that owl. Owlicious had appeared in hallucinations before but the was visibly making scratches on the window. "What the fuck. that isn't fake. That means.." Zac knew he was in trouble. He panicked. When Zac panics he grabs the nearest weapon and loads it. Zac had been collecting Airsoft guns for a while now so he had quite a stock. He grabbed the most powerful one he owned - a Kar98 spring model and loaded the clip. "If this shit is real then im in trouble" He approached the window and looked outside to a street lamp. there was a creature just outside of the light. It walked into the light ray. Shit. Shit. Shit. That DAMMED PEGASUS!! Zac pulled the bolt back, shoved the clip in, pushed the bolt forward and took the safety off. The owl had flew off so Zac un-locked the window and pushed it open, Took aim and fired at the pegasus. The noise of the wind and rain outside drowned out the sound of the shot but the wind wasn't strong enough to push the BB off course so it was on-target. Zac waited for the pegasus reel back in pain but it didn't. Zac reloaded and took aim again. The wind died down a little as if to help him, Zac took the shot. He heard a clatter of rain but no scream or pain on the pegasus's face. There was only one explanation to this problem. Fucking hell. The owl is real but that damned pegasus is fake. Zac sighed. Took the weapon back in, closed the window and pulled the blinds. His watch bleeped, signalling him that it was time to sleep. So Zac quickly headed downstairs where he was greeted by more darkness but no hallucinations. He grabbed a hand towel and dried the weapon... After putting the weapon away and turning electronics off he un-dressed and climbed into bed. He quickly fell asleep. Zac stirred from his sleep. He couldn't move at all, he pulled with all his strength to move his arm but his body didn't respond. He opened his eyes. And came face to face with Twilight Sparkle. He tried to speak. Nope. He tried to scream. Nope. He even tried to hit her or attack. Once again - nope. The pony spoke; "Hello there. I never introduced myself. I am Twilight Sparkle. Did you like my little terror show I put on for you? I have been watching you Zac. Yes I know your name." She giggled. "I loved how you tried to attack my hallucination. That was good. Now you probably want to know if i'm real or not. Well does this feel real?" She hit Zac in the face with her hoof. Zac couldn't even move his face. The only thing that he could move was his eyes. "Dawww. Don't feel bad. I'm only going to get you back to my world." She had turned twisted or something. This was torture to Zac, the ability to not fight back was agonizing. The pony hopped off of Zac and looked around the room. Fuck i know what this is. She must have woken me up from REM sleep. Sleep paralysis. Ah shit. A purple hue shined around him and he began his long journey out of his house and toward that same bend in the road. > Testing > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zac had apparently feinted from the stress of being captured by mythical beings that where supposed to be fake. As he awoke he noticed two things; One was that he was chained to a metal joint on a wall, two being that he was hungry, thirsty, scared and fatigued. As soon as Twilight came into the room he was going to ask for water the reason being is that you can go for weeks without food but only days without water. As he started to think about escaping he realized the obvious; He was chained to a god damned wall! A couple of curtains opened slightly to let light into the room and he noticed Twilight was in the room. "Hello Zac" She said nonchalantly like being a test subject was no big deal. Zac could make out features in the room now; the ceiling was quite big, there was only one armchair of some sorts and the room was very dull like it hadn't been used in years. Zac was too tired to make out any more features so he answered Twilight: "Um.. Hi?" he said. "Good. You are awake, so let me explain a few things to you: You WILL be kept down here if you behave badly. However if you co-operate with me I will let you see the light of day, I might even let you out into ponyville." "Um.. Not to be demanding or anything but I need some water.." Zac had lost all the will to sound hard and nonchalant so he practally begged. "Well that depends if you co-operate with my first task for you." Great. It's going to be a game of do whatever I say and you get food. Zac made up his mind. "Fine. What do I have to do?" Zac asked. "First things first. What is your culture like?" Zac sighed "The people I go to school with-" Zac continued but something seriously bugged Twilight about that sentence. He is still in school!? This will be interesting.. Twilight had to stop Zac to ask him how old he was. "-And if you are different they bully you, but I have gotten used to it.." Zac continued. "Wait. Zac. You said you where still in school, how old are you?" Twilight asked. "Im Fourteen." Twilight had to take measurements. A fourteen year old 'Human' couldn't possibly be this tall "Stand up please" Zac stood up but a shackle tugged on his arm, preventing him from standing up properly. "Oh sorry about those, here let me un-lock them." Twilight used her horn to un-do the shackle and Zac stood to his full height. "I think you will find that I am six foot four- Wait. What do you measure in?" Zac asked Twilight. "Uh. We measure in feet, dont worry we are using the imponial system but someone suggested a new one called Pretric." Zac explained to Twilight that humans used to use the 'Imperial' system and now they use Metric. "Yes that is exactly what is happening." Twilight stared at the wall for a moment, lost in thought. Zac waved a hand infront of her face to snap her out of it. "Oh sorry. Here let me just measure you.." Twilight brought up some measuring tape and held it up against Zac. "Six foot four. Hey you where right!" "Um Twilight.. Why did you punch me?" Zac asked "Um.. I didn't?" "Yes you did. Before you took me back here" Zac sat down on the floor. "I woke you as you where exiting a certain type of sleep you call it R.E.M?" "Yes, R.E.M Sleep, it causes sleep paralysis and that causes hallu-" Zac was interrupted by Twilight "Hallucinations. Yes I know, and it also causes audio hallucinations, and that's what caused the sound of me hitting you. I would never hurt anypony!" "You mean anybody?" "No, anyPONY" "Whatever. You said you would do tests on me. So. What next?" "Well.. What's your family like?" "They are kind, and probably the most kind people ever." "Alright, the time is five o' clock, set your timer to that." "Fine, Fine so can I have some food and water?" "Sure, let me get you some" Zac immediately yanked on the chains that held his leg, the cracks in the wall shattered and the chain came loose hahaha! Idiot. Zac hid in a pitch black spot in the room and waited, Amnesia taught him a lot. "Okay Zac I got some wat- Oh bucking hay! Where has he gone now!" Twilight swiftly exited the room, looking for Zac." Big mistake, Zac emerged from his pitch-black hiding spot and rushed to the balcony, still dragging the chain behind him. Damn pegasus tryin' to hunt me down.. The infamous Rainbow Dash flew right at the balcony, Right At Zac Zac ducked and held his head and waited for the everlasting crash and smack that would happen after Rainbow Dash hit him. He looked up -- Nothing. No Rainbow Dash, no tackling The fuck? where did she go Zac decided to hide in the basement again to clarify that he never left -- so he actually got food and water. Twilight had decided to re-enter the cellar to see if Zac had returned and saw that he was laying up against a wall with the chain still on his ankle "I broke your chain.. Sorry." Zac apologised Twilight audibly sighed. "That's OK Zac.." "I don't like being chained up, that's all." "It's alright, I'll leave you for a moment.." Twilight left the room with a salad and a glass of water. Zac got up and grabbed the water, took a mouthful and swallowed it, savouring the taste. Pretty damn good. Zac leaned back against the wall again looking out of a small window that was just below the ceiling, there was ponies everywhere just mulling about, minding their own business. Zac closed his eyes and fell asleep. > Obey > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zac awoke in the middle of the night to find the shackle that was on his ankle wasn't there any more. So he got up and stretched. Does this mean I can wander around the house-tree thing? He went to the door and twisted the handle -- it was locked. Damnit.. What about the window? Zac pushed on the window's hinges and ditto. I guess not then. Zac looked around the room some more and found that he was in the same clothes he was in when he was captured, he reached into his pocket and found a cut off knife with bandages around it and several small metal pins of sort (somthing like this minus the lock) so he held them up to the light and noticed that it was his lockpicking kit, Zac liked to practice lockpicking on his window. You never know when it will come in handy. He crouched down and shined the moonlight on the stainless steel knife, and shined it into the lock. Zac located the tumblers and pushed the thin metal pin in the lock, pushing them up and turning the lock to unlock it. Bingo. Zac pushed open the door and walked into a massive collection of books. This was obviously the main library area thing. Zac walked to the main door and pushed it open. The cool air hit him right on the face. Ahh~ that's nice The room where he was put in was stuffy and hot, so the cool air was excellent on his face. He shoved his lockpicks into his pocket and zipped the pocket up. Might go for a jog. So he did. **********ONE MONTH AGO*********** "Come on Zac! This is the hardest course I can put together. You have to try!" Richard shouted. "I know! It just looks daunting." Zac shouted back, and for good reason. They where 50 Meters up on a free running arena. Zac started to run along the mock-up rooftops vaulting over ventilation shafts and jumping over chain-link fences (think mirrors edge style) He came to his first roof to roof jump, he leaped and landed doing a roll in the process and saw that he had fell a good 10 meters and survived. "Very nicely done Zac. That's enough for today." Richard said. "Thanks Rich' I'll see you next Saturday" Zac handed Richard £15 "Yup, see you later" "Seeyah" *********Present Day********** Zac looked up at the night sky. It was a clear night and had tonnes of stars out. So he decided to get a better look. He walked over to the nearest house and looked at the wall; A lot of cracks and holes, yeah I can climb this Zac sprinted at the wall, pushing himself up and grabbing a railing on the roof. He grabbed on with his other hand and pulled himself up. That was a lot easier than expected. Zac had been loosing weight the moment he started training and had gotten a bunch stronger. Zac sat down on the thatched roof and started to stargaze. I must be in another universe, im not recognising any constellations at all.. Zac stared for a good two hours and then sat up. He felt that something was watching him. From somewhere. Where are you. Zac started to look around frantically -- Paranoid. He decided to get up and move. He ran and jumped to another rooftop, and another and another. Zac enjoyed the wind in his hair. So he sprinted across the rooftops and practising rolls by jumping off and climbing up again. Climbing would be a lot easier with that hook-blade from assassins creed Zac climbed, jumped and rolled for another hour and looked at his watch -- 7:30 AM Shit I have been out here for ages. Twilight might be awake. Zac sprinted back to the library and sneaked back into his room and used his lockpicking kit to close and lock the door again. (yes you can do that. i have done it) ***Scene change: Twilight's Point Of View (aka POV) One hour ago*** Twilight yawned. It was another restful night and she was ready for more tests on Zac, but first -- Coffee. She lazily jumped out of bed and rubbed her eyes, opened her door and headed down to the kitchen. (it's about 6:45 at the moment) and started to make the coffee, ** Two mins later ** She sipped the coffee and sighed. Zac would probably try to escape again. So she had locked the door and told Rainbow Dash to keep a lookout. This coffee is great. I need to get some of that 'Whiskey' Applejack said she made. I have no clue what whiskey is but im willing to try anything once. I could give it to Zac first.. Whatever, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. She hopped back upstairs and started to read a book. (It's about 7:00 AM at the moment) She heard a series of dull slaps like somepony was jumping off of a roof and landing. She paid no attention to it as she was in her happy place at the moment -- Books. She didn't know the current time without using her magic and she was being lazy today as it was Saturday. So she got up and decided to go and see if she could get some of that whiskey. (Currently 7:45) "Zac are you in there?" She called out into Zac's room from outside her door. "Yep, still here.. Can I have breakfast? My stomach is rumblin' a lot" Zac asked. "Sure, I'm going to get some food and drink and you can have some, be right back" **Half a Hour later** "Im back Zac. Hah that rhymed." Twilight said. She went to unlock the door with her magic but it was already unlocked, so she looked around the room frantically. ***Zac's POV*** Twilight entered the room looking frantic as she looked around the room. Zac was just above the door -- hanging onto the door frame and a crack in the wall. He tried not to giggle as Twilight fell for his not-so-obvious trap. She was just about to exit the room when Zac jumped on her back -- Riding her. "GET OFF OF ME!" She screamed. Her horn lit up and it shot something at Zac. The only thing he could say before it hit was "NO, NO, NO!" Blam. Out cold. Note. Every day im rumblin' just kidding. Happy new year everybod-pony! (well apart from you china people who celebrate it at a wierd time :L) > Spell? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zac awoke with a terrible headache. Damn what happened? Wait. Where the fuck am I? Wait. Who am I? Zac had lost all of his memory. The only thing that remained was that he is a human, he is a male, and how to speak English. He got up and wandered around the room he was in. It was dimly lit and there was only one window. Zac had lost all his personality and his family. If Twilight knows this he may never return to his homeland. Zac tried to open the door but it was locked. Zac looked out the window and saw these thing, he didn't know what they where and he didn't want to find out personally but he may have to. He felt in his pockets. He got out a cut off knife and several metal pins. He had no idea what they where for so he put them back in his pocket. **One hour later** Zac heard the door unlock. He was ready for anything. One of those creatures that he saw outside entered. It Spoke "You will never leave this room again. EVER." The thing seemed angry. So Zac decided to try to calm it down. "What happened? I didn't do anything. Please don't be angry at me.." "What are you talking about? You JUMPED on me and -- And.. UUGH Disgusting!" "I didn't do anything though.." "YES YOU DID! DON'T PLAY DUMB WITH ME" It's hair was practicably on fire "YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE THIS PLACE! EVER!" the thing continued to scream about never leaving and jumping on it. It left a bottle of liquid and some kind of food. Zac approached the food and bottle. Picked it up and backed away from the window and door. He Took the cork out of the bottle and took a sip. The liquid burned his mouth in a pleasurable way so he put the cork back on and decided to save it. Zac picked up the food and took a bite out of it. It didn't really have any taste, so he thought about it for a moment. He took a sip out of the bottle and took a bite out of the food. It tasted the same as the liquid did. "Hmm." He wondered. What had he done to make the.. Thing angry? He would have to ask later. For now however surviving was his #1 Priority. And that means getting out of this room. His pocket could only contain one of the two items given to him, so he eat the food and pocketed the drink. He reached into his pocket and grabbed the tools that where in there, and looked at the door. The metallic item couldn't open the door by breaking it so he looked at the hole under the door. It was almost sunset and the sun shined right into the room and shined on the hole, he put the long metallic knife thing into the hole and fiddled with it for a while until he noticed that the sun reflected off of the knife. A new discovery. He directed the sun ray into the lock and looked in it. There where 3 metal bits poking out of the top so he grabbed the smaller metal pin and pushed all 3 of them up. he then felt the lock turn so he pushed the bigger metal pin into the bottom of the lock shape and turned the lock clockwise. Bingo. He opened the door and came face to face with two things. The first one spoke "Hey! Get yer backside back in 'dat room! 'Ah said NOW!" Zac didn't know if these things where hostile but he saw the open front door and bolted. Sprinting out of the door and looking to his left. He saw a house with a lot of cracks in the bricks. So he attempted to climb it. He had a major headache and remembered how to climb and roll and vault -- All of his Free-running training. So he sprinted at the wall and grabbed a railing and pulled himself up, He turned around to see the first pony get some rope. Zac wasted no time so he sprinted and jumped across the rooftops and sprinted to the forest he saw ahead. Jumping from rooftop to rooftop he saw a Flying Thing start flying after him. So he jumped off of the buildings and rolled to soften his landing and sprinted through the alleyways to confuse the things after him. The forest was twenty steps away. He ran faster. He made it to the treeline and continued in further. He stopped and turned around. He saw a group of the things including the flying one stop at the treeline. He knew that this because he was there was danger. He may have no memories but he wasn't stupid. So he continued into the forest but carefully -- as to not attract attention. He approached a cave. This was the only shelter for probably miles so he took his chance, and walked in. It was a rough and cold night. He had no clue how to survive in the wilderness so he would set out for some kind of other village in hopes of starting a new life there. Away from those crazy things.. ******** He awoke to a sunny day. He backtracked and found a road leading to a mountain and saw a massive city built on the side of it. That was his destination. If he could find out who was in charge he could possibly get back to where he came from, because he knew he wasn't from this land, that should be obvious. Everyone is different from Zac! He Decided to stay off of the road, it would be obvious so he stayed to the foliage to the side of the road. Out of sight -- Out of mind. He had to get food and water as well. This journey would take days. He might have to steal. He sighed and set out to get to the capital. > Kidnapped3: Nomad > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zac had been travelling for five hours now and it was almost sunset. He had several headaches and flashbacks on his journey. He remembers nothing about Earth or his family but he does remember everything he learnt in science and other lessons. So he knows what to eat and what not to eat. He also knows about lockpicking because he practised it so much. As he walked up a hill he saw a pony pulling a carriage with a lot of locked chests and some pouches. Zac planned his assault on the carriage. If he was seen it would be over. If anyone else caught him it would be over. The pony was walking quite slowly and there was nobody else other than him. Zac looked over the hill without being seen. There was nobody. So he let the carriage pass him then he crept up behind it and grabbed some pouches. There was a little chest that was locked too so he grabbed that. As soon as he got what he wanted he quietly sneaked back into the foliage and got in a little dip. He put down everything else and looked at the chest. There was only one tumbler so he grabbed his lockpicking items and started to mess around. A small click was heard. Bingo The chest opened. It contained a pouch of gold coins. Double bingo. He opened the pouches more gold coins. Fuck no food. This guy must have been a trader of some sort. Zac looked at the small chest again. He did a double take. There was a small lever to the side of it. He pushed it down and saw that there was a secret compartment. He pulled out a leather.. Belt? It had several strap-like buttons on it, he made the connection. These are for holding pouches. Nice. Zac fitted the belt onto his trousers. Perfect fit. He then noticed there was a bigger strap made for a weapon of some sort. Possibly a dagger. He quickly attached the money pouches and dumped the chest. He ran back to where he saw the carriage last. The pony had stopped to eat. Zac saw a dagger on his carriage he knew this would be dangerous and risky. He crossed the cobblestone road and hid in the foliage and crept closer until he could grab the dagger. The pony had set up a fire so this illuminated him a lot more making it harder to grab the dagger. Zac waited for five minutes until the pony had to answer to the call of nature then he grabbed the dagger and a bottle of water and ran towards his destination: Canterlot. Zac read the signpost. He followed the road and stayed out of sight. He was getting tired so he found a ditch and covered his legs with grass so he wouldn't be seen. And he closed his eyes. **** Zac woke up to find that all his belongings where still there and he wasn't injured. All of which where good things. He grabbed the bottle of water off of his belt and took a mouthful. The water was fresh and was tasty. Zac was carrying a bottle of whiskey and decided that he didn't need it. so he un-clipped it from his belt and left it with the chest. ***Three hours of un-eventful walking later*** Zac climbed a hill and heard clops so he ran further into the foliage and got onto his stomach. A Heavily decorated carriage with what seemed to be guards in gold armour passed by. There were no risks with this one, if Zac even tried he would get arrested. So he let them pass and continued on his way. He had a major face-palm moment. If they where guards than there could be royalty in that carriage. This could be a problem. So he followed the carriage until he heard something that he didn't ever want to hear. "Stop, in the name of the Royal guard! Who goes there?" A guard shouted in Zac's general direction. Zac didn't answer instead he got down on his stomach and hid. "This is your last chance. Come out or we will have to take action!" The guard sounded like he knew where Zac was but he shouted AWAY from Zac this time. "I warned you!" The guard jumped off of the carriage and ran towards Zac's general direction passing near him a few times but never actually seeing him. He heard a soothing voice come from the carriage. "General Stormheart. What is all this about? I never saw anypony." Zac didn't know who this was. "Princess Celestia I saw a creature lurking about this foliage and now he is gone. He could be a assassi-" General Stormheart was cut off by 'Princess Celestia' "Don't be so ridiculous I would have seen the creature if there was one. And besides it was probably a rabbit." Zac saw another guard snicker Inaudibly. The general returned to the carriage and Zac saw the princess wink at him. Thank you ma'am! Zac crawled away until the carriage couldn't be seen then he got up and continued to head towards Canterlot. ***Ten hours later*** Zac was getting tired again. He decided it would be a good idea to count up the gold coins in case he had to buy anything from the ponies that where willing to sell him stuff once he got to Canterlot and discussed topics with the people in charge. There where princesses but what about kings and queens? they are the top dogs -- well usually. Zac found a steep dip that was dangerously close to the road but was in high grass. so he pulled some of it up and covered himself in it short of his head. The last time he did that he was sneezing like mad for practicably the whole day. Hay-fever that puts me at a dis-advantage.. > Journey to the centre of the capital > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zac woke up. He noticed the days where getting shorter. This was bad. If the days where getting shorter then he had to find a place to stay or he would freeze to death in the winter, he was taking a major risk already. He sat there for about 10 minutes counting gold coins, Two hundred and forty four. Damn that's a lot He got up and noticed he hadn't eaten for days. This was also bad, if the situation called for it he would have happily stolen from more carriages but as he started towards Canterlot he saw the same golden carriage come over the hill behind him. Zac didn't expect anyone to be travelling this early as the sun was barely up but the royal guards have definitely seen him. He bolted into foliage and hid behind a tree in a dip. Guards chased after him (not knowing what species Zac is) But lost track of him after a while. He swear that 'Princess Celestia' Called the guards off again. Even though he was too far away to hear it. ***Ten hours of MORE travel later*** Zac was getting hungry. He had seen no carriages at all today. He passed by a small shop selling salads and bread (as well other foods along those lines) This was the most risky move he had pulled. Zac never knew if he was wanted or if there was a bounty on his head, Zac also didn't know how the law system worked, if the guards caught you would they kill you on the spot? Would you have a trial? Or would you rot in a dungeon for the rest of the month.. Well there is nobody else around just the store owner.. What the hell, risks are all I have been taking lets do this. Zac nonchalantly walked up to the store and asked if he could buy a take-away salad and some bottled water (if they even do that) The store owner actually complied until he saw Zac's species and height. The store owner backed away from the counter after putting the food and water on the desk. "Okay then, How many coins will that be?" Zac asked the store owner nonchalantly "T-Twelve Bits.." The poor guy was terrified. Zac got out 12 bits from his pouch and put them on the desk. He then grabbed the water and attached it to his belt whilst grabbing the bread and eating it as he left "Cheers mate." Zac didn't see any wanted signs as he passed through the outskirts of Canterlot. This was a very good sign, ahead he saw a castle and massive gates. This was going to be more of a problem than he had expected, there was no way that these guards where going to let him in considering how 'General Stormheart' reacted to him. So he planned his route through the castle garden from a rooftop. It was still early in the morning so there was barely any ponies about so this would be a easy stroll as long as he wasn't seen by the guard. *** This was a problem. The wall he had planned to scale only had cracks big enough for some kind of hook. Fingers wouldn't cut it. He had found a abandoned smithy of sorts, and some steel ingots laying around, Zac saw that there was a hook on his belt for a sword as well, it wasn't a full sheathe but it would do, after re-igniting the furnace and melting a couple of steel ingots he poured the mix into a cutlass mould, a slightly curved sword with a sharp edge. He poured a bucket full of water over the steel and it cooled down, Zac then grabbed it with tongs and put it in the furnace and waited until it was red-hot. Zac then took the sword to the anvil and got a hammer and hammered it into a flat and slightly curved shape. He then used a stone grinder to sharpen it. Done! That wasn't so hard, luckily I remember DT lessons Zac wandered around for a bit and located a design for a bracer that had a dagger that came out of it the designs where named by a pony called -- oh wait he couldn't read their written language.. It ended in da Vinci though.. below the blueprints was a locked chest. Out came the lockpicks. Your locksmithing is no match for me! Muahaha! Click biingo! He opened it to find exactly what he was looking for. Bracers. It looked something like this He put them on and as he was putting on the second one a metal hook appeared out of the first. Zac practised pushing the hook out and back in and caught on with ease. The second bracer had a blade coming out of it obviously for sneak attacks but Zac would NEVER attack someone without a good reason. The bracers alone looked suspicious so he needed some more armour to fit him. He located a back room and saw something disturbing. It was sketches of humans especially ones that looked like Zac and there was a note with a key on it and a chest to the right of the note. Zac read the note in his head. If you are the one to find this human congratulations. You have been taken to Equestria by Twilight Sparkle and if the human that reads this is that very same human then you shall know that the locked chest contains a hooferman hookblade and in the bigger chest contains the finest armour I can craft in my experience. When you read this I shall have passed away but take my offering in grace. Take the armour. Do what you have to do. It wasn't signed. Zac took the key and unlocked the chest and it contained armour that was tough but light. (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH ASSASSINS CREED ARMOUR BECAUSE IT AIN'T THAT.) The armour was made to be on top of already worn clothes. He put on the full set. The plate-body was covering his entire chest as well as the shoulders, part of the arms, lower chest and stomach. The leg armour covered his private area, His feet, shins, knees as well as upper legs. There was no helmet. Zac looked outside, there was nobody around in this part of the city but there soon would be so he had to hurry up and get over that wall. > Appointment with royalty > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zac sized up the wall it was big -- just about four times his height. After planning his route he ran up and reached for the first crack with his right hand, he couldn't reach it but at that very moment a hook came out of his bracer and latched on to the crack in the wall. Zac used this to his advantage as he pulled on this crack and almost jumped for the next crack in the wall. He grabbed it and started to climb normally. He reached the top and looked over the wall. It was a massive garden with a balcony looking out to it. Peering down a little Zac saw a lone guard watching this portion of the garden. He would have to either knock him out or kill him. Zac didn't know how to knock someone out by hitting their head but heard of it, he wasn't going to take the risk. He climbed over the wall and got just above the guard. Zac turned slightly as he jumped off of the wall and onto the guard -- Riding him. Before the guard could scream out for help Zac grabbed his mouth and covered it, then he put his arm around the guard's neck and pulled as hard as he could. The guard was knocked out in seconds. He made his way across the garden. It was mostly composed with white tulips so his armour reflected white to blend in. He made his way to the balcony and jumped, grabbing the edge of the balcony with his hookblade and pulled himself up and over the concrete fence of sorts. Zac found himself in a bedroom. It was dark and there was nobody in it, the walls where covered with a wallpaper that symbolised constellations and stars. Zac pulled curtains behind him so anyone entering wouldn't see the knocked out guard. He had to make it to the king or queen before the alarm was raised so he could find out if that unicorn was a bandit of some sorts. He heard the southern pony talking about the princess and that the unicorn should send a letter to her, the princess obviously never got the letter because she had saved him from the general. After unlocking the door and peering outside he noticed that there was a main hall where the king or queen would sit. Zac ran out of the room towards the main hall and noticed that it was vacant so he waited behind a table in the corner of the room until royalty entered. **One hour later** Wal-Clopping was heard in the corridor outside the main hall and the same princess that had winked at Zac entered the room alone. This is my chance! Before Zac could move the princess spoke "Reveal yourself, I can sense your presence." Alright then. Zac moved out from under the table and walked towards the princess, making sure his blades where hidden. "I have to congratulate you on managing to get this far. I wouldn't have expected a boy of your age with amnesia to learn so quickly. However this is as far as you will go. You have knocked out one of my guards in the garden is that correct?" "Yes. I did." "Well then. The guards won't be happy with you. Especially General Stormheart. You have twenty seconds boy." "Excuse me?" "Ten seconds" She is letting me go. Shit I have to run Zac used his dagger to shatter a window and his hookblade to grab onto the cracks in the brickwork. He started to climb down. Zac landed on grass and turned to see a unicorn guard with a sword in its telekinesis bubble. "This is as far as you go. General Stormheart has sent me to kill you. What are your last words?" The guard sounded like he meant business. "I don't want to fight you. Just put down the sword and we can both leave without wounds today." "That isn't your choice." The guard swung. It hit his chest but the plate armour protected him, not a scratch was seen. "Your loss." Zac pulled out his sword and duelled the guard for a while. Using his hidden blade on his left wrist to counter his attacks. After about five minutes of duelling the guard Zac successfully broke through his armour and sliced his side. The guard screamed in pain. "Yield. Or die." Zac asked. The guard said nothing and swung at his left side. Zac blocked the sword with his hidden blade and used his sword to slice the guard's knees -- Preventing him from following Zac. The guard dropped his sword knowing that it was over. But instead of killing the guard Zac walked by him. Leaving him to bleed. "You should be grateful that I spared you." "You should finish me. I will only kill you whilst your back is turned." "Don't make me slice your back legs." Zac Wandered over to the wall and saw that there was a rope connecting a massive statue to the floor. The good thing that it would let him decent and cover his tracks. The bad thing is that it lead into town. He is already wanted so he would have to escape and travel quite far. He latched onto the rope and glided down onto a roof. Guards where running to the gates to chase him but it was too late. Zac had escaped the perimeter of the wall and ran across the rooftops out of Canterlot. *******Three days of thieving out of carriages and travelling later******* Zac had stock up on water and food to cross a desert but the desert was guarded by -- well guards. And there was wanted posters all over for him. The bounty was 4,500 'Bits' This was the official name for the currency they used. Zac had planned to travel to a town out past the desert he saw on the map. But the boarder was guarded. There was no way to get across there without a distraction or fight. Change of plans. I have to find a hospitable village that doesn't have guards wanting to kill me. I could head back to where I started out but that crazy unicorn wanted to keep me locked up. There is no place I know of that has no guards other than that town. Zac checked his map that he stole from a trader. Ponyville. Its a good two days from here. I hope there will be a good supply of traders to rob. Zac still had his original four pouches full of bits so he would be good if he needed to buy things. > Twilight's search for Zac > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *****Just before Zac confronted Celestia***** "-Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle. Alright Spike, send it. We have to get that message to the princess before Zac causes any more trouble! Who knows where he could be!" "He could be anywhere? How are we going to find him?" Twilight gave Spike that look that people give you when you ask a stupid question. "We are going to ask Rainbow Dash to find him." "Why Rainbow? She barely found him the first time he attempted to escape." "Because she has friends in Cloudsdale. If she could set up a search party then we could search the whole of Equestria in only days." "Fine, But what are we going to do?" "Send a locator spell attached to a scroll." "Oh. I would have never thought of that.. Let me get a scroll.. Wait. That was our last one and the shops are closed for today!" Twilight rushed to her footlocker up the stairs but there where no scrolls left. Twilight would have to rely on Zac opening the scroll anyway and he probably wouldn't. *Half a Hour later* Rainbow Dash was lazing on a cloud near to the Everfree forest. After practising several new moves she was dead beat. In fact she was asleep and snoring. Twilight shared no sympathy as she floated her hot-air-balloon up to the side of the cloud and shook her awake. "Whu? The Wonderbolts? WHERE?" Rainbow Dash came to her senses. "Twilight, I have told you soo many times before to NOT, WAKE, ME, UP!" Frankly, Twilight didn't care. "Rainbow this isn't the time to be arguing. We have to find Zac.. Yes I brought him back." A loud bang was heard and Twilight turned to see the windows on the lower level of the library get blown out. Ponies from around that area where fleeing because of whatever happened inside. Twilight sent Rainbow to see what had happened. Rainbow flew towards the library as Twilight used her magic to lower the balloon. Twilight rushed to the library and saw her friend on the ground. Not moving at all. (Dun dun DUUUUUUUUUUUN) **********Present time 2 days after last chapter************ Zac crouched down on a rooftop looking at a library. The windows on the lower level where shattered. He had noticed that the whole town was abandoned. It was like a ghost town. Zac hopped down off of the roof, rolled and approached the library. He saw six ponies laying on the ground. These ponies where all differently coloured. One was orange. One was blue. One was purple. One was pink. One was yellow. And finally one was white. Zac only recognised the purple one. The one who attempted to lock him up. What happened to you guys? He checked for blood. There was none. Zac didn't know anything about medical but he held his index and middle finger to her neck. There was a very feint pulse. Twilight was alive. Zac checked the rest. They where also alive but very feint. Zac didn't know why but he decided to flick the horn of the white one. She stirred. "Wh- What happened? Twilight? Applejack? Are you alri- AAaaaaahhh! Wh- What are you?" "Um.. Did Twilight ever tell you about her capturing me again?" "Well she DID ask me to find you the first time.. But. It seems that the tides have been turned.. There where others that came through the portal. That's what Twilight told me anyway.." Shit. Someone must have scared these guys so much they where knocked out.. "Um.. What was your name again?" "Rarity. Pleased to meet you, finally." "Wait. What's that on your neck?" Zac pulled a little syringe out of her neck. It had a black residue on it. "Oh dear. I remember now. These people where coming through the portal and they shot at us with these.. They must have been a tranquilliser.." Zac cursed under his breath. They must have sent in special forces to look for me. Zac checked the other ponies, they all had the same mini syringe on their necks. Zac removed all of them and waited for them to wake up. ***Forty five minutes later*** Twilight was the last to wake up. She slowly opened her eyes and coughed. She was asleep for at least more than twenty four hours as it was light outside. She saw her friends and went to say that she was fine, then Twilight saw Zac. "What are you doing here?" Twilight scolded. "Well if I hadn't come along you guys would probably be asleep still. That syringe on your neck was injecting you with a tranquilliser and you would be out for at least a week." Twilight blushed heavily, her cheeks turning a deep crimson Twilight wasn't a bad pony. She had manners, so the rage Twilight felt inside her urging her to lock him up and study there where suppressed. "I'm sorry.." "For what? All you did is blame me for something I didn't do and then locked me up." "That's why I'm sorry. I must have given you amnesia." "You have gotta' be fucking kidding." Twilight felt anger rise again as he used that sort of language towards her, but as she became aware that the Zac before this one was less... Rude. So it was fair game that he hadn't learned manners in the social way. "Well I'm not. You are welcome to stay with me if you wish but what about those special forces?" "They would only search the area, probably because Equestria is a massive place. Any special forces operative wouldn't have stayed here." "Alright then.." The hours flew by as Zac slept on a couch. Twilight offered to have Zac sleep in her bed but Zac knew well enough that you didn't sleep with the opposite gender in a bed in case Something happened. > Kidnapped4: Location for rescue. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight actually felt sorry for Zac, he had been through a lot. At first she told Rainbow to kidnap him out of his own world. Then she let him escape by holding a rock instead of him. Then she made him Hallucinate an she still never said the codeword to remove the spell. "Twilight, I'm having some trouble actually getting into my room." Zac shouted down the stairs. "Oh, okay I'll be up in a second!" Twilight replied. She got up off of the couch and put down a spell book. Then she climbed the stairs and approached a door to her room that she was sharing with Zac, he had also forgotten he was sharing it and said 'my' room instead of our. "I meant our room" Zac apologised. "That's ok Zac." Twilight's horn glowed as she un-locked the door. Zac walked in and looked at the double bed in the middle-left of the room. It was dark and stormy outside and his watch read 9:53 PM. Zac instantly turned around to tell Twilight that he wasn't going to sleep in the same bed as her (he thought that there where 2 beds) but Twilight caught him with her magic and forced him further into the room. "Twilight please, I'm fine on my own, you told me that there where separate beds." "That's what I told you, that doesn't mean that it is true." Twilight locked the door behind her with magic and Zac started to panic. I REALLY don't want to do this.. Damn it to hell! Twilight got out a book from a shelf next to the bed and got into the bed, covering herself with the duvet. Zac stood his ground. "Zac if you don't get in willingly I'm going to have to use magic." Zac sighed. He never wanted to sleep with a pony, that doesn't mean that anything drastic will happen but it might considering Twilight had expressed certain feelings for Zac. These weren't exactly the loving type but where close to actually being something. Zac decided that he was going to do it willingly, because the tingling feeling he gets when Twilight uses telekinesis is awful. Zac began to strip off his clothes but left his under-ware and socks on. at least I'm decent.. Hours into the night and Zac started to have a nightmare. This consisted of Twilight brutally crushing his bones with enhanced telekinesis from a book called The wizards guide to enhanced aggressive telekinesis. Zac was in terrible pain. The dream was actually causing him physical pain. His left femur snapped with ease as Twilight brutally pulled him to pieces. Then after she broke his elbow he woke up. Zac looked to his left, Twilight was sleeping like a baby with a book in her hooves. This book was called.. Zac actually recoiled. The wizards guide to enhanced aggressive telekinesis!! Oh shit. Oh shit. OH SHIT. Zac grabbed the edge of the sheets and pulled them off of him. He grabbed his clothes and with mild stealth, put them on and opened the window. He saw a black humanoid figure walking through the streets and it looked like he had a rifle of sorts in his hands. Zac had his clothes on by now and Twilight had woken up! Zac knew it was too high to jump off so he grabbed a branch that was hanging above him and hung off of it. It bent down and provided him a safe distance to let go. So he did. He ran up to the humanoid figure that hadn't seen him yet. "Who are you?" The black figure shouted at him as he saw him. "Zac, who are you?" Zac replied. "I am a special unit sent in to look for you Zac, I'm here to take you home." "What? I'm sorry but what are you talking about? What home?" "My god. Zac you have amnesia. Don't worry. I need to get you to a hospital as soon as possible so the doctors can re-generate your brain." "Um.. What year is it on my 'home' planet?" "2356" "You what? That is impossible.. I remember things from my past but I don't remember it being that long." "Zac. This will be a big leap for you. You where lost in 2011, In this place Months are decades on Earth." "Wh- I.. Don't even.." Zac saw a purple hue appear around the black operator. He appeared to be choking. "Hey! Are you okay? Can you-" Zac realised the obvious "TWILIGHT LET HIM GO!!" Zac screamed at her. He saw her through the window. Twilight let him go but focused on Zac instead. Zac screamed in pain as his left femur broke and was ripped off of his body. The pain was un-bearable, you couldn't describe it. Twilight held him up-side down and brought him to the window. She had a crazed smile on her face. After that, Zac blacked out. Zac woke up, apparently still in the bed with his left leg intact. He had a false-awakening. These where very cruel. He looked at his watch. It was 9:30 AM so he decided to get up and see if he could have some breakfast. Zac wandered down stairs and saw that spike-the-dragon was awake and muling about getting coffee for himself. "'Mornin Spike." Spike only grumbled. "I guess I will have to get you breakfast as well then." Spike seemed tired so Zac told him that was ok and he didn't have to get him breakfast. "I had the weirdest dream. Do you know anything about dreams and what they mean?" Zac asked Spike. "Well, not really but I did see a book around here somewhere about dreams" Spike got the rolling ladder and climbed up to the highest point and grabbed a book, Spike read the name; "Dreams and meanings of dreams, here we go -- Catch!" Spike threw the book, underarm, towards Zac. Zac caught it and sat down on the sofa to read the meanings of a dream. He read a segment; To dream that you are in pain suggests that you are being too hard on yourself, especially if a situation was out of your control. The dream may also be a true reflection of actual pain that exists somewhere in your body. Dreams can reveal and warn about health problems. Consider where the pain is for additional significance. If the pain is in your neck, then the dream may be a metaphor that you are literally being a "pain in the neck". (from DreamMoods.com) This was interesting. A situation that was out of control? Well I don't have a pain in my leg.. This was too hard to comprehend at the moment. Zac decided to ask Twilight when she got up. > Explanations and possible a apology > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight yawned. It wasn't the day she hated, that came after today. Today was Sunday. She rolled out of bed and began to head down the stairs to grab some coffee, she loved that miracle drink. As she headed down the stairs she smelt pancakes, Spike was obviously cooking pancakes for her, how nice. However as she turned into the kitchen she only saw Zac, and a pan in his hand. She practically recoiled as Zac turned and said 'Hi' Twilight wasn't expecting this so she just turned around and sat on the sofa, attempting to think about what she was going to study today. "Here you go Twilight." Spike held out a coffee mug and Twilight grasped it with her magic and took a sip, she instantly felt more awake as the warm drink hit her tongue. She sighed. "Thank you spike. This is wonderful." Spike wandered off to do more chores. Zac had finished the first batch of pancakes, two more to go. He got the bowl of the mix and started to cook it. "Twilight, your pancakes are ready!" Zac shouted to Twilight. She approached the kitchen table, smelt the pancakes and her tension practically melted with the smell "Wow, these smell delicious! You are a good cook Zac." Twilight complimented. "Yeah I know." Zac replied. "Who are those?" "Spike's" "Okay then" "Yo! Spike! Pancakes are done, come gettem!" Spike practically leaped at the table, grabbing his plate and licking his lips. "Calm down there dude, it's only pancakes." "Yeah but they smell REALLY good." Spike looked up at the 6''4 human, he really did tower over him. Zac crouched down and started to talk to Spike about how he wasn't that good at cooking. Twilight on the other hand wandered off to eat her share, she sat down and started to cut up the pile into small-bitesize chunks. Zac started to cook his share, Spike wandered over to Twilight and sat down next to her, Spike started to cut up his pieces into slightly bigger chunks and eat them that way. Zac finished cooking the rest and sat down to the right of Twilight. Zac folded up his pancakes and cut them that way, it was very fast. I'm forgetting something. I'm forgetting something. What is it. The cookers off, all of the pancake mix has been used, everything is cleaned up. Damn, what is it. Zac realized what he wanted; "Twilight do you have any golden syrup?" "Um, no sorry." Twilight replied. Zac felt a little down that he wouldn't be able to have his pancakes with that delicious nectar-like substance but it was no shame. Zac collected all the empty plates up and put them into the sink. "Twilight? Why can't I remember anything about my past?" Zac started the conversation that Twilight never wanted to have. "Uh. I- Zac. Follow me." Twilight wandered up the stairs and into the room that Zac and her shared. "You never answered me." "I know that. I just needed to be here, I have to show you something." Zac trusted her judgement. She started to cast a spell, she lent towards Zac's head and casted the spell. Zac started to see his past. It was a collection of events over the past three weeks that he was here. He saw Rainbow Dash shoving him into the hole, the rescue operator taking him out of the hole, Rainbow Dash in his iron sights, and finally Twilight casting a spell at him whilst he was riding her. Zac almost blacked out. His memory hadn't returned but he knew what had happened. "Twilight. Why did you give me Amnesia?" "I was in a rage, I didn't know what I was doing I-" Zac approached the window and flung it open. A length of rope had been attached by Zac to the tree above, as a sort of escape route, it lead to a rooftop that had a wooden support beam on it as well. Zac grabbed his hook-bracer that he had discovered and latched on, he went gliding down onto the other rooftop and un-hooked it, he landed, did a roll and continued to walk over the rooftops. Twilight shouted after him "Zac, I'm sorry! I didn-" Zac was out of ear-shot so he didn't hear anything that she had said. Zac wandered over to the centre square area, where he had thrown the rock at Twilight two weeks before. He had a sort of Hallucination/flashback sort of thing. He could see himself, Rainbow Dash and Twilight but in a ghostly form (sort of like when Altair appears and dissapears at that rooftop jump thingy) He saw himself throw a rock at Twilight then bolt towards the door. However Twilight somehow caught him and the rock, Zac's ghost fell to the ground-Un concious. That isn't what happened. Did she knock me out and make me dream those things?Am I asleep now? Shit this is confusing. Zac sat there, watching Twilight and Rainbow drag him off in the direction towards the library. As soon as they got inside the flashback ended and the ghostly figures vanished. Ok. I need to ask Rainbow Dash what really happened. This is confusing as shit. If that is what really happened then I never went home. Zac got up and started to wander around the rooftops looking for Rainbow Dash. Zac caught a glimpse of her flying through the air, she was kicking and destroying clouds as she went. Zac found a bit of beauty in how she flew, it was a weird thing, to Zac anyway, he never wanted to develop feelings for a creature that wasn't the same species as him. It was a sight for sore eyes. For Zac anyway. He waved to her and she started to descend towards him. > Getting out of there > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow Dash was flying around destroying clouds, it was supposed to be a perfect day today and she had to make it perfect. After karate kicking a cloud out of existence she saw Zac waving at her to come down. "Hey there Zac, whatcha' need?" Rainbow Dash beamed. "Well, I need to know what actually happened on the night that I threw the rock at Twilight. I had a vision earlier that showed Twilight knock me out." All Rainbow Dash did was sit down, she looked like she was holding something back. "Well? What really happened?" "Zac I- I'm sorry. For all that happened. I just wish I never came out of that hole and saw you. You never needed to be dragged into this." Rainbow seemed like she was going to cry "Dragged into what?" She just sat there. "What was it! What did you drag me into!" A massive aura of light appeared behind of Rainbow. Princess Celestia appeared behind her -- practically out of the blue, except the blue was white and -- Well you get the idea. "Zachary, you are the most resourceful human that I have encountered. You have surpassed my expectations of you. When you duelled that elite back at my castle, you showed excellent valour. I have to commend you on figuring this whole thing out. Yes, this was a test to see if a human could figure out why he was brought here and you have passed that test. Twilight Sparkle had made you dream the whole thing. You never went home and the rescue operator had been forced to retreat and the rescue was called off." Zac was gob-smacked. The princess herself had practically ruined him, he had amnesia this would never be the same. "Bu- Wh? I-" Zac still had his hook-blade on, it wasn't designed for stabbing and attempting to kill the princess is a stupid thing, Zac saw one of his rope-to-rope attachments that where made for hook-blades however it was a story below him. If he couldn't kill the princess Twilight was the next best thing. He turned and sprinted, the princess not anticipating his move, let him go. Zac jumped off the building and attached onto the rope and started to make his way towards the library. After seeing that Twilight was still there he didn't take his chance. Zac made his way to the window to the bedroom and climbed in. He grabbed it and attached it, as well as all of his other armour. He sneaked down the stairs and approached Twilight: "Twilight, I know what happened." Zac said. "Hm? What do you mean?" Twilight truly didn't know what he was talking about. "You never let me go. You kept me here." "Oh. That." "You ruined my family's life and mine, I know I have amnesia and I will never know my family again." "Well I-" "No. Don't you fucking start, it was YOUR fault that you ruined my life, now I'm going to ruin yours." Zac walked towards her with his wrist-blade drawn Twilight turned towards him, she was sitting down so she got up. "Don't do this Zac. Don't you dare." "I'm going to KILL you." "I WILL defend myself." "Fuck you! Fuck ALL of you friends!" (IF YOU DON'T LIKE KILLING SCENES LEAVE NOW. Zac lunged at her, and before she could do anything he sliced her left ankle she screamed and attempted to use some of her magic to push him back, Zac swung at her head, she ducked but he hit her horn instead, it cracked. and chunks of it fell off. She screamed as loud as her lungs could let her, Spike entered the room and ran up to Zac attempting to get him away from her, Zac turned around and sliced his face, killing him instantly. "Spiiiiiiiiike Noohooohooo! Please let me go pleaaaase!" Zac grabbed the top of her horn and snapped it off. "Aaaaahhhhh, I'm sorry! I'm sorry, please don't.." "Sorry ain't good enough!" Zac sliced her other ankle and let her fall, she fell facing Spike's corpse, his face lost of colour. "See that? That's my life, it's DEAD. Because of YOU." Zac got ready for the killing blow. he remembered some Italian lessons he had in school a couple of days ago and mumbled; "Riposa in inferno, cagna." Zac stabbed the back of her head and the room went quiet. Zac searched the rooms and found a portal-looking hole in the wall, this was his ticket home, he jumped through. Zac used his hook-blade to climb out of there and once he reached the top he noticed something. This wasn't where he was dragged into in the first place, it was the wall where he had climbed up to find the king or queen. This was even better, killing the princess would make his day. After scaling the wall he noticed a guard standing below, guarding the garden. He jumped down and stabbed the guard. Zac made his way to the balcony. He crept in and saw a figure laying down in the bed. This was Princess Luna, the mood goddess apparently. Zac didn't care, she was asleep so he stabbed her without any fuss. Zac made his way out of the room and saw that the princess was walking to the throne room. Zac felt a weird presence behind him as he crept up behind her. Just before he preformed the killing blow the princess spoke "Why are you here? Have you come to ask questions?" She turned around. Shit. Bad bad bad! "Oh, why are you dressed lik-" She noticed the wrist-blade that Zac forgot to sheathe. She glared and lifted him up in the air with his magic, "Assassin! Guards!" she held him high up into the air and once the guards arrived she flung Zac against a wall. Uh.. Shit. he groaned, but found strength as he stood up, he was about to kill some of her 'Royal Guards' This was going to be fun. They approached him and he lunged, stabbing one in the face whilst using the hook-blade to pull another into the next stab. There was four more guards left, and more approaching. They all lunged at the same time, Zac stood his ground and fought them off by dodging and slashing and stabbing. There was a massive pile of armour on the floor with dead guards in them. Then he saw something glare in his eye, he saw the General approaching. "Well, well, well. We meet at last. I am General Stormheart, and I will be the one to kill you today." The general boasted. He got out a sword and charged at Zac, who also grabbed a sword. They charged at each other. At the last moment Zac jumped over the General's sword and stabbed his neck using his wrist-blade. The general cried out in pain. "You.. Bastard.." He collapsed and Zac holstered his sword. Equip sword so he doesn't expect knife, brilliant. He approached Celestia at her throne. "Your going down." He taunted. "I don't think so." She floated several swords above her head, and flung them at him. He rolled under them and sprinted towards her, she brought more and threw them, he dodged them too. Then she got all the ones she already threw and flung them at him from behin-- Too late, Zac had reached her and plunged his knife into her neck. Killing her, Zac felt good about his victory today. However the still-mid-air swords had something else to say about that, all four of them punctured his armour and through his chest. He fell forward. A black tunnel was closing in on him. Then he died. Zac woke up. He was staring at a white ceiling. He lent forward, he was in a human hospital. He was home! He also recognised his mum next to him! He didn't have amnesia! Wait. How did he manage to get here? (simple explanation) The End. > Kidnapped5: Corrupted Data. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- As Zac came to his senses he noticed that his 'mum' was actually not there, it was a hallucination. Zac also couldn't move, he looked down at his body and saw that he was being held in place by some kind of levitation device. Zac heard a announcement over the intercom. Zac looked at the 5 emergency lights and his stasis module de-activated. Zac stood up but felt the effects of vertigo and sat down again. He noticed that the room he was in contained a mirror, a sink, a toilet, a door that had no handle and the emergency hatch the voice said about. He opened the hatch and crawled through the vent. He approached the door that the voice said to open and opened it. Outside the door it was pitch black. (Yes this is a prologue) > What exactly happened? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was pitch black, and Zac had to focus for a moment so he didn't miss anything, also to let his night vision pick up. Zac wandered out of the metal casket that he woke up in out into.. A museum? Wait. He was in a display! The fuck? where am I? Why am I in a huge display case in some sort of museum? Zac peered out through the glass, the hallway was void of life apart from himself. Zac turned around to see a mirror on the wall he looked at it, he was wearing some kind of patient clothing, all white. Zac noticed the he couldn't feel anything on his back so he turned around and was shocked at what he saw. There was a RIG device attached to his back, this was cool and scary in multiple ways. Then a hologram appeared in-front of him, it showed life signs and other data. whilst he was reading the hologram a guard pony walked in, saw him and ran out. Zac finished reading the hologram and it disappeared, like it knew when he had finished. Zac turned around and saw several lights com- No they weren't lights they where candle chandeliers, and they where being set alight by nothing. Soon the whole hallway was brightly lit up by chandeliers and torches, Zac saw some items that he recognised; A Xbox 360, several computer monitors, a engine, part of a plane propeller, tools, even a shoe. It was some sort of history museum but Zac had only been out for what seemed like a few weeks -- Considering that VERY weird dream he had. How long was Zac out for exactly? Well the announcement had said that it was the year 9999. Zac then saw several armed... Ok. The PROPER SHIT. What the fuck? Am I still dreaming? GUARD PONIES? He backed away from the glass and sat down on the felt floor. The ponies where shouting at him but the thick glass nullified there voices. The leader obviously got bored of watching a intruder just sit there so he drew his sword, shoved a guard out of the way and stabbed the glass. Only the tip managed to penetrate through it. The leader withdrew his sword and lowered his face towards the hole; "How did you get in there? What are you?" Just woke up out of a stasis chamber, probably sleeping for years and now im in trouble with local police, great. "I came out of there!" Zac pointed towards the stasis chamber, the leader immediately recoiled and sprinted away, the rest of the guards stood their ground. One said; "What do you think it is?" Zac took this as a insult. "I can hear you, you know!" The guard scowled at Zac. "Mind your business, you... You... I don't even know what you are!" The guard was obviously mad so the other one said something in-coherent and the mad one walked away from the hole. This left Zac sitting there for about ten minutes until this massive unicorn-pegasus thing flew around the corner it was all white apart from the hair on its head that was some kind of rainbow changing thing. And who is this? I remember her from that dream.. She majestically landed and walked up to the hole, Zac also approached the hole "And who might you be?" Zac really didn't care, he was probably just dreaming again. "I am Princess Celestia, and who might you be?" Well im not dreaming then, 'cus she doesn't know my name, great. Wait, she just took the piss. What kind of princess is this? "I am some human that just woke up out of there" Zac pointed towards the stasis chamber again. The princess glared at him, obviously wanting to know his name. "I'm Zac." The princess said something to the guards and they all wandered off, once again leaving him by himself, this time with light. Zac thought of his RIG device again and it seemed to read his mind and pop up, this time listing inventory, weapons, suit and credits. Lets see here.. No weapons.. No suit.. Nothing in my inventory.. One power node and two hundred credits.. Interesting. Zac wandered back over to the stasis chamber. He examined the outside of it, he saw a door but no apparent way to open it, then he wandered back inside the stasis chamber and saw there was a credit chip laying there, the RIG scanned it and it labelled it as 2,500 credits Sweet Zac then remembered that door he couldn't get into and remembered his power node in the RIG inventory. Zac thought of the node and it floated out in-front of him, he grabbed it and pushed it into the slight indent on the panel, the panel sucked it into the indent and the panel closed, Zac thought of opening the door and it opened. It was a sort of mini-closet but had a few items on some shelves, Zac picked them all up; a small medpack, another power node, 20,000 credits, and a schematic for a 'security suit' Zac had no idea what this was but hung onto it, just in case. Zac turned around to see a yellow sort of ammo-box symbol printed onto a cylinder sort of object (minus the light) It had a split down the middle, Zac thought about opening it and it opened, to reveal another yellow box thing but a hologram display dropped down to open a shop, Zac saw that it said, SCHEMATIC DOWNLOADED: SECURITY SUIT. BUY NOW? Ahh what the hell, I have enough. Zac thought of yes and the panel folded back up onto the top of the shop thing and the back yellow panel opened to show a silhouette of a human, Zac turned around and backed up into it, Zac was frozen in place -- Attached to the outline, then the front doors closed, sealing him in, a 'materialiser' came down from above and zapped him, materialising a Security Suit onto his skin. Once it was done he was let go, he walked out and inspected his suit, then a helmet covered his face. A heads-up-display was initiated and Zac told the helmet to come off, it was limiting his vision. Zac walked out and sat down at the same spot where he was moments ago, still alone in the museum. > Hello? Explanations please! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zac was sitting there for about half an hour when he heard doors opening, shadows approaching the corner. Then the princess approached the hole and motioned others to follow. Zac stood up, the princess being here was obviously something important. "Zac I want you to meet Twilight Sparkle, my protégée, she has helped me and others in research to what you where asleep in- Wait, what is that you are wearing? You weren't wearing that when I spoke to you." "Oh yeah, this. Um, let me show you." Zac walked over to the power node panel and activated his helmet. Zac couldn't hear it but the princess said "Impressive." With the helmet on and the HUD activated he could actually see a sphere and inside of it, it said 'Open?' So Zac said 'Yes' in his mind and it opened, Zac then walked in and pointed to the shop. Celestia made a 'Oh' expression and Zac walked over to the hole in the glass. Waking up in stasis after a weird dream kinda kills your memory for a while, so when Zac approached the hole he recoiled when he saw Twilight. "What's wrong Zac?." Twilight had a genuine expression of sorrow. "I- uh. I-Its nothing, don't worry about it." Dammit, I need to remember that Twilight isn't hostile. "Okay then, princess if I may." The princess nodded. Twilight then used her magic to melt the glass in a way and re-form it over in a different place. However this process used up all the oxygen in the glass chamber and some of the glass had covered the hole in the glass. His suit warned him of a low-oxygen level then it switched to the oxygen reserve it had inside it. Oh shit, only one hundred and seventy seconds of air. Hopefully Twilight won't take her sweet time. One hundred and fifty seconds later... "TWILIGHT, GET ME OUT OF HERE, IM GOING TO DIE!" The lack of oxygen prevented any sort of sound from exiting the chamber, Zac then immediately started to bang on the glass with his fists in an attempt to break glass that was a foot thick. (Yeah I know that my OC is a idiot occasionally. Fuck i had so many typos typing that. lol alliteration. 'Typos typing that' TTT = alliteration. WIN. K BACK TO TEH STORYEH.) Zac saw that he had little over ten seconds left so he ran back to the store and saw a hammer and some kind of chisel he then picked up the hammer and chisel and swung the chisel into the glass and smacked it with the hammer, the glass fractured and with little than under five seconds of air left he charged at the glass and smashed into it with all of his force this allowed him to break away a small shard of glass, however due to the shortage of air inside the chamber the glass imploded and shot Zac all the way to the back of the shop, then the door closed. Zac awoke to find himself not dead but severely out of breath with a raging headache. Zac also noticed that his helmet was withdrew. He approached the door to find that the glass had practically exploded and there was Twilight and the princess waiting for him. "What did you do? I was almost done! You practically destroyed the entire glass frame." "Well Twilight, I was about to die." Twilight recoiled at the sound of her name. "How do you know me?" Oh shit I never thought this through. "Um. I-" Celestia cut in. "Please Twilight, allow me to explain. Back when I was appointed ruler of this land I came across a mysterious storage chamber, this contained Zac. I had a group of unicorns including myself and Luna transport him back to the castle. After that you became my student I attempted to cast a memory spell on Zac and was only able to recover fragments of his memory but not enough to actually see anything, instead however memory's of you and your friends where absorbed into his brain so he would be familiar with us when he did awake." "Well that would explain why you know me." "Yeah it does." Zac was confused. After introductions where finished Zac decided to explore the rest of the museum, and after confirming the rest of the items on display Zac wandered over to where Twilight was staying for the rest of the weekend, apparently Zac was also staying in her room. "Hey there Twilight, apparently I'm staying with you tonight." Zac was impressed at the massive room. "Yes, you are. You will be sleeping on this bed and I will be sleeping over.. Over.. Oh, there is only one bed." "Really? Huh." "Yes really." "You don't mind do you? I mean I'll try to sleep on the floor if you wan-" "No, Zac that's fine." Twilight pulled the covers over her and turned on her side, Zac got into the bed and he started to float, his suit said the message; "Sleep mode active, Goodnight Zac." 'kay then... Twilight saw that Zac was floating and was totally impressed. She even waved a hoof under him to see if there wasn't something holding him up, there wasn't but she was still surprised. After watching Zac sleep for another ten minutes she felt tired herself, so she cuddled up and started to dream about being with Celestia. The suit was running diagnostics on his vital signs when an alert popped up, silently, but it woke up Zac regardless. The message read: "SURVIVOR MODULE INBOUND, TIME UNTIL IMPACT; SEVENTEEN HOURS FIVE MINUTES TEN SECONDS." Zac thought nothing of it and slipped back into sleep. > Survivor Module > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zac was already awake when Twilight got out of the bed, Zac also got out and looked at the horizon, the sun was just about to rise, but Zac was focused on another thing in the sky. It looked like a shooting star, except it was coming at the earth instead of across the sky. "Twilight? What is that?" Zac pointed to the shooting star. "Huh, it looks like a shooting star." Twilight leaned forward and squinted her eyes, then she recoiled in fear and bolted out of the room. "Hey wait! Where are you going?" Twilight ignored him. She sprinted down hallways and through doors, then she stopped and looked back, saw Zac and kept running. "Twilight! This is one of the buildings that I fell from! You have to tell Celestia to not damage it!" She nodded and burst through Celestia's bedroom doors, the guards apparently dealing with a riot about a incoming object. Celestia and Twilight both sprinted out of the room and almost knocked Zac over, Celestia grabbed Zac and Twilight then flew to the exit of the castle. Zac looked up. The object seemed to slow down, it had deployed parachutes and jets to slow its decent. Zac looked to his left and saw Luna approaching at a un-dauntingly fast speed. She spread her wings and rotated them up, coming from about one hundred miles per hour to about zero in one second. Zac saw the object getting closer and closer... Then he noticed that it was heading straight for him, the survivor module was about one hundred and fifty meters from him when he noticed that it was MASSIVE and he wouldn't be able to run out of the way fast enough. Zac put his hands up, like he was going to carry it, the module was about ten meters from him when a blue laser of some sorts ejected from his wrist, this hit the module and slowed it down. Zac sprinted out of the way just in time. After the space-age ship landed and the dust cleared, it seemed that this was a bigger version of the one Zac came down in. It had at least two more of those 'conduit rooms' This will be interesting. Zac wandered over to a door and opened it. The suit's helmet was still withdrawn and Zac still could open doors so this was a good thing. After peering in and noticing the stasis bed was vacant he ventured further into the module. Zac was picking up items all over the place; credits, power nodes, schematics you name it. Zac still found no life, so after visiting a shop and banking items of ammunition and schematics, Zac bought a plazma rifle with two stacks of ammunition and banked them. Celestia, Luna and Twilight where still outside waiting. Zac exited the ship "Well. There is nobody in there, how do you plan on getting this out of the way?" What seemed like a platoon of unicorns teleported behind Celestia and Luna. "Oh. Like that." The unicorns, including the two princesses, made a formation. Combining their telekinetic power they lifted up the module and floated it behind the castle gates where some kind of warehouse was. "So, now what." Zac was curious to where that came from and if there was more. "I will observe the sky. Do you have any good way of interpreting another impact?" Celestia obviously didn't want a repeat event and Zac understood. "No, The suit never warned me of a impact. Do you have any telescopes around?" Zac was skeptical about attempting to predict an impact from another module considering he had never studied anything with telescopes before but he would give it a shot. Twilight jumped at the sentence; "Yeah! The castle has a really big one! Follow me!" Twilight lead Zac to the observation room, where there was a "Big-ass telescope there Twilight." "Yup, I used it all the time when I lived here. Do you have any good ideas about where that thing may have come from?" Zac attempted to remember where he had entered stasis, but there wasn't anything to remember. He must have had amnesia. "No, I don't remember, but I'm trying to remember as much as I can." Zac suggested to Twilight that they wait for sun-down to look for anything. Twilight agreed, so they waited until the sun descended. In the mean time, Zac remembered most of the planets in the solar system that he used to live in, Considering that he lived on a space-ship, he saw planets all the time, and the space station was "Twilight! I remember where the space-station was based! It was based near Mars! It is a orangeish coloured planet." Zac looked outside, it was dark by now and Zac spotted 'Mars' right away. He showed Twilight and she centred the telescope on it. Sure enough, after some adjusting, the space station was in view. Twilight cheered "Nice job Zac! Now we can see if any more of those things come down." Twilight hugged Zac, Zac was starting to like this planet-dimension, wherever this planet was, he wanted to stay. But he started to like Twilight more and more every day. She understood all the things he said about what he could remember about biology and science, and even about electricity. Zac was going to enjoy it here. "Twilight, I think I'm going to like it here." Twilight nodded. "Yeah, I think you will. But don't you want to go home? To your own family and friends?" "To be honest Twilight, I never really had any friends, I focused more on my work than anything." "Well I guess we have a lot in common then." Twilight smiled, hugged Zac, then yawned. "I'm tired. You tired?" "Yeah, I guess I am. Lets go lay down." "Alright. One more hug?" "Sure." Zac smiled, Twilight stood on her hind legs and hugged Zac. Zac had to crouch down to hug her, after all, he was 6''5. End. Well Thanks everyone for being so patient. I had exams and mock exams coming up that i had to revise for. Thanks for reading :3.