Title: That Ape Needs Therapy Author: RabbitEatingAnon Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/kf3gpikW First Edit: Monday 16th of September 2013 09:38:30 PM CDT Last Edit: Monday 16th of September 2013 09:38:30 PM CDT >This dream was different. >It wasn't a nightmare, that's for sure. It definitely wasn't bad. >But it wasn't a nice dream, either. >It just sort of was, neither harmful nor helpful to the pony that was dreaming it. >Luna had never found a dream like this before, in her thousands of years of dream-walking. >Obviously, she decided to see what it was about.   >Her hooves touched down on an endless expanse of field. >The grass felt wrong, somehow. Almost like the dreamer didn't know what it was supposed to feel like under hoof. >"Hello?" she said. >Somepony screamed right in her ear. >Luna whirled around, and beheld an abomination. >It was giant, and deformed, but unmistakably equine in nature. >Its face was elongated, like it had been squeezed into a tube and never recovered. >The eyes were small and beady, giant nostrils heaved with every breath, and its coat was entirely the wrong shade of pink. >The equine thing screamed the word "NEIGH", spread over-muscled wings that had to be twelve feet wide, and took off into the air with a great WHUMP, WHUMP, WHUMP. >As it flew, its hooves dangled like dead leaves on a tree, entirely lacking in any sort of aerodynamic merit.   >Then orange juice pours from the walls, rising higher and higher as Luna struggled to stay afloat. >She could feel the sticky liquid staining her coat. >As the juice threatens to overtake her head, she takes a deep breath and dives. >A school of turtles swims past. Starfish litter the sandy bottom. >Luna swims upward, and upward, and finds no surface. >Her breath gives out, she gasps for air… >And takes a deep, orange breath through her gills. >Relief floods her mind, and she begins to paddle along, looking for a way out.   >Instead, she finds a bale of hay. Just dangling there underjuice, like it's the most normal thing in the world. >All this panicking has worked up quite an appetite, so she takes a bite. >And is yanked upwards! There's something in her mouth! >She breaches the waves, and sees Anon, huge and in an equally huge boat. >A moment passes, dangling there, in the air, on a hook, above a brook.   "You are the weirdest fish I've ever seen."   >He unhooks her and throws her back, into the orange juice. >But the waves are gone, and there's nothing but sky beneath her, and she falls. >She frantically waggles her fins and tail before she realizes she doesn't have wings anymore because she's a fish and she's out of water and she's falling and falling and falling– >CRASH   >"Luna! Are you okay!" >She gasps for breath, with her lungs, and quickly checks to make sure she's got wings again. >She does. >"You were tossing and turning until you just fell off the bed. Did something happen?" >Luna looks upward, to see Celestia's concerned features staring down. >She grasps her sister's face with her hooves and pulled her closer, until their noses were almost touching. >"It didn't mean anything." >She looked very far away, Celestia realized. Like Luna was staring all the way through her skull and out the back, to the castle wall behind. >"It was a cascade of complete nonsense and it didn't mean anything." >"I don't–" >"Anon is a nut! He's crazy in the coconut!"