- Day 2
- >Wake up
- >No dreams
- >Feeling genuinely like P. Diddy
- >Stand up
- >Regret sleeping on too-short couch
- >Look around for kitchen, find it, then proceed to mumble obscenities while trying to find bacon
- >Spike enters, asks what you’re looking for
- >Bacon
- >”Like from animals?”
- >”Duh”
- >”Ponies are vegetarians. They eat flowers and stuff.”
- >Facepalm
- >Common sense: 1 , Anon: 0
- >Salad it is then...
- >”So what are you going to do today anon?” Spike says as he sits down with a bowl of cereal.
- >You’ve seen the town, from Sweet Apple Acres to Sugarcube Corner and every place in between, but can’t decide on what to do.
- >”I dunno. Maybe take a shower and walk around town. Speaking of which, where is the shower?”
- >”Up the stairs and on the left.”
- >”Thanks Spike.”
- >”Uh, Anon?”
- >”Yeah?”
- >”You said you’re a soldier right?”
- >”That’s me, little buddy.”
- >”Did you ever have kill anyone?”
- > No longer feeling like P. Diddy
- >” I only killed to protect innocent people.”
- >”Oh, ok.”
- >Spike goes back to eating his breakfast of what you now notice to be gemstones while you climb the stairs to shower.
- >You mumble under your breath, “If only that were true...”
- Needless to say, the shower is far smaller than you hoped.
- >Though you have to stoop to wash your hair, you manage nicely.
- >The sunshine and smiles feeling you had deflated the instant Spike asked you that question.
- >”Did you ever have to kill anyone?”
- >Why did it deflate you so much?
- >That you lied, or that you felt like you had to?
- >Spike wouldn’t understand; he’s too young to.
- >You doubt any of the other ponies would be able to relate either
- > Funny.
- >It’s just like home.
- >Your soul-searching is interrupted with a knock at the door
- >”Twilight says not to use all the hot water in there anon!” Spike calls through the door.
- >You hurry up and finish, and decide to be less of soul-sucking downer than this morning made you feel
- >Unfortunately, most of the ponies you hung out with yesterday have day jobs and Twilight is still researching ceaselessly in the library, so you’re left mostly to your own devices.
- >Most of the ponies in town find you an oddity, but few of them actually try to talk to you.
- >Most seem extremely nervous, which is understandable, considering you’re a hairless bipedal ape which no one even imagined existed.
- >You sit down on a park bench, a little worn out after walking through town all day.
- >You hear voices behind you
- >”Is that it?”
- >”What is it?”
- >”I wonder if it has a cutie mark too?”
- >Cutie mark?
- >“You’re wondering if I’ve got a what?” You say as you face the source of the noise.
- >Three small fillies, One an orange pegasis, one a yellow “regular” pony, and a white unicorn all “eeep!” in unison.
- >Seemingly stunned, they don’t respond.
- >You walk around the bench in front of them, and sit down in front of them.
- >”I’m not gonna hurt you, little girls, but what’s a cutie mark?”
- >A little bit reassured, the yellow one pipes up, “It’s the mark on your flank that shows what you’re best at! D’you got one?”
- >They all stare at you intently, expecting some reality shattering epiphany.
- > “Not really, but I’ve got something like it.”
- >Smiles widen on their faces as you roll up your sleeve to display your tattoo: the regimental insignia of special forces.
- >The orange one cocks her head to the side and asks, “What do those funny words mean?”
- >”It means, ‘To liberate the oppressed.’”
- >They “oooh” at this turn of events.
- >”How’d you get THAT?”
- >You regale them with tales of the special forces history, how they freed the oppressed, brought down tyrants, and that you are one of them.
- >”That’s what we’ll be! Cutie Mark Commando’s!” The orange one exclaims.
- >You laugh out loud at this
- >OhGodMahDrills.jpg
- > When you manage to stop, they all look crestfallen.
- >”We’re never gonna get our cutie marks...”
- >”We’ll be blank flanks forever...”
- >Seeing your mistake, you say, “Listen girls, you’ll find what you’re good at one day, and something tells it won’t be being a soldier. Who knows? Maybe you (you point at the pegasis) will be an astronaut? Maybe you’ll (you point to the “regular” pony) be a famous actress. And who knows? Maybe this little unicorn will grow up and put Twilight’s magic to shame?
- >Smiling again, they chime, “Thanks mister!”
- >You catch their names before they dash off, happily chatting amongst themselves about what they’re going to be when they grow up.
- >You guess this world isn’t that much different than yours
- >On your way back to Twilight’s house
- >Dark out now, having a hard time finding your way back
- > Spot cyan pony with rainbow mane
- >”Hey, Rainbow.”
- >”Hey Anon. What you doing out so late?”
- >”Just trying to find my way back to Twilight’s to hit the sack.”
- >”Buck that, lets get sloshed!”
- >Having not tasted alcohol in any of its glorious forms for over a year you jump at the thought. One thought stops you though.
- >”I don’t have any money, Dash”
- >”Pshhh, I got ya tonight. Can’t let a little thing like money stop the fun!”
- >Ilikewherethisgoing.jpg
- >Walk in the bar
- >Practically everyone turns to stare at you and Dash, but mostly you.
- >Walk to up to the bartender
- >He looks up at you with a little surprise, but that seems to be the standard fare around here
- >Dash pipes up, “You gonna stare all day at Anon or are ya going to get us some booze?”
- >Realizing his job, the bartender asks for your drinks
- >A beer for you and a line of shots for dash
- >”Just a beer? Come on, Anon, we need to get schlammered!”
- >Challenge accepted
- >Ever since a buddy told you about it, you’ve been meaning to try this drink
- >”Line me up a Flaming Dr. Pepper
- >After explaining what it is and how to make it, the bartender lines it up in front of you
- >holy shit it DOES taste like Dr. Pepper!
- >After 5 flaming Dr. Peppers and a shitload of beer you totally and irrevocably drunk
- >Dash and you are guffawing loudly at each other and have become instant bros
- >”Naw Dasshhh, you the besht.”
- >”No Anon yer da besht”
- >She tries to stand up, but misjudges the distance and falls flat on her face
- >dawhahahahaha
- >”Dash yer too drunk to shtand. I needsh to takesh you home.
- >Stand up, wobble, but manage to remain upright
- >Try three times to pick her up, nearly fall over every time
- >Finally manage to sling her over your shoulder and wobble towards the door
- >”Twilight hatesh it when I come around drunksh, Anon. Sheesh shuch a bitsh.”
- >You don’t hear her, you’re too busy trying to open the door
- >Fukkin’ doorknobs. How do they work?
- >You manage to get the door open and stumble into the street, only vaguely knowing where you’re going
- >Dash keeps mumbling about how Twilight hates it when she gets drunk
- >”You’re not drunksh Dashhh... Yer Shloshed, remember?”
- >You both laugh at this as you stumble towards the only house with lights still on at the top of the hill
- >You don’t know if it’s Twilight’s place, but hey, no fucks given
- >Try to open the door.
- >It’s locked
- >Your booze-addled mind concocts a brilliant plan
- >”Hey Dash watchsh dish!”
- >Not realizing she’s still slung over your shoulder, you give the door a well placed kick at the lock like you always were trained to do.
- >You slip in the dew-slicked grass, land flat on your back, and promptly pass out.