Title:           In the Mind's Eye chp.1
Author:          shankedCircuit
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First Edit:      Thursday 18th of October 2012 12:34:43 AM CDT
Last Edit:       Thursday 18th of October 2012 12:34:43 AM CDT

>Black
>All you can see is black
>If black had a sound, you're hearing it
>You try to speak
>If black had a voice, you have it.
>You see something
>Light
>Like a pin hole off in a distance, and it's growing
>From the light you begin to hear something
>A ringing in your inner ear
>Getting louder like a freight train roaring in your ears
>God, this hurts your head
>Finally your eyes open
>And you immediately shut them
>That fucking sun is out for you, you swear!
>And then you feel it's warmth
>All is good in the world
>Your forehead throbs painfully as you grab it gently
>Adorning your forehead is a rather large, obnoxious bump, the size and shape of half of a baseball
>It takes you a bit of pained hissing through your teeth to calm this bump down
>You'll check it out later, for now, lets just see about your situation
Brain, I need a sit-rep, what's my situation.
>Static
Brain?
>We're sorry but the number you have dialed is currently not available
What the hell?  Brain!
>Sorry cap'n we don't know shit!
Fuck...Well lets start from the top.  My name is...my name is...my...name is.  What's my name?
>It would come as a surprise but you appear to have amnesia, perhaps you should do the sensible thing and panic
I would but there's no point to panicking
>You gather yourself and check around your surroundings
>Hey!  It's a rucksack!
>You take a peek inside and find some things
>An iPod, a pen and paper, a flask, some strange stone and a feather?
>What are these for?
>Are these even yours?
>You don't remember, maybe it'll come back to you later
>You've acquired a bag of stuff that might be yours
>You don't know if it's yours but you're willing to check
>The iPod!
>You pull the black and silver device, the white ear-buds dangling haphazardly
>You turn on the small device and are greeted with a swipe screen and an 8% battery life
>You want to make this quick so you swipe the screen and a password screen pops up
>Without thinking, muscle memory takes over and you punch in a password
>8239
>And it unlocks with a soft click from the ear-buds, did you always have it so loud?
>The device, and by proxy the materials in the bag must be yours, however you quietly chastise yourself over the volume.
>Were you always so destructive to yourself?
>You'll have to fix that
>This device is clearly yours, you think, but with that low of power you want to keep things ready, so you lock it and put into hibernation.
>Right, so this bag of stuff is yours, lets give the location a gander
>You look around you and realize you're in a clearing of a forest with a single large oak in the middle of the vale.
>Then you hear something
>Snoring?
>Suddenly you're on edge
>Where is the sound coming from?
>The tree, more specifically in the branches
>Cautiously you look up into it and see a very peculiar thing.
>It looks like a clump of rainbow colored hair hanging over a particularly wide branch, obscuring it's owner
What is that?  No creature I know of has rainbow colored hair like that.
>you think aloud
>You jump when the source of the snoring snorts loudly and yawns
>Curse your habit of thinking aloud, the creature is stirring
>You brace yourself to run, you do not feel up for a fight and flight seems very appropriate, but your curiosity is far to piqued by this strange rainbow colored hair
>The hair recedes over the branch as a strange cyan creature sits up, yawning once more
>You have never seen a creature like this before and you cant help but voice this accordingly
What the hell is that!?
>God you suck, you can't even control your surprise, and your sudden outburst caught the things attention as it turns it's head over the branch and stares at you
>It has the biggest eyes you've ever seen, and they're magenta, you know you've never seen a creature like this before
>Rightly nervous you start backing up, the thing staring at you silently
>The moment you step out from under the canopy of the tree it drops to the ground
>Standing before you is a waist tall, rainbow haired, cyan...horse?
>You aren't quite sure.
>The size of the creature puts you slight ease but you do not lower your guard
>It narrow's it's gigantic eyes at you
>Seriously, those are big eyes
>"I don't know who or what you are, but you interrupted something super important, ya know."
>Wow it...she has a raspy voice
"First off, I'm a human, second what do you mean important, you were sleeping in a tree."
>Are you doing this?
>"Exactly, super important."
>You are, aren't you
"How is sleeping in a tree important, more importantly how did you get up there?
>You're arguing with it
>You think
>She smirks and unfurls a set of wings, shaking them out
>Okay, so she's a winged...something
>"These babies let me fly up there and sleeping just is that important."
>Wow what a juvenile response, eliciting a glare from you
>"But it's okay, you clearly don't know me and you clearly aren't from here.  The name's Rainbow Dash and I live in Ponyville."
>Rainbow Dash?  Ponyville?  Ponyville...Ponies?
>What kind of name is that, on both accounts?
"What kind of name is that?"
>You just voiced what you thought, you have about as much subtlety as a bull in a china shop with lit firecrackers lashed to it's tail
>Rainbow Dash snorts loudly and glares, "Oh like your name would be any better."
>You raise your finger and open your mouth to retort but stop short
"Can I take a rain check on that answer?
>Her eyes narrow again, "Now that isn't fair!  I told you my name, why don't you tell me yours."
"Because I don't quite remember what my name is..."
>She cocks her head and her eyebrow
>"Don't remember, how do you not know your own name?"
>Trying to remember only gives you a headache bringing your hand to your forehead
"Ugh!  When I try and remember, my head just hurts"
>Rainbow Dash starts hovering in front of you with her hoof, you guess, on her chin and looking at your head, specifically your forehead
>"Hmm, well ya got some kind of bump on your forehead.  Maybe you hit your head and that gave you that thing-that-Twilight-talked-about-that-one-time."
>She states extending a leg towards it, lightly touching it
>You scream in agony, your voice echoing in the nearby woods
>"Oh jeez, oh Celestia, I'm sorry!  I didn't mean to hurt you"
>It takes all of your willpower to keep back tears
>Instead you just get a line of snot running out of your nose
"Oww, d-don't touch it...that felt like you punched me in the eye."
>"Okay okay, I won't touch it...still got to figure out a name for yo-"
>She gets cut off mid sentence as you sneeze and unleash a vicious snot-rocket to the ground
>"Nasty...but it sounded like you said something with that sneeze, it sounded like you said 'anon'"
>You look up, sniffing and rubbing your nose
"Anon?  That's short for Anonymous.  Yeah that'll work, I think.  Hello...Rainbow Dash, was it?  I'm Anonymous."
>You try and be cordial and extend a hand towards her
>She stares at your hand for a bit, examining your fingers before placing her hoof into it
>You grip her hoof, grinning like an idiot
"So tell me, Rainbow Dash, what are you?"
 
--End of Chapter 1--