Of Wubs and Rainbows

Chapter 2

Memories Never Fade

-(Alex's POV in dream)-

Here I am again floating in the eternal black abyss just waiting for dawn to show its ugly hide. I'm still wondering why I'm not dreaming but viewing memories again, maybe my mind has be shattered so I'm putting pieces of my puzzle back together. I'm also questioning the reason why I awoke in that place, Equestria. Sounds like a surreal paradise where its all sunshine and rainbows but I question why I'm here. Maybe I was reincarnated here or maybe this is all a hallucination and maybe Celestia and the rest are actually a family in Colorado but I'm in some kind of hallucination and they are seen and felt like ponies. I'm still asking questions that have no or have hidden answers. I soon feel myself getting pulled into another memory, something I have not seen before but its paused right before the lightning hit us in the plane. I see three figures in the clouds, human in shape but they seem to be producing lightning from their hands.

" What the hell is that?" I ask myself but maybe I'm just seeing things. I believe my mind is shattered beyond repair and I'm just losing time thinking of a way to fix it. Ugh my head inside my head is getting a headache from this. Thoughts are so hard to manage. I wonder what time it is, ugh my head is wondering away again. Oh good I'm waking up.

-(Alex's POV)-

I sit strait up ignoring the pain in my chest. I'm sweating like a dog in this bed, gross. It's still dark outside through the two windows that I can see. I hear snoring, so I look over the bed to see Twilight and her friends asleep in here. Twilight, Rarity, and Fluttershy have taken up refuge on the couch in here but Applejack and Pinkie Pie are passed out on the floor. I look in front of me to see Rainbow Dash half on half off the very edge of the bed. I'm afraid to move so I don't knock her on the floor. My eyes start adjusting to the dark so I make out the clock above the couch. " Damn only 4:15." I mutter to myself. I can sleep so well on he floor of my friend's closet but if I'm put into a hospital bed I can't sleep worth shit.

I look to my right to see a roll in tray with a glass of water and my Kindle which I don't remember putting it on there. I shrug and grab and down the water in ten seconds flat, I'm thirsty. Well I'm not going back into the void so I might as well read something. I grab the Kindle and power it on and go to the books. I'm an odd ball with a lot of things. I'm a gamer and a writer. I'm a huge history buff and I'm handy with a knife. My dad taught me how to widle and use a knife or blade in many different ways. Shrugging thoughts aside I open a favorite book series of mine. A History Buff's Guide Too:. Well I've been reading them for a while now, gotten from B.C Egypt to the Great Depression. Now I enter into one of my most favorite topics, World War 2. Not because it was about war, though I do like the battles but because I do have heritage from this time period. My grandpa fought for the U.S in D-Day and Battle of The Bulge.

Funny that I'm German and my Grandpa killed his own, funny in a morbid way. Either way I'm off to reading, Oh good start from Hitler's youth.

-Chapters later-

I'm still reading and this is intersecting. I've gotten from Chapter one too Chapter 10 but these are extended chapters with pictures so now I've gotten from the U.S cutting Japan off to Night Of Broken Glass. I like to learn this stuff over and over if I could. I feel something tapping on my shoulder so I turn my head to see Rainbow Dash, tired but awake fluttering silently over me. " Hey your awake." She yawn/whispers.

" Yeah woke up a while ago and couldn't go back to sleep so I decided to read." I said holding up my tablet for her to see. The light from it almost blinds her but see still seem to stare at it with awe. " Cool do you mind if I sit and read with you?" I shake my head no and move aside a bit so she can sit with me. Rainbow's fur is soft and almost soothing in a way. " So what you reading?" She asks looking at the picture of Hitler.

" Uhh its about human history. Though this about one of the biggest wars in human history." I answer turning the page with my finger.

" Biggest war in history? Wow that must have had been devastating. Hey quick question what are those things at the end of your arms?"

" Thats my hand and fingers. They help hold stuff." I say with a slight yawn.

" Interesting. So why do you want to learn about war? It's not good I know that but still why?" Rainbow Dash lets me ponder on her question. " Well I see it as an opportunity for people to learn from past mistakes if they view what has happened in the past. This war had lost a lot of innocent civilians so I believe that its only fair for us to view them as a reminder to never do it again. Unfortunately some people in my world still want to see the world burn and give no mercy towrds innocent people." I respond and Rainbow seems ok wit my answer.

" Fair enough so who is that?" She asks pointing a hoof to a picture of FDR. " Thats a past leader of my country. Franklin Delano Roosevelt or FDR 32nd President of the United States." I respond.

" President?" She asks.

" It's the name of our leader. You know if you don't want to read this just say the word." I offer.

" Weeellll I was curious about that thing you pulled up on here yesterday. It said 'Video'." I get a gleam in my eye. I guess I should show her some home videos on here about me and my friends." Ok give me a sec. I want to make you laugh." I exit my book and head to the video section. I ask Dash to hand me my bag and I dig out my skull candy ear buds. " Here put this in your ear." I say as I plug it in and Dash gives me a confused look. I help her put in the ear bud and I tap on the funnest video I though of. It starts off with younger by two years me with my shirt off in Rickie's yard and my younger friends talkin' to me and the camera.

Rickie: Ok Alex here just did three shots of whiskey and now wants to take out my old shed. The camera shifts to show an old rotting storage shed.

Alex: Yeah take this motherfucker out!

Aaron: You got this dude. Be the Hammer boy. Be the motherfuckin' hammer!

Alex: BLITZ BITCH! Alex charges full speed at the shed and hits the wall with his face. He gets up and backs away with blood running down his face from his noise and charges again but trips and goes head over heels hitting the ground. Once again he gets back up and runs again but this time gets his head stuck through the wall and now is fighting to get his head free. I look over at Dash who almost looks about to pass out from holding laughter.

Alex: AHHH FUCK I HIT A HORNETS NEST GOD DAMNIT! He starts flailing around trying to get free.

Rickie: AH HAHAHAHAHA dude is gettin' stung. I told you it wasn't a good idea boy

Aaron: 'Falls over from laughing so hard'.

Dash can't hold it any more and starts laughing like crazy. I look to everyone else who all seem to jolt to life from Dash laughing so hard. She falls off the bed with loud thud. She's holding her sides still laughing. I feel bad that everyone else woke up but seeing Dash's face was worth it. " Ugh wha time is it?" Twilight groans. Her mane is all over the place like she just woke up, which she did.

" It's about 8. Now who is the pony that was laughing?" Rarity ask with anger in her eyes. She looks at me then to Dash who managed to get back up on the bed. I point finger at Dash who then glares at me. " What? It was you though." I resort. Tension seem to seep into the air with every person and pony glaring daggers at each other. Twilight speaks up first. " Well Alex it's good to see that you are awake. Did Rainbow Dash wake you?"

" No. I'm sorry but I was showing her something funny but I didn't expect her to go over board like that."

" Ohh well I don't see any harm done by making somepony laugh." Pinkie says with a wide grin. She scares me. Everyone seems to calm down after that and there was silence until my stomach growls. " Sounds like you partner could use some breakfast." Applejack chuckles.

" Its true though I didn't even eat before I left my house, which stupid of me." I sigh. Pinkie Pie jumps up on the bed. " Do you want a dounght?" She asks with a huge toothy grin, yup defiantly not creepy at all. " What kind?"

" Any kind you want."

" Uhh chocolate with sprinkles?" I ask and to my amazement Pinkie pulls out a dounght from nowhere. I accept it and preticly swallow it whole, I was hungry. I asked for two more and I got two more though I ate slower this time. " These are really good. My complaints go to the chef." I say out loud.

" Why thank you." Pinkie said with a smile though less creepy this time.

" You made these?" I ask holding my last one up before eatting it.

" Yup. I can tell you like them."

" Well I know one thing. You could teach my Grandma a thing or two about sweets. She made them good but this tops." I say swallowing the last bite. Pinkie seems almost over joyed to hear my words. Rarity clears her throat a bit. " So how are you feeling today darlin'?"

" Physically or Mentally?" I ask.

" Ummm both I guess."

" Well physically I hurt but pain is only temporary. Mentally though I'm completely shattered. I'm having trouble with my thoughts." I move my legs to the side of the bed like I'm getting up. My chest hurts a bit at the movement. " Uhh are you sure your alright?" Fluttershy asks.

" To be honest...no. I feel terrible about everything. Losing my family and now my only two friends. I feel void, hollow if you will. On top of that is my mind is in complete ruin. Every time I fell back asleep last night I went on a scavenger hunt inside my own head trying to piece myself back together."

" We're all sorry for your loss Alex." Twilight says putting a hoof on my leg. " I wish there was some way to help."

" I wish for that too Twilight. But everyone grieves in their on way right?"

" Yeah." Everyone says almost in unison. I want put some cloths on now. " So as anyone seen my cloths?" I as looking around for them.

" Oh I have them darling." Rarity walks over to a drawer and a magical hue surrounds it as it opens and my cloths fly out and land neatly on the bed. They look new. " Thanks, they look almost new."

" Oh I had time after we found you so when the doctors took your cloths off which were covered in dust dirt and were torn. I fix them up for you." Rarity says proudly. " Thanks. Is there a bathroom near here?" I ask.

" Yeah right there." Pinkie says pointing a hoof to a brown door across the bed to my left. I stood up only to fall on to my hands and knees. I struggle to get up. My legs feel like jelly, fingers feeling numb, mother of all headaches, just great. Everyone er I mean pony as I keep hearing them say instead of anybody or someone." Y'all right there partner?" Applejack asks looking at me concerned.

" Yeah just my legs feel a bit numb thats all." I replied and host myself up. I stand there for a moment as the blood ruses back into my head. I pick up m cloths and wobbly but forcefully I move myself to the bathroom. It looks like almost any hospital bathroom. I take the gown off and see thankfully that I still had my underwear on. I look myself in the mirror for a moment. Bandages adorn the top and back of my head while bandages are wrapped around my chest. I look banged up and bruised but I'll live. I wince a bit as I put my blue jeans and grey T-shirt on. Then I put my socks and shoes on. I put my black vest on last and look at myself one last time. I look like an amnesia patient that woke in the woods. I exit the bathroom and I'm surprised to see Celestia and the doctor from yesterday.

" Oh good morning Alex." Celestia greets." I hope you slept well. I see that you are dressed and ready to move."

" Well I didn't sleep like I had hoped but thats besides the point. I'm just ready to get out of here. I don't like hospitals that much...er no offence Doc." I say gesturing to the doctor pony.

" Oh its quite alright Mr. Alex, not everpony cares for a doctors visit to the hospital. I'm just here to let you know that you can leave today but first I want to remove those bandages on your head." I walk over to the bed where he hops up and takes the bandages off one by one. He leaves the room for a moment then returns with a cart that has two urns on it. My hear sinks again but I keep my head strong. I take a deep breath and accept both golden urns and thank the doctor and he leaves. " Alex I have to ask. What will you do with the urns now?" Dash asks.

" I would like to go back to the crash site. I would like to bury both urns there." I sigh and Celestia bows her head.

" I understand you decision Alex. I am ready to go whenever you are."

" Who all is going with?" I ask everypony and they all stand firm and strong.

" I will." They all say. I grab my stuff I do have and nod to Celestia. The tip of Twilight's horn along with Celestia's glow and then I'm blinded by light.

-Everfree Forest-

I hear birds chirping and the wind blow lightly. I smell fresh air and a faint smell of gasoline. I realize that I'm in the forest. Wow thats a good trick to teleport like that. " Where are we?" I ask Twilight.

" Everfree Forest where we found you." I shrug at the answer and follow the group down a dirt path. The smell of burnt gas gets stronger and stronger so we must be getting closer. The path breaks away to revile a beautiful clearing of trees. The thing that sticks out is the plane. Crashed and the driver's side is close to being on its side if not for the bent wing. The other wing though is broken off and nowhere to be found. I set my stuff don along with botth urns and approce the crash. Some of he ground is scorced and some of the white metal is burn black. The windows are busted and both front doors are open along with the right passenger side door in the back. The driver side door looks about to fall off though. It looks like hell. I take another deep breath and investigate further. Dried blood in the cockpit and in the back where I must have hit my head. Just thinking about it makes my head hurt. I take a few deep breaths to call myself then I feel a hoof on my right shoulder. I look over to see Celestia smiling.

" I know his must be tough for you right now." She said in an comforting tone.

" Yeah it is. I never would've believed that I would be the one to bury my friends. Anyway lets just get this over with." I sigh. I walk over to the left side back door and open it. Rickie was smart enough to have the bench seat in the back open up and packed with a few items for safety including a crowbar, a small entrenching tool, a small med kit, a mag light though I call it the 'night stick', and a flare gun with a few rounds. I have to duck a bit and position myself right so I don't fall back. I unlatch the seat and it opens a little on its own. I dig around and find the shovel. Well lets dig some holes.

-1 hour later-

Wow, I can't believe that I am about to put my friends to rest. Damn this feels strange to even think of anything to joke about right now. Rickie and Aaron were both the masters of well planned jokes. I decided to bury them under an oak stump near the path we came from. I call everyone over as now I'm done digging." It's done." I say wiping away sweat from my brow. I dug a hole about 2 and 1/2 feet deep and about a foot wide. I lower one by one the urns, though I wish I would've gave them the names to put on each of them, oh well.

" Ok everypony." I said turning around to face them." I'm not one for funerals at all, but I would like to at least bow our heads in silence for a few moments to honor my two friends though you have never met them personal but at least remember what happened here. So let us bow our heads in silence." I finis and Fluttershy is almost on the verge of tears, including Rarity and Applejack. We lower our heads in silence and I remember something my brother told me right after our parents died.

" Alex NEVER let anyone you hold close go. And even though we all die at some point but those who die, Never let their memories fade, the good and bad. Never let their memories fade." He said.

I sigh and start covering the urns with the dirt until I'm done and packed it down. Silence seems eerie in this forest. Now a new thought enters my head. What am I going to do now? I stab the shovel into the dirt and sit down. Everypony sits down on their hindquarters and the mood is very sad. Now to see what I can salvage from the plane. Lets see three storage compartments. One on each side of the plane with one large on full of coolers, food, and large camping supplies. The two on the sides are for bags and shit. I stand up and stretch. I get looks from the others as do so but I ignore them.

" Well I'm going to see what to save and what to burn." I say walking back over to the plane. I look slightly behind me to see everypony follow.

" You guys don't need help." I say offering for them to relax a bit. Everyone shakes their head no." We wanna help. You owe me a bag anyway." Pinkie Pie demands, and I roll my eyes.

" I want research what equipment you have." Twilight said with a slight smile.

" I'm curious too. Your species seems very advanced." Celestia also says with a small smile. I hear other cries of protest from the others, even Fluttershy who still looks sad. Maybe I can cheer everyone up later. I first stop a the slightly open left side storage door. Unfortunately it looks to be smashed to the point of not opening without force, light bulb moment. I go back into the plane and take out the black solid steel foot and a half long crowbar.

" Stand back." I say as I put the pry end in the bottom. I choose this spot because I can see that the metal is weaker at this point than at the top. With my might I push against the bar and then a metallic BANG. The door flies open and smacks the side of the plane. I toss the crowbar down. Its too dark though. I go back and grab the mag light. I turn it on and see my bags and Rickie's.

" Alright one down two to go." I say out loud but mostly to myself. Twilight taps my leg. " Whats with all the bags in there?"

" Well some are mine and the rest are Rickie's."

" Which one was Ricky?"

" He was tall and slender."

" OH he was the burnt face human!" Dash shouts and I glare at her, though I'm glad that I found out who got the hot head. I grab the first bag I see, which ironically is mine. I unzip it and thankfully its just cloths and my gun and machete, which are buried at the bottom. Rarity comes up and inspects." Odd color choices but your were going camping so I understand. Still what is that sticking out from the bottom of the pile?" I reach down and pull out the Khuriki.

" This is a tool as well as a weapon." I state as I unbutton the sheath. The black solid metal and rubber handle feels smooth in my hand, and the sliver metallic steel shines in the sunlight." Thats an odd tool." Applejack points out.

" Well its mainly used to clear brush and debris, but it can chop down small trees and in a pinch could save yourself from an attack." I replace he sheath and set it aside. I dig deeper and pull out my gun case. There is a small padlock on it and I forgot my damn keys, shit." Well fuck it then." I mutter and unsheathe my blade. I put the tip into the the space between the handle and the lock. With one hand on the box and one with the blade I push down and it naps like a twig. I spin the Kurki in my hand a few times and stab it into the ground. I unlatch the single latch on it and open to revile my baby. The wooden handle and silver finish shine brightly, and I crack a smile.

" Whooaa what is that?" Dash asks from her vantage point above me.

" Now this is a weapon." I say picking it up.

" What is it?" Twilight asks.

" This is a gun. Its a projectile weapon that shoots a small bullet." I pick up one from the box to show everypony." It can be a deadly weapon if in the wrong hands or in the hands of someone without proper training."

" Your species created a miniature cannon for your err hands as you call them?" Celestia questions and I nod.

" Celestia there are FAR worst things that my species has done other than just this simple device. We have created, tested, and even deployed pure weapons of mass destruction all in the name of science and freedom. This small hand gun is just the tip of the iceberg." I put the gun back in its case and put both Kurki and 1911 back in my bag and zip it up.

Now lets start scavenging.