I'm sooooooooooooooooooo happy that people actually want me to continue at such a fast rate. And the fact that this just keeps getting more and more views, favorites, and reviews is totally back flippin' awesome! Now how does a game plan sound? Huh? Great! I want to get the Toxic into Ponyville in the next two or so chapters. And of course her joining the pony-society is coming soon. To a theater near you! Boo wacka wacka doo! Now… Previously in the last chapter…
"Loud yelling that sounded so angry. And it was directed at me."
"Vanessa you can't just fight someone if they accuse you of something."
"Why can't you for once be more like your sister?"
"WELL I'M NOT JESSICA OK!"
"I walked toward it, and cried once again. It was the day my dad left us all alone."
"Did he not love me anymore? Why is he leaving? Why doesn't he love us? What did I do wrong?"
"I know what happened that day. Why am I being forced to relive it?"
"THOU EVIL NIGHTMARES SHALL LEAVE THIS PORE SOUL BE!"
"Celestia helped you into her bed after thou fell asleep. She heard your screams and asked us to see if thou were ok."
"We are Princess Luna, princess of the night and dreams."
"And here I am with no flowers or gifts for such royalty!"
"T-thou art' a riot Vanessa! And we truly appreciate the flowers."
"And we are friends now, right?"
"Yes! We art' friends now!"
"Goodbye for now… our friend."
"See you soon, friend."
And now for the next chapter in the story! *Phone ringing* Oh hold on a sec! *Picks up phone* Hello! Toxic Wastenote here! *Caller: Hello? Is your refrigerator running?* What? Yeah my fridge is running. *Caller: THEN YOU BETTER GO CATCH IT!* What!? Who is this!? This makes no sense! *Caller: Come now, what fun is there in making sense?* What!? Wait… Discord? *Discord hangs up* DISCORD!
Chapter 3: The girl who became a mare, an alicorn mare that is!
(Vanessa's Pov)
I felt my eyes shudder. My nose twitched. I breathed a heavy sigh as I opened my eyes and took notice of where I was. I remembered from my dream that Luna said Celestia let me sleep in her bed after my complete breakdown.
Fan-freakin'-tastic, I forgot that I let all my inner emotions out for a few minutes. Curse her tender and comforting nature! And also bless it! Ok, now I'm just arguing with myself in my head.
After choosing to stop talking to myself in my head I saw I was lying down on a big, round, and plush purple bed and a purple blanket had been placed over top of me to keep me warm. I saw clouds painted on blue walls to appear like the sky. A tapestry of a glowing sun was on the wall over the bed I was in, and one of a crescent moon was right next to it over another bed like the one I was in except it was a little smaller and was white. There were two potted plants, a vanity with shelves, a terrace, a couple of yellow pillows on the purple rug, a small bookshelf that was filled, and for some reason… a coy pond with a dragon head fountain and a couple of lily pads. Why does she need a fountain in her room? Eh! Maybe she just likes all that inner peace stuff it's meant to represent. I rolled over and saw a piece of paper on the bed rolled up and waiting to be read. I cracked my back, picked up the letter, and read it to myself.
'Dear Toxic,
After you fell asleep I chose to move you to my own room for your comfort and protection. Later I heard you yelling in your sleep and was worried for you, so I asked my younger sister to check on you in your dream. When you read this I hope you will have felt better about whatever was troubling you. When you feel fit, just leave the room and come and join me in the throne room. I have asked some friends to come and meet you and introduce you to your new home. Also, I believe I know the certain somepony who arranged this deal for you to come here. When you leave, there is a guard outside the doors that has instructions to lead you to the throne room. Feel free to freshen up or just relax before you choose to leave. I will be in the throne room with my friends and Luna when you get there.
I hope you like it here, Celestia'
So I should probably freshen up like she said, right? I don't wanna look all messy if I'm gonna meet more ponies.
I put the letter down and got out of the bed and walked to the vanity mirror. When I saw myself, I wasn't surprised I looked pretty bad. My hair was extremely frizzy and messed up in its ponytail, and my face looked oily and worn out.
I walked over to the little pool thing in the room and cupped some water in my hands. I washed my face off over my clothes and undid my hair and wet it. When it was all soaked in, I looked around for a brush and found a black one on top of the bookcase. '
I sure hope they don't mind me using this brush,' I thought as I picked it up and ran it through my black hair.
When I had all the tangles out I put the brush back and I pulled my hair back tightly near the top of my head, and re-did it in a ponytail. Huh… ponytail. Unintentional pun I just realized I've been thinking over and over. I walked back over to the vanity and took another look. I looked better, but I still had on the same outfit from the day before when I first got there. I sighed and took a look at the shelf below the top of the vanity. I saw a fabric cube folded up on the shelf, a piece of paper was folded up like a place card on top of it with 'Toxic' written on it in green letters. I picked up the note and read this new one.
'I thought after last night you might want a change of clothing. The castle has spare clothes for all creatures or requested designs. I hope these are to your liking, Celestia.'
That mare is just too freakin' kind! I put the note on the shelf and picked up the folded up clothing. When I unfolded it, it wasn't half bad. I glanced around the room to see if anyone (or pony) was able to see me. I stripped out of my clothing and tried on the new outfit along with my jewelry and of course I kept my goggles around my neck. There was even new black underwear and bra for me. Now how did she know my cup size?
…never mind.
I looked in the mirror and liked what I saw. I was wearing a bright green tank top with a black heart in the right upper corner, black yoga pants that cut off before the ankles, new white bobby socks, black ballet flats, and lastly was a bright yellow headband that I slipped on and in my hair.
Considering there are no humans in this world, not too shabby aye ace?
I'm talking to no one again. Gotta work on that… I piled my old clothes right next to the vanity as neatly as possible and put the small note from the new clothes on top of them.
'Well, I've cleaned myself as best I can, I got my cool, and I'm wearing fresh clothing. Guess it's time to go meet some ponies….. gotta get used to sayin' ponies!'
I took a deep breathe, and walked to and out through the doors. Like the letter said, there was a guard there to lead me. I smiled and tried to be polite.
"Hello um, are you supposed to show me to the throne room?"
He just stared at me and nodded. He was a unicorn with gray fur and black spiky mane and tail with a red stripe that was held back by gold armor and a gold helmet and his eyes were like a sea foam green. I couldn't see what mark was on his flank because it was covered by the armor. Not that I was staring at it or anything!
I just took a glance. The walk to the throne room was quiet. I would try to have casual conversation or even professional talk, but he just didn't seem to open up. Finally, we made it to the large doors that led to the throne room.
I saw the door handles light up with like a red glow and they opened to reveal…. quit the sight. There was Celestia and Luna, two ponies, two pegasi, one unicorn, another pony with both a horn and wings, uh… some kind of lizard (possibly a dragon), and… what the heck is that? It had a pony… -ish head and red and yellow eyes that were mismatched, a deer antler, a goat horn, a donkey mane, a weirdly long snake like body that was covered in cinnamon brown fur, just… the biggest and bushiest white eyebrows I've ever seen in my whole life, one giant fang, a bird talon for one arm, a lion paw for the other, a lizard foot for on leg, a… maybe a deer leg for the other, a long and serpentine red tail that had a white fur tuft at the end, one blue feather wing, one black bat wing, a white goatee, and it was standing there, a creepy smile on its face, on those two mismatched legs, watching me.
The ponies and dragon just turned and starred at me with slack-jaw. Ok, does my hair look that bad? Nah I'm just joking! I knew it was because I was a human.
"Um… did I come at a bad time?"
Ok, maybe joking around was a bad idea, but would you have been able to think of a better one? When Celestia mentioned in the letter she asked some friends to meet me, I didn't think she meant eight! And I'm still unsure of what one of them was.
Ok, I admit that was a bit rude.
"Not at all Toxic. I'm glad to see you are feeling better. Come, these are the friends I wanted to meet you."
The guard was dismissed and I slowly walked past the other ponies, dragon, and… uh thing? I wound up between Celestia and Luna and in front of the group.
"Now this here, my little ponies… and Discord," I heard a darker tone to her voice when she said that, and considering that the thing is the only other non-pony besides me and the itty-bitty dragon, I'm gonna guess that that is Discord. Gender, still kind of a question mark but I'd guess male considering there seems to be nothing feminine about it.
"This is our new friend, Vanessa Anaya Lynbrook," Luna finished for her.
I felt them nudge my back and I reacted with a bow and quickly retracted. "Hello, um, my name is Vanessa, but my friends just usually call me Toxic," I took a glance at the thing I was certain was Discord and saw him grinning "and I am a human being from the planet known as earth."
I looked at each of the ponies' and dragon's faces to see them observing me. "Am I safe to assume that the giant grinning snake with arms and legs is the one who sent me here?" A jolt, and I saw the yellow pegasus gasp and then 'meep' quietly.
"Did what?!" the purple pony with a horn and wings said, then she was right up in that guy's grill "you brought a foreign creature to Equestria!"
"You know I'm right here," I said, crossing my arms.
"What's a hoo-man?" asked the blue Pegasus.
"Its hue-mun and I'm a bipedal omnivorous warm blooded homo sapien that can evolve and adapt to an environment or physical situation. And once again I'm guessing 'Discord' is the one who brought me here."
"Smarter than you look," it mumbled. It was low, but I still heard it. That voice. The voice that was in my head offering me to come here. "I see your voice is the same as it is in my head Discord. And I can tell all of you the story of what happened. But first, could I get a drink? I'm a bit thirsty."
Suddenly a flash and there was a glass of chocolate milk in my hand. I looked at the faces in the room, and the same disproportionate one was grinning almost like the Grinch.
"Thank you Discord." I took a sip and I enjoyed it. "Mmmm, good, but it could use a pinch of salt."
"Salt?" was heard all around the room.
I smiled and chuckled, "Yes, oh chocolate milk with a pinch of salt is just delicious. It brings out how sweet the chocolate really is."
Another flash and a shaker of salt was in my other hand. "There you are Toxic," Celestia said.
"Thank you Celestia," I thanked her. I shook the salt once very gently and a small amount fell into the milk. The salt disappeared and I spun the cup around and then took a sip. I gulped the whole thing down in seconds.
"Mmmmm that's good." I caught the stare in Discord's eyes and saw his want to do something to the glass. After a lite sigh, I tossed the cup in the air and in a second it was flashed into a pink cloud.
Oh… good grief.
Discord hopped up on the cloud and rested his chin on his paw. "Now on with the story," I sat down crossed legged on the floor "after someone gives me the stuff he promised me in the deal."
"And here I was starting to think you had forgotten," Discord snapped his talon fingers and there was a flash.
Now next to me was my army style burlap backpack. I took a look inside and found all the mentioned electronics as the contents. "Great! Now gather around young children, as I spin a web of wonder before your very eyes with only my words."
And so began the story of me being bored, singing alone in my room, hearing Discord's voice in my head, me arguing his points, left out the part about my hamster (poor, poor chief cheeky!), the deal, the condition that everyone would forget me, and then I woke up here. But of course I blurred out the part about me having a complete breakdown.
Let's just not tell another living soul about that.
(AN: In case you haven't noticed this is the longest chapter yet! BAM! What!?)
"Now that you have all been told the story, I asked you to come here for a very important matter," Celestia said.
"Sure princess, what yuh need?" the orange pony said.
"It is not what I need from you," she turned her look at me.
My eyes widened, "No. No! You said you wouldn't send me back!" I got to my feet. "I asked you to never send me back there! I can't go back to that place! I can't ever look at them again!"
"Who is them? Are they bad guys? Like evil villains? Like stalking monsters that want to attack!?" the pink pony rambled.
I just ignored her, "I won't go back! I've had it with my quote-un-quote 'family' judging me and treating me like a second hand piece of crap! I never want to talk to my 'mother' or my 'sister' again!"
"Toxic please calm down! I'm not sending you back!"
I took a raspy deep breathe and swallowed. I forced the tears away from my eyes and back into my skull.
"I promised I wouldn't send you back, and I will keep that promise. But I need you to make a choice." I looked back at her and appeared puzzled.
"Our ponies are not ready for such a new species to wonder their home," Luna said.
"But we need to know," Celestia approached me face to face "would you consent to becoming a pony?"
A collective gasp was heard.
"You can do that!?" shouted the blue pegasus in disbelief.
"Rainbow dash! Mind your manners in front of royalty!" scolded the white unicorn.
"It is your choice Toxic," Celestia told me.
I just stared out into nothing. I looked down at my hand, and flexed my fingers around.
If I was a pony… a pony… what? They would be gone. And my toes. Plus what would I do? Just live like they do? But what other choice do I have?
I won't go back. Never! Maybe being a pony won't be so bad…
"I am who I am," I sang one line while in deep thought, and it caught all their attentions.
"No matter what you say… I am me. My lungs still breathe," I smiled to myself.
A pony huh?
"Despite all the deceits… my heart still beats."
Being peaceful and calm. Living life based on good values.
"My way may seem strange," have friends.
"And I always take it long range," go on adventures.
"I just hope that one day… you will see."
Maybe even have my own family…
"I will always be me."
I clenched my fist and smiled brightly. "Pony-fy me princess of the sun." I laughed to the sky for no reason except it was all I could think to do.
I felt the tingle of something around me. It glowed warmly and felt tingly, but I still smiled and just closed my eyes. I felt the light changing me. My arms felt like they were water and my legs followed suit. I lost the feeling in my face and my body felt nonexistent.
Nothing was real at that moment. Then it went cold. I felt a rush of air. My lungs filled and then emptied. I heard a loud swish sound and the air around me pushed out into a cloud. Then it was all over. I felt four cold spots where my hands and feet used to be. I was still smiling through it all. I fluttered my eyelashes gently, and saw all faces staring at me.
"How do I look?" I asked.
"You- you…" the purple one tried to talk, but couldn't seem to get the words out.
"I'm what? What?" I looked over to Celestia and Luna, but they seemed just as shocked. "What?" I asked.
"Toxic," Celestia began "you are an alicorn."
Longest chapter yet speedy readies! Over 3000 words total! But I wanted this to be special since Toxic is now a pony. And an alicorn! Now I know that the whole 'alicorn OC' is pretty done to death, but when her whole destiny comes out and about it will all fall into place. Just trust me on this. Please?
Toxic Wastenote is out! Peace! ;)
