Alright! Next chapter! I never thought I would get this done! I mean, I've had a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG month. And that was only this month! But I swear they just invented school to make us endure more stress. It would be great if it started just ONE HOUR later. Yuh know, get a little more sleep? But any how I'm digressing… HEY! What about the season finale of MLP: FIM? Did anyone catch it? Because it was tight yo! Twilight's Kingdom. But I agree there were some pretty big story holes. (Refusal to make the plot holes joke!) Like, everyone's moods kept changing so rapidly. I mean, this whole season Twilight's be pretty ok with her position as princess as it was and suddenly she's calling into question everything about her destiny? If it were me I'd just take the gig and run. It was pretty easy just doing what you normally do (for her it's save the world) and being called royalty. I'd love being a princess… well actually maybe not. I can't stand frou-frou dresses and the media. But also, I don't like that they had Discord BETRAY his friends and everything he had after a scene that didn't even last a full minute. I mean it would take more than that to get him to abandon everything he's learned for having Fluttershy in his life! Though this little loop has given my story some amazing new ways to end and- OH MY GOD! I'm rambling! I've become my mother! I swore I would never do that, that we would only share a gender and that that was that (because yes I am a girl!)... but it's happened.
Oh well! (:
Hey Modern Family is on! Let's get this over with so I can still catch some of the episode… PREVIOUSLY! Ow! I hurt my own ears...
"SWEET! You really got me! Esilarante!"
"WELCOME TO PONYVILLE TOXIC!"
"I had a little help!"
"Oh, who helped?"
"Nice to see you again Toxic."
"Discord! My favorite animal mash up! Dare I ask what the chicken is for?"
"No you do not."
"Well it's fascinating really…"
"Just please refrain from destroying any businesses this time."
"No promises!"
"And that's what happened!"
"Luna, she has had a rough time in life. But when I held her in my wings and she openly sobbed… I felt a connection. Like I'm supposed to care for and protect her."
"Does thou mean…"
"Luna… I believe I see Toxic… as my own daughter."
"Well let's introduce you!"
"Duh! Of course! What party has no games?!"
"Well lots where I'm from actually. But kids can't go to those parties."
"Well, apples away!"
"So I did the most logically thing… and panicked."
"Ah! What's on my face! Please tell me it's not a goose! Please no goose! No goose! I hate geese!"
"That's no goose silly filly! That's Gummy!"
"Pinkie was introducing the alligator, Gummy apparently, to me."
"Hun, well at least it's not a goose. Man I hate geese!"
"Why?"
"Something in my childhood, I'll tell you all some other time. Hey, any chance there's karaoke here?"
"Uuuuuuuh, so there is karaoke?"
"VINYL! Toxic wants to do the karaoke! Did you get it?!"
"Pinkie! This the guest 'O' honor? Hay yeah, I got it all set up! Do you have a favorite song there….?"
"Toxic Wastenote. It's cool to meet you Vinyl Scratch, or is it DJ PON3?"
"PON3 is my stage name, but we're cool Toxic. Do you have a request?"
"Actually… mind if I hooked up my own stuff? I think I know how from my uncle but I'll need some help and you wouldn't have my songs actually."
'Come on Toxic. Come on. Which song is perfect to impress these ponies? No. No. No. No! NO! Wait. Wait almost there. YES! Yes that song! Perfect! And none of them will get on my case about it! Granted none of them will understand but… eh! PERFECT!'
"Heeello Ponyville! It's real nice to be here and moving here. But since I'm going to be a new neighbor to all of you, I figure I should introduce myself properly. My name is Toxic Wastenote, and I love singing!"
'Ari no mama no sugata miseru no yo!
"I had my eyes closed and was too 'in the zone' to notice the balloons or the sounds of shock and confusion from the party guests and my friends."
"The room all stared in awe at my performance in both magic and singing. I had no idea that I was causing any of this and kept my chin up and sang with my heart. This was my fresh start. A new town, a new country, a new world! This was where I would make my mark."
"This was the best feeling. The- best- feeling!"
"All faces, even Pinkie and Discord, had jaws opened wide in shock. What had I done?"
"That! Was! Awesome!"
"Amazing!"
"How? How did you do all that?!"
"Well, maybe I don't have normal magic."
"I can vouch for that!"
"I mean she wasn't using boring old harmonic magic."
"What in tarnation does that mean?"
"If you want to keep your arms I suggest putting me down now pazzo."
"So- ow by the way- you're saying I have magic that bends space and time to get me whatever I want?"
"In a nutshell… yes."
"Meraviglioso."
Wow, looking back it seems like a lot. Oh well! Here's the next part of the Legendary Story of -wait for it- TOXIC WASTENOTE!
A.K.A. MLP: FIT (My Little Pony: Friendship is Toxic)
Chapter 6: Home is where the heart is! And my heart is defending Discord right now!
(By now you probably know whose Pov this is but, Toxic's Pov)
I yawned and stretched out my front legs as I woke up. I groggily rubbed my eyes and looked out the window in Twilight's guest room to see a blazing, bright sun staring back at me.
After the party it had been late at night and I realized I still didn't have any place to stay for the night. Twilight immediately mentioned there was a spare bed at the library she offered up, but I first turned her down saying I didn't want to mooch off my friends, but of course she retorted with it wasn't mooching just friends being there for each other.
This went on, back and forth, for nearly a half hour before I finally caved and spent the night at Twilight's tree- library- house thing…
So now I'm waking up now, in Twilight's home, and I start out by shaking myself awake on the floor. Or really, what I thought was the floor. It took a moment for me to realize that things actually weren't right. I got out of bed, nothing odd. Walked across the floor, good. Bumped into the lantern floating in the middle of the floor, check….. Wait what?
My eyes shot open as I realized what was horribly wrong. As I looked around I realized I was not on the floor, and neither was the bed… but rather, I was on the ceiling. So seeing this occurrence, I did the only logically thing one does when they realize they're climbing the ceiling like Spiderman… I screamed to the top of my lungs and clung to that ceiling like there was no tomorrow, which if I let go there just might not be for me.
"TWILIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGHHHT! HELP! EMERGENCY!"
I heard her fall out of her own bed, or maybe a chair, and come galloping full speed to the room. She bursts through the door and looks around the room looking and calling for me. "TOXIC! WHERE ARE YOU?!"
"UP HERE!"
She looked toward the ceiling and her jaw just dropped to the floor. "How did you get up THERE?!"
I cried out, "I DON'T KNOW! I WOKE UP AND THE BED WAS ON THE CEILING!"
"Well are you ok?!"
"HELP ME DOWN!"
"Alright! Hold on!" She hovers in the air, carefully lifting up to the ceiling and making her way towards me. "Now, I need you to let go now."
"WHAT?!"
"It's ok, I got you!"
I was hesitant as I blew hanging hair from my face and watched Twilight reach out her front hooves to me. "O-Ok," I shakily said as I reached one hoof out "B-But don't drop me!"
"I wouldn't dream of it."
I grasped one of Twilight's hooves and latched onto her like she was a life raft and I was in an ocean of sharks. I never even opened my eyes as she lowered to the ground, grunting as I started cutting off her air, and finally hitting the correct floor. "We're down Toxic, you can let go now," is what she attempted to say. But since my front legs were still tightly wrapped around her neck it come out as "Mmmh, ugh down- now… Toxic… let go!"
I cracked open an eye and saw the floor, the real floor this time, and I let go of Twilight and immediately started kissing the floor. "Oh floor, I never thought I'd be this happy to be standing! Bleck!" I spat the dirt and dust out of my mouth "Uh Twilight, I really don't mean to offend but when was the last time you cleaned this floor?"
Twilight was gasping for air after I had let her go. "Now- what- happened?" she said in between large breathes.
"I don't know! I woke up, barely awake, even walked around a little before bumping into a lamp and I realized I was WALKING ON THE CEILING!" I punctuated my point by throwing my hooves in the air. "Does this sorrta thing happen a lot around here?!"
"Well," Twilight said "odd things happen a lot, especially around Pinkie Pie, but nopony has ever woken up on the ceiling before."
"Well yuh can't say that anymore can yuh?"
"I think I might have an idea though," she smiled and put a hoof on her horn. "You don't know how to control your magic yet right?"
"Yeah, only been a pony for 'bout twenty four hours."
"Exactly, and if Discord was telling the truth, that means you have a form of more unstable magic."
"And what does that mean?" Why can't she just say what she means and be done with it? I do that all the time.
"It means that you need to control it or it will warp reality on its own to burn off power before it builds up."
"Ohhhhh," I said "so, will you teach me?"
Twilight's smile faltered a bit. "Well, I could help a little but only with harmonious magic. I don't know how chaos magic works. If I did I wouldn't feel like pulling my mane out whenever I'm around Discord."
"Is he really that bad?" I asked. I didn't believe he was as bad as she thought. I mean… I don't think real evil, like the messed up psychopaths from my world, exists here. It's more like all these ponies are at peace and the veil just builds up and explodes in one event like a volcano. Plus, I learned a long time ago to never just look at things from the hero's perspective. A villain isn't born, they're made. Something messes with them and they finally snap and it just all goes downhill from there. Like they are a simple man with a family and then his wife and children are murdered and it sends him of the deep end. Or a child that's judged based on appearance or their family's actions, and that makes me think of the newest version of Carrie. Man that was an awesome movie! Now I'm thinking of Hunger Games, sweeeeeet! Now I'm thinking about the movie theatre. Now I'm thinking about the internet. Now I'm thinking I need to stop thinking and listen to Twilight. Pay attention brain!
"Well, he did try to take over Equestria, and used to rule might I add."
"But what exactly was so evil about what he did?"
She paused. The look on her face said 'this girl either isn't listening or is crazy'. Well I'm serious. Did he kill someone- somepony gotta get used to that, but did he?
"He conquered Equestria! What isn't evil about that?!"
"Well, did he kill somepony?"
She seemed to falter in confidence that she was right. "Well, uh, n-no he didn't."
"Did he do anything to abuse somepony?"
"Uh, uh, no."
"Did he ever verbally abuse somepony?"
"Um, he wasn't very kind."
"But did he use words to make ponies feel like life wasn't worth living?"
She didn't answer, but I knew the answer already. He wasn't the evil kind of evil that I knew of. He was more… chaotic.
"Twilight, don't you think you could have compromised maybe? I mean, just look at things from his perspective for a minute." I said, continuing my argument in favor of the strange creature I had just met. "He was imprisoned for a thousand years right? That's a long time to go without doing something. That would even drive a sane pony mad, so just imagine what it would do to an already unstable pony."
She tried arguing back. "Yeah but-" But I wasn't finished yet.
"And then think of this. He is chaos. If he stopped causing chaos it would be like… if Celestia stopped raising the sun and left you all to freeze at night. Or Luna stopped raising the moon and let you all burn away in the sun. Or even, if you stopped being able to use magic. What if you just woke up one morning and you couldn't perform any spells, you couldn't fly, you didn't' even have any of your books left, they were all gone. What would you do then?"
Her jaw was open, unsure of an answer. "I… I… I couldn't…. my-my magic… what?"
"You wouldn't like it would you? You'd do anything to get it back wouldn't you? Well think of Discord having to go through that for a thousand years and being unable to do anything about it. Like a volcano that was just building up and building up until it explodes and melts everything around it. I'm not saying what he did was right, but you could have thought before you acted also. I'm sure that letting him blow off the steam would have actually been good for everyone."
"I-"
"Also, you said Luna used to be Nightmare Moon right? And she was on the moon or in the moon for a thousand years? But Celestia and Luna defeated Discord, so that means that Discord was defeated before Luna was sent to the moon. But Luna came back before Discord was free. That would mean that Discord was actually in stone for more than a thousand years, so that only makes the pressure worse."
I took a breath and sighed. That was a lot of talking to do.
"I uh… I-I-uh m-my… m-my magic… Discord- Discord," Twilight stuttered. I saw her eyes, the size of pin pricks.
Shoot! I think I just overloaded her brain!
"Twilight?" I waved a hoof in front of her face but got no response. "Twilight? You ok? Should I dump ice water on you or something?" With no response, I went with my only option.
I coughed, clearing my throat. Then I slowly built up a high note, then screeched to the top of my lungs. A glass of water shattered as my voice hit the high pitched squeal, I heard dogs begin to howl, and Twilight suddenly gasped and put her hooves over her ears.
"TOXIC STOP!"
I stopped. I mean, I did what I had to do right? I regret nothing!
I coughed and rubbed my throat before speaking, "Sorry Twilight, but for a second I thought I broke your brain."
She squinted her eyes and rubbed her forehead, "Just DON'T do it again!"
"I promise, but if you break again like that and I have no choice I can't say I won't." I smiled, "But I just want to say, Discord isn't bad. He's just… suppressed. Just don't go judging a guy before you get to know him. I just met him but I like him."
"Why are you defending him?"
I felt my ears lower, like an instinct, and my smile disappeared. "That's… kinda why I never had friends back home. They all sorrta… judged the book by its cover you know."
Twilight's mouth turned from questioning to sympathetic. "I'm sorry."
"It's ok. You didn't judge me," I whispered at the end "but it still hurt."
Twilight put a hoof on my shoulder and smiled a little. "Well let's not think about it then. We accept you for who you are here one hundred percent."
"Thanks Twilight," I got my smile back for the moment. She was right. I feel kind of cheesy quoting 'Let It Go' lyrics but… I'm never going back, the past is in the past.
"It's what friends do for one another," she said. Friends. That really is weird now. Not just because my friends are ponies, but because I've never had friends that actually cared this much. I mean, yeah I had the kid I would talk to at lunch or someone in class I could say hi to and talk TV shows and music with, but I never had the whole BFF that you would go to movies with or sleepovers or stuff like that. For the longest time I didn't even understand why all that stuff was so important to other girls. But once I reached thirteen I started to get it. Compassion, understanding, someone to confide in, that's why it was important.
I was still confused as to why those things were necessary though.
And I was even worse with dating. I'd had a total of two boyfriends in my life. One was when I was still young and it lasted about three days over the summer, never getting farther than a hug. And the second… I hate him. I hate him, I hate him, I hate him! Don't get the wrong idea, he never raped me or anything! No, he just… did something really bad and I don't ever want to see his face again.
"Toxic?"
I snapped out of it and saw Twilight staring at me, still in the room I had slept in last night. "I'm sorry, I think I got lost in thought. Did you say something?"
"Yeah, I asked if you wanted to get breakfast and go into town."
"Oh sure! Uh, actually, where do you go to get a house?"
Twilight blinked, "What? Well, uh, that would be town hall, but I told you you're welcome here."
"Twilight, I appreciate that, I really do. But I can't live here forever. If this is where I will live for the rest of my life, I'm gonna need my own place to call home sweet home. I enjoyed sleeping over, and I can't thank you enough, but I can't take advantage of a friend's kindness. Especially when I just met said friend."
She smiled and gave me a small and quick hug. Separating, she said, "Alright, but if you ever DO need a place to stay for the night our door's always open."
I smiled back and said it was a promise.
Twilight and I went downstairs, she said she would put the bed back down later and then look into getting some control over my new unstable magic. When we got down the stairs Spike was making what looked like pancakes but he called hay-cakes. "Wow, those smell good Spike!" I couldn't help but here my stomach growl in agreement, to which they and I laughed at.
"Thanks! I'm sort of a chef you know," he said bragging.
"You do know that it doesn't count if most of what you cook can only eaten by dragons right?" Twilight said.
Spike pouted, "Jealous miss 'I burn everything I cook with magic'?"
Twilight frowned, "I do not!"
"Explain why I had to clean up exploded hay-cakes then?"
I laughed as I took a seat at the table and began eating, trying to maneuver the fork in my hooves since I had yet to control my magic. It took probably twice as long as it should have to eat but I got it down relatively fast.
"Ready to go?" Twilight asked after cleaning the table. Just then I remembered my saddle bag.
"One second!" I jumped up and went back upstairs to the room I had spent the night in and saw where I had left my new saddle bag slouched against the wall. Just double checking, I looked to see if everything was still there. It was and I strapped it on and headed back down to an awaiting Twilight and Spike. "Alright, I got my stuff. Ready when you are."
Twilight nodded and we headed out, walking back into Ponyville.
I still got a few stares, but the looks and confusion seemed to have died down now. Oh well, I can't change how I look so they'll just have to get used to me.
"Alright, here we are!" Twilight said, Spike riding on her back.
We had arrived at a round building about double the size of some of the other buildings I've seen here but with the same basic color scheme of brown, pink, and cream. Well, if this was the place then this was the place.
Twilight asked me to wait a minute outside while she got the mayor and would ask if there was any available homes for sale. Of course I said "No prob" and waited outside with Spike. Since it was just me and him, I tried getting to know him a little better.
"So Spike, how exactly did you end up in Twilight's care anyhow?"
He looked at me, like he was thinking. "Well, Twilight's the one who hatched me in the first place."
I felt like my jaw wanted to drop, but I kept it closed. "Really? How'd that happen?"
"Well, she was up for an audition at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. The last thing they asked was for her to hatch a dragon egg. And that was me!"
I couldn't help but giggle, "You are just too cute for your own good you know that?"
He huffed again, crossing his arms and glaring at the ground.
"Defiantly cuter than a dragon from my world. Heck, those are just old legends and fairytales. There aren't any real dragons back on Earth!"
It was about then that Twilight came back out smiling, motioning for us to follow her in. Going in we were met with a mare wearing glasses, blue eyes, coffee tan fur, a gray and white mane, a cutie mark of a rolled up deed, and wearing a white collar with a green fluffy bow thing on the front. Gonna go out on a limb and say she's the mayor.
"Hello, you must be the new pony in town. Toxic Wastenote?" the mare asked. I nodded, still smiling. "It's wonderful to meet you! I'm Mayor Mare, mayor of Ponyville!"
We shook hooves which I still fumbled with. I seriously gotta practice this hoof stuff! Walking alone is a full time job.
"It's great to meet you Miss Mayor," I said "I assume that Twilight already told you why I'm here?"
She nodded. "Yes, and I am happy to say there is good news and bad news about the sale of property in Ponyville."
"I would really appreciate some good news," I said. I had a very unconvincing grin. Even I knew it wasn't real.
"Well the good news is there is a property for sale just on the outskirts of the town limit, near Everfree Forest."
Ok not so bad. "And the bad news?"
"The property has been abandoned for years. The building would need major renovations just to make it remotely livable, and all of that would require a fair amount of bits."
Aw crud monkeys. "Well… what if I could do most of the work myself?" I'm not a carpenter but I was a bit of a tom-boy back home. I know how to put up a tent, build a toy car, and the mechanics of how well… mechanics work.
"And what if she had friends to help her?" Twilight added on.
I looked at her. "Twilight no. I wouldn't freeload in your house and I'm not going to take advantage of your kindness and have you build me a house. I can find work somewhere to get the basics done. And I know how to do minor renovations, I watched my dad do them to our house the majority of my life. I'm not going to mooch off of you."
She glared, and I mean REALLY glared at me. "Toxic Wastenote, stop being stubborn and just accept that friends help friends when they need each other."
I wanted to argue back, but the mayor was literally right there in front of us and I really didn't want to start a fight over something so simple. "Well… I don't want heavy lifting or spending money on me. Deal?" I extended a front leg.
She smiled and shook my hoof. "Deal."
The mayor finally chimed back in. "Well, I suppose having more hooves to help could get the job done."
"Great!" I said "Now how much does this go for?"
The mayor looked at me, then Twilight, then me, then Twilight, just back and forth slowly. Then she pulled out a deed. "Here, it's old and run down. I couldn't honorably ask somepony to pay for this."
I watched as she handed me the deed, staring in disbelief at the fact the mayor had just given me my home. "I- I- thank you, so much, thank you!"
She smiled, "Consider it a welcoming gift. Now Ponyville has two alicorns instead of just one!"
I know it was probably inappropriate, but I hugged the mayor with the deed in my grasp. I could never thank her enough for this. Whether or not this place needed work or was a pile of wood in the grass didn't matter. She had just given me the start of my new life, and all for free.
"Ok, so this is it?"
Twilight and Spike lead me to the grounds of my new house. The mayor was right, this place was abandoned with a capital A!
The house was all wood, stones littering the grass that was untamed and uncut. The windows were either smashed or completely gone. The door was there but wide open and smashed into at some point. It was three floors though, and it looked like it had an attic and maybe a cellar or basement. All the paint was chipping and peeling, the hay that once made up the roof fallen in between rafters. There had once been a porch light that had been broken off and was long gone or possibly very close. And the mayor was right, it was close to the Everfree Forest Twilight told me about.
"Yup," Twilight said "now this place isn't great but-"
"It's a dump!" Spike said. Twilight glared down at him, effectively making him turn away and whistle an innocent tune.
"Well, it's not amazing but-"
"IT'S PERFECT!" I yelled with a smile, stars in my eyes.
"It is?" they both asked.
"YES! It may be run down, but it has good bones! And it's big, and has an attic, and a basement! It's great! I've seen much, much, MUCH worse before after a bad storm! I can see it now!" I waved my hoof between the house and my eyes.
"The bottom floor becomes my dream. My own karaoke place. Where you can sing and never be judged by anypony. Music, dancing, and live performances. My life gets the second two floors. A room, filled with every color that exists. That will be my bedroom! The attic, filled with instruments, music books, picture sand more. All ready and waiting for me. A basement with a couch and a radio. Just one room to go to for quiet. All these ideas and more!" I couldn't stop smiling. "It will be A LOT of work, but work is a part of the reward. I can see my life here Twilight."
I sat down for a minute, feeling my smile turn a little more on the sad side. "No mom to yell at me for being different. No sister to steal my things and be a brat. No- no dad who walks out on me when I need him. No kids who single me out and beat me outside of school and bully me inside school." I took a deep breath, "Just me. Me, my friends," I felt a blush across my face at the next part "maybe somepony who loves me. The real me."
I felt a rumble in my throat, it was a chuckle. It escaped my lips and filled the air around me. My laugh that came from this sense of relief that I didn't have any pressure on me anymore. "I'm sorry. I must sound like such a sap right now." I rubbed my eye, trying to get rid of the strange mix of happy and sad tears.
I felt wings wrap around me, and little arms around my legs. Twilight and Spike were hugging me, I felt a shiver run down my spine from the contact.
"Guys… thanks," I just whispered. I would normally argue I was fine, but I kinda liked being comforted right now.
"Ok, ok. I'm all better now."
I heard their little chuckles as they let me go. Twilight and Spike asked if I wanted to go back and get the others with them, but I just wanted to wait a minute. Take everything in.
I asked for them to wait for me back at the library. If I was going to ask for help than I was going to be the one to ask.
They left, and I just sat in the grass and took in the sight of the old house. It was falling apart and probably a severe safety hazard, but it was mine. This was my very own home. In a matter of three days I've started an entire life in a whole new universe. What I had thought about earlier came back to me and I found my face getting warmer. What about finding somepony who loves me? I mean, I'd have to tell whoever his would be that I'm really a human. Only two males know the truth. One's a baby dragon and the other… well actually I can't think of anything wrong with Discord. He's a bit annoying but I really have zero room to talk there. And he is funny, and he's just the right level of crazy, a little cute…
…wait whuh?
BAD BRAIN! NO! NO! Don't think like that! I mean, god brain! He's like… OLD! Like OLD old! Get your heap out of the clouds and back here in front of this crumbling building!
Ok, my house, right.
I got up and turned tail back to the library. Now the living room, defiantly blue and clouds everywhere on the walls. And gotta have a mint green bathroom. OH! A RED ROOM! Oh man was that a creepy movie. It could be the red-rum room! Ha! Oh I really wish these ponies would be able to get that!
Hooray for Toxic not being a deadbeat!
Hip hip, hooray! Hip hip, hooray! Hip hip, hooray!
I wasn't just going to have her live with Twilight or one of the mane six forever. A girl needs her own space! And I gave a hit about the future there with Discord and her. It's gonna be a looooooooooooooooooong way towards romance with these two isn't it?
Peace toward your mothers Bois!
-Toxic Wastenote ;D
