AN: Hello readers of this fanfiction. Just wanted to confirm that I most likely will not be excepting OC's anytime soon. Maybe sometime later when I feel I can handle them, or if some characters die (Duh duh duuuuuuuuuuh) anywho, this chapter will have a bit of focus on every character, and what they did during their first day in Equestria. Big thanks to my two friends Zane and Mathew, you guys are awesome. Brohoof. Queue the chapter.
-Morphine's POV-
I woke up in the morning with a pounding headache. Which wasn't surprising since after all, I had teleported through time and space having my body altered? I spent a moment rubbing my temple with my green hooves. I still couldn't get used to the fact that I had no fingers, or palms for that matter.
After a while of hanging about, I got up and walked downstairs to find most everyone had already woken up.
"Mornin' sunshine" said Solar as he sat at the table.
I nodded at him and tried to find the source of the delicious smell. I saw the turquoise unicorn and the blue pegasus arguing over the stove.
"I'm pretty sure you put a little more salt in the omelet." Argued Lonestar
"No way! You've added way to much as it is" Cloud shot back
"I've only added like, two shakes..."
I shook my head, arguing about stupid things was a classic trait of everypony, but he could tell it was all on good terms. He sat down and waited for the two to finish so he could get some food before he headed out. After a while, the appropriate amount of salt was decided and they served the omelets.
"Guys, I must say, this omelet is one of the better ones I've had." Said Colton with his mouth full of the eggy goodness. I ate in silence, wondering what I would do with my day.
"See, I told you not to add that much salt." Cloud said still carrying on the argument.
"I still think it could use a bit more" Lonestar argued back.
I finished my Omelet and proceeded to walk outside carrying my saddle bag that I found in my room.
"Morphine where are you going." Asked Colton looking at him puzzled.
"I just need a bit to clear my head." I replied shortly with a small smile before heading out the door.
What I said had been partially true, I did need a moment to decide my plan of action, but I also needed something else. I quickly managed to find the area where the city ended and the small plains around the town begun I walked past this admiring the beauty of the flowers as I walked. I got to the edge of the Everfree forest and walked on the edge of it. If what I was looking for grew anywhere it would have to be here. I walked for what seemed like ages searching for the large green leaves, when I finally stumbled across a grove of the stuff. I gave it a good sniff before confirming what it was.
Tabaco leaves.
I quickly sampled a leaf and chewed it for a bit. It was almost the same as a cigarette. I gathered a couple plants and marked the place in my mind to come back to later. I chewed on the leaf and walked a bit farther savoring the taste.
I had been walking for a couple hours and was just thinking about turning back when suddenly I spotted a small cottage on the river. It was most likely Fluttershy, by far my favorite of the Mane 6. I admired the fact that even though she was otherwise timid, she always managed to find the courage when it counted. I spat out the chewed leaf and walked up to the cottage curious if she really was as she was portrayed.
Before I could knock on the door a small robin had landed on the door frame above me and chirped happily.
"Hey little birdie" I said in my usual calm demeanor "Would you mind getting Fluttershy for me, I would love to talk to her."
The robin chirped twice in reply before flying through a small hole in the door. I sat down admiring the beautiful scene before me while I waited. I waited a bit longer than usual, but as timid as Fluttershy was, I didn't expect anything less. The garden before me had quite enough to look at; it was beautiful, with flowers thriving in full bloom, perfectly trimmed hedges where everywhere and a small vegetable garden sat to my left.
The door opened a crack and I saw a single green eye almost hidden by pink hair look at me.
"Hi, are you Fluttershy?" I asked.
"…eep" I heard her tiny voice, scared at the presence of a strange pony.
"Hey, um I'm new to Ponyville and I've heard of you all the way from Las Pegasus.
All I got was another eep from the scared pegasus.
Suddenly I saw a rabbit emerge from the door taping his foot impatiently.
"Hey there little bunny" I said in a calming voice. "What's your name?"
The rabbit slowly stopped tapping his foot and looked up at me with wide eyes.
"His name is angel…" I heard her say, quietly, but just loud enough to understand.
"What a wonderful name" I said patting Angel on the head a couple times. Angle smiled in response to his calm personality and hopped back inside. "May I come in? I would love to chat with you…"
"Sure…" I heard Fluttershy mumble blushing as she said it. I was let inside and prepared for a friendly conversation…
-Lonestar's POV-
Great, just great, when I go try and talk to the pony I want to date, I have to go and screw it up. I stared down in the bottom of the glass of hard cider and sighed. I just had to embarrass myself in front of Applejack.
I downed the last of it, tasting the apples from the farmer's orchard. I glanced around me, the bar was nothing special, and it was made of old rickety wood that seemed to creak at every breeze outside. The ponies were all either tough guys, or depressed sods. Except one, I took a second glance and found that my eyes had not deceived me, there sat Applejack, two glasses beside her and an impatient look on her face as she kept glancing at the clock.
I stared for a while and wondered what I should do. Would she laugh at me for what I did? Would she shun me for being weak? I pondered for a while and finished the cup in front of me. I was about to order another when I saw Applejack glance in my direction. I quickly turned away and blushed realizing she probably noticed my staring.
I decided it probably wasn't worth talking to her; my clumsy words would only make things worse. Yet fate had something else in mind that night and Applejack decided to take the seat next to me.
"Hey! Yer, that stallion from yesterday aint ya!" she said remembering.
"Er, yeah, sorry for that, thought I was stronger than I was…" I started to apologize and keep myself from embarrassing myself again.
"Don't worry 'bout in sugar cube" she said giving me a playful punch on my arm "I thought ya did good, most that buck an apple tree like that can hardly git up afterwards."
"What do you mean by that?" I asked confused.
"What, ya think buckin' apples is just kickin' a tree" she said smiling "It's an art, one that I myself have perfected."
"Really" I asked glad that at least I had an excuse for my failure. "How do you buck apples then?"
"I'd love ta share that with ya" said Applejack "but my throats awful dry, the best way to tell a story is with a couple drinks."
"I gotcha" I said pulling out some bits and placing it on the table.
"A drink for me and the lady please." I said as smoothly as I could to the pony behind the bar.
Thus, sparked one of the most interesting conversations of my life; after apple bucking was explained to me, I started to talk about my past, and so did Applejack, we talked for hours on end, barely touching our drinks as we were too immersed in the conversation. The hours ticked by and I found myself more and more comfortable around the farm-pony. Though that didn't make her any less beautiful, every once in a while she would flip her mane out of her eyes and I swear sparkles surrounded her as she did that. Her green eyes looked straight into mine while I talked; sometimes they shone with tears, others they sparkled with laughter.
Every night cannot go perfect though, and soon, a couple ponies who had been here longer and had considerably more drinks came up to us.
"Hey there pretty lady." I heard the slurred words of a brown earth pony say to Applejack. "Whadaya say you have a bit of fun with me up in the bedroom."
"Screw off" I heard her spit out at the guy, his cronies behind him gasping.
"Listen you hill-billy" I heard him growl as he grabbed Applejacks mane "I don't know who you think you are, but trust me when I say I don't let a pretty catch out of my grasp.
I watched in shock at first, not sure what to do. Suddenly the connections in my brain remembered me in her place. Some bullies grabbing my hair, slamming me to a locker, kicking me on the floor.
"Hey buddy!" I stood up and said rage fueling my words "Go to hell…"
The earth pony dropped Applejacks mane and looked me straight in the eye.
"You just made the biggest mistake of your life pal" he growled before taking a swing at my head.
I managed to duck just before the blow hit and backed away.
"Get away from him!" yelled Applejack trying to lunge, but his drunken friends quickly grabbed her and held her back. They laughed as I tried to focus on dodging this guy's blows.
My chances of winning this were slim to none; I knew that even with my pegasi enhanced reflexes and this guy's drunken blows being slow and clumsy. He would soon get in a lucky hit and I'd be out cold. I thought about hitting back, yet that prospect horrified me almost as much as this guy did. I had felt beatings before, and to inflict the same thing on others seemed cruel. I needed a way to win a fight without landing a single blow.
The chances of that happening were even slimmer. I quickly looked around the room looking for something to help me win. The bartender continued his duty like nothing was happening, and most of the patrons have simply ceased their conversations to watch the brawl. Then I saw him, a huge white burly pegasi, whose size made his wings look comically small, who had only showed up a little while ago. He was just sitting there with his drink staring straight ahead not talking to anypony. I realized my chance and started to back away towards the huge pony.
The drunken earth pony before me didn't notice my plans and just kept swinging his hooves as I lithely dodged them, but my stamina was starting to fail me, and I knew if this plan didn't work I'd be toast.
I could hear Applejack screaming for me and struggling against her captors as I backed from the attacker. I was close enough to the abnormally sized pegasus now, and I could even hear his breathing.
I saw his roundhouse coming and made one last duck causing him to punch the huge pony in the back.
Time seemed to stand still as I watched the pegasus turn towards the offender. He looked him straight in the eye and gave him a straight punch to the face knocking him a few feet back.
"YEAH!" I heard him scream as the vines in his neck bulged.
"The earth pony sat up and looked at his cronies dazed and confused "Don't just stand there! Get him!"
The cronies, being the good cronies they are, dropped the stunned mare and charged at the pegasus who happily accepted the challenge and started a huge bar fight. I wasn't exactly willing to join, so I crawled under tables until I found Applejack, trying to avoid trampling hooves. I tapped her on the shoulder, and was met by a straight hoof to the face.
Once my vision recovered I saw a stunned Applejack trying to apologize over the racket. I just nodded and grabbed her arm pulling her to the door and getting us out into the night sky.
Once we were a bit away from the bar and the adrenaline rush started to pass, Applejack spoke.
"Sorry for hittin' ya in the face" she apologized
"Don't worry about it" I said rubbing my sore nose.
"I must say though, that was an interestin' way fight." She said shaking her now messy hair making her look more beautiful than she already was "Ya' won even though ya' never threw a single punch…"
"Thanks" I said still trying to catch my breath.
"Yer alright savin' a lady like that" I heard her continue "Most stallions would probably just beat it out of there, or even join in, say ya' still want that job on the farm?"
I was shocked "Um… yeah, but I'm still not that strong…"
"Don' worry 'bout that!" she said wrapping her arm around my shoulders "I can train ya' you'll be stronger than most everypony sooner that you can say "Appleoosa" we could in the mornin' if ya like."
I smiled "That would be wonderful."
With that we parted ways and said our goodbyes. I managed to remain cool, but as soon as she was out of earshot, I jumped into the air and clicked my back hooves together.
"Aw yeah!"
-Colton's POV-
Perfect, it was absolutely perfect.
I stood proud beside my handiwork of the past few hours; I had built a wooden shed. It was decent size, about nine feet by twelve feet long and about a foot of clearance above my head inside. I had found the perfect location for my little base of operations I had planned to set up. It was a clearing on the edge of the Everfree forest, close enough as not to get lost in its depths, but far enough that nopony should ever find it. It was the perfect place for my project that I planned to do. When I had been teleported here by a strange girl named Selena, who I later found out was Celestia, I was currently grasping a modern computer chip. It was nothing special, just something you'd be able to find in your average desktop computer. Yet here, it was priceless. I had woken up and found it still grasped between my hooves. I thought of all the possibilities that I could do with it.
Then I discovered my extensive knowledge of electronics. Don't get me wrong, I knew a bit about it before, because I was taking a class on it back when I was human, but I still had much to learn. Yet when I looked at the circuits I instantly knew all the parts of it and what they did as well as how to improve it to maximum potential. I was surprised with my knowledge as well, and wondered how I got it. Had the princess given it to me? Was I meant to build something great? I still don't know and I never will until I get it done. I planned on making a weapon that I had gotten the idea from a video game. A video game, I know, but it just seemed like the right thing to do with the single chip. So I had stashed it away where no one would ever find it and sought out for this place.
The perfect place, I could now work on it in piece without having to worry about causing questions about what I was doing. I admired my handiwork before me and wiped a bit of sweat from my brow. I then pulled the chip out from beneath my wing and gazed at it, knowing its potential for this world. I stashed it away again and prepared to leave. There was nothing more for me here until I could get better materials.
After a long walk back to Ponyville I started to wonder what I could do with the rest of my day. I looked at the sun and decided it was somewhere around noon. I still had a half a day to kill, as I wondered what to do with my remaining day I heard somepony call for me.
"Hey you," I heard a tomboyish voice say.
I looked up and saw a cyan pegasus gliding above me. Her magenta eyes half closed as she looked at me.
"Yeah" I asked barely containing my excitement.
"Hang on let me come down." I heard her yell before she did a small loop-de-loop and landed gracefully in front of me. "Whatcha doing on the ground?"
I glanced back and ruffled my wings; I had almost forgotten they were there. I've been a human for too long and a pegasus to short.
"It's nice just to walk sometimes." I told her, showing no indication of my lie.
"Well those are some nice wings you've got." She said feeling them. I almost felt like one of those body builders who had girls all over them feeling his muscles. Too bad I have no idea what that would have felt like. "Strong, nice feathers, you could be a good flyer, if you trained that is."
"Really?" I said glad that she complimented me.
"Of course there pretty flabby, whens the last time you flew?" She said no longer feeling my wings.
"Hey I could fly plenty faster than you could." I said my competitive side getting the better of me.
She chuckled a bit "With those wings, you don't have a chance against the fastest flyer in Equestria, maybe if you trained, for… I don't know the rest of your life; you might have a chance at coming close to beating me."
"Hey, I may not look like much but I've never lost a race in my life." I said this was true, but mostly because I didn't run that many races.
"Alrighty then, meet me at Cloudsdale, high noon." She said stamping her hooves.
"Um, I'm not exactly sure where that is…"
She stared blankly at me for a few seconds before face hoofing.
"Celestia, where are you from?"
"Um, Las Pegasus, I moved here with my friends." I said a bit embarrassed.
She sighed but then looked up at me and smiled, it was a genuine smile, and a friendly one rather than an insulting one.
"Well then, I guess I'll have to show you around." She said before hovering a couple feet off the ground, "You coming."
My mind locked up for a moment, I still didn't know if I could fly. Would it be hard? Was there some type of skill that I didn't know about? My mind raced at a million miles a minute and I wondered what the hay I should do.
"Um, you OK?" I heard her snap me out of my chance.
I decided that hey, you never know until you try it. I flapped my wings and slammed my eyes shut waiting for the embarrassment to come, but I soon felt the feeling of weightlessness and I felt my feet leave the ground.
I opened my eyes and found myself hovering off the ground. I instantly took it a step further and started to fly straight, gaining altitude. I was soaring like a pro in no time.
"Alright, follow me?" I heard my tomboyish girl say before flying off at a casual pace.
"I flew next to her in relative silence as I prepared myself for a tour of the city in the sky.
Sooner than I hoped, the tour was over, I knew quite a bit of what she showed me from watching the show, but with the living, breathing RD by my side, I would withstand a little recap.
"…and this is the racing course" said RD motioning towards what looked similar to a track field you'd see at the Olympics. "Where I'll beat your sorry but into next week."
"Fat chance" I said even more confident now that I was sure I could fly.
"We'll see…" said Rainbow tossing her hair over her head before walking the 100 hoof dash.
"Would you prefer this race, or the 50 hoof dash?" Said Rainbow kicking up dust with her front hoof.
"This is fine," I said taking my place at the starting line.
We both stood and raised our flanks as we prepared to run to the end of the track.
I saw Derpy come over, noticing us and stood on the side.
"On three…" I heard her say in her usual voice "1…2…3!"
We were off; Rainbow had managed to take the lead at the beginning of the race. I was close behind her; I flapped my wings as hard as I could, sweat wearing on my face. No matter what I did though, RD managed to stay just a little bit ahead. I saw the finish line coming up fast and tried to do the only thing left to do. I dived down towards the finish line, and for a moment, I was a little ahead of the cyan pegasus. Unfortunately, I had slightly misjudged the distance, and landed face first a torturing couple of inches from the finish line. I saw the rainbow mane fly past me, and got up, head hanging low in defeat.
"Hey, good race" I heard her say; I looked up and saw she hadn't even broken a sweat, she was barely even panting!
"You didn't even try did you?" I said my voice low.
"Nah," I heard her say "I didn't want to push you to hard… but listen you're pretty fast for a beginner; you just need a bit more training.
"How did you…"
"You do know you're not allowed to dive like that." She said stretching her wings out a bit.
"Oh…" I said hanging my head even lower.
"Hey" she said wrapping a hoof around my shoulders "Don't sweat it; you challenged one of the fastest fliers to one of your first races."
"Thanks" I said not taking much comfort in her words. I had embarrassed myself in front of my favorite pony, nopony could help with that.
Rainbow seemed to take notice in my plight and decided to help.
"Hey, if you want, I could train you…"
I instantly perked up "Really?"
"Yeah, sure, I've got nothing better to do for the time being. "I heard her say hovering in the air on her back somehow.
"That sounds awesome!" I said taking off for a couple seconds myself. "When do you want to meet?"
"Meet right here at noon tomorrow." I heard her say pointing at the ground beneath her for emphasis.
"Sounds great!" I said "I'll see you then!"
"See you…" I heard her voice trail of for a moment as she looked at the sun going down "Oh crap! I've got to meet Applejack at the bar! I've got to go, see you later!" She belted out before flying of, that rainbow tail trailing behind her.
I sighed; I still thought she was the most beautiful pony I've ever seen. I would do anything to impress her, and if that included hard training. I was up for it.
AN: Over 4000 words… and this was actually half of what I actually planned to put in this chapter, then it might've had over 9000 words… oh well we'll get there eventually. For now I hope you enjoyed the chapter! A lot of blood sweat and tears went into this chapter, with a lot going on this week, I had to work double-time. Big thanks to all the OC givers out there. I appreciate the support. You guys are awesome! Also a big shout out for all of you guys from me, saying you guys are absolutely amazing for reading this. Good luck and enjoy being bronies and pegasisters as I recently learned you girls were called.
