Chapter 3: A Party?
My procrastination has led to many annoying things, and not to mention seeing my story not do so well this month...Yeah, I'm stepping it up.
The group stood there, looking over the landscape again, Soroko was trying to fix his broken gun, apperently his Ariska (japanese rifle) decided it'd only fire a single shot, then never work again, which, to be frank, pissed him off beyond meassure. Tom on the other hand was checking out Wallace's wound, it seemed to be stiched up a-ok, but he was having thoughts about how well hooves could stitch, but it seemed to be okay for now.
"Welp," Tom said, "Now what?" Lyra jumped to her hoofs, smiling, "Wait, I don't want to know," Lyra frowned, "Oh c'mooooooooon," She whined, "It'll be fun!" Wallace looked at her, then made a sarcastic 'oh' face, "Really Lyra? Will it really? You mean like it was in the hospital? Yeah, lets have more fun like that!"
Lyra glared, Wallace laughed, "Only pulling your...Wait for it..." Lyra cocked her head sideways, "Only pulling your HOOF!" Tom kinda chuckled at that, but admitted it was a weak pun, "That was mildly entertaining, but seriously, what's the thing you want to do?" Lyra was trying to shake off what was so funny about that.
"Yes, right," Lyra straightend up, "I was thinking, and since you guys probably aren't going back to Earth anytime soon, what do you say you come meet some friends!" She jumped as she said this, Tom, Wallace, and even the pissed off Soroko looked at her, "Why, in the HELL, would we want to make FRIENDS?!" Lyra scrunched her nose at this as Wallace said this, but to his surprise, Tom grabbed him, and pulled him close.
"what the hell was that Sarge?" He whisperd, "what do you mean?" Wallace responded in the same tone, "you're the seargent here, now damnit, act like one, Hearts, and Minds, otherwise, we got a pony populace that wants to kick us out to an abandoned island."
Wallace stared at Tom as he said that, not too sure on how to respond, "and what makes you the military strategist mr. My Gun Jammed?" Wallace shot back, "I may not want to fight, but I know damn well enough to not go and anger the local population. You don't need to be a military expert to figure THAT out."
Tom looked back at Lyra, "We'd be happy to Lyra, thank you for inviting us, we'd love to make some FRIENDS," Tom finished the last word through gritted teeth staring at Wallace, "YOU WOULD?! OH YAY! YAAAAY! YAY! YAY! YAY!" She bounced up and down, "Yep!" Tom chirped, then glared at Wallace, "Hearts. And. Minds." He s said sharply, making Wallace take a few steps back.
Tom looked at his watch, "Huh...Eastern Standard Time?" He said to himself, looking at his watch, "Wha? It's not 'Eastern Standard Time,' here, it's 'Equestrial Plane,'" Lyra corrected, "Oh, okay, well it seems to be reading..." He looked up at the sky, "Eight o'clock? If it's eight, how come the sun is still up?"
Lyra laughed, "Right, Celestia, the princess who raises and lowers the sun, lets it shine until Nine, then she lowers it, and her sister Luna raises the Moon for night," Tom blinked twice, trying to register this. "OH but the party is probably starting! We don't want to be late!" Lyra sing-songed, trotting off to the direction of a house, "I cannot even BELIEVE that we're going to go to a party," Mike whined.
Meanwhile, Soroko was trying to fix his gun, but to no avail, the very mechanism seemed to rapture, Soroko did not like the idea of having no weapon, except a bayonet, but even that was dull. Soroko was defenseless, Tom was empty handed and Wallace, seemingly lucked out by still having his machine gun, but no bullets.
"Ancestors...Make no harm come to us..." Soroko sighed out softly, unsure on what to believe about his safety, despite of being a soldier, he never really seen combat, and to be truthful, he felt really bad about stabbing Wallace.
While walking, Tom was scolding Wallace, which is funny, because Tom is a private, and Wallace is a Sergeant, "sergeant, don't you know anything about making the local populace like us?" "why should I? They're all ponies, I could care less." Tom facepalmed, "Not to question you sir, but uhh...this probably the only part of the world with ponies...If we make them mad, we don't know what they're capable of."
"How capable of killing could these ponies be?" Suddenly, a flash of light appeared infront of them, and this pony, was much, much taller, even as tall as them, appeared out of no where, Lyra instantly dropped to the ground in a bow.
"Oh-oh, uhh, Princess!" The big pony giggled a little "Rise Lyra," She said, hugging Lyra, "OH! Uhh, this is Princess Celestia," Lyra said looking towards the three, Soroko was bowing as well, and got up.
Tom and Wallace didn't quite understand, "Princess, may I present to you, HUMANS!" She said happily, the white pony looked them over, "I TOLD you Wallace," Tom said, "I was coming actually to talk to you Lyra, but...Wow," She looked them over, "These are what they look like?"
Lyra nodded up and down, "Well, nice to meet you all, my name is Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria," She said, giving the two men a hug, "HEY HEY HEY MARSHMELLOW, EVER HERE OF SPACE?" Wallace squirmed, Tom facepalmed, "Could you not complain?" "JUST BECAUSE YOU LIKE BEING MUSHY, DOESN'T MEAN I DO!"
Celestia let go of them, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, I was just trying to be friendly," Celestia said, "Oh no no, it's quite fine, it's just," Tom said, but trailed off, "Oh okay," The alicorn said, smiling, "And who are you?" She asked pointing to Soroko.
"My name, Soroko," He tried to say as formally as he could, "You sound different from these two," She pointed out, "I am not 'merican, I...Japanese," He tried to say as best he could, english was not his forté, "Ja...Oh okay, Poninese, can't say I met them too much, but nice to meet you," The princess said, Soroko bowed once more, "And you," He responded.
"Well, anyways, I suppose I'll talk to Lyra later," She said, "Goodbye, and welcome to Equestria," And with that, she flashed off, Lyra was swaying side to side, "She...humans..." *thud*
"WELP! She's down for the count," Wallace said laughing, Tom was worried, "Uhh...Miss, Miss, wake up," He was trying to shake her awake, but he was caught off guard once he felt her coat, it was softer the any bed or pillow he ever felt, "Sarge...You gotta feel this coat."
"No, I'm not some wierdo," Wallace said, glaring at Tom, "Sarge, seriously, this is insane, probably as soft as a clo-" "YOU MONSTER, HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" A voice yelled from the sky, and before Tome could look to the direction of the voice, he got ran into by a blue blur.
Next thing Tom knew, he was blocking flailing hoofs from hitting him in the face, "WHOA! WHOA! CALM DOWN!" Wallace walked behind her, shaking his head, and picked her up off of Tom, "Calm down there streaky," He said, "LET ME GO! LET ME GO!" She yelled squirming, "I will once you calm down," Wallace said.
Tom got up, brushed himself off, and looked at what just ran into him, but what he saw surprised him, a cyan pony, with rainbow hair, "I SAW THE WHOLE THING, SHE FAINTED AND YOU WERE GOING TO EAT HER!" Tom blinked, and then chuckled, "No, no, I was trying to wake her up."
"We got off on the wrong leg here," Tom said, "My name is Tom, and Lyra's a friend of ours," The pony visibly calmed a little, but was still convinced these creatures intended harm, "Okay, okay, I believe you, could you let go of me now?"
Wallace dropped her, "What's your name?" Tom asked, "Rainbow Dash," Wallace couldn't contain his laughter, "R-REALLY?! RAINBOW DASH?! BAHAHAHHAHAAH!" Tom should've seen that coming, "YEAH, RAINBOW DASH, YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH THAT?" She yelled.
"Madam, you shouldn't get so flustered," Wallace said through chuckles, "I have no problem with your name, but I find it heliriously fitting," Rainbow Dash's face was rather red, from emberressment, and from anger, "Yeah, yeah, reaaaaaal funny, and what's yours?" She asked, glaring.
"Sergeant Wallace, just Wallace is fine," Rainbow Dash cocked her head sideways, "Never heard a name like that before, it's...unique," She was rather calmed down now, Tom was still trying to wake up Lyra, "Lyra...wake up, this is a human waking you up," Lyra blinked her eyes open.
She then looked at Tom, "Uhh..." Her vision was blurry, and she couldn't make him out clearly, "Thanks mister," She said, and whiped her eyes, but once she saw who woke her up, she squeed, "OH MY GOSH! IT WASN'T A DREAM!" She bounced up, and hugged him.
"Lyra?" Lyra looked to where she heard a familiar voice, and seen Rainbow Dash, "OH, hey Rainbow, what brings you here?" Rainbow looked at Tom "I thought he was trying to eat you, he was rubbing your coat," Lyra blushed, and looked at Tom.
"Correction," Tom began, "I was trying to wake you up, by shaking you, by the way, you do indeed have a nice coat, I didn't think it be soft like that," Lyra was emberressed, if it was a pony trying to wake her up, she wouldn't be as emberressed, but the thought of a human actually caring about her was mind blowing.
"ANYWAYS!" Lyra blurted out, "We should really get to that party," She then without another word, continued to trot to where she was walking before-hoof, she really needed a moment to think to herself, after all, her head's been spinning since the start of all this.
"Well...do we follow her?" Tom asked, "Or do we go off on our own?" "What do you think knuckle head?" Wallace responded, starting to follow Lyra, "Alright then," Tom said, Soroko stood there for a moment, not knowing what to do, "Maybe..." He thought to himself.
Soroko didn't know how to feel about the spot he was in, he was on a new world, completely and totally alien from the world he knew, instead of humans, the inhabitants were ponies, instead of enemies, everypony seemed to exist as only friends. But ethier way, he felt out of place, they all spoke english, leaving him to be the only odd ball out, which didn't help his confidence at all, but what are 'ya gonna do?
They reached a small house, but it was big enough for the three clunky humans to fit through, but naturally, Wallace's distrust kicked in, "I don't know..." He said, "Really Sarge?" Tom said annoyed, Wallace reluctantly went in, Tom did as well, and Soroko followed, all three rather very unsure of what to do.
Things the don't know!
Yeah yeah, I know I rushed through this one, I'm sowwy, but yes, things they don't know!
The party is just a get to know eachother type deal