December 21, 2012

12:04am

As I looked to the horizon I was horrified as to what I saw, in the distance about 5 miles away was a mushroom cloud billowing into the sky.

"Oh My God" I said as I realized that that was where the nuclear plant was.

As I stood there I felt the air grow warm and saw a wall of debris speeding towards town, and before I was able to react the cloud was upon the town. I felt as if someone had lit me on fire and was pouring gasoline on me.

I didn't even have time to scream before I was engulfed in blackness. The pain stopped, the roaring ceased, and I felt as I had before the clouds engulfed the town…

"Arise my son, there is nothing to harm you here" I heard a voice say

I couldn't see anything except white.

"This is bad" I said to myself "where am I and who are you?" I asked

"That is obvious, I am god" said the voice

"Why am I here, I've been a disbeliever for so long now"

"You have done nothing to change my view of you, you are human, and have made mistakes just like everyone else in the world" said the voice "you were taken from the world before your time, yet your body is too damaged for me to let you stay and suffer so I give you a choice. You can go to Heaven and be with those you have lost or go to a world of your choosing"

Without hesitating I told the voice I wanted to go to Equestria

"Very well" the voice said, "but let me warn you that there is no changing your mind, so knowing this are you sure this is what you want?"

"Yes, I'm positive" I said, "but will I be the only human there?"

"That will be for you to find out" said the voice "now rest and when you awake you will be in the world of your choosing."

All I could do was thank him; I hadn't expected to even be given a choice, much less to be able to decide where I went. I slipped into a sleep heavier than I had ever been in.

When I awoke I was in the middle of a clearing, it looked oddly familiar. I soon realized it to be the Everfree Forest. I tried to get up and realized that my hands had been changed to hooves…I looked at myself and realized that I had been transformed into a pony, I matched perfectly, from the color of my mane to my cutie mar…

"What the hell…" I said as I realized that I had no cutie mark "well this is going to be hard to explain if someone notices."

I gathered myself and began to look for the passage out of the forest. After getting lost and wandering around aimlessly night fell and I was immersed in darkness. Since I had no way of seeing where I was going I decided to wait until morning to find my way out. I found the nearest tree and curled up in the roots and drifted off to sleep.

That night I dreamed of how things had ended, the rushing cloud of superheated gas, the people I'll never get to see again, and the ones I loved, lost to me forever. I awoke at dawn with cold sweats screaming at the top of my lungs. That was one of the most vivid dreams I had ever had. I could still feel the flames against my flesh, the sounds of the dying still ringing in my head. I sat up till the sun was up, trying to keep myself from breaking down and crying. After the sun was about mid-way I started my search again for the path out of the forest. Somehow I had camped not a hundred feet from it during the night without realizing it. I was soon walking out of the forest near Fluttershy's cottage, thankful she wasn't there.