"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations."
-Kurt Vonnegut
"OK, but the Doctor said 'time can be rewritten,' and he's actually TRAVELED in time, so who're you gonna believe? Some author, or the man himself?" John responded.
"Dude, the Doctor isn't real, all his lines are just written by the people at BBC, and besides,in that episode with the Pandorica Rory just comes into existence as a roman he even ADMITS he doesn't fully understand it, remember?"
"Yeah, but remember that it wasn't even normal Rory that came back, it was just an imprint of her memories as part of the trap, so eventually there WAS an explanation for it." He retorted. We were walking home having our classic argument, predestination VS. free will, we often switched sides in it depending on what our moods were at the time. "And besides dude, the only reason you support predestination right now is because you failed that bio test this morning and you want something to blame it on."
I smiled, he was right of course but I wasn't going to give up that easy. "No, I support predestination right now because I am and always have been predestined to do so at this moment."
"That's complete bull and you know it"
"Yeah, ha, you got me dude I honestly think-" a screeching noise noise cut me off, "what's that?"
"Maybe it's the TARDIS."
"Not funny, seriously what the hell is that?"
It was getting louder, me and John turned around and saw the most beat-up gray Camry ever round the corner, and go toward us, it screamed to a halt a few feet away and the tinted windows went down just as a voice called out, "'Sup guys?" It said.
It took me a second and then I recognized who was speaking, it was Mike, Mr. "Get his hands on anything and I mean anything for a low enough price that you look the other way instead of trying to think about his methods", "Oh, hey Mike, I didn't know you had a car." He chuckled.
"I didn't, at least, not until last week when I finally made enough to buy it"
"Last week? ok, 1: how did you make enough for a car, and 2: where did you drive for a week so you couldn't show up in school?" (Mike was good, but he almost never made more than 300 or so dollars per week.)
He seemed a little annoyed at the 2nd question "Who are you, my mom?"
"No, I'm your lab partner, and one day I'm probably gonna run out of excuses as to why you can't show up"
"I don't believe it, you're way to good at BSing people for that to happen"
"Thanks, at least you got over your mono"
He looked at me, "I didn't get", his expression changed, "really dude? mono? you couldn't have said something like 'he broke his arm' or some crap?"
"Eh, I'm sure no one will care, anyway, how did you make enough cash to get a car?"
He looked around for a second before talking, "I got into a new field of business, selling some new stuff." He patted his bag, "speaking of which, you guys up for some fun?"
John spoke up before I got a chance, "Nah man, I got mad stuff to do" He turned to me, "Catch you later dude"
"Alright man, see you." He left.
Mike said goodbye and turned to me "You in?" he asked. I thought about it, it didn't seem like the best idea, but if I'm to trust health class than really shrooms are no more dangerous than alcohol, and it seemed like it'd be a pretty cool experience, eh what the hell, try everything once, right?
"I'm in."
Back at Mike's house I'm having second thoughts, hesitating with my hand over the bag. "You sure these things are safe man?" I asked nervously.
"Yeah man, had 'em before" he pops one into his mouth
"Alright, here goes," I eat one. Then we wait, after about 30 seconds I turn to my friend. "You sure these work? I don't feel any different."
"Yeah man, they work, you just have to wait a bit, wanna play CoD or something till it kicks in?"
"Sure."
It's been about 20 minutes and I'm getting kind of sick of TDM, ready to call it a day and go home I turn to my friend and see, well that's just it, I have no idea, he just looks weird, I look around the room and the colors seem to be shifting and forming weird patterns everywhere. The two of us stand up and wander around mike seems just as weird by stuff as meandwe keepwalkinganditalljustblursaroundand...
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I wake up in a daze hearing birds and feeling grass, I'm outside, how did I get outside? My thoughts are a complete mess, before I even open my eyes, ideas and flashbacks began to swirl around my mind, I shake my head, this actually does a little to help me think clearly. Ok, now I need to figure out what happened, going forwards from the previous (few hours? day? no idea) I was walking home with John, or Mike, no, it was John, aaaand what happened? Mike rode up, in a car, he has a car now, and he offered me... shrooms I think, yeah it was shrooms, we both ate one, and then, what happened next? Nothing, blank from then till now. No wait, we went outside, then I must have passed out from, something, probably in his backyard. I open my eyes and find myself looking up into the oddly humanesque eyes of a bright blue horse.
"HOLY SHIT!" I yell, and the horse jumps away from me just as I scramble away from it. I back up into a tree and start breathing heavily. Then something happens that I really hadn't expected, it spoke, or rather, it yelled at me.
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" it (or I suppose she, judging from the voice) demanded of me.
"uh, uh" I stuttered, not sure what to think, now that I had moved away I noticed that her main was rainbow-colored and she had wings, "uh" (c'mon man, the "getting out of trouble" part of my brain took over, you know what to do, no excuse just turn it on them) "Wha-who, are YOU and what are YOU doing here would be a better question" I said as accusingly as I could,
Her eyes narrowed, "I am Rainbow Dash, fastest flier in all of Equestria and future Wonderbolt." I rolled my eyes at her obviously well-practiced introduction and title.
I think for another minute and realize something, I'm probably still on the shrooms, I'm not entirely sure why but this thought calms me immensely, I then answer her, "Well Ms. Dash, My name is, well, I actually can't remember right now, which is really weird, but anyway it's nice to-" I stop as I am about to reach toward her for a hand-shake (hoof-shake, hoofhand-shake) when I look down at my hand, or, where my hand should have been, it was a hoof, I HAD A HOOF,
Rainbow was looking at me really weirdly. "Something wrong?" she asked.
I was stammering again, "uh, uh, ho HOOVES!" she seemed very alarmed by my yelling but I didn't take that much notice as I was far to busy noticing how I had changed, "I HAVE HOOVES, AND A TAIL, AND FOUR LEGS, and, and, no hands..." I said in horror, the calmness and comfort of thinking I was just hallucinating was gone, no hands, why didn't I have hands? I tried to stand and run but I only fell on my face, then everything started to fade to black
A/N: Well there you guys go, an intro chapter to the story, I kind of teased with the Dr. Who references and I apoligize for the lack of our friend The Doctor but I didn't want to really introduce him just yet, the next chapter will be in 2-3 days and will really get things started, all comments are welcome here.