A group of teenagers ends up in Equestria through and inexplicable cause, and they will go through adventures, but not the most pleasant kind.
It was raining. That was good for certain group of teenagers. They were going to a fight after all. There was another younger group of teenagers who had disrespected them. Nobody does that to the boys. The younger group probably outnumbered three to one, but that didn’t matter. They knew how to fight, and they had Hugo and Julio, so they had this in the bag. Both groups chose which would be the place to fight in, and both agreed to not bring knives. They didn’t want to kill each other, just beat the shit out of each other.
Our group came at the place of the meeting. They did not come! What a bunch of cowardly! They outnumbered them THREE to ONE! It was hilarious! And the group jumped and sang and insulted and shouted to the sky. And then, as if God had heard all of this and was angered, it started to rain harder. The group was going crazy, it hadn’t rained that strongly in Spain in a long time! And they danced under the rain, shouted to the sky, and jumped louder and louder. They were doing it so loudly, that even one could hear it through the rain! And they started laughing! Laughing that it was raining so much! Laughing that the other group which hyped itself so much did not came! Laughing maniacally at the sky, which was now pouring gallons of water. And their cackles and laughs could still be heard!
Then, suddenly, the world went white. The next second, the group of teenagers which seemed to be having the time of their lives under the rain was gone. All that could be heard was the pouring rain, and the echoes of the laughter that was once present.
In Equestria, a worrying letter came to Princess Celestia. Apparently, a pony near Ponyville was attacked by a strange, big and resilient creature. It says that the creature confronted physically an earth pony and won the encounter. That was a bit worrisome, but not too much. She would just send some guards, to take care of the matter. It couldn’t be that big of a deal.
“We are going to absolutely demolish those bastards,” exclaimed Hugo to the boys.
“Fuck yeah!”, shouted Gabriel.
“When I see them, I’m going to fucking break their legs!”, said Sebastián, throwing two jabs to the air.
“Hey, hey, hey, boys, you didn’t bring knives, right? Because we don’t wanna kill each other,” said Felipe, in a tone that implied that he was a bit worried.
“No dude, we didn’t bring knives, and if those pussies brought knives, we get the fuck out of there”, confirmed Sebastián, in a bit more serious manner, but just a bit.
“Yeah, I was wondering about that too. If it’s just going to be punches and shit, then we’re good.”, said Alfredo, relaxing a bit.
“Wait, if we got the fuck out because they had knives, wouldn’t we be the pussies?”, said Samuel, in a bit of a stupid, funny tone.
“Nah bro, that’s just called self preservation.”, said Gabriel, rather loudly, as usual.
“Bah. I don’t really care. My skin is stronger than diamond, so shitty knives won’t do shit.”, said Julio, putting his voice of character.
“Yeah dude, you and I are going to beat the absolute SHIT out of them.”, said Hugo, flexing his admittedly big muscles. “Also, horrible fucking pun.”
Julio then smirked and punched Hugo’s shoulder. Hugo then smiled and punched Julio’s shoulder. Then they punched each other harder. Finally they started wrestling. They both were as strong as each other, and they looked alike. People often confused the both of them as brothers, which pissed them off.
The reason they were going to fight those lowly muts were because they insulted Gabriel all the time. And if one messed with one of the boys, they messed with all of them.
“You know, maybe we shouldn’t do this.”, said Felipe.
“Why?”, asked Sebastián.
“I dunno, they probably outnumber us by a lot, and it’s gonna start raining soon.”, said Felipe, in a slightly sarcastic manner. It was a bit hard to understand him, because he had a little problem pronouncing words.
“Nah bro, they may outnumber us, but they are fucking weaklings, and we have Hugo and Julio.”, said mentioned people were still wrestling, both of their muscles being noticeable through their coats.
“That may be true, but-“
“Shhhhh, Felipe, don’t worry dude. We know you don’t wanna fight, but those bitches disrespected Gabriel. Also, there is no need for you to fight, and if it breaks out, I’ll cover your back, alright dude?”, said Hugo, who stopped fighting with Julio, in a very caring tone.
“...Alright.”, sighed Felipe, “But you better not make me regret this.”
It started raining, but it was just a light rain, the type which one does barely notice. It was really nice. Spain really needed more rain, and it helped with the pollution. Shit was cool.
They arrived to the place they decided to fight in with the other group, and at the accorded time as well.
“Are you fucking kidding me.”, deadpanned Hugo, “This was gonna be the first time I ever fought! I was getting so excited!”
“Surprise surprise! They didn’t came. What a bunch of gay motherfuckers, hyping themselves up and throwing shade at us.”, said Sebastián.
The rain started pouring a little bit harder.
“Well that was incredibly anticlimactic.”, said Felipe, “I mean, I wasn’t looking forward to it, but they could have at least showed up.”
“Yeah, I expected a little bit more as well.”, said Alfredo with a sad tinge in his voice.
It started raining a bit harshly now.
“They knew we would left them crippled. What a bunch of sissies.”, said Julio, with a bit of an angry tone.
“They could have at least showed their ugly faces up.”, confirmed Samuel.
It was starting to pour now.
“What the fuck is wrong with the rain right now?”, asked Gabriel.
Just as he said that, it started to rain harder.
“Holy fuck!”, exclaimed Hugo.
“This shit is fun!”, said Sebastián. He then shouted to the sky above, loud enough that it could be heard over the rain.
“ESPAÑAAAAAA!”, shouted Gabriel. The group then looked at each other and smiled.
“QUE VIVA ESPAÑA JODER!”, shouted Hugo.
“EL IMPERIO MÁS GRANDE DEL MUNDO!”, said, like it was a fact, Julio.
It started raining harder against the Spaniards, who now started to dance under the rain. Even Felipe was dancing, and he was usually very shy.
As if the skies took offense at this, thunder and lightning could be heard and seen.
“WHAT A BUNCH OF FUCKING PUSSIES!”, shouted Alfredo.
“WE WOULD HAVE WIPED THE FLOOR WITH THEM AS HARD AS SAITAMA WOULD TO MOTHERFUCKING GOKU!”, said Hugo to the skies above.
They all started laughing then, that last line that, if stated on the internet, would have caused a lot of controversy.
Then it started just absolutely pouring gallons of water.
“LOS ESPAÑOLES SOMOS LOS MEJORES, LOS ESPAÑOLES SOMOS LOS MEJORES!”, they started chanting, and then bursted out laughing so loudly that it could even be heard over the rain.
And then the world went white.
The lively group of teenagers was nowhere to be seen. The park that they decided to fight the other group in was charred. The slide that was there was melting and bubbling, the swing for children was on fire, even the little wooden horse was turned to ash. All indication that there ever was life in there were the echoes of laughter that still could be heard over the rain.
The cool breeze gently caressed the faces of the figures that were lying on the grass. The grass itself was a very nice and green looking, while still being soft and not irritating to the skin. The sun was pleasantly shining down, giving warmth to any creature and life to any plant. It was a very nice place. Too nice.
Hugo inmediatly opened his eyes and frantically looked around. This did not looked like the park! This did not looked like Spain at all!
“Really, were are we?”, nervously said Hugo, with a voice that didn’t sound too manly.
“Are we dead?”, said Samuel with a blank look on his face.
“Gabriel, did you somehow drugged us? I know you do drugs, and if this is some kind of joke, it’s not fucking funny.”, said Sebastián with a bit of anger in his voice.
“Fuck no! I didn’t do shit! Also, I didn’t bring the drugs, because we were going to fight, remember?”, angrily said Gabriel.
“This does not look like any forest near Madrid.”, said Felipe.
That was indeed correct. The forest itself didn’t seem like something special. It was a common, boring and a bit bland looking forest. The pine trees were not that tall, and some of the boys his their heads with the branches of the trees. It was peaceful though. Squirrels were jumping from branch to branch, a couple of birds were flying and chirping happily, a family of bunnies were entering their burrow, a little bear was looking directly at them while being completely frozen, a deer was eating grass or doing whatever deer’s do, the group was completely silent, a fish jumped in the little river five feet from the group, the bear and our group were now looking at each other, they stayed looking at each other for thirty seconds...
“BEAR!”, shouted Julio in fear.
Everyone was getting scared, even the bear. Julio, Hugo and Sebastián ripped out or picked up from the ground a couple of branches, and the bear was frantically looking around and making distressed sounds, which only scared our group more and they hurried to pick branches.
Alfredo picked up a rock and threw it to the face of the bear. The bear made a whiny sound when it hit directly to it’s snout, and Hugo and Julio started shouting at it, and started swinging the branches that they just picked up at it. The bear was confused and scared because the beings that it had never saw before started shouting at him and throwing rocks to his face. He could get badly hurt. He had to get out. And, with that thought at the front of his mind, he turned around and started running faster that he ever did his entire life.
Our group was left panting and on the ground, and they stayed there for a good five minutes thanks to all the shouting and swinging and throwing.
“The are no bears in Spain..”, said Julio after a bit between breaths.
“Yeah, no shit.”, tried to say Gabriel in a bit of a funny tone, but was too shocked to come off that way.
“Are you okay Felipe?”, said Hugo. “You don’t look too hot.”
Felipe did not answer. He couldn’t, because he was hiperventilating, and was looking for something in his pocket.
“Oh shit, right, you are asthmatic!”, realized Hugo. “Guys, get over here!”
Felipe was a tall teenager. Like, really tall. 1,93 meters to be exact. But he wasn’t the athletic type. He always had asthma, and was a bit weak in contrast to what his height might suggest. He had a very black, and a bit long hair that slightly covered his eyes. He had a slightly pale skin, and he also wore glasses since he couldn’t see up close. It was normal that he was the one that hit it’s head the most with the branches of the oddly short pine trees.
He finally grabbed something in his pocket. It was his asthma inhaler. He hurriedly put it in his mouth and pressed the little button, and suddenly he looked a lot more relieved.
“Are you ok?”, said Samuel, with the group around Felipe having worried looks.
He coughed a few times while Julio slightly hit his back a few times. “Yeah”, another cough, “Yeah I’m fine.”
“You should not have exercised yourself dude!”, said Gabriel.
“Sorry, I wasn’t exactly thinking about my asthma when there was a BEAR right in front of US!”, exclaimed Felipe.
The group got silent. It continued for a bit. Then a chuckle was heard. Another chuckle appeared. Then a laugh. Then they all started laughing their asses off. Some of the boys had tears in their eyes. Others got to their knees and started hitting the ground with their arms. Even some of them started a full blown belly laugh.
“Did you saw the look of that bear? What a tiny, scared little shit that was!”, Hugo said between laughs.
“I just threw a fucking rock in his face, and it made a nasty gnash!”, Alfredo said, inmediatly laughing uncontrollably after saying that.
“And you should have looked at your face Felipe! You were all like AgHhGg, I’m dying!”, said Hugo while making choking gestures, sounds and facial expressions.
“Hey fuck you man!”, said Felipe with an angry tone, but the grin he had on his face suggested otherwise.
The laughs and chuckles finally started to die down, and they were replaced with a content sigh or a little snicker.
“Let’s get serious now. We have no idea we’re we are, we spooked a motherfucking bear, and we’re in a forest with tiny pine trees. One and possibly two out of those three is not in Spain. So, any ideas were we might be?”, resumed Sebastián.
“Maybe in America? All kinds of weird shit go on over there.”, suggested Samuel.
Maybe it’s Africa? Nah, we would be hearing little kids dying of hunger.” Said Julio. At this, the group chuckled a little bit.
“For all we know, it could be some weird ass place in Russia where it doesn’t snow. I mean there was a bear after all.”, said Hugo.
“Nah dude, a bear from Russia would fuck our shit up. I mean, you saw the size of that bear earlier? He wasn’t taller than Felipe!”, confirmed Gabriel.
“Maybe it was a beta male bear or something?”, asked Alfredo with a hint of a smile in his face.
“Maybe. Now, we should look for civilization and stuff. So, how do we find it? Any ideas?”, asked Felipe.
“Hmmmm. Oh! I have one! The river! Every river goes to civilization, cities and towns!”, announced Hugo.
“Hugo, you are so fucking smart.”, said Sebastián, and he hugged Hugo.
“Yeah, I’m pretty fucking smart. I’m so smart that not even a super AI after all eternity could even comprehend how fucking smart I am!”, proudly said Hugo, and he said it pretty convincingly as well.
“Big brain! Big brain! Big brain! Big brain!”, the group started chanting and laughing, while following the path that the river flowed through.
Yellow Drive was having a really good day. Today he had a leisure day thanks to his boss being kind enough. Well, he may have insisted or hinted at having a free day, but it probably was thanks the her kindness. Yellow Drive was a earth sturdily built earth pony, with an pleasantly orange mane and a light yellow coat, with dark blue eyes and a cutie mark of a smiling little yellow sun. He was out for a jog near the woods. NOT through the woods, near the woods. Only a madpony would venture through the Everfree forest, unless they were the elements of harmony. One would think, then, who would be dumb enough to jog near that forest? It may appear that Yellow Drive was said individual, but he had a reason.
He was lazy. But not only was he lazy, there also hadn’t been an attack from the Everfree forest in a long time, and the part of the forest where he was specifically jogging through had never HAD an attack from the forest in all of its thousands of years. Another reason was that the place he usually goes to jog has a bunch of other ponies, so he wanted to be by himself for a little.
That morning as well his wife had given him a little treat in the bed, so he felt specially refreshed that morning. She also prepared him hay toasts with butter and a cup of coffe, which was his favorite breakfast. All in all, it was a great day thus far.
“Hello? Is somepony there?”, asked Yellow Drive, still not understanding what was being said.
He went to the bridge that arched over the little river that flowed gently. He was a bit worried, since it came from the Everfree forest, but there have never been any sightings of Timberwolves or Manticores in that area. But maybe somepony was in danger, so he had to check. The forest was very different from the normal forests in Equestria, and very creepy, though he would never word it in such a way to make him sound less manly.
“Hello? Are you lost?”
¡Chavales! ¡Hay alguien ahí! ¡Estamos salvados!
Yellow Drive suddenly heard loud cheers from the forest. He sighed. It was just a group of young ponies who got into the forest for whatever reason. He had to check if they were okay. Though, the cheers sounded a bit weird.
“I am coming, don’t worry!”, said Yellow Drive.
¡Muchas gracias señor!
Señor? Oh! Yellow Drive understood now. They weren’t speaking Ponish! He felt a bit dumb. They were, obviously, speaking Sponish!
“Ummm, lo sento, yo no hablar Sponish.”, said Yellow Drive with his limited Sponish capabilities. He really hoped he did not sound racist.
Uhhh hello? Yeah we can speak english. Sorry if you didn’t understood us! We have been looking for somebody for... not that long actually. But we are hungry!
This was great! They could speak Ponish, though they messed up some words. Usually species that were from Sponish speaking countries did not speak Ponish well at all.
“Tell me where to go, and I’ll guide you to Ponyville!”, said Yellow Drive.
You better not try something suspicious!
Yellow Drive huffed. Rude? Maybe they were griffins, since they sounded a bit roudy. They were getting closer now, but the sound their steps did was really odd. It wasn’t the usual pattern one could hear with a quadruped. Maybe minotaurs, however rare they were?
They were getting closer now.
“So, how did you boys get here?”, Yellow Drive said, while he was walking through bushes.
”We don’t know. There was a lot of rain and suddenly poof! We were here.”
“Well, that sounds really unfortunate for you. I will take you to the royal guards and then you can go straight to home, eh dude?”, Yellow Drive said, trying to say the things young people said nowadays.
”...Cool.”
There was an awkward silence, but that silence was enough to hurt his soul.
“Where are you again?”, Yellow Drive said after that failure.
”Over here!”
They were really close now. A couple of squirrels were running from the place he was just going to. That was odd. Squirrels never run from ponies, and even griffins. They only ever ran from predators or dragons.
“Alright, I’m right in front of you guys! There are just a few branches in the way.” Yellow Drive then started ripping away little branches without using magic. Ponies really weren’t much without magic, and he wanted to use the least amount posible.
”Let me help!”.
Yellow Drive could hear bigger branches being pulled off than his. Whoever those fellows were, they were pretty strong, or one of them was a stronger earth pony than himself.
”So, what’s your name?
“My name? My name is Yellow Drive. And yours?”
”Yellow Drive? Is this a joke? Anyways, my name is...Hugo...
Right in front of Yellow Drive was the most unexpected and scariest thing he ever saw his whole life. First, that thing was really tall. To put it in perspective, he was a tall male pony, and if he were to stand with both legs, he would barely reach shoulder height. It had a very dark hair, and was standing on two legs. The legs themselves were really long, and really thick. It had very robust arms and a hand big enough that he could choke his neck with it, with the veins being eerily visible. It had a furless skin, which was in a tan coloration that looked that it could hide in the shadows of the night. It had five fingers, which was nerve wracking. It had a nose that was the only thing that a more feminine pony than Yellow Drive might fall “cute”. It had unnerving eyes, which looked like a combination of a dragon and a pony, or a minotaur with a griffin. And those eyes were looking right at his soul.
They stayed looking at each other for a good while. There were more of these things behind the one right in front of him, some of them taller, some of them shorter. But he was looking at the one that he encountered first. It had a blank expression, but it quickly morphed into a combination of fear and anger.
“What the FUCK?”, exclaimed the being in front of him, quickly revealing Yellow Drive that it had sharp teeth, an by correlation, a carnivore.
Yellow Drive shouted and he turned around, but instead of running away, he quickly canalized all of his magic into a mighty, magically boosted buck that could break rock. The being in front of him would probably die, but right now he was thinking of escaping that forest and wanting to see the face of his wife. When Yellow Drive was at the climax of the magical charge and the buck itself, he let go.
He landed it right at the center of the creatures stomach, which was caught completely off guard. He was expecting to see a crimson rain. He did not expect to see said creature still standing only clutching its stomach, and his back legs feeling wobbly.
“Fucker!”, the beast said angrily while still clutching its stomach. The other creatures were moving and saying something, but Yellow Drive did not heard it nor understood it. He was in complete shock. That creature survived the kick without obvious damage! He stood still processing what just happened for a second. But that was more than enough time for the creature to make its move.
Yellow Drive caught a wild haymaker to the side of his face, which send him rolling and stumbling through the ground to the impact harshly on to a tree. This may have broken something, but he was dazed and scared, so he shakily got up, saw that the creature he hit was back at full height and somehow looking at him with those soulless eyes in a seething rage, which made a step towards him. Seeing that the creature was going for him now, Yellow Drive mind entered a full blown panic attack. He turned to the opposite direction and started running for his dear life. The creature also started sprinting towards him, making thunderous steps and breaking any branches in his way. Yet it soon gave up the chase, hearing the members of his group calling him. For this Yellow Drive was thankful.
Yellow Drive made it out of that accursed forest, and he started panting on the ground. “Buck...”, he said, but, before he could do anything else, he started coughing up blood. He had to make it to the hospital quickly, and he had to inform princess Twilight Sparkle about these dangerous creatures as soon as posible.
He started to regret to have picked up specifically that day to have leisure. It was such a good day too!
“I’m fine. That bastard just hit me in the stomach,” said Hugo, now only scratching a bit his stomach.
“What the hell was that,” said Alfredo while looking around nervously.
“I don’t know. It looked like a baby pucked all over a tiny ass horse,” answered Hugo.
“Am I not the only one who is freaking out because a fucking HORSE was talking ?”, said Sebastián to the group, almost shouting.
“Yeah, what’s the deal with that shit,” said Gabriel, while looking at drops of blood in the forest floor.
“Gabriel, did you really not drugged us? Because all of this is something that only happens in Looney Toons,” said Julio with a tired voice.
“How many times do I have to tell you? I did not drugged you guys,” exclaimed Gabriel.
“I think you hit that horse a bit too hard Hugo,” said Samuel while pointing at the slightly red floor.
“And what if I did? That little shit hit me first! And he has hooves. Those things fucking hurt,” said Hugo with a huff at the end.
“What the deal is, Hugo, that you made yourself look dangerous to those things, assuming there are more, and that they will be less likely to try to reason with you,” explained Samuel to Hugo.
The realization hit the group hard. If there were more of those things, then they would not be too happy to see one of them, and since they were intelligent, by letting go the one that was hurt, they will only hear one side of the story without the other, and they will be persecuted if seen again. The tension in the group was sky high.
“Though, to be fair, it did hit you first,” said Samuel trying to break the ice.
“I fucked up big time, didn’t I ?”, and after this, Hugo sat in the floor and started shaking his head.
“Well, maybe you did, maybe we did, or maybe that thing did, but we must not panick-“
“I’m not panicking,” interjected Hugo.
“Because if we panick then it will be truly over for us,” continued Sebastián.
“Also, what can those things do? Give us a seizure attack? You saw how from one slap you send that thing rolling and scrambling through the floor! They really cannot do that much against us, can they,” reasoned Felipe, trying to cheer up the group.
“But what if they bring a shit ton of ponies? What if they are armed? We will be truly fucked then,” explained Hugo.
“We will think about that latter. And, if we can, we will grab a few weapons as well,” said Samuel with a smile.
“But we don’t have any weapons! All I have is this stupid multipurpose tool,” said Hugo, as he brought out said object from his pocket. Which had a nifty little knive.
Everyone around Hugo had their mouth wide open.
“What,” asked Hugo.
“Jesus Christ.”
“You brought a fucking knive?”
“What the fuck dude!”
“What, what’s the problem,” Hugo said, with a worried frown in his face.
“What’s the problem? You brought a fucking knive when we were going to a fight! We all insisted to not use knives,” said Julio with a frown in his face.
“And? I didn’t bring a knive, I brought a multipurpose tool,” said Hugo with confidence.
“Are you serious? Don’t you see the part where it also has a knive? Y’know, the slashy slashy kill things if I want to part? The part we all did not want to bring,” said Alfredo with an incredulous face.
“Well, I wasn’t gonna use that part,” said Hugo with a dismissive gesture.
“Oh sure! I’m only wearing a pistol full of ammo in my pocket, but I’m not gonna use it, so everything is perfectly fine !,” said Gabriel while putting his hands in his pocket and shaking them around.
“Ooooooh, I get it now! That was pretty dumb of my part. But, even if I got it earlier and still brought it to the fight, I wouldn’t have used it,” said Hugo, pretty satisfied.
“We know you would not have used it, but, please, next time don’t bring things that could kill people into a fight,” said Sebastián.
“I’ll do that next time. But hey! We now have a weapon, so it all worked out in the end,” said Hugo rather cheerfully.
“Anyways, lets get back to the point. There are little horses who may, and probably will, try to kill us. We must think of something about that. But first, let’s think how to survive in these forest,” said Alfredo.
“Yeah!”, the whole group said, preparing to survive in the forest.
“Mayor Mare! What’s the matter? Are you coming back for the book that you gave me? I’m almost done with it. Really, the territorial habits of the animals in Equestria are soooooo interesting. Did you know that male manticores not only use their claws to mark their territory, but also a special kind of tear that they seclude when they lightly sting themselves with their poisonous tails to warn off male manticores and attract female manticores? It truly is fascinating,” said the princess of friendship Twilight Sparkle.
“Oh that sound really interesting honey, but we have more important manners at hoof. Yellow Drive was attacked by an unknown creature and was badly hurt! He wants to speak to you as quickly as possible,” Mayor Mare finally blurted out.
Twilight gasped.
“Is he in a critical state? How is the creature? How did he encounter it? Wasn’t he at work today? How is-“
“PRINCESS! Yellow Drive is not in critical condition. He has a broken leg, a swollen jaw and a fractured rib. He will come back from this. He encountered it in the Everfree forest, and before you say anything, he only went there because he was jogging near a part of the forest that there never was a documented attack and he heard voices calling for help, and he wasn’t at work today because that day was his leisure day. He said that the creature is bipedal, with strong legs and arms, and that it was slightly bigger than a minotaur or as equally tall as a drake. He said he wants to speak to you specifically, and he won’t talk to anybody else. He’s in the hospital right now,” Mayor Mare said, leaving Twilights mouth agape.
“Ummm, yeah, sure. First, let me write a letter to Princes Celestia about the matter, if that is okay. Also, nice memory Mayor Mare, it’s really impressive,” complimented Twilight with a smile.
“It’s only natural that’s the case. I’m the mayor of Ponyville, after all. Thanks for the compliment, nonetheless. I’ll be on my merry way out, and good luck with everything,” Mayor Mare said with a smile.
Twilight quickly said thanks and started to write.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Recently, an unknown creature has attacked Yellow Drive, an earth pony and one of the residents of Ponyville, in a area near the Everfree Forest were there has never been documented an attack be-
“Princess Twilight! I almost forgot to inform you that the creature also had others of the same species. I’m sorry that I forgot to mention that. It made me look bad just when we talked about my memory,” shouted Mayor Mare near the castle window.
“No problem! We all make mistakes! You can go back to the town hall now,” said Twilight.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Recently, an unknown creature has attacked Yellow Drive, an earth pony and one of the residents of Ponyville, in a area near the Everfree Forest were there has never been documented an attack before. The creature was accompanied by others of the same species, and it is said to be bipedal, strong legs and arms, and a height towering over the likes of minotaurs. I request that you send a platoon of royal soldiers to Ponyville to keep guard. This is a serious matter since somepony was badly hurt, and there could be more cases.
Your royal student friend, Princess Twilight Sparkle.
P.S. Yellow Drive went to the forest because he heard voices calling for help, so they might be intelligent, which makes them more dangerous!
Princess Celestia re-read the letter two times, and a frown appeared in her face. A creature had attacked Ponyville! Oh no! It’s not like there was at least one attack every month from the Everfree Forest ever month! Oh, the tragedy! But she still had to send some guards to Ponyville, because if she didn’t then that would show some kind of weakness, however small it was, and all the other nobles from Canterlot would start rumors and try to make her fall from good graces. She really had to do this, didn’t she? Of course she had to, but maybe she could get something out of this.
“Ejem, I’m sorry to say that today’s court room is cancelled, since urgent events has taken place and they need my full attention,” Princess Celestia said to the noble that was explaining whatever problems he supposedly had, but in reality it was only to make its family more rich.
The noble was going to answer back, but as soon as he saw the Sun Princess in her throne looking down at him, he inmediatly bowed down and said “But of course. I hope this matter can be discussed next time,” in the most polite way and left the throne room that also acted as a court room.
As soon as the noble closed the doors, Princess Celestia relaxed. Even after thousands of years, it still hurt to smile that long waiting for the sun to lie down. Not wasting too much time, she started to write a letter with telekinesis.
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
I will send a platoon of royal guards as soon as posible. It will be instructed to the townsponies and guards to capture the creatures alive if possible, since, as far as my knowledge goes, they can practice speech, unless they use some sort of magic. I will send general Sharp Slice, since he is one of the currently available best monster trappers. Be informed, he is a griffin, but she has a lot of discipline and training, so there’s no reason to fear her. I trust that you both will work together to the best of your capabilities.
With much love, Princess Celestia.
With all of that well and done, she went to her personal hot springs to have a much needed relaxation time.
“Not even a day has passed, and we are almost half dead,” commented Samuel.
“Oh shut up! We are doing good, isn’t that clear boys? I know we are,” said Sebastián with confidence.
The group responded Sebastián with groans and whines. It was in the middle of the night, and, indeed, not even a day had passed. Our little troupe was struggling in the being fed department, and they weren’t too good confident now that each one had processed the gravity of the situation in their heads. Their morality was bottom rock.
“Is this really how we are going to die? From starvation? Can there really be a more lame way to die? At least it’s not too cold this night,” said Hugo. The statement that he said was agreed upon everyone in the past that dying from hunger was one of the top ten lamest ways to die.
“We only caught one fish! And since we don’t know how to make fire, it tasted horrible,” added Gabriel, which all it did was lower the morality even more.
“It’s obvious that we cannot survive out here on our own, but what can we do? Die, would be the answer,” said Julio.
“I have an idea, but it might be risky. In fact, it will be risky,” said Felipe.
“Tell us, we are too desperate,” said Hugo with a pleading tone.
“Alright, so, that thing of earlier was speaking, so we can all agree that they are intelligent, right? So, maybe one or two of us can snuck in to where they might have food and steal it. I know is sounds very dangerous but-“
“Shit yeah I’m in,” happily said Hugo.
“What? Are you really not going to process the possible dangers, and that we are basically going into an aliens living place,” asked Felipe incredulous.
“I don’t fear them. The one I swatted away seemed like a male, and his voice sounded like a male as well. Also, I’m sneaky as fuck, and now that it is the middle of the night, they won’t see me. They also have freakishly big eyes, but I once read in google that having big eyes does not necessarily mean having good eyesight,” explained Hugo.
“Are you really gonna go in there because you read something in google? Also, you might be sneaky, but horse have eyes that can look all around them,” said Sebastián.
“Dude, I was in front of him, and I saw that they didn’t have the eyes of a horse. They were facing forward, like a human. Guys, there is no need to worry. I got this,” said Hugo.
“I’ll also go,” said Julio.
“Wait, what? Why,” asked Samuel.
“Well, I’m as strong as Hugo, and I can cover his back and tell him if something’s coming,” explained Julio.
“Oh, Jesus Christ. Fine! You both can go. But you better get back,” said Felipe.
“Why are you so mad, bro? It was your idea,” said Hugo.
“I didn’t think someone would actually do it. And the moment it got out of my mouth, I thought it was a terrible idea,” said Felipe.
“Dude, we’ll be good. It’s just get in, grab some food, and get the fuck out,” explained Julio.
“Yeah! No reason to worry! We will be back before you can say “duck”. We got this,” said Hugo.
“Alright,” said Felipe sourly.
“Hey Hugo! I found something you will like,” exclaimed Alfredo, who went too look around for something.
“What is it,” asked Hugo.
Alfredo raised his arm, and what he had was...
“Oh my God! A stick! Thank you so much,” exclaimed Hugo excitedly.
“Yeah! We all know how you play with sticks in your front yard, and this one appeared to be of really good quality,” said Alfredo.
“Thank you so much! I love it,” exclaimed Hugo.
“What do I get,” asked Julio.
“Sorry, I didn’t found anything for you. But you can have Hugo’s multipurpose tool,” said Alfredo.
“Man, I get the short end of the stick,” said Julio.
“No, you get no stick! I know I’m hilarious,” said Hugo, making everyone cringe at the terrible joke.
“We better be on our way now that it is dark,” said Hugo, smiling a little bit because he fell for the trap.
“Yeah! Remember Felipe, we will be back before you can say ducks,” said Hugo one last time, before going their way with Julio for supplies.
“Yellow Drive’s in room number 27, Princess Twilight,” pointed Nurse Red Heart.
“Thank you very much. Again, sorry that I was late. Some matters appeared, and they had to be properly addressed,” explained Twilight.
“There is no need to be sorry. He’s been patiently waiting for you to arrive. Now, beg you pardon. There are other duties I must attend to,” said Nurse Red Heart, while she bowed. This made Twilight cringe internally, but she kept composure.
“There is no need to bow, but thanks anyway,” said Twilight with a little smile on his face.
Twilight knocked three times the door, since it was of good manners to do so before entering any room.
”Come in,” she heard from across the door.
“Please, there is no need to bow,” said Twilight coming into the room.
“I wish I could do much more than to bow at the moment, Princess Twilight,” said Yellow Drive with a smile in his face.
He was in a bad condition. He had bandages across his face, ribs and left eye. He also has a cast for his left limb, and he had an IV providing nutrition to his veins. Twilight Sparkle was so embarrassed.
“Dear Celestia! I am so sorry! I did not meant to offend you,” exclaimed Twilight, while saying a million other things.
“Oh, it’s alright. None offense was taken. In fact, now that you are here, we may finally speak,” inquired Yellow Drive.
“That is right! So, what is that thing that you wanted to tell me that is so important that you won’t even tell to the doctors and nurses,” asked Twilight.
“That that thing is still alive,” simply said Yellow Drive.
“...Yes. I don’t get what you are trying to say,” said Twilight.
“What I’m trying to say is that I bucked it with all of my strength and magic in its stomach,” said Yellow Drive.
Twilight gasped.
“But that probably killed him! A buck from an male earth pony at point blank could injure heavily and even kill a manticore! Oh no, Princess Celestia takes me to capture them alive if possible! What am I gonna do,” asked Twilight, as she simultaneously started to freak out.
“Did you forget the part where it him me back, Princess? And it was no weak hit. It even send me rolling from one slap! I must have looked pretty funny,” said Yellow Drive rather grimly.
“Don’t say that! You will only downplay yourself,” said Twilight.
“It’s not important that it survived the kick. What is important is that it barely reacted to it, and the immediate effect it had on me. What I’m implying is that, when I hit that thing, it somehow negated my magic, and the moment there was contact, I felt very weak,” said Yellow Drive to the Princess, who had her mouth agape.
“That’s impossible! Sure, there are some creatures that are resistant to magic, like drakes and dragons, but somehow negating it? There never has been something like this documented before! It’s unheard of! I must inform the Princess as soon as posible,” exclaimed, yet again, the Princess.
“I heard that there are a platoon of royal guards coming to Ponyville, right,” asked Yellow Drive.
“How did you know?”
“Well, Mayor Mare likes to chatter, and rumors fly fast. I just want to say one last thing. I don’t want the creature dead. I know, it sounds like I’m contradicting myself when I said not too long ago “it didn’t die”, but I said that because it amazes me. Looking back to it, I may have overreacted. They sounded like a cheerful group! And thank Celestia that it nullified my kick, because then I could have possibly killed an intelligent being! And, as a biologists and observer of wildlife myself, it would be terrible that I could have killed such a strange creature. I’m not saying murder is good, just so you know. I wanted to tell this so that you can have an idea of what they can do,” said Yellow Drive.
“Thank you so much for all the information, I will make sure that they are captured alive. Proper measurements will be taken,” said Twilight Sparkle.
“As a side note, Princess. You are quite cute while you are nervous. If I didn’t have a wife and was a bit younger, then I might have had asked you out,” Yellow Drive said with a grin.
Twilight stammered and blushed, and went out of the room red like a tomato.
The town in front of them didn’t look like both boys were thinking in their head. I literally was a medieval town. It had some lightbulbs, and a few roads, but it really was nothing impressive. A tiny medieval town.
“I was expecting something more... impressive as well,” commented Julio.
“Aren’t they aliens? I was expecting white metal floor, lights everywhere, and a floating car or two,” said Hugo, listing of things that proper aliens should have.
“Well, I guess this makes things easier. Come on, avoid any light sources and stay in the dark. Do I go, or do you go,” asked Julio.
“I’ll go first, then I’ll let you know if it’s clear,” said Hugo.
Both boys were at the very edge of the forest, but it was not the same forest as before. They where in one were trees are more scarce, and said trees looked like broccoli with only the leaves being green and the wood a light brown. Hugo looked to both sides quickly, and he saw that there was nothing on the coast. He ran for it, and made it to the other side. Said side was behind one of the medieval houses.
Julio waited for Hugo to say it was clear. He waited for a minute, and saw a thumbs up. He also ran for it, and made it to the other side. But, before they could continue, Julio saw something in the sky.
“Hugo, what the hell is that,” asked Julio as he pointed to the sky.
“Hmmm? What thing,” asked Hugo, and he looked at the thing that was being pointed at.
What they saw was something insulting to nature itself. It was one of those tiny ponies soaring through the sky. This one was purple, and it was flapping it “wings” painfully slow, and said appendages were too little compared to the rest of its body. It somehow did not noticed them, since it did not looked alarmed.
“They can fly,” Hugo asked incredulously.
“That pony should crash to the ground and break its neck! That make no damn sense,” exclaimed Julio.
“We will definitely tell about that to the boys later. Jesus, that complicates things. Watch out for the sky now, I guess,” said Hugo.
“So, now we go out to find food, don’t we,” asked Julio.
“Yeah, and I was thinking of sneaking into these houses. They must have something edible, don’t they? Also, that window over there may be small, but we can reach it and fit into it,” said Hugo.
“Let’s try,” said Julio.
The window was about a meter from the ground, and, while small, both managed to get in. They hit jackpot. The room was a kitchen. The roof was really short, and both couldn’t be at full height, since their shoulders hit said roof. There were a lot of shelves, all closed, and some plates with little forks and cheap looking knives. They both wondered why they had said utensils. They had hooves!
“Dude, this is a treasure cove. Let’s see if they have some fucking food,” said Julio to Hugo excited.
“I’m starving. Look! There even is a little bag with food inside,” exclaimed Hugo, picking up said bag.
“Oh hell yeah! Let’s see what they got... Apples! Honest to god apples,” said Julio.
“We also got some fries in here! And a couple of muffins. Let’s see what else. Hmmm, I just thought something. Why do they speak or write in english? Is that something we should have thought earlier? It worries me,” said Hugo.
“I have no idea why, but first let’s get the food and then run out of here,” said Julio.
“Hey, isn’t this a bit too full? Maybe you should cover my back,” said Hugo.
“Oh fuck, that’s right! That’s why we both went here. Let me put this food in the bag real quick and I’ll be right there. If there’s something, I’ll tell it to you,” said Julio.
“K,” said Hugo.
When Julio finished preparing everything, he turned around and saw a pony with a horn looking at them with eyes as big as plates. Hugo noticed the sudden silence.
“Hugo,” said Julio.
“There’s one right there, isn’t there,” asked Hugo.
“Yep, and he is just standing there in shock,” confirmed Julio.
“When I count to three, you grab that bitch and don’t let her scream. She is not understanding us because if she knew spanish, she would have run the second I said that, okay,” said Hugo.
“Yeah,” said Julio as he slightly bent forward.
“One... two... THREE,” exclaimed Hugo.
Julio inmediatly closed the small gap of space, and grabbed the little pony’s snout with his right hand while he pinned it down by the neck with his left hand. While this was happening, Hugo also closed the distance from the tiny kitchen and assisted his friend pining down the back legs of the equine. Meanwhile, the horse was thrashing around erratically, kicking to the air with her forelimbs, and sometimes hitting the boys.
Julio started shushing the pony.
“Shhhh, shhhh! Silence! Do you understand me? Nod if you can.” The pony nodded her head in the ground, and she started crying. “Now, my friend and I need a little bit of help, alright? First, do me a favor and calm down, we are not gonna hurt you unless you do something that may put us in danger. Ok, so, our friends suck at surviving in the wild, and we will die of starvation if we do not eat food, like any living being. So, I’m sorry to say this, but we are going to grab this food that you just bought and bring it to our friends. Now, tell me, what’s your name? Don’t shout though, or my friend here will grab his stick and bust your kneecaps.”
“I-I’m S-S-S-“
“You’re “S-S-S” what honey? Can you speak? Do you have a mental disorder? Answer,” said Julio.
“I-I’m S-Sugar Ru-Rush,” the pony stammered out, and she started to shake violently.
“Sugar Ru- What kind of- You know what? It doesn’t matter. So, Sugar Rush. I know we’re sounding like the bad guys, but we really aren’t. You see, it’s the first time I ever had a conversation with a horse, and I’m getting really nervous. Also, sorry for the comment earlier about busting your kneecaps, my friend wouldn’t do that. He really does not like to hurt animals. We would have, at best, kept you silent with some rope or, if you shouted bloody murder, punched you in the face. So please, can you tell us where’s some rope? I’m freaking out,” said Julio with a pleading voice.
“The r-rope is i-in the shelve to t-the left of where you p-picked the t-tomatoes,” said Sugar Rush with a trembling voice.
“Thank you, I’ll go for it,” said Hugo, and he got up to go for said object.
“Do note that this is nothing personal, and let me tell you that you handled the situation like a champ. I mean, speaking to creatures almost double your height? That is impressive,” said Hugo, who started to tie the ponies limbs.
“Th-thank you,” said the pony, who started to shake less.
“Now, where is a closet that I can put you in? Also, remind us to leave some food in there for you be-“
“Sugar Rush? Are you there? I’ve come to give you back your clock. I really needed it,” said a voice outside the house. Both boys panicked, and looked around for a place to hide.
“Oh, it’s okay Sweet Deal! Right now I’m a bit occupied, so can you let them in the entrance, please? I’ll get them when I can,” said Sugar Rush, without a hint of fear in her voice.
“Okay. Thank you so much,” exclaimed the voice outside, and then the flapping of wings could be heard.
Julio and Hugo were really surprised.
“Well, that was the smart decision of your part, honey. Now, where is the closet room,” asked Hugo.
“It’s on the left corridor of the kitchen room,” said Sugar Rush, much more relaxed now.
“Let’s go then. Hey, why didn’t you shout? We would have been doomed. Was it for the stick that I have here,” asked Hugo while carrying the pony and swinging a bit the savage weapon.
“Honestly I forgot you even had it. I really don’t know why I didn’t shout,” said Sugar Rush disturbingly calm now.
“Yeah... So, here’s some food and water. Wait for about an hour and then shout for help or something. I mean, we are not gonna kill you, and you obviously will tell everyone, so that’s that,” said Hugo with a sad tone.
“I guess so,” answered the pony in a day dreaming voice, and then she giggled a bit.
That made Hugo really nervous, since hearing a horse giggle is really disturbing the first time you see it.
“So, here it is. Thank you for not shouting earlier, and here’s your food and water,” said Hugo while gently leaving the pony in the closets floor.
“Well, adiós,” exclaimed Hugo with an awkward smile while closing the closet door.
“Goodbye,” whispered Sugar Rush.
Hugo turned around, and at the end of the hallway Julio was standing there with a very serious face.
“Crazy bitches man, you gotta deal with em,” said Hugo jokingly, but it came off a bit weak.
“Sure. Anyways, we now have the food, so let’s get the fuck out and get back,” said Julio.
“Let’s,” exclaimed Hugo.
“All things considered, it actually went quite nicely,” said Julio.
About five seconds later, before Hugo and Julio were about to go outside, the sounds of neighing and chariots could be heard, and both boys looked at each other worryingly. They sprinted to the little window right next to the door and looked outside. What they saw were flying chariots being pulled from the sky by those horses with wings, and said horses where armored up and with weapons. They chariots landed without somehow crashing, and they saw that in front of the chariots a purple pony with wings slightly bigger than the average and what seemed to be a horn was waiting outside. From the chariots emerged a figure bigger than the pony, but still slightly smaller than the boys. It had wings, a peak and two very sharp set of claws.
“General Sharp Slice, expert monster trapper, reporting for duty,” exclaimed the figure to the purple pony with a slightly feminine voice.
“General Sharp Slice, expert monster trapper, reporting for duty,” exclaimed the griffin that was in front of Twilight.
“At ease,” responded Twilight professionally. She was a princess, after all, and she read many military books. “Report the state of the platoon.”
“The platoon is composed of seventy five ponies, with twenty five earth ponies, twenty five pegasus and twenty five unicorns. All the units are decked with magic resistant golden armor, but we also brought steel armor since it was recently reported that these creatures may not use magic via dragon post. We brought thirty nets that are capable of trapping a manticore, and also brought fifty traps of different variation and uses. We also armed each soldier with lances, but it’s specifically reported that they are to be captured alive if possible. We also have trained each unicorn in healing ma-“
“That’s enough for the report, general. We want to capture the creatures as soon as posible since they could hurt more po- ejem intelligent creatures. Please do note that one of the creatures has been capable of hurt and win a direct confrontation with an earth pony, and it’s suspected that they are resistant to magic, as you already said. Avoid direct confrontation at all cost, and please be careful,” said Twilight, scorching herself for the intelligent creatures commentary.
“I also want to add that, even though we brought a magic detector, it will not be of much use, since the Everfree Forest is full of chaotic magic. Any and all direct confrontation shall be discarded, since it’s an unviable approach,” said Sharp Slice.
“Good. Get back to duty. Dismissed,” finished Twilight.
“Really? Noooo, how could you tell,” Hugo said with sarcasm.
“Save that for later, Hugo. Right now we are in deep shit. They look like the police of this place,” answered Julio.
“They seem a lot more than policeman to me Julio. They actually come in with armor, and spears! And they seem very organized. Look at them go, doing little steps at the same time! I don’t like the big one with claws though,” said Hugo.
“It’s not even a pony! Its got a beak,” added Julio.
It was, indeed very different from the rest. It was quite a bit bigger compared to the other ponies, but it wasn’t taller than both boys. It wore a blackened helmet with a little brown feather on top, and a dark cloak that didn’t cover its brown wings. It had white feathers around its face, and yellow forelimbs similar to that of an eagle or chicken equipped with sharp claws. They didn’t want to admit it, but it looked like quite a badass.
“I know what that thing is! It’s a goddamn griffin,” whispered Hugo.
“You thought I didn’t notice? If that chicken sees our direction, it will spot us like a sore thumb,” whispered back Julio.
“What the hell is that,” cautiously pointed Hugo.
The griffin was shouting orders at the ponies, and the flying ones were deploying something. Those things were nets. The faces of Julio and Hugo went pale.
“No way, they were sent to capture us,” said Hugo.
“At least it’s better than being killed, ain’t it,” asked Julio.
“We have to get out as soon as posible and tell the boys about it,” said Hugo with determination.
“Quickly, through the back door,” said Julio while crouching.
They both hurried there while crouching. But there was a problem. They saw through the window that there were two of the flying ponies watching and scouting the street they passed through earlier. A couple of seconds would pass, and one of the guards would be replaced by another one.
“What are we gonna do now,” asked Hugo.
“Let me think,” said Julio.
They both observed the flying ponies for a couple of minutes, brainstorming ideas. Just go for it? No, that would be too stupid. Go for it, but only in the change of guards? No, one pony stayed there all the time, only to be changed later. Also, despite both of them being fast, the street to the woods was too long, there weren’t many trees and they probably couldn’t outrun something that flew. Throw some rock into the garbage bin? Now that might just work... if they were in a film. What could they do? Wait a second...
“Hey Julio, I got an idea,” said Hugo with quite possibly a devilish grin that would make Satan shit itself.
Sugar Rush was still in the closet. She was smiling a bit. That creature made her shiver every time she thought about it. Sooooo different from everything. She felt so powerless against it... Them she heard something in her house. The floor creaked under the weight, but it didn’t have the clopping sound hooves had. It was getting closer to it, the very ground and floor was whining. Then, the door opened. It was him.
“Heyyyyyy Sugar Rush. Can you do a teeny tiny favor to us,” asked the creature that had carried her to the closet.
The skin crawling scream could be heard all across Ponyville. The two guards that where watching the street bellow looked alarmingly at each other, and so did the guard that was coming to replace the spot. The three pegasus did not say anything to each other, they simply flew to as fast as possible to the house just bellow, and occasion that two shadows took advantage while guffawing and carrying bags and a stick.
“STOP, ROYAL GUARD,” exclaimed the only male pegasus.
“PLEASE, FOR CELESTIA, HELP ME,” shouted the voice in the room in front of them.
The guards ran straight towards the door, and they busted it to splinters, to find...
“PLEASE HELP ME,” shouted a unicorn tied rather clumsily. The kitchen complete mess, with open drawers and food on the floor.
“Ma’am! Are you okay? What happened,” asked one pegasus guard.
“Oh! A horror happened, it was terrible,” exclaimed the tied unicorn.
“You are safe now ma’am. Tell us what happened,” said the male pegasus.
“See, I was reaching for my drawer for some food, but I confused the drawers and opened the one with the rope. And imagine the surprise I had when inside it were some raccoons! They looked at me grabbed the rope, threw it at me and tied me up. And, to finish it off, they robbed my food and bags! It’s truly terrible,” said the unicorn.
“And why didn’t you use your magic to untie yourself, ma’am? You are a unicorn, after all,” asked one of the female pegasus, a lot less nervous now.
“Oh, how very rude of your part! Blaming the victim in the situation! As if I hadn’t been jumped by ravenous animals, to add insult to injury, you tell me I could have simply used magic! How despicable of you,” said the offended unicorn with venom.
The pegasus who asked the question flinched visibly.
“I’m sorry ma’am, I’ll be more thoughtful next time,” apologised the pegasus.
“You better be! What are they teaching you guards these days. I remember when I was just a filly, the royal guards would fight of dragons and smile at the public. Now, you couldn’t even fight changelings a few years ago! You got to train harder,” said the unicorn as she was being untied.
“We try our best, ma’am,” said the male pegasus.
“Oh, ”we try our best”. Well, it’s clearly not enough,” exclaimed the unicorn.
Now untied, the unicorn mare got up, and stretched a little bit, making a bone cracking sound which made all the guards present cringe.
“Do you want us to send a message to the palace to charge for all the lost and broken objects,” asked the male pegasus timidly.
The unicorn scoffed.
“I’ll take them to Mayor Mare myself, thank you very much! I doubt that you could even locate the royal palace from here! And that goes for all of you. Now leave and toughen up. If a beast came here, I wouldn’t want to think about what could have happened to me,” finally said the unicorn, dismissing the guards.
“Yes ma’am,” said the guard in unison, and left the house.
When they started to fly, they talked for a bit.
“Daaamn, she roasted you guys good. At least she didn’t mention me directly,” said one pegasus mare.
“Mate, shut the buck up. And who does she think she is down talking us that way when she got assaulted and robbed by raccoons, said the other pegasus mare.
“I know who that is. She’s Sugar Rush, and I think she’s around twenty seven or something. She was from Canterlot, but moved to Ponyville to get away from politics, but she was a very respected and powerful mare,” said the male pegasus.
“So that’s why she talks that way! Huh, interesting. Anyways, how do you think she’s in sex? A top, or a bottom,” asked the first mare pegasus.
“Oh, definitely top,” said the male pegasus.
“Absolutely top,” agreed the second female pegasus.
“Also, we all know where the Royal Palace is. I mean, it’s basic,” said the male pegasus.
“Wellllll...” said the first mare, and the second started whistling.
“Oh sweet Celestia, it’s that way,” pointed the male pegasus between the mountains while facehooving.
“Oh, we knew all along, don’t you worry,” said the second mare sarcastically.
“Anyways, let’s get back patrolling. Repot via magic crystal the incident, and make them watch out for some thief raccoons,” said the male pegasus.
“Yes it did, but don’t ever mention that shit to anyone, or I’ll beat the fuck out of you,” said Hugo with a disturbed face.
“Come on dude, she just asked for a hug,” responded Julio.
“Exactly why? Why a motherfucking hug? It doesn’t make any sense,” said Hugo.
“Maybe it’s her fethish or something? She made some really weird sounds,” said Julio with a smile.
“Oh my god, don’t say that! And why did she asked me specifically,” angrily said Hugo.
“Well it doesn’t matter. She promised she wouldn’t say we where there, though I doubt that, and we have food now. Let’s get back to the boys,” cheered Julio.
“Fuck yeah. But seriously, don’t say shit,” warned Hugo.
The response Julio has were just some chuckles that turned into laughter the deeper they got into the forest and the closer they got to the boys.
“Damn, how much more time do those two need? It’s been two hours,” said Alfredo.
“Maybe they have been captured,” said Felipe fearfully.
“Don’t say that. Those two are sneaky as fuck, and, if they are discovered, Hugo has a big stick to swing around, and Julio can punch al Jojo style. We don’t have to worry about those two,” said Sebastián.
”Did someone say Jojo.“ said a voice near them.
“Julio,” said Sebastián while pointing a finger at the direction where the voice came from.
“Sebastián,” said Julio while coming into view between the branches.
“Hoh? So you guys brought the food, instead of dying like pussies,” asked Sebastián while making his voice deeper.
“I can’t feed the shit out of you without bringing it here,” said Julio while getting closer in a serious voice and flexing his arms.
Oho! The feed us as much as you like, exclaimed Sebastián.
All the boys bursted out laughing.
“Holy shit, that was perfect,” exclaimed Hugo while wiping away a tear and also coming into view.
“We are the first to do a Jojoke in another world,” said Julio while still laughing.
“Anyways, here’s the food. We have apples, pie, cupcakes, muffins, pickles, cookies, oranges, all that good shit,” said Hugo while getting out each mentioned food.
“Ah fuck yeah,” exclaimed Gabriel, while picking up a good bit of food.
“Hey fatass, don’t hog all the food! We passed through a lot of danger, and we have to rationalize this shit,” said Samuel.
“Hey, fuck you man! I haven’t eaten in a long ass time,” said Gabriel.
“We all haven’t eaten in a long ass time, Gabriel. We have to eat little by little,” explained Felipe.
“Shit, you guys are right. I’m sorry,” apologized Gabriel.
“It’s nothing dude. Sorry I called you a fatass,” said Samuel.
“You called me a fatass! I’ll split your fucking face the next time you do that shit, eh! I’ll fucking do it,” exclaimed Gabriel while he stood up and mockingly made his chest larger.
“The fuck did you say to me, motherfucker? The next time I see you, I’ll break your fucking jaw,” also exclaimed Samuel and made his chest bigger as well.
Both of them growled and pushed each other a bit, but then they stopped and started laughing. They sat down after a hug.
“Today is a victory for us,” exclaimed Alfredo, and everyone in the group cheered at this.
“That’s enough food for everyone, okay,” said Felipe.
“Yep. It feels good, and it feels like I am full,” said Gabriel.
“Where is Alfredo,” asked Julio.
“He said that he’s gone scouting and looking for whatever. He’ll be back shortly,” answered Sebastián.
“Ah, that’s cool, that’s cool,” said Julio.
“Anyways, in what part of One Piece were you,” asked Hugo.
“Oh, dude, I’m that part in the anime were Zoro encounters the black dude who says “I have a 0% chance of being defeated” and Zoro started getting assblasted by this nigga,” said Julio excitedly.
“That’s good shit. We’re gonna spoil the fuck out of it though,” said Hugo with a grin.
“No you fucking won’t! I’ll fuck you over before you can say shit,” threatened Julio.
“Watch me do it, fucker,” answered Hugo.
“Hey! Don’t say shit! I’m not even in that part yet,” said Sebastián.
“Hey guys, I think I found something,” said Alberto, appearing between the bushes.
“What is it,” asked Felipe.
“You remember that chicken that Julio and Hugo mentioned earlier? I saw her flying through the sky. And you know the traps? Well I think I found one,” said Alfredo.
“No fucking way, already? What the fuck,” said Samuel.
“If Julio’s right, being that they have a crap ton of traps and guards, then we must move already,” said Gabriel.
“But I also found something else,” said Alfredo.
“What is it,” asked Hugo.
“Come on everybody, I gotta show you. It’s safe all the way through,” said Alfredo while waving his arm.
The boys looked between each other.
“Nah,” said Sebastián.
“What? Come on, it’s only fifteen minutes,” said Alfredo.
“Stop with that bullshit, man. We are not all gonna walk fifteen minutes just because when you could simply tell us right away,” retorted Samuel.
“But- But-... You know what? Fine. It was a whole acre filled to the brim with apple trees. That way we won’t have to get to the village every fucking time we run outta food. Fucking killjoys. Now give me a goddamn apple,” said Alfredo angrily, and he picked up an apple aggressively.
“Shit, that’s a great find! How big is the acres and the apple trees,” asked Julio.
“Honestly? The apple trees themselves are pretty small, but the acre is huge. Seriously, it would be very hard for them to trap us in there,” said Alfredo while munching on the apple.
“That’s cool,” said Felipe, and they all fell into a comfortable silence, enjoying each other’s company.
The night wasn’t really chilling, it was actually kinda nice. They did not knew how to make a fire, so they used the flashlights of their mobile phone’s. They tried to call someone through the mobile phones, but they couldn’t even find a single WiFi bar. That much was to be expected, so they were little more than flashlights and music producers that they didn’t put to save battery.
Suddenly, a sob was heard.
“Sebastián,” asked Hugo to the kid who started to cry.
He did not respond, he just kept on crying. Then another sob was heard. This time it was from Alfredo. Then, one by one, all the teenagers started crying, and some even started wailing.
“I wanna go back home. I don’t want to be here. I-I want to go back with my parents. My mom lost a sister recently because of that stupid virus, and now she m-must be so worried because I’m not there. I must be there for her. I ha-have to go back,” said Hugo between cries.
“I promised th-that when I came back, I would help my brother in ho-homework. A-And I have to help m-my family at the farm. Th-They cannot do everything by themselves,” exclaimed Sebastián, and the tears started falling to the ground.
“Tomorrow w-as the birthday of my d-dad, and I c-cannot be there for him. He w-was so excited to see me, bec-ause he was out of Spain because of work, and he couldn’t come ba-back because of th-the virus and-and-and we were gonna celebrate through the computer, and-and-and,” Alfredo completely broke out in tears, and he covered his face, not finishing his sentence.
“I promised to st-start watching Naruto with my s-sister when I came back, an-d she was so-o excited. I ev-even promised to draw her in that Nar-uto style, and now I may never see her ag-again,” said Julio, and he began to cry with his face to the sky and the tears turned into rivers.
“M-My mom said she would make my f-favorite food whe-n I came back, I love my mom and d-dad so much, I w-want to see t-them ag-again. They may not l-love each other, b-but I love them so much, and t-they must be so w-worried for me-e-e-e. This i-is not fa-fair,” said Samuel, dampening his glasses and turning his face red.
“I want to s-see my mom again. My dad d-died months ago, but s-she needs me. And I-I need her. I want to go back t-to play videogames with my b-brother, and I want t-to go back h-home,” said Felipe while his long hair covered his face.
“I want to go back to S-Spain and school. S-school was hard, but I would d-do a million e-exams than to be he-here. And a-all of this was b-because of me, because I c-couldn’t defend m-myself against those id-idiots,” said Gabriel, sobbing and crying as much, if not more, than everyone.
The group cried and continued crying, comforting each other and crying in each other’s shoulders. They continued crying, until they fell asleep. Of course, they turned of the flashlights, and they had to sleep together because the night had gotten a bit chillier, but they didn’t utter a word.
It was a nice morning. The birds were chirping. Squirrels jumping from tree to tree. Thankfully, NOT a bear there this time. The sun rained sunlight, which sounded quite funny. All the boys were starting to wake up, and were now a lot more distressed.
“So, uhhh, about last night,” said Sebastián.
“Dude, there is no problem. True chads crie on their friends shoulders,” said Julio while smiling.
“Hah! I guess so,” answered Sebastián.
“But it was kinda gay that you guys had to sleep together. I, the chadest of chads, slept with only my sweater and pure raw manliness,” said Hugo, while making a pose and making his voice incredibly cocky.
“Right. The chadest of chads who was shivering all the time and finally, when it thought that everyone was sleeping, came back to the group to share some heat,” said Felipe with a grin.
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” said Hugo, making a snobby voice.
They all chuckled for a bit.
“We have to get moving, that chicken and it’s pussy guards may start putting traps everywhere, and we don’t want none of that gay shit,” said Samuel.
“Yeah, but we cannot move too far of the acre, cause we may loose it and we suck at surviving,” said Felipe a bit more serious this time.
“Hmmm, that is right. What con we do,” asked Gabriel.
They all thought for ideas and plans.
“I got one! How about we take hostages, kill one of them to show we are not fucking around, and get everything we want,” said Samuel in a joking manner.
“That might just work, but let’s think of other alternatives,” said Alfredo.
“Can you remind me again why we don’t go balls deep to the forest? We could grab some apple seed, plant them, wait a couple yeaaaaa, that one never mind. But why though,” asked Hugo.
“Because, apart from no food, there was a bear, whoever bitchy it was. There might be mountain lions, and those don’t fuck around,” said Sebastián.
“Wait a fucking second, what can we actually do? Now that I think about it, we can’t do shit. We can’t go deeper to the forest, as already said, we can’t fight them upfront, since they are a lot and are armed, we can’t stay, since we will be trapped, and we can’t all sneak around safely, since, well, they are a lot. What the fuck can we do,” asked Gabriel.
“Move the cargo gently, you birdbrains,” shouted general Sharp Slice.
General Sharp Slice was in a bad mood. She has been assigned to trap some weird creature from the Everfree just because some random pony got hurt. That’s it! One of the best monster trappers in the royal palace, and her assignment was to trap a creature that probably wasn’t as dangerous as a manticore. And she had to follow the orders of that purple Princess, who had used that terrible term “everypony”. But, to be fair, she had corrected it, unlike so many snobby nobles in Canterlot. But she was still mad. And she absolutely hated the name of the place. Ponyville. Could there be a more “Hi, welcome to this place were we don’t like you because you aren’t a pony, so get fucked!” name? Still, this was her duty, and she had to do it.
Oh boy, and here comes smarty brains.
“Report,” said the slightly taller than average for a pony, but tiny for an alicorn, Princess.
“We are moving all the gear and traps so that they may be easy to access to, and we are settling just outside Ponyville,” Sharp Slice professionally said.
“Good. Sorry I was late. I had to attend to the School of Friendship,” said Twilight.
Oh right! They had a school! And about friendship, no less. How would they teach there? Is it like “be good, be honest, be kind, yade yada yu”? And she was being bossed around by a teacher! What had she done to deserve this. Apart from some shady jobs for Celestia.
“There’s no need to worry. We are already placing some traps in the forest, so-“
“You already entered the Everfree Forest without my permission?! It’s dangerous, someone could get hurt,” interrupted Twilihght.
That little brat! Like she knew how to trap monsters.
“Excuse me, Princess, but we were just laying some traps on the forest, there is nothing to-“
“No. You must inform me about everything that happens from now on, is that understood,” asked the Princess
That little bitch!
“I’m sorry princess, but I have more military knowledge and training than you do. Don’t interrupt me,” said Sharp Slice when she watched the Princess opening her mouth, which she closed inmediatly. ”I think that I know how to handle the situation better than you just ‘cause you read some books. So, let me manage my troops however I want and leave me be,” said the griffin while jabbing a blunter claw in the ponies chest. She walked past her.
“No,” said the Princess.
“What did you say,” asked Sharp Slice dangerously.
The Princess turned around and looked at the face of the griffin.
“I said no. Don’t interrupt me,” said Twilight when she saw the griffin opening her beak, which she shut. “Even though you may not like it, I’m your superior, so you follow my orders and inform me about everything that you do. And you know why I take this seriously? Because somepony got hurt badly, and I don’t want that to happen to anyone. So, if you think you can just trot all over me, then you are sorely mistaken. You will know follow my orders. Is it understood,” asked Twilight in a equally dangerous tone.
“Crystal clear, ma’am,” said Sharp Slice.
“Good. Now get back to putting those traps in the Everfree now that I gave you permission,” said the Princess.
Twilight then trotted off. Sharp Slice had to admit she had a nice flank. She went back to screeching instructions to the ponies.
When she just rounded the corner and was out of sight, she started hyperventilating. Sweet Celestia, she just went face to face with a griffin general! But she did it because it was a good cause, so she did not regret it at all. In fact, she smiled a little bit to herself and went home whistling that day. She felt pretty good, and it was a good day.
“We are so boned! We are dead men walking! Why did you say that shit Gabriel,” exasperated Alfredo, who was now walking in circles.
“I don’t know! It just occurred to me, and I kinda just... blurted it out. I said it the second it appeared in my mind,” answered Gabriel with an pleading tone.
“Maybe they’re already watching us,” said Sebastián while frantically looking around. “Maybe they are already watching all of our moves.”
“C’mon, don’t be ridiculous. It would be too early for them to do anything,” reassured Hugo, but by the way he was nervously playing with his sweatshirt sleeves, he wasn’t too sure about it either.
“Have we forgot about a little detail? Oh, I don’t know, maybe they can fly while wearing heavy cargo like it’s nothing? Maybe you forgot about that part, but don’t worry, it’s a pretty fucking obscure detail, so I don’t blame you for not remembering,” said Julio with sarcasm.
“Fuck off with the sarcasm, it will only make all of us angrier. Now, we may be fucked up, but there may be a solution,” said Samuel with a smile.
“And that is,” asked Felipe with a weird look on his face.
“Lets try to speak to them! They are smart, aren’t they? I’m sure they can listen to reason,” pridefully announced Samuel.
“Are you out of your mind? I punched one of those guys so hard that it turned into a Gmod rag doll, and we saw that they had spears and swords, so they may not be looking for the most peaceful course of action,” Hugo said. “Though, to be fair, he bucked me first.”
“Exactly,” exclaimed Samuel. “He attacked you first, so that means that you just defended yourself. And, if they have guards and all that jazz, that must mean that they have laws, which means they have a supreme court room, or something similar, in which case we could explain ourselves and charge against the aggressor.”
“I know that you like to read about laws as a hobby, Samuel, but that’s it. A hobby,” deadpanned Felipe. “You can’t justify that they have a “supreme court” just because they have armors. And they might not even be democratic! They could have a monarchy or something, and, if they do, they might not appreciate that we harmed their subjects. We are also something they might have never saw before.”
“Which brings another point. If what Julio and Hugo saw was right, they saw a griffin, which means that there may be other species,” said Samuel while he tapped his head. “And, if there are other species, then they might have some experience with first contacting new species, because there are three different pony species living together, and, if biology’s right, the ones without wings and horns fuck the ones without wings and horns, the ones with wings fuck the ones with wings, etcetera. So, they know that being different is not inherently bad, so it gives us more of a chance for a peaceful encounter.”
“...Are you sure you aren’t just saying things? I mean, yeah, there was a griffin, but there might be just griffins and ponies,” added Alfredo. “Also, we get it, you are very smart, but those are a lot of ‘if’s’ and ‘which’s’.”
“Sure, there are some questions, and it may be a bit shaky, but it’s the best I can come up with. And it’s not me being smart, it’s me using logic. Do they have military? There must be wars. Are there wars? Some laws must’ve formed. Are there laws for war? Then there are laws for the mundane. I know that it looks that I’m reaching for straws, but I honestly think it’s the best chance we have,” Samuel said plainly. “Also, they speak english, so we have that as well.”
Gabriel hummed.
“I don’t like it one bit, but I also think it’s the best chance we have. And, if they turn out to be hostile, then we won’t go down without a fight,” as he said this, he raised his fist to the air while flexing it. “But, yeah, would be better if we didn’t fight.”
“Does everyone agree,” asked Samuel.
The boys, except Samuel, chatted with each other for a bit while making a circle. Finally they stopped, and they looked at Samuel at the face, which he knew what it meant.
“Alright! Lets vote at the count of three. One. Two. And three!”
A total of three hands were raised. Those were from Samuel, Felipe and Alfredo.
“What now? Did you guys forgot to raise your hands,” a perplexed Samuel asked.
“No, I think it’s good as it is. Three agains four. It seems that, until there is no other solution, we will not meet with the ponies yet,” announced Sebastián.
“But why? They could have food, and toilets, and a ceiling, and a bed,” listed Samuel with his fingers. “Why not?”
“I don’t trust them,” bluntly said Sebastián.
Samuel was left with his mouth hanging open and his glasses almost falling.
“That’s it? You don’t trust them,” said Samuel rather angrily. “I’m not saying that we become best friends with them, but at least give them a chance.”
“Sorry, but it’s that simple. They had nets and spears. The spears, I understand, but why the nets? And how did a whole platoon of those things suddenly came overnight? I dunno, it all seems fishy to me,” explained Hugo. “Also, sending a fucking tiny armada just because one of them got hurt? That seems a bit exaggerated, and it I don’t think a democrat would be able to send such measurements to the equivalent of a bear attack that fast.”
“Now that is a point I think is valid,” said Felipe, which made Samuel look at him with shock. “I prefer the pacifist route, but it is pretty suspicious.”
“Really? Alfredo, you support me, right,” asked Samuel with hope in his voice.
“I mean, yeah, I support you,” at this Samuel smiled. “But I don’t really care,” at this Samuels smile dropped. “We made a vote, and we lost, so it was fair and square.”
“C’mon Samuel, don’t be so salty. It may turn out to be the best course of action, and if it isn’t, we’ll try the peaceful option,” reassured Julio.” We are doing this ‘cause we can be captured unarmed.”
“Alright, fine, I get it. You guys are real jerks, I did this for all of us,” Samuel said while he crossed his arms.
“Hey man, we are also doing this for all of us, so don’t worry, we got this,” said Sebastián with a smile, and they all smiled with him, forgetting for a moment the apparent impending doom.
“Twilight? Where are you? You weren’t at the friendship map room,” shouted Spike at the crystal hallways. Spike never really liked the friendship castle. It was too confusing, and if it were to be named a labyrinth, then nopony would bat an eye. He always got lost trying to find the bathroom!
“I’m right here,” Spike heard down the hallway.
‘Oh, what is she doing now, thought the growing dragon.
“Twilight! I brought you the cookies you asked me for,” said Spike while wearing an admittedly tiny pink maid dress.
“Great,” exclaimed Twilight while coming into view. “Just let them on the table behind you.“
The young princess had a slightly unkempt hair and wrinkled wings, but it wasn’t so much that it was worrying. After all, Spike saw her in a worse state many times.
“Okay, I’ll leave you to work,” said Spike cheerily, and was readying himself to get lost again in the castle searching for his room.
“Pssst. Hey Spike, you know something,” whispered Twilight with a little giggle.
“What,” asked the dragon with a little smile while getting closer to the alicorn.
“Today I confronted the griffin general.”
The dragon gasped.
“No way! Yo could have gotten yourself in trouble,” said Spike worriedly, but Twilight wasn’t alarmed at all.
She giggled even more now.
“Oh Spike, no trouble will come from this. Really, it was incredible! She was being so mean to me for no reason at all, so I stated the fact that I was in a higher command that hers, and boom! She obeyed my orders! And I was sooooo scared, Spike, yet I was brave enough to tell her what she deserved. Really, you should have seen it. This also proves a minor experiment that I did not have the time or resources to try, yet today’s event confirms it,” at this, Twilight then clopped her hooves rapidly to show her excitement.
“Oh...Good for you. Aaaanyways, I’ll go back to reading some comics,” announced Spike, not wanting to question any one of Twilights semantics, knowing that it’ll lead to some boring thing Twilight will say.
“Oh, Spike! Please, send this letter real quick to Princess Celestia, please,” at this, Twilight levitated a scroll that was in her backpack.
“Sure,” said Spike, and he prepared to fire some dragon breath, which he did to ignite the scroll. With that done, he made a beeline to the maze he called home, only to find there Twilight whistling and casually looking around.
“What do you want, Twilight,” asked Spike while sighing.
“You aren’t going to ask me why I confronted that griffin,” asked Twilight incredibly fast, her words being hard to decipher. “Not even a bit of curiosity.”
“Not really. She was mean to you when she shouldn’t have been, and it came back to bite at her tail. It’s simple. I’m not a baby dragon anymore, Twilight,” lectured the purple dragon to the purple pony.
“How did you know it was a she,” asked Twilight after an awkward silence.
“I just guessed. And female griffins are always a bit moody,” said Spike dryly, not wanting to spend more time in the conversation.
“Alright. Sorry for borrowing your time, and thanks for the cookies,” happily said Twilight.
“I found another one,” the shout from Julio could be heard, but it wasn’t too loud as to not alert unwanted visitors.
“God damn! How many are there? This shit is getting ridiculous,” exhaled Gabriel with a tired tone.
“Well, with all the traps they are giving us, we can eat fish now,” optimistically said Felipe.
Alfredo cocked an eyebrow. “Raw fish? We don’t know how to make a fire”. At this statement, Felipe scratched the back of his head, and a incomprehensible mutter could be heard.
“We are really going nowhere staying here. The traps are getting closer and closer every second, and we will be cornered at the end. We need to make a play now... Any ideas,” offered Hugo.
“We already had this discussion! I have an idea. We all get the fuck out of this forest today, is that clear? So, I was thinking that we go through the apple farm, since they might not have traps in there, and there is a lot of cover, though not as much as the forest, in form of the apple trees. So, they are looking through the forest, but we won’t be there anymore, since Alfredo saw that there was something that wasn’t the forest on the other side. So, we go through the apple farm, grab some apples, and completely go unnoticed and disappear since they will be looking at a place we aren’t in. So, what do you think,” Samuel said with a pleased smile.
Hugo grimaced. “I dunno, it seems kinda risky, and you sounded a bit bossy.”
Samuel shook his head. “I’m sorry man, I just cannot stand been here anymore. The tiny pine trees are scratching me all the time, and the idea that we are being hunted by aliens really makes me nervous.”
Gabriel shrugged. “Eh. It’s no big deal that you are nervous, we are all nervous. I think that’s not a terrible idea, and it might just be the best bet we have for the moment.”
Some shuffling con be heard from a nearby tree, and from it emerged Sebastián looking concerned. “I saw three of the flying horses scouting and looking around, sometimes swooping down, only to get back to the air inmediatly. They are getting closer, and it’s very worrisome. Also as a side note, how the fuck can they fly? They look so weird.”
Felipe chewed on his lip for a moment, and then hummed. “We need to get out today. I also think that Samuels plan is the best we can think at the moment.”
“Is it settled then,” asked Samuel. All the boys nodded. “Okay then! Let’s pack things up, and get the fuck out.”
A good five minutes passed, spent packing up food and a few nets.
Samuel looked around at his friends, who looked ready to go. “Everyone has their things?”
Sebastián huffed. “Not like we have many things.”
With a deep voice, Hugo laughed. “Ha! You all may have little to no things, but I have the mightiest of weapons. The Indestructible Stick of Strength!” At this, he started swinging said weapon around carefully as to not hurt the boys, ending with a heroic pose. “Truly, no soul that has ever existed is as powerful as me, and my feats of strength are unparalleled and second to none! My thick, powerful, long and hard stick!”
“Yeah, just like my dick,” said rather loudly Gabriel.
“Wait, what do you mean by that,” asked Hugo with a confused tone, but then realization hit him, and he reddened up. “OH NOT LIKE THAT, YOU DAMN PERVERT!”
That got a chuckle out of the group, which only annoyed Hugo more. After that, they all fell back to a comfortable silence. They were nearing the apple farm now, and Alfredo and Samuel where keeping a hawks eye to the sky. Every time a flying pony came into view, they would all hide under the trees until it passed by, wait a few minutes, and then get back on their merry way. In fact, the apple farm was starting to come into view.
“Alright, there it is” sighed Alfredo. “So, how we doing this?”
“It’s literally the simplest shit ever. We go one by one through the acres, keep an eye on the sky, hide under a tree if necessary, and rinse an repeat until it’s done,” informed Samuel.
“I dunno, it seems a bit too easy,” commented Hugo while getting closer to the edge of the forest. “I mean, if we find one of the wingless and hornless ponies, then it’s easy, but if there is a flying one, then we are fucked, since they literally pulled a chariot while flying, are probably the strongest, and can, well, fly.”
“I never said it was gonna be easy,” sharply said Samuel. “It’s just that, on paper, it seems easy.”
The group was now at the edges of both the farm and the forest, and they stopped right there. Some boys were looking at the land on the other side of the farm, which, indeed, wasn’t a forest, and some looked at the light blue skies with barely any clouds.
“Who goes first,” asked Alfredo.
“Whoever asks for it, goes for it,” swiftly replied Samuel, and he smiled a sly smile along the rest of the group.
“W-What? Are you shitting me?”. They were indeed not shitting him, as the little smiles and snickers could prove. “Oh, go fuck yourselves,” exclaimed Alfredo, but he was already preparing himself.
“Hey man, look at the bright side,” happily said Julio while patting Alfredos back.
“Which is,” asked the short teenager while cocking an eyebrow.
Julio gave a toothy grin. “Eh, can’t think one for the moment, but I’m sure you’ll figure it out.”
Alfredo muttered all kinds of insults and curses to not hear the laughs, and was ready to go.
“Go,” shouted Felipe, who made sure that no ponies were on the sky.
Alfredo sprinted towards the nearest apple tree as fast as he could. There wasn’t a long distance, no more than ten meters, but he ran like a madman. In less than six seconds, he was already under the safety of the leaves, but he was left panting for a few moments, and it looked like he would vomit his lungs out. He was pretty weak, after all. After taking a breather, Alfredo Gabe a thumbs up to the group, and, after a few moments, Samuel came in sprinting the short distance. One by one, all the boys came in sprinting while it was safe under the same apple tree.
“And we do that again,” asked Alfredo while still panting for a bit.
“Fuck me, it’s gonna take a while, isn’t it,” fearfully asked Samuel.
Gabriel smiled. “At least this way we are working out.”
“Let’s get this over with,” said Sebastián with a sigh.
And the group got on with it. They did the same thing every time. Go one by one, check if there is anything flying over them, run like hell onto the next thing. It was a tedious activity that was soon getting into the nerves of everybody, and it showed. An hour had already passed, and they were only half way through the damn farm. They had to do something to pass the time.
“Hey Gabriel, can you put a bit of music? The sounds of crickets or whatever is getting into my head,” asked suddenly Sebastián.
“Sure bro, just give me a sec,” answered Gabriel while looking for his phone.
“Dude, Gabriel, what the fuck. We are going through trees, not listening to music. And we have no WiFi, so how the fuck are we going to listen to music? And that would be a stupid waste of battery,” harshly reprimanded Hugo to the two boys.
“Sorry bro, it’s just that it’s sooo fucking boring in here. I wish there was another way to pass time,” said Gabriel after he winced at the tone Hugo made.
Winona? Atta girl. Ye keep lookin’ for ‘em critters, said a voice with a weird accent accompanied with barks.
“You had to open your big fucking mouth, didn’t you Gabriel,” asked Hugo with a frown on his face, and the rest had panic clear on their expressions.
“What do we do? Do we just gun it,” hushed Julio.
Felipe gave a nervous frown. “We cannot outrun them, since they have a dog. And the horse would alert the flying ponies if it saw us, which would be our doom.”
The barks where slowly getting closer.
“So what do we do? Do we go all ninja like and sneak our way out,” Hugo was pacing in pace, but it seemed like it was out of fear instead of working out, and the sounds of clops could be heard.
“I think that’s our only chance,” tried to say Sebastián with a brave voice, but his whole body was trembling and it came out weak.
“Let’s get moving then, and we have to do it all at once from one tree to other,” Samuel tried to object the statement that Alfredo made, but the nearing barks prompted him to agree, and all of the boys started moving together as quietly and rapidly as possible. But moving as a group usually means that unfortunately some noise will be made, especially if it’s a twig being broken.
And dogs have really good ears.
The barks started getting louder and more aggressive, and it could be clearly heard that something was coming fast. The group scrambled and dispersed, some hiding behind bushes, others run a bit farther away and hid behind a tree and a few climbed trees and hid between the leaves and sticks while panicking.
A dog came into view. It was a combination of brown and white coloration, and it was decently big for a dog. Felipe saw this race of dog once while walking in the park. He didn’t remember what race it was called, but he knows that those existed in Earth, which really frustrated him since there was no reason why this normal dog was in this alien dog. He hid in the top of the tree, and he was starting to really regret it, since he was the tallest of the group, and he was in a tree that was pretty small, but he chose the first tree he saw and climbed for his live.
The dog started sniffing the air and looking around, and was walking up to the place their group was just in. That was bad, because if it picked up their scent then the dog would be on their heels for the rest of the way. He had to do something fast. He started to brainstorm for ideas and distractions. Then it occurred to him a terrible idea that could just work.
He furiously picked up his mobile phone and started searching for some music that he had downloaded in his phone. He didn’t care what song it was, just the first one that came up would do. The dog was almost directly in front of where they had just being in, and he clicked onto the first downloaded song that he had. It was a the stupid Nokia Arabic Ringtone that Hugo had send him for a joke video that they were doing and that he had to download to be able to even put it in. He put the volume as high as possible and threw it at the other direction the group was in as far as he could.
The dog, who already had its head right above where they were standing and was close to sniffing the ground, turned it’s head around and arched its ears toward the thud that was heard a good distance from where it was, and some weird noise was heard as well. The dog growled, and made a beeline towards the noise. It now was gone, and Felipe gave a sigh of relief at that.
Barking could be heard, but it wasn’t getting any nearer, and the clops went towards where the barks where, so they had to get out of there now. Felipe was the first one to come out of hiding, and soon the rest of the group also came out. They didn’t say anything, and they actually run all they way through the rest of the apple farm onto the other side. The only thing Felipe heard before running out of there was somebody saying “What th’ hay?”, but it didn’t matter at the moment, and they all run dear to their lives.
“Holy fuck, that was close,” said Julio while sweating and panting.
The group had finally gotten out of that God awful place, and they where exhausted. They ran continuously for fifteen minutes without a break, and they ran fast. They now where at the other side of the farm, and they stopped to take a breath. They were in a fairly rocky, medieval looking road that stretched quite far.
Gabriel gave a short chuckle. “Felipe, you’re a god damn hero. Chucking your phone to drive of that stupid dog was amazing!”
“Nah, it wasn’t that cool,” said Felipe while scratching his head. “That was an old phone anyways. It would break any day by now.”
Hugo playfully punched Felipe’s shoulder with a smirk. “Don’t be so humble. That mutt would’ve caught us if it wasn’t for you! And did you have to pick the goddamn nokia song?”
“It was the first one that popped up! And I couldn’t be picky with which song I chose,” exclaimed Felipe.
“Let’s get back to the point,” mentioned Sebastián. “Where are we?”
“It seems like we are in some sort of road”, Alfredo pointed out. “But it looks like it is not meant for the travel of vehicles.”
“Guys, I think we all see a pattern here. Everything here is fucking medieval, so let’s try to no point out every single thing that looks that it was made with child slavery,” replied Samuel.
Alfredo smiled sheepishly. “I guess you are right. But the only thing we can do now is go down that road, so do we get moving?”
“Lets do that,” concluded Julio with excitement, and almost all of the group got on the way.
“Hey Hugo, is something wrong,” asked Felipe worried at the boy who was apparently glaring at something.
They group stopped at their tracks. Hugo was intensely looking over the apple acre at a barely noticeable weird shape between the mountains, but was too far to be identifiable thanks to the sunset and clouds.
“Nothing man. It’s just that I thought I saw something moving between the clouds. Probably just the wind,” answered Hugo.
“If you have any problems, just tell us. We are always here for you,” said Sebastián with a sweet tone.
“Thanks,” smiled Hugo. “And what was that gay ass tone? Like, get that gay shit outta here.”
“Fuck off man,” said Sebastián, and he proceeded to punch Hugo in the shoulder harshly. The group laughed it off, and they went on their merry way.
The boys had been walking for hours, and the exhaustion was starting to kick in. The run from earlier plus all the walking they were doing meant that, although they’ve been walking for a long time, meant that they didn’t got too far. But it was clear that they made progress. The terrain around them morphed radically. It seemed like a rocky wasteland, with the very ground having prominent cracks, and an arid surrounding that was not friendly at all. It sucked harder than a cheap whore.
“Can we- give me a moment,” said Alfredo between pants. He sat on the ground and took some deep breaths for what was he gonna ask next. “C-Can we rest for a bit?”
“I-I mean, I’m down for it. But if we keep this up, we’ll all get super buff,” added Gabriel, and he sat down next to Alfredo.
Samuels glasses were very foggy, and he had to clean the constantly while walking. He straight up lied down on the dusty ground and relaxed. “Yeah, that’d be a good idea. I’m also starving! I can’t be the only one.”
The general consensus was that of agreement, and everyone voted if they should stay or go. They all unanimously voted to stay.
“So, we all agree. Leisure time it is then,” Hugo happily exclaimed, and he started to take out food from the grab that he had temporarily acquired from the pony he already had forgotten the name of.
They all sat down together, and watched the sunset. It really was beautiful. The sky was a pleasant orange, with the sun itself peeking out of the mountains in the horizon with a yellow glow, and the clouds were low to the ground, adding more to the scenery that was before the group. It wasn’t cold yet, but it was get chillier by the second, so they would have to bundle up together. But that didn’t matter at the moment, and it was just comfortably quiet, without the need to fill the silence with words, unlike Americans, who apparently had the need to speak all the time or else it would get ‘uncomfortable’. Really, there was no sound at all. No chirping birds, no random rabbit or a fucking snake or two that had scared the shit out of them while on the road. It was a graveyard. Silent. Nothing.
It was very creepy, and they all were looking at each other with worry. The all stopped eating their food and started to pay attention to their surroundings. They had all got in the same spot near a ‘cliff’ to watch the sunset. It really wasn’t a cliff, it was only two meters tall from the ground, and it curved in a way that made it so if you fell down, you could take five steps to either side and you would be back to the edge. Nobody was keeping watch, and they all really just plopped down right then and there hanging their legs on the edge.
A scrambling sound was heard behind them. That was all that was heard, plus a few rocks trickling through the ground. The sky had lost the orange coloration it had, favoring a light reddish tinge that didn’t look as friendly anymore. It had gotten a lot darker, and there were things moving in the dark, menacingly growling at the nervous group.
Felipe turned his head around. He saw a pair row of teeth growling and salivating towards his group, with its body shrouded in darkness, having only it’s face visible and teeth visible to the terrified teenager. He started shaking in fear, and he tried to tell the group.
“G-Gu-G-Guy-s,” stammered out Felipe.
“Yes Felipe,” asked Hugo with a really calm tone, but his forced smile, frantic eyes and twitchy body suggested otherwise.
Felipe pointed shakily at the figure who was getting closer along the darkness. “L-Loo-k.”
The group slowly turned their heads around, and what they saw shook them to the core. The figure had stepped into view.
It had an ugly face with thick, protruding teeth of a yellowish coloration, and floppy ears that faced forward. It also had really short legs with tiny, useless claws that weren’t sharp at all. It also had a really long back, that was slightly curved toward the front. At first, the most to one might be the dangerous teeth meant to maul flesh, but even more surprisingly were the long, powerful arms that had four fingers with blunt claws meant for digging instead of clawing at the end. Overall, it was one ugly motherfucker, and it didn’t seem open for negotiations.
Another two figures came out of the shadows. They were the same species, only with different fur color, and more or less the same height, except one had what seemed metal brass knuckles that where more like randomly picked up pieces of metal shaped to fit whoever’s owners hand. Basically a slab of metal turned into brass knuckles.
“Sorry I called your daughter a mutt,” blurted out Hugo quickly.
The creatures stopped in their tracks with questioning looks on their faces, but they inmediatly kept on their advance with smiles full with teeth.
The first one to react was Samuel. He inmediatly got up and started shouting at the ugly things, which made them stop in their tracks. Even though those things had really long arms, they were still shorter than all of them, including Alfredo. They were about chest height, so our group had an advantage in that area. Still, one of them still had fucking brass knuckles, who was the one to recover the fastest. It growled even louder, and with its tiny feet it continued its advance, closing in the distance. The sun was almost set, and they wouldn’t be able to see them if it got too dark. The rest of the boys also got up, and they started shouting at the things as well.The thing saw this, and they started surrounding the group. They circled the group between the little cliff and themselves, and each one of them had two boys.
“Really? How could you tell,” replied Samuel with snark.
“The one with the metal slabs! Brass knuckles! Each two of us have one of them! Who handles the one with the weapon,” said Felipe with a bit of a shaky voice.
“Hugo and I can handle that one! That guy seems to be the toughest,” said Julio with a bit of confidence. “Are you alright with that, Hugo?”
Hugo gave a quick chuckle. “You think I’ll chicken out on the toughest one? What do you take me for? A French?”
“Well, you do have that fucking club, and he’s got knuckles on, so it balances it out,” said Gabriel while still glaring at the ugly thing in front of him. “Also, I better go with Felipe, since he isn’t too strong.”
“So that leave me and Sebastián with this one,” asked Alfredo while raising his fist in a defensive manner.
“Alright, I’ll also gang up towards the one that Felipe and Gabriel have,” said Samuel while tucking his glasses in his pocket. “I’m fighting with them since the one they have seems the second toughest one, and Felipe doesn’t know how to fight.”
The things had already surrounded them well enough between the cliff. The fall from the little cliff wouldn’t kill them, but it would hurt like a bitch. The boys moved around so that everyone was facing the thing that they where assigned to fight. Each one of the dog looking things were now barking, and they were ready to strike at any second.
Julio and Hugo both were in a stance close to the ground, and the latter was anxiously caressing his weapon. The little group of three boys, Samuel, Gabriel and Felipe, were sizing up their opponent, and looked ready to fight. Sebastián and Alfredo were against the smallest one, but it still had gigantic arms that could give quite the wallop, so they had to be careful. All of them had to.
The first one to attack was the one with the brass knuckles. He did an impressive jump to cross the distance. Well, impressive if one took into account the tiny legs that it had, which meant that even if the jump was impressive for the tiny size of the legs, it still wasn’t much. Both boys reacted quickly, and they stepped out of the way. The creature was going for a downward-striking punch, much like a hammer, and it hit the ground both were just in. Hugo saw and opportunity to hit it, since it stood still for a moment, he did a fast sprint forward and he went for an upward swing with his stick, but, to Hugo’s surprise, the thing punched the incoming club away with the brass knuckle that wasn’t on the ground, leaving him stunned.
The thing saw this opening, hunched down to jump at him and he tried to pin Hugo to bite it with its maws, but he couldn’t seal the deal since Julio kicked him in its back, which made it crie in surprise and sent it running past Hugo, who had already recovered from the scare, and he hit the running foe in the stomach rather weakly, since he couldn’t put a lot of strength behind it. At most, it was just a cheeky little hit, but it did sting, which was what he was looking for. The thing ran for a bit, and almost fell down the little cliff, but it managed to regain control and glared back at the two boys growling and flexing its muscles.
The others weren’t faring as well. Sebastián got hit with a powerful haymaker by the shortest one, which send him flying a foot from the ground, and it was quite the hit, since Sebastián clutched his arm with a painful expression. But Sebastián was saved thanks to Alfredo, since he came in running and straight up punched the thing on its chest with all his strength and might. The thing grabbed its chest and gasped for breath, and was falling backward, not able to find footing. This gave Alfredo enough time to check on Sebastián, and he was fine and ready to go back to the fight. He was lying on the floor and was still grabbing his arm, which was now bruised and inflated, but he was willing to go back.
After helping Sebastián get up, Alfredo saw that the thing still couldn’t find a foothold an was still falling backwards, looking quite goofy. It was bizarre. Why was that thing still falling backwards. It finally fell flat on its back, and gasped for air while on the ground. That was weird. A normal dude would have inmediatly found the foothold back, but this thing didn’t stop until it fell on its ass.
The other group were faring a bit better. They had the thing surrounded, and they would hit it whenever it put its back onto one of the three boys, but it was still dangerous as shit, and it would erratically turn around whenever it could. In fact, Felipe almost fucking died, since the thing had jumped on him very quickly and almost mauled him to death, but Gabriel and Samuel kicked the thing on its ribs rather strongly. While the thing was on top of him, Felipe put his forearm in the thing’s neck so that it wouldn’t bite him, yet he still got scratched on his sides. It wasn’t a problem, though, since those claws were blunt and not really meant for tearing apart. After a bit of struggle, Felipe threw the thing off him to the side thanks to the help of his friends and their kicks.
So now they had the thing surrounded, and were a bit more sure about themselves. In fact, the thing looked a lot more nervous now, since it’s ears were pointing down and it was whining and barking rapidly, all while shaking. But it still didn’t back off, so the little group still kicked it or punched it on the back at every opportunity.
The thing with the brass knuckles heard the barks, but it barked back rather aggressively, and it even started drooling along the growls directed towards the two strong boys. It started running towards them at full speed. It wasn’t super fast, since it had those short legs, but it was still pretty fast. Hugo glanced at Julio and grinned at Julio, who gave Hugo a questioning look.
Hugo stepped forward and grabbed the club with both hands, and had a posture similar to the guy who has the baseball bat in a baseball game, and tauntingly swang his club up and down to draw the things attention. It apparently worked, since it ran even faster. Hugo wanted this. The thing was putting his arms in a defensive manner, protecting all the upper area while running. When the thing was around five meters from Hugo, he readied the weapon, but instead of swinging it, he threw it at the feet of the charging foe with all of his strength. It hit it in the knees point blank. The thing yelled in pain, it stumbled forwards and rolled on the ground. The two boys moved of of the way, and Julio was running towards it, while Hugo went for his weapon.
The rolling thing stopped rolling, and Julio started stomping at the downed opponent, and Hugo came back with its weapon and started wacking at the thing on the ground with it. The thing stood on the ground for a good five seconds, and then it started screaming and scrambling on the ground, an it tried to run from the beating. To get out of there as fast as possible, it dropped off its brass knuckles and ran on all fours, doing those crying sounds that dogs do when they just got their shit kicked in. The other two saw that their leader was running and limping away, and also decided to get out. The one that was surrounded by Gabriel, Samuel and Felipe scattered as fast as possible between a little open space purposefully left there so that it could scape, also running while whimpering. The only one that did not cry was the one that Alfredo and Sebastián fought against, and it looked rather angry, pointing its finger at Alfredo specifically and, surprisingly, shouting “Dead! You are dead!”, with a really gruff voice, which left Alfredo stunned.
“Know your fucking place, bitch,” shouted Julio at the retreating things.
“Is everyone okay,” asked Felipe worryingly.
Sebastián groaned a bit, but he smiled it off. “I’m fine, it just stings like a bitch. I got hit by that fucker, and, I kid you not, I was a foot in the air. I’m glad that it hit me on the shoulder.”
“Hey Alfredo, are you okay,” asked Hugo towards the boy, and he moved his hand in front of his eyes for a bit.
That threw him off his stupor. “Yeah, I’m good. I just never hit something that hard before in my life.”
Hugo playfully hit him on his shoulder. “No problem man. I never hit someone with a stick before.”
“Oh, shit,” exclaimed Julio rather excited.
“What’s up bro,” asked Gabriel.
“Look at this shit! This is fucking awesome,” and, indeed, it was. What he had where the brass knuckles that the thing had. Well, brass knuckles might be a bit of a broad term, more akin to slabs of metal, but the functionality was still the same. Julio put them on with glee, and they fit perfectly. They were a bit uncomfortable, but for what they represented it was worth it.
“I’m going to punch the shit out of my opponents!”
“Oh, Jesus Christ,” muttered Samuel while smiling. “You know that anime is for gays!”
“Shut your nazi mouth, Samuel! I can punch everyone that messes with me, and you are no exception,” shot back Julio.
“Anyways, what were those things? They don’t remind me of anything in mythology,” commented Gabriel.
“I don’t know, but they acted just like a dog would do. They even whimper like one when they are hit,” said Hugo.
“So what, do we call them ‘dog mans’? Or what do we call them,”added Sebastián.
“How about ‘dessert dogs’, since we are in an arid place and they are dogs,” suggested Felipe.
“We’ll think of something better, but let’s leave that one as a placeholder. And I don’t know about you guys, but all that fighting left me starved. Who wants some apples,” said Gabriel cheerily, and the group cheered in agreement. Except one.
“Alfredo, are you really okay? You are looking into nothing,” said Hugo with even more worry.
Alfredo pointed a finger towards the sunset. “What is that?”
“What is what,” asked Hugo, and he squinted his eyes towards the barely visible sunset, that was almost gone now. But it was right. There was something there. Hugo dropped his smile, and started squinting his eyes more and watching for every movement.
It was something weird. It was black, and it was barely noticeable, almost invisible. But it was slowly, very slowly getting more and more decipherable, since it appeared to be getting closer. Then Hugo noticed something. There were more than one, and they were definitely coming this way.
“Guys? I think something is coming this way,” plainly said Hugo.
“Huh? What do you mean,” asked Gabriel with his mouth full.
Alfredo kept his finger where it was pointing at. “It means that.”
The rest of the group stopped eating, got up and looked at whatever Hugo and Alfredo where looking at. And they also saw it. There were lots of them, something similar to little boxes floating in the sky, and they were coming this way. Then, the most terrifying imagery that these teenagers ever saw so far in their lives presented itself.
It was the ponies. The flying ones, of course. And there were dozens of them. And not only that, but there were even more only flying, without pulling a chariot, and they seemed to have nets on their hooves, just hanging there maliciously. It looked as if the very sun was spewing them out, as a vengeful last will to annihilate all life, and, in this case, being directed at the group of humans.
They all only thought one thing.
“RUN,” they all shouted.
They packed up their belongings and ran as fast as they could.
“Princess Celestia. The objectives were captured and are right now in the cellar rooms. You can now enter,” informed a threstal guard mare.
“Excellent. I’ll arrive as quickly as possible,” Celestia responded. She wasn’t supposed to say ‘as quickly as possible’, since it implied hurry, and thus less power, but she didn’t really care about that at the moment. This were exciting news, and she could barely contain herself.
The threstal mare saluted and signed off, leaving Celestia alone. And, instead of waiting some useless five minutes that she usually did to seem that she was in complete control to no one that was watching, she made her way towards the cellars.
She still held her head high, of course. She was the princess of the sun, after all! She regally walked in her full attire of golden hooves and crown. She wanted to delight her ‘guest’, since she would be the last thing they ever see.
The entrance to the cellars was guarded by two guards with spears, which bowed down as soon as they saw them and let her through. Celestia barely even noticed that they were there, and she made her way through the snail-like stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was an old wooden door with metal bits, which was the entrance to the cellars, and was also guarded by six ponies with spears. They also bowed and escorted her towards the cell room where all of the prisoners where in, with one being the guide.
The air was musty and a bit damp, with rotting parts of hay from the hay beds. She continued her little walk until she was presented to the cell that contained these strange beings. She smiled and patted something that she had in a little special bag on her side adorned with gold and diamonds. She then requested the door to be open, and the metals bars where now wide open. She grinned, straightened up her back and walked in.
“Hello, my little beings,” she said towards the creatures that were barely visible in the cell with a big ol’ smile.
There was nothing that the boys could’ve done. There were too many ponies, and they threw nets at them or charged at them, though the ones that did the latter usually did no end well. And there were also two kinds of flying ponies, as stupid as that sounds. There were ones with wings like birds, and there were ones with wings like bats. A few of them struggled against their captors for a bit, for example, with Julio testing out his new weapons and punching the ponies with them, leaving some marks in the armors, but, again, too many ponies and nets. There were also dogs. Lots of dogs, which is probably how they found them. And when they finally were trapped in the nets, a ponie would come and knock them out with a stick, that wasn’t Hugo’s, towards the head. One by one, they were knocked out and put into the chariots. Some screams from the ponies could be heard, for some reason or another, but they were there.
They all woke up to a musty, damp and terribly smelling cellar, and they had their hands chained to the wall. Except that not really.
“Ughhhh, where am I,” fumbled Alfredo.
“Oh, hey guys! We are chained and probably about to die,” answered Samuel.
“Well, ain’t that great fucking news,” said Sebastián. His bruise had swollen up more, and he had an angry expression.
“Where the hell am I,” babbled Hugo.
“In a cellar and probably about to die,” said Gabriel, who had his hands and feet chained while the rest only had their hands chained, for some random reason, which left him a bit sour.
“God, this is uncomfortable,” added Felipe, thinking that this valuable information would be of great use towards the survival of the group.
Sebastián wiggled his whole body around, but it was no use. “Maybe if they knew how to actually take proper care of their prisoners, then it would not be such a big deal!”
Hugo flinched at the noise. “Jesus Sebastián, there’s no need to shout like that.”
“Ughhh, where-,” started Julio.
“In a cellar and about to die,” chanted the rest of the group towards the just awoken boy who had been rudely interrupted.
“Huh, okay then. Fuck, my face itches,” informed Julio, and he scratched his face with his very free, very not chained hand.
“Woah, Julio! Wait a fucking second,” hurriedly said Hugo.
“What? What’s the deal,” asked Julio with a weird look in his face.
“No way we are that stupid,” said Samuel with eyes the size of plates.
“What’s going o-. Wait. I get it,” at this, he pulled out both hands from the wall chains very clearly not meant for humans. “Pulled out some magician shit for you guys. I’m pretty cool, I know.”
The group laughed at being able to slip out and in of the chains whenever they wanted to. Except Gabriel. God hated Gabriel. He still had those chains for his feet, and he damned every God that could ever exist. All of the boys (Except Gabriel) got up and stretched and chit chatted away, how they were still probably about to die, how good it felt to punch some ponies, how the battle they had with the dessert dogs was epic. All of that.
Clip clopping could be heard coming downstairs, and a light could also be seen, so the group hurriedly got back to where each one of them were and slipped the chains back in, all of them slouching down and looking miserable.
It was the sound of metal on stone. It really wasn’t going that fast or with that much hurry, almost as if this was an unimportant event. Those sound of clopping went on for about a minute, an it was either nerve wracking for ones, like they were all calculated, or anger inducing for others, as if they were being taunted. But they were getting closer. And, finally, it appeared.
“Hello, my little beings,” said whatever it was with a big toothy smile.
Upfront, and without bullshit, it looked liked a photoshopped horse that had being added wings and a horn, with a lot of hair. Well, not exactly. This one, even though it was bigger than the other horses, was still smaller than a normal horse, being around a head shorter than Julio or Samuel, and was really spindly with really thin legs. Its eyes were the same size as that of the little horses, but it had really big wings. Of course, they weren’t big enough to scientifically allow her to fly, but if she did, which it was probable, it wouldn’t be such an eyesore. Its horn was really long. Around 30 centimeters from base to point, or ‘foot’, as americans would call it with their fucked up metric system. It had a really long hair with multiple colors, and when she first came into vision, it was really flowing in the air, but when she got into the cell in waned a bit. It didn’t appear to care anyways.
“It is a pleasure to meet you, even under this... less than ideal circumstances,” she said with a reaaaally weird tone, that specifically reminded Sebastián to one of a porn actress before she get completely fucked. His mind was a bit perverted, so don’t judge.
Hugo huffed. “And you are?”
“Oh I am the princess of Equestria, and the one who raises the sun, Celestia. And who may you be,” asked the so called Celestia to the ‘chained’ human.
“Don’t you know that you shouldn’t tell you name to someone you just met at the drop of the hat,” said Julio with a sly smile.
Celestia gave a soft glare at the one who said that, but she clicked her mouth and smiled. “Of course, how dumb of my part. I now may be in danger, since you now know something so valuable. Fortunately for me, I have a bit of protection.” And she looked at the six guards with spears at either side.
“What is it that you want us for,” asked Alfredo bluntly.
“Is it really so weird that you are being judged right now,” Celestia said with a singsong tone. “After all, you attacked a pony in Ponyville.”
“I get that, but why send so many troops? We cannot cause that much trouble to be worth sending that many, and we would be more of a loss than a win,” answered Samuel.
Her smile turned to a full on grin. “That is right. You are no worth sending that many ponies and threstals just for you few. But you know what is worth doing all of that? This,” she patted a little bag on her side made of fucking gold and diamonds, looked around for a bit and she showed them what was in there in her hoof.
It was Felipe’s phone, and said person’s face paled when he saw it.
“This! This is revolutionary! It is a wonderful creation that will help my race move forward in the scientific field! I’ve been studying this artifact for all night, and it is marvelous! And you will help me make more,” said the princess with a smug tone.
“What? We won’t help you with shit! Now get us out of here,” answered Hugo angrily.
“Watch you mouth. You are talking to-,” started a guard, but she was interrupted by Celestia’s wing.
“Fear not, I have this under control. And believe me, you naked apes, you will tell me how it is done, wether you want it or not,” said Celestia, and she was making her way towards a table in the corner of the cell that had went unnoticed by the group, and had the club that Hugo had and the recently acquired brass knuckles of Julio, and she picked them up with telekinesis and mockingly swinger or punched at the air with either weapon.
“Don’t we have any rights? Because there are laws here, aren’t there,” nervously asked Samuel.
She hummed for a bit. “Yes, there are rights and laws. But no for you, though.”
“WHAT? Why? Hugo got attacked first by that pony, it was in his right to defend himself,” said Gabriel offended.
“Not according to law 3.17 B. N. that dictates ‘Any pony can defend itself from any creature or attacker with their magic as long as it is confirmed that it is being assaulted or is an unknown creature’. Your friend there got kicked by an earth pony, but he somehow survived the kick. And, even if your friend was blown to pieces thanks to the earth pony, he would still have every right to act upon this law and have no consequences,” said Celestia with a smartass tone.
“Wh- But that’s bullshit! So you’re telling me that I could have died? We are smart, and we can think! So this law allows a pony to get away with murder,” asked Hugo incredulously.
“Yes,” deadpanned Celestia. And she said it so simple and matter-o-factly that the group knew she was serious.
There was silence in the cell. Even the guards looked uncomfortable since their princess had said such a thing in an unceremonious manner. And now that they thinked about it, that law did let ponies get away with murder, which didn’t sit well with them.
“Go suck a fucking dick, you whore!”
“Rot in hell, bitch!”
“I’m going to rip out your intestines and have you look at them!”
“I’m going to pulverize all of your bones and hang your head in my wall like a trophy!”
A barrage of insults were directed at Celestia, some of the most brutal, savage and demented things that the guards ever heard in their entire lifetime were being directed at their princess. But something weird happened. The princess didn’t have the horrified looks that the other ponies in the room had. Instead she started laughing.
“Oh, delightful! You are all very original! What did one of you say? ‘I’m going to snap your horn in half and stab your barely beating heart with it’. Really wonderful, I didn’t heard insults so fantastic in a very long time. Except you, tall one,” she said towards Felipe. “What’s the matter, did you mommy teach you to be a good boy? Are you shy? You just stood there shaking. Whatever, let’s get back to the point. Are you going to tell me how to make this artifact?”
“No way in hell, bitch,” growled Julio.
She huffed. “You hard-headed males. It won’t matter anyways. In fact, this method is better. Prepare yourselves, now. I’m going to take your memories.”
“Hold up, WHAT,” shouted Felipe.
“Princess Celestia, using magic to take the memories of any and all beings is illegal,” exclaimed a male guard that looked as surprised as the rest of the guards.
“Is it, now? I forgot that you were even there. If you keep your mouths shut, nothing bad will happen now,” replied Celestia with a cheeky tone.
“If you use mental magic, we will have no other option but to arrest you, Princess Celestia,” said a guard mare, and all of the guards had determined looks.
“Will you? Come on,” she said as she glanced around. “Oh look at your determined little faces. Unfortunately for you, that won’t be of much use.” At this, she picked all six of the guards with her telekinesis, forced them to drop their weapons and levitated them rather harshly towards to wall. The boys were freaking out at this, since she just beat six guards all by herself in the blink of an eye.
“You lively bunch might be wondering what mental magic is,” she said towards the group of humans. “Mental magic is magic that dwells in the, well, mind! And I’m about to use a spell that will let me see and analyze every single moment of your lives, knowing all the secrets that you ever did. Isn’t this a simpler way of learning things? And that way you won’t have to explain me how this works. I also have spares of this wonderful artifact in my little pouch, since you all had at least one,” she patted said bag, and it indeed had all of their mobile phones. “Anywho, any last words, you wonderful creatures? I’m going to execute you after this, since I’ll already have everything I need. Come on, say them!”
The group was crying and sobbing now, but they all indeed had their last words. She had just beat a whole group by herself, and they had no chance to beat her, so it didn’t matter that that chains weren’t adjusted.
“Eipstein didn’t kill himself,” said Alfredo really seriously, as if to not satisfy the grinning horse.
“I wish I could’ve finished the Jojo series in it’s entirety with its ending,” said Julio with a tone imitating Jonathan Joestar.
“Put Waluigi and a Monster Hunter rep in smash,” said Hugo, and he started humming to himself the Monster Hunter theme.
“You won’t really kill me. I’m a shadow clone and I’ll shoot a rasengan up your ass,” said Gabriel with a bit of an ironic laugh.
“At least my mother won’t have to worry about me anymore,” said Felipe, and his lips started quivering.
“I wish I could punch my brother one last time. The last time I beat the shit out of him wasn’t as strong as I wanted it to be,” said Sebastián between laughs.
“Hey Hugo, I know that I always said that God wasn’t real, but I want you to know that I’m sorry, I always did it as a joke. So, if it turns out that he is real, I want you to know that I am sorry, and that I want to go to heaven. And if I go to hell, at least I’ll see Hitler,” exclaimed Samuel happily.
“Huh. I’ll understand all of those references in a second now. Prepare to be purified,” Princess Celestia exclaimed, and her horn started glowing a bright white light, increasing rapidly in brightness. The pony guards started struggling more now, and they even started shouting, which made they boys feel sympathy for them. But there was nothing they could do. It was now coming, they could see it. They all said their goodbyes, and they were ready.
Princess Celestia sighed. That spell took quite a bit of power to cast, but it was a great spell. She even levitated in the air, to strike fear into the hearts of those insolent creatures. She casted this spell only onto the creatures, and casted a forgiving spell towards the guards, to make them forget that this ever happened. And now, in any second all of their information would come into her mind. Any second now. Aaaaaaany second now.
She opened her eyes startled. No information or knowledge was coming! How could this be! And the creature were looking at her furiously. Normally, they would have blank looks on their faces, and a bit of drool falling from their faces. And they were unchained! How was that possible! This spell never had failed her! Even with magic resistant creatures like dragons, it could pass their natural defenses and grab all of the information needed! It worked even on Starswill, who was famous for having impenetrable magical and mental defenses! The two strongest ones got up, and she was suddenly looking up. Wait a second, looking up? Why was she looking up? And why was everything black now? Celestia didn’t understood anything that was going on. She was so surprised that it didn’t work! It never happened. And what was going on?
Then it hit her. Oh, how could she have been so silly! She would have laughed if she could. It was really simple and easy to understand.
A meaty hit was heard, and the horse princess fell to the ground. All the boys genuinely thought they were about to die, after all that light spectacle and levitating of the ground was a pretty good indicative that they were about to get obliterated. But after the white light died out, and she stopped levitating off the ground, she had the typical face that one had when something went terribly wrong. And she also stood there for thirty seconds or something, and the boys knew something went wrong. She even had her mouth hanging! After realizing this, they got angry, furious, seething, raging and savage, and Julio and Hugo slipped the chains off their wrists, and got up. The horse princess noticed them getting up, but she was still in shock and didn’t even move. So both boys walked up to her, and punched her in the face as hard as they could. Well, it was actually an uppercut, both of them hitting either side of her lower jaw, but it still had the same outcome as a normal punch would have.
Hugo spit at the knocked out horse. “That’s what you get when you mess with us! But, overall, if you mess with ME!”
Julio kicked the horse in her rump. “Fucking slut!”
“We have to get out of here now,” said Felipe with hurry. “There will be more guards coming, and we will back here if we don’t run.”
Alfredo hummed. “That is right. And she also knocked out the guards. Give me a second guys. Alright so if...” he started mumbling to himself, and he started counting the chains. “Ajá! She probably did something to the guards, so they will probably attack us when they see us. So we should chain them back and grab their lances!”
“Bro, you are right. We should chain this fuckers and find if they have a key. And they better have one, because this leg chains are too fucking tight,” exclaimed Gabriel, who was about to pull his own hair.
Samuel started moving the unconscious bodies around, and searching for a key. “I’m already a couple of realities ahead of you, Gabriel.”
“The princess has our phones, doesn’t she? Grab them! They are ours, after all. Also, I pick that pouch,” quickly said Sebastián.
Samuel groaned. “Awww man, I wanted the pouch!”
“No way in hell. It looks like I could buy all the clothes in three stores of Gucci with just that bag. And it is now mine, fuckers!”
“Whatever. Alfredo, help me chain these bitches. If feels like I’m human trafficking. Toooo weird.”
Alfredo winced. “It does feel like human trafficking. But there is one key difference. They aren’t humans! So, our conscience should be clean.”
“Julio and I will watch if there’s someone coming,” said Hugo, and he grabbed his weapon, properly named ‘The indestructible stick of strength’, and Julio put on his new brass knuckles, who had yet to be named.
“Yeah, you guys do that, but be quiet,” whispered Alfredo, and he was looking through the pockets in the armor of the mare guard. And then... “I found a key!”
Gabriel’s face lightened up. “Great! See if it works on these chains!”
There were only three keys. They looked like the keys of Skyrim. Big, made of iron and a bit rusty. Alfredo tried each key that he had, and the second one was the one that opened the leg chains.
Gabriel happily stretched his limbs and got up. “Fuck yeah! Man, you cannot believe how shitty those chains were.”
“Now that you are free, Gabriel, you can chain that last guard,” said Felipe seriously.
“I’m not even mad! Sure will do, boss,” answered Gabriel.
They all fell into silence. Hugo and Julio were guarding the hallway and stairs, and the rest of them, except Sebastián, who was attending his bruise, were chaining the ponies and Felipe was keeping all of the lances. The ‘lances’ weren’t really that tall, since these were little ponies, about one meter and sixty centimeters tall, but the metal point was really sharp and shiny, so they were still valuable.
“Don’t forget the phones! Check on Sebastián’s new pouch,” said Julio offhandedly.
Samuel mocked Julio annoyed, but he still went for the pouch and grabbed all the phones. “Alright, here’s everyones phones. And tough luck, Felipe, your phone seems to be broken,” said Samuel as he checked all the phones, and Felipe’s phone indeed didn’t light up.
Felipe snorted. “That was a very old phone, so I don’t really care. It would be better if you broke it, to not give her a chance to replicate another one.”
“Gimme that shit,” said Hugo while he snatched the old phone from Samuel’s hand, he threw it at the ground and started wacking at it with his club furiously at it. Everyone watched Hugo break the phone to pieces, which made him feel awkward. “What? Wasn’t I supposed to do this?”
“No no, it’s just that you did it with a lot of... rage? Aggression? I dunno man, I definitely wasn’t expecting that,” said Sebastián idly, who now could move his arm around a bit better.
“Well, whatever. They are all already chained, aren’t they,” asked Samuel to the group, who all gave reassuring nods. “Great! Now, how do we get outta here?”
“I think we should go up the stairs and figure it out from there,” said Alberto distracted, since he was still patting the horses to see if they had something of value or usefulness.
“Bro, I think that’s the only thing we can do. You don’t see a window here, now do you,” asked Gabriel sarcastically.
“Ha-fucking-ha. Cut the bullshit Gab”, shot Sebastián. “Now, let’s get outta here!”
With all of the ponies chained, and all of the boys having a little spear, except Sebastián, since his bruise didn’t allow him to use a spear very efficiently, they all got up and got out of the cell. Alfredo locked the cell door with one of the keys and Gabriel locked the chain he had on his legs in a way that it provided an extra lock between the a cell bar and the cell door. It wouldn’t do much, and it would mostly be an annoyance, but that was exactly what he was aiming for. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“I don’t really know why me and Julio have a spear. I already have my incredible weapon,” at this, Hugo swinged said weapon around, “and Julio has his punchy metal. Why do we need one?”
“Well, Sebastián can’t really carry one around effectively,” started Felipe. “And if one of the flying one attacked you both, you wouldn’t be able to hit them since your weapons are very short ranged, so you guys can space them with the spears.”
They were all going up the stairs that old castles used that looked like a snails shell. Gabriel was in the front, Alfredo was in the back, Sebastián was in the middle, and everyone else in between. They had been going up these stair for five minutes, and it was getting ridiculous, and dangerous, since they almost stabbed each other a couple of times with the spears.
“Yes, I get that, but I don’t want to kill nothing, even if they are trying to kill me. That’s why I like my club. I can just wack them in the head, and not kill them,” answered Hugo.
“You can not use it if you want. Also, I don’t think the flying one will be much trouble. Did you guys saw when Julio punched one of them in the armor, and it left a mark, bending the fucking metal? I don’t think they are as strong as they seem,” said Sebastián with pity.
“Which is just bizarre. They could fly a whole chariot by themselves! How the fuck did they do that? And it turns out that we can suplex those freaks. It doesn’t make any sense. Also, can we all appreciate how stupid their biology is. They are horses, but have front facing eyes, and HUGE eyes by the way, and let me remind that having big eyes doesn’t mean having good eyesight. So, their eyes are too big to be...” rambled Samuel, who really didn’t like stupid, nonsensical things.
“Holy shit, Samuel, we get it. They are fucking stupid and should all have been killed off by nature. But hey, maybe the nature here is a lot less dangerous, so that’s that,” interrupted Julio, who had heard already many points of why these things didn’t make sense.
Samuel chuckled. “Sorry, I just got carried away.”
“I think we are nearing the exit, mah dudes,” said Gabriel with good vibes.
“I’ll check if there’s anybody up there. Be quiet,” hushed Sebastián, walking through the boys and starting to make his way up there sneakily.
The group waited for Sebastián to come back. While they were waiting they checked if their phones were in a good condition. All the phone could be lit up, but some of them had scratches that weren’t there before, and a bit of battery was drained from each one, but they were all functional, and the group agreed to turn off the phone so as to not waste battery. They waited for about five minutes, some of them talking to each other, others playing with the little lances, until Sebastián came back crouching down, but he did not look bummed down.
“How did it go? Are you okay,” asked Felipe concerned.
Sebastián stood up and stretched his back. “There are no moors in sight. There was one really big door next to a little one. Of course, I went through the little one, and on the other side there’s a big window that has a hill. I think that we can sneak through there and go down the hill. It is also a brownish, blackish color, so that could work in our favor.”
“There’s a problem though,” said Julio worried. “It’s plain day, and we could probably get caught while going down.”
“We have to go right now. The guards will come looking for their princess, and then there will be nothing we can do,” said Hugo seriously.
“That fucking sucks, but there’s no other option,” answered Alfredo with a serious tone as well, but a voice crack came out mid sentence. The rest of the boys gave a sly smile. “Fuck off, you bitches!”
“Do you mean ‘fuCK of yoU bItchEs’,” asked Samuel with mocking voice cracks, and the rest of the group also started teasing and mocking Alfredo. Alfredo hit and insulted a couple of them, but it ended with all of them laughing, not too loudly of course. That helped lighten up the mood, and they were ready to go.
“We’ll follow your lead, Sebastián. We count on you,” said Felipe, slurring a tiny bit, like he usually does.
“I got this. Follow me,” said Sebastián with confidence.
Sebastián peeked out of the corner of the entrance to the stairs, and after making sure there were no ponies, he sprinted to the left towards the (compared) little door next to the huge door. He got there as fast and as quietly as possible, so as to not alert any possible guards. On both sides of the hallway, there was empty armors of the ponies striking the would be version of a pony salute, with spears in hand (hoof?) and head held high.
He got to the normal sized door, and waited for a bit to make sure nobody was coming. Felipe was peeking as well in the entrance to the stairs, and he was waiting for the signal to come. After a minute, Sebastián gave the signal, and Felipe came sprinting towards the door. Maybe there might be a problem. Hugo might get distracted with the armors, or Samuel’s glasses might fall and break, or-
A very loud, very scary sounding noise came from the cells. It was kinda similar to a school alarm or glasses breaking constantly. It didn’t sound like a cell door being busted open or metal bending. This sudden high pitched noise made Felipe stop mid sprint and look around wondering what was that noise, and the rest of the group looked at each other with concerned gazes. They might not know what it was, but Sebastián did. And he was terrified, since it only meant one thing.
“RUN HERE GUYS,” shouted Sebastián. “IT’S AN ALARM!”
At this, a squad of armored ponies came into view through the end of the hall. Realization struck the group, and they all started running as fast as their legs could. Sebastián opened the door he was in, and urged for the boys to come more quickly.
The hallway was huge. It was fifteen meters wide, and twenty meters tall. The big door was eighteen meters tall, while the little one was about one meter and eighty centimeters. The entrance towards the cells was in the middle of the fifty meter long hallway, and the floors were entirely carpeted, being of a bright red color. So, the group had twenty five meters of advantage. Of course, they could outrun the ones in the ground. But there were also flying ones, and they were catching up. Felipe made it through the door, since he was the first one to go, but the rest were in a more dire situation. The last one was Alfredo, and one flying pony was only five meters to catching him. Sebastián had to do something. And then, a simple idea occurred to him. Just throw whatever at it.
Sebastián looked towards the empty armor in his left, and ran towards it. As soon as he got there, he picked up the helmet and threw it at the pony. The group was about ten meters from the door, and Alfredo was about to be tackled to the ground, but a flying helmet hit the pony directly in the face, which made it fall and roll in the ground, which made Felipe run even faster at the sudden noise, and the fact the he almost got pummeled to the ground. Sebastián gave one laugh, a quick celebratory “Ha!”, but ran towards the door as fast as he could when he noticed the rest of the guards furiously coming toward them. He got to the door and held it open for the boys to pass, and when Alfredo finally got through, he shut it and put on the locks and metal latches.
“Holy FUCK! I almost died,” exclaimed Alfredo, and his hands were shaking. In reality, all of the boys hands were shaking thanks to the adrenaline pumping through their bodies.
“Oh God, what can we do? They will run us down throughout the hill, and they will bust down that door any moment,” said Hugo with a cry. And, in fact the door was starting to bend and probably being rammed.
“We have to stand and fight! Not let them catch us easily! We will go down fighting,” roared Julio, who was bumping and hitting his brass knuckles against each other, with sparks coming out of them.
“Guys, what is that,” asked Gabriel while pointing to... something, which now caught everyone’s attention.
It was something really odd, like it was some kind of giant recipient or bowl. It had scratch markings and some parts looked liked there were slightly burnt edges. It had little wheels at the base, and it was big enough that it could fit all the group. The group came back to their senses once they heard the hits in the door, and Sebastián had an idea.
“Julio, pass me one of the lances, okay,” asked Sebastián reassuringly. Julio didn’t have to hear that twice, and he threw at Sebastián his lance.
“What are you-“ started Samuel, but he was interrupted with the sound of breaking glass. Sebastián had thrown the spear towards the big window!
“Sebastián, I don’t think running down the hill will help us,” said Felipe, not understanding why Sebastián did that.
“Hugo! Julio! Help me move this thing towards the window,” ordered Sebastián, which gained him weird looks from both of the boys, but they still did it.
“What are you doing? Didn’t you heard Felipe? We will be overwhelmed,” said Gabriel annoyed.
The thing was heavy, but it had wheels so it was feasible. “Everyone except Julio and Hugo get in this thing,” said Sebastián between grunts.
“I don’t know what you are going to do, but it looks like you have something in your mind, so I’m in,” said Alfredo, and he started climbing on to of the thing. Everyone gave reluctant looks except Hugo and Julio, but they hopped onto it and where waiting what to do next. The things edge was now near the window, and it was starting to occur to the group what was going on.
“No fucking way, get me off this thing,” said Samuel alarmed, but he was stopped by Sebastián, who grabbed him by the hand.
“Listen to me Samuel. This is our only chance, and I know you know it. So, do you either want to die as a slave, or die in a high speed accident,” asked Sebastián, and he then cracked a smile. “And hey, it’ll probably be fun. So what do you choose?”
Samuel looked around frantically, trying to think any other ways to get out of there. The door was almost broken, and there were holes in it and shouting on the other side. He looked left and right, again and again as fast as possible, like he was going crazy, until he finally covered his face with his hands. “I don’t know,” he shrieked. “Just do it!”
The door finally burst open, and splinters where sent flying everywhere. And the sight in front of them left them stumped for a second, only to charge at the humans even faster.
“PUSH,” shouted Sebastián, and Julio and Hugo gave one last push that put the thing on the hill, they both jumped onto it, and they all started rolling down hill and gaining speed fast.
Some of them had terrified expressions, others had their eyes covered, some odd ones were even having fun. But one thing was unanimous. They were all screaming their lungs out. The thing was clearly not meant for fast travel or to hit the road at all. The ride was very bumpy and jumpy, and they were leaving a trail of smoke and dirt behind them. Hugo’s and Julio’s weapons were gripped sternly, so that they didn’t fell out of their hands.
Some flying horses were hot on their tails, but the dirt got into their eyes and they couldn’t get by the sides, since one of the group would see them coming and threaten them or swinged their weapons at them, either lances or club. They were gaining even more speed, and some of the wheels had being torn off, which made it so that some soil got into the thing, messing up the boys in it.
Sebastián had to admit one thing. He hadn’t really thought through this crazy plan of him. It was just the first thing that occurred him that gave them any chance to get out of there alive. And it became a lot more apparent to Felipe in special when he saw that there was a cliff at the end of the hill. And it was no bitch ass cliff. This was a really big cliff, one that would probably kill you if you fell of it. So, when Felipe started screaming even louder and pointing at the cliff, they all knew they fucked up. They were all probably going to die again that day, but they couldn’t say their farewells this time since they were going too fast.
The thing was recklessly and rapidly approaching the cliff, and it looked like there was a little ramp at the end of the cliff. The thing, almost on fire thanks to it being made of wood and going at incredible speeds, was at the climax of its velocity, and the group saw that they were going to jump, so they prepared themselves to die. And then they jumped.
The thing launched itself into the air, and all of the boys and lances were floating in the air. Except Hugo’s and Julio’s weapons, who were still being gripped as hard as the two boys could. They stood floating for around ten seconds, and then they started to fall. And they all screamed as loud as they could.
Now that Gabriel thought about it, he didn’t really go to the bathroom since he got there. Not even a quick piss or something. He wasn’t fully conscious at the moment, but that was the first thing that occurred to him. Of course, he didn’t wet his pants. His body wasn’t old, and it has been years since he peed on himself in his sleep. Yet his pants were wet, as well as his shirt. The sun was shining brightly at his closed eyelids, and he suddenly opened them because of his mobile phone getting wet. He quickly patted his right pocket and got out his phone. It wasn’t wet nor broken, and he sighed in relief. His whole body felt like it was being rocked from side to side, and he felt some rocks bumping against whatever he was on. Gabriel then observed his surroundings.
He saw that all of his friends were still on top of the thing. Some of them weren’t wet, some of them were, and Felipe specifically was completely dripping with water. He was relieved that all of them were here safe and sound, but that relieve quickly faded away when he continued looking at the environment. Apparently, they were on a river. Well, the thing, that was made of wood and probably a big factor of why they were floating, was the one on the river. It’s just that the group was was on top of said thing. They were in a forest, at least that’s what it looked like. There weren’t actually that many trees, but the ones who were there had hanging vines, and the trees themselves were very big. The river was going at a steady pace, and the thing would occasionally bump into a little rock, making a tiny dent on the improvised boat.
There wasn’t much that Gabriel could do except wait until they hit shore and wake the rest of the group up. He hoped that there wouldn’t be on other thing trying to kill, be it the environment or the wildlife. And he specially hoped that there wouldn’t be a waterfall at the end of this river or something similar. He got scared earlier at the sound of falling water, but it was just the tiniest waterfall that made a little bit of noise at the side, which angered Gabriel and gave the finger to it. While waiting, he double checked if the boys were okay, seeing if they had broken some bones. They didn’t, and he was getting bored.
Gabriel was having a nap when he was rudely awakened by the object hitting shore. Wait... they had hit shore! He inmediatly got off the ‘boat’, and he checked if everything was ok. The ground was dirty, but there was a nice plane with comforting sunshine and cooling shadows, so he decided that this was where they would rest. Not like he could choose where to do that after. He hopped back into the thing and started pulling out rather sluggishly each member of the group. He started with Felipe, since he was the first one that Gabriel saw, and he just so happened to be the wettest. Basically, out of pure fucking laziness. He dragged him out carefully, and put Felipe in the spot where the sunlight shone the brightest. Gabriel dragged the boys one by one, and noticed a few odd quirks.
Julio and Hugo, even unconscious, were still gripping their weapons tightly, and it seemed like Sebastián was smiling while unconscious. Or maybe he was sleeping and having a dream. Another one was that, while Gabriel was picking up Hugo, Hugo’s bones still cracked, which creeped him the fuck out and appalled him.
After getting everyone on the little plane, Gabriel waited for them to wake up, but nothing really happened and he was starting to get bored. Remembering that some of his clothes were wet, he stripped himself off them and put them on the sunlight as well. With only his underwear, he remembered the reason he woke up. He had to at least take a piss, but he didn’t feel comfortable leaving the boys alone unconscious. He tried to wake at least one of the up, so that it could keep watch of the rest, and he doubled his efforts. He heard a mumble behind him, and Gabriel turned around with a hopeful expression.
“Ughhh, where am I,” mumbled Samuel.
“You finally woke up! Hey Samuel, can you do me a favor,” asked a person in front of him, who was doing little jumps, but that voice could only be of one person.
“Gabriel? Are we dead,” asked Samuel with blurry eyes.
“No bro, we are alive. But I have to pee real fast. Can you keep an eye on the group,” asked Gabriel, who didn’t have clothes on except his underwear.
“What? Sure, I can do that. But you have to explain me how we are alive,” responded Samuel, who know noticed that they were in some kind of forest.
“Thanks dude. Be right back,” exclaimed Gabriel, and he sprinted towards a tree.
Samuel observed his surroundings, and started noticing things. First there was a river, and the thing that they were on had probably carried them all the way to here. He tried to see if the castle that they were in was still visible, but there wasn’t even a hint that it ever was there. They must have moved kilometers upon kilometers on the discount boat through the river. He checked if his phone was alright, and he saw that it didn’t have any new scratches or was wet at all. He now had to ask Gabriel how the hell did they survive, and he waited for him.
After a minute or two, Gabriel stepped into view looking very relieved, and he walked back to the plane. “Hey,” he said nonchalant.
“Hey. How did we survive a fifty meter fall,” asked Samuel nonchalant.
“Puff, I dunno man. We must have gotten lucky. But hey, we are alive! Lets not look too much into it,” happily said Gabriel, who sat down next to Samuel. “Let’s wait for all of the boys to wake up, and then we’ll figure out what to do next.”
Samuel squinted his eyes, but he agreed. They both had some small talk and cracked a couple of jokes between each other, and then they enjoyed the sunlight. When one of the boys woke up, they would explain the situation to him and tell him to wait until the last one woke up. They would chatter between each other, wondering how did they survive that huge fall, how it was surprisingly fun, some of them did go to take a piss, all that good stuff. When the last one of the boys woke up, they started to plan and vote.
“Alright, so, let me first say that it‘s actually hilarious that we survived that, and we were on top of that piece of wood PLUS being carried away by the river is the cherry on top,” said Hugo with a huge grin.
“Yeah, that’s pretty funny. But let’s get back to business. Celestia- was it Celestia? Was that her name,” asked Samuel, and at the nods of the rest of them, he continued. “Thanks. So, Celestia probably will send more of her guards to catch us, so we must get moving. We don’t have our lances, so that’s one less way for us to defend ourselves. I was thinking that we could get back onto the shitty ‘boat’, and let the stream carry us.”
“But isn’t Celestia like a Princess? Couldn’t she just like order other guards to scout the river from the other side of the country? I think it’s risky,” said Felipe thoughtfully.
“That’s a good point. And we also have that thing as a giant clue pointing to where we are,” Alfredo said towards the dented wooden thing with scratches and burnt marks.
“Well, we must somehow hide it if we go on foot, and its rally big and heavy, more now that it doesn’t have wheels. Also, what is it? I mean, it was near an gigantic door, and the hallway was also as huge and wide,” commented Julio annoyed, wanting to know just what it was.
The group turned their necks towards the thing, and started really analyzing what it was, and what those marks were.
“It looks like a bowl,” said Sebastián, “and those scratches look like that of a lion.”
“So it’s a big bowl! Let’s not get distracted! Who wants to go by foot and who wants to go by bowl,” said Samuel loudly so as to get the attention back.
Gabriel was about to say something, but he was interrupted by the rustle of a few bushes nearby. All of the boys inmediatly got up, Hugo raised his weapon and Julio raised his fist. There was definitely something behind those bushes, and they would be ready for whatever it was.
From the bushes came out another pony, but it didn’t have a weapon or armor, and it was a normal pony. Its coat was that of a gray color, and its hair was a worn out blue. It was limping, and it was dripping blood. It was panting heavily, and it was quite a pitiful sight. She saw the group of boys, and what she did next was even more pitiful.
The pony threw itself to the ground and it started begging and crying. “Please, please don’t kill me! I’ll do anything! Please don’t eat me, I want to live! Don’t kill me, pleaaseee,” and it started bawling its eyes out, rambling and shaking, and its words were almost incomprehensible.
This made all of them quite uncomfortable. What a sour sight! And she said all kind of things, like she would allow them to use her body, that she would go back and be punished accordingly, that she would work extra hard. Anything.
“What do we do,” asked Felipe while still keeping an eye on her and in Spanish.
“Do we, like, tell her to stop? She might attract some guards with her cries,” suggested Sebastián, wincing at the cries.
“Bro, she saw us. What if she tells some guard that she saw some weird ass creatures and fucks us over,” said Gabriel concerned for their safe being.
“Dudes, I have an idea,” said Hugo with confidence.
“What are you gonna do,” asked Julio intrigued.
“I’m gonna use my natural acting talent, and my incredible lying skills to calm her down,” responded Hugo with a smile. “Alfredo, keep this, okay?”
He passed his weapon to Alfredo, and Alfredo tapped it a few times. “Sure will! Don’t screw it up, though.”
“Gee, thanks for all the outstanding support,” Hugo responded sarcastically, and he walk through the group.
The pony noticed that one of the creatures was getting closer, and she started shaking even more violently. Hugo saw this, and put his palms in a peaceful manner, but he didn’t stop walking. He kept on walking towards it, and when he was one meter in front of it, he stopped getting closer and squatted in front of it so as to be more or less in the same eye level.
“Hello, it’s a pleasure to meet you,” he said, and he gave a gentle smile. “May I know your name?”
“S-Sapphire Rock,” she stammered out.
“Greetings, Sapphire Rock, me and my friends over there are a recently discovered species by you horses- or was it ponies? Sapphire, can you help me out here? I’m such a mess trying to remember names, never mind whole species,” Hugo said while scratching the back of his head.
“It i-is ponies,” replied Sapphire, a little bit more smoothly now.
“Thanks! I really am forgetful. First of all, I wanted to say that we are sorry if me and my friends startled you. We are just the ones chosen by our people to speak and negotiate with the ponies. So, again, sorry if we scared you. Also, you seem quite hurt. What has happened to you,” Hugo asked with genuine concern. At the mention of this, she started shaking more. “Come on, you can say it. We won’t hurt you.”
“I t-ried to escape from th-the mines,” answered Sapphire, who now had stopped panting as much.
“Mines? What mines? Are they pony mines? Let me tell you, if you don’t feel comfortable with answering a question, then you don’t have to answer it,” mentioned Hugo, and he now had sit down on the floor, still respecting the meter between them.
Sapphire gulped, but she seemed willing to give an answer. “They were pony mines, but it has been raided and captured by diamond dogs, so now we work for them,” she managed to say without stammering.
“Diamond dogs? What are those,” Hugo asked curious.
“C-Can you get up,” Sapphire asked timidly.
“W-Why,” asked Hugo, genuinely surprised.
“It’s to see something,” she said whispering.
Hugo quickly looked at the group, who all gave a thumbs up, and he sighed, but he got up. The pony sized him up and told him the he could sit back down.
“They are about your shoulder to chest height. They are bipedal and have arms that reach from their shoulders to their knees, but have really short legs that are from you knees to... whatever is your species equivalent to a hoof. They have really long backs, and look and act like a dog. They-“
“Woah there, slow down. I think that me and my friends encountered them before. Do they have four protrusions with blunt claws,” interrupted Hugo, who was now a bit more nervous since he and the group knew exactly what she was talking about.
“Yes, they have four claws. Those claws may look blunt, but their magic allows them to cut through anything. And you survived the encounter? You must be really skilled fighters,” said Sapphire a bit more excited.
“Yeah, uh, I guess we aren’t bad at it. So, we must continue our journey! Do you need any help with that wound of yours? You seem to be in pretty bad shape,” said Hugo, secretly hoping that she didn’t need help.
“I don’t need help,” said Sapphire, and Hugo gave a satisfied smile. “But my family and friends need it! They will die if you don’t help them! The royal guard hasn’t come to save us! Please, save my family,” shouted Sapphire, standing up and crying.
“Give me a second, please,” said Hugo, and he tried to crank a smile, but it came out weird and walked right back at the boys.
“You all heard that,” asked Hugo in Spanish.
“They were raided by the desert dogs, or diamond dogs, it doesn’t matter, and she wants us to save them,” said Felipe with a straight face.
“Incredible acting skills, eh,” mocked Gabriel.
“Fuck off,” shot back Hugo.
“So, she wants us to save them? Lets do it then,” said Julio like it was that simple.
Samuel huffed. “The fuck you talking about, thinking that we can just walk up and take that fucking place?”
“I think we can take them,” said Alfredo out of the blue, which surprised everyone.
“What? Why do you say that,” asked Sebastián, not being able to figure out why Alfredo of all people said that.
“Listen you guys, I have a plan. And it involves literally walking up to them,” said Alfredo with one of his weird smiles he does not too often. “Hugo, go tell her we will help her.”
“Wait a fucking second. We have to vote, alright? So, who wants to go save the mine from the dogs,” asked Samuel, and there were five hands in the air, which meant that they had to save them. A heated discussion happened between both groups, but they had to do it now.
“Alright, Hugo, go tell her that we will help them,” said Samuel rather sourly.
Hugo nodded, turned around, walked towards Sapphire and sat down.
“We will help you out, but we have to treat your wound,” said Hugo calmly.
“Oh, I already did that by myself! There are some wonderful herbs that help against infection, and I already made myself a nifty little bandage with the vines. I am so grateful for you beings helping us,” cheered Sapphire.
“Yeah, we will,” said Hugo less excited. “So, fill us with some information. Do they have bows or crossbows? How many are there? Can you walk?”
“We, and subsequently them, didn’t have any weapons, only pickaxes. There were about twenty four diamond dogs, and I can walk just fine,” Sapphire said, as she shakily got up.
“Alright. If you need help just tell us. Also, I want to mention something now that I can,” said Hugo nervous.
“What is it,” she asked.
“You must not tell any royal guard that we were here, and let me tell you why. Princess Celestia disrespected our culture in a very grave manner, and we have gotten into a fight with her. We have decided that there’s nothing of value for our species in these lands, and we wanted to stop the negotiations and exchange of values between our species, but Celestia demanded that there should be trade. That was an even bigger insult to up our culture, and it is tradition that when one greatly offends another, the person who got offended must slap the offender. But her guards took this as an assault, and they attacked us. So, we now fought our way out, and hit some of her guards, so they are searching us for capture. We must return quickly to our home, because if a diplomat doesn’t return soon, then war will be declared against this country,” said Hugo really serious.
Sapphire Rock had her mouth hanging open, and her already big eyes widened even more. Seriously, they were almost the size of plates.
‘Come on bitch, take the bait. Eat that bullshit up. Come on bitch, FALL for it. Eat it all up! You better fucking believe it! COME ON, YOU SLUT! I’M SAYING THE TRUTH! I AM GOING TO MAKE ABSTRACT ART OUT OF YOUR CORPSE IF-‘
“Wow! I cannot believe it! Equestria may be in mortal danger! Are you sure you want to help us,” she asked astonished.
“Of course! It wouldn’t sit right with us if we doomed you and your family. Also, how far is Celestia’s castle,” asked Hugo with a happy tone.
“It’s about six to seven hours on hoof from here, I think. I was going there, but you beings showed up, and have survived and encounter with diamond dogs before! I am so thankful,” said Sapphire while grinning.
“No, we are the ones that are thankful,” said Hugo.
‘Holy shit! What a fluke! Man, I love saying bullshit’, Hugo thought happily, and the group followed the earth pony.
“So, Sapphire, what did really hurt you? That looks like the slash of a sword, or a lion’s scratch,” said Felipe, wincing a bit at the sight of blood.
“I have already told you. This was because a diamond dog clawed me. Thank Celestia that I still managed to escape,” she answered kindly, but the group frowned at the mention of that name.
“Yeah, we get that, but don’t they have shitty claws? I think you said earlier that they were meant for digging,” recalled Samuel when they were on the way to the mines.
“Do not underestimate them. Their magic allows them to enhance their claws sharpness and density. They can be so sharp, that they can even cut through diamond and rocks like nothing,” said the pony, and her ears pointed straight down like a dog, which was a bit ironic given what they were talking about.
“Excuse me, but do you mind repeating that again? Magic? That doesn’t make sense,” said Samuel incredulous.
“What do you mean? All things have magic. Diamond dogs enhance their claws and jaws, earth ponies have super strength, pegasus can fly. Now that I think about it, what’s your race magical ability,” asked Sapphire, curious to know the answer.
Samuel was about to retort all the things Sapphire said, but he was interrupted by Hugo with a punch in his shoulder, but Hugo was smiling pleasantly. “The magic of our race is that of getting our skin and muscles super hard, but it only last about five seconds and it isn’t really noticeable with the naked eye. It’s not that strong or useful, and it can only be used once per day,” said Hugo coolly while Samuel was glaring at him.
“Huh, that doesn’t seem too strong, but it can be useful in certain cases,” said Sapphire, unaware of the punch that Hugo did.
“Hey Sapphire, do you mind if we stop for a second? I gotta talk to my associate real quick,” said Samuel, and the rest of the group rolled their eyes. In the last few days they only have been discussing between each other, and it was getting on everyone’s nerves. Sapphire agreed, and she rested on the floor.
The group moved away, and they formed a circle.
“Bro, what was that for,” asked Gabriel in spanish.
“That was kinda... fucking mean dude,” said Julio weirded out.
“I know, I know. But! I have a reason. I think we all know that we are on another world, but that chick over there mentioned something about magic. So, if we tell her that we don’t have magic, she might freak the fuck out. So, if you wanted a cooler superpower, then I am sorry, but I chose that one since it is short, unnoticeable and is supposedly used once per day. Is that alright with you guys? Guys? What’s the matter,” asked Hugo, since all of the boys looked like they were having an existential crisis.
“Holy fuck, we are on another planet, aren’t we,” whispered Sebastián, who now was looking down.
It dawned on Hugo, and he looked away in shame. They all stood in silence for a good five minutes, and they would’ve stood there more if it wasn’t for Sapphire telling them that the mines were only fifteen minutes of trot. They all agreed that what Hugo did wasn’t stupid, and moved on. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“There it is,” said Sapphire scared. “They have all of the ponies mining all day and night, exploiting them horribly.” At the entrance there were two diamond dogs resting and guarding it.
“Do you mind telling us how many baddies are there,” asked Alfredo.
“Twenty four, and they don’t have ranged weapons,” Sapphire answered.
“Alright, cool. So, what’s the plan,” asked Felipe.
“We can’t really wait for the night since Celestia’s guards are looking for us, so we must attack them as soon as possible. And my plan is a bit shaky BUT hear me out. Sebastián, do you remember in that arid place were we fought the dogs,” asked Alfredo to Sebastián.
“Yes. One of them fuckers gave me this,” said Sebastián as he showed his bruise, that was a lot better now.
“Do you recall how one of them stumbled backwards until he fell,” said Alfredo with a hint of a smile.
“Do go on,” said Sebastián intrigued.
“I’ve been thinking about it, and I really do think that all we need to do is push them,” said Alfredo excited.
“That is fucking-“ started Samuel.
“No, no he’s got a point. Maybe it’s their biology and body structure that doesn’t allow them to go backwards since they have a different bone structure in their foot,” said Julio, to everyone’s surprise. “What? Just because I like anime doesn’t mean that I don’t like other things. You all motherfuckers got a problem? Huh?”
“Julio, that was exactly what I was about to say,” said Alfredo incredulous.
“So, apart from Julio’s galaxy sized brain power-“
“What’s a galaxy,” asked Sapphire.
“Do we just really go up and hit them,” asked Hugo, ignoring Sapphire’s question.
“Yes,” answered Alfredo simply.
“Fuck it, I’m in,” said Samuel without a care in the world. “All we gotta do is push them, right? Let’s just do this.”
“So-
“So this, so that, you always start with so,” said Gabriel lightheartedly.
“SO,” said Felipe a bit more harshly, ”who goes first?”
“I think it’s quite obvious. Me and Julio always up front,” said Hugo, and he tapped his club against the palm of his hand. Julio hit the brass knuckles together, making a spark come out and nodding confidently.
“Alright, chavales, buena suerte máquinas. We will follow you,” said Gabriel, and he gave a big smile.
“What do I do,” asked Sapphire, feeling a bit left out.
“You? I guess you can come. Just don’t fight,” said Sebastián without much thought.
“Heh, this mare knows how to take care of herself,” said Sapphire and standing up. Even on her hind legs, she wasn’t taller than the shortest of them.
“The evidence of that is... abundant,” said Felipe while glancing at the wound and raising his eyebrows. The group snickered and chuckled, and this made the mare’s face go red in shame and just follow the group, with Hugo and Julio having twenty meters of advantage.
“Doing work, all the time. Me thinks it can be too much,” I answered.
“What the matter? You soft? You care for ponies,” asked my brother in a mocking tone.
“I not falling for it. You want fight so you can have more food and me is punished,” I said to him. I always was smarter than him.
My brother huffed. “You are no fun. But you really care for them?”
“I not care. I just pity. Is sad we have to do this,” I answered.
“You too smart to be in the pack. I get you money, you go to school and get good life. Become smarter, have wife,” said my brother, and he looked at the little leaves blown by the tree.
“Learn better talking,” I asked him with a big smile, and he smiled back. But soon, my smile disappeared. “I know ponies know how to talk good. I want to learn that. I want house, and better food. I want better life for you...”
“Don’t worry for me! You have good chance with ponies! I have no chance with ponies. You get out of here as soon as you have good money for good school. Future is with ponies, not here. You never hurt pony or other things. I hurt some ponies. Not kill, but hurt,” said my brother sad.
It was a sunny day, with Celestia’s sun very high. My brother thinks that only dragons can fly to it, but I knew that only Celestia could go there.
I sighed. “I only worry. We dogs are controlled by ponies in the city, and our kings are not better ranking than a low Canterlot noble. The drugs ruin families and life in our capital. I want to change that, but with you.”
“I know you can change our city, and that why I want you to become a noble. You can make that there are no more diamond dog bandits. You can make drugs illegal. Never try them,” my brother warned really aggressively.
“I never try drugs. You better never try drugs,” I said with a grin.
“Hmmm, never try drugs. Change of talk. You heard that seven hairless dogs won against Rex, Jaw and Claws? And a pony escaped the mine,” asked my brother, which really surprised me.
“Really? Rex, Jaw and Claws lost? I thought they were strongest,” I answered.
“Yes! Those hairless dogs have really long legs, short arms, no tail and small but sharp teeth,” said my brother excited.
“So cool,” I said really excited.
“I know! You can see muscles and veins without the fur moving around, and they have clawless claws like minotaurs, but they have five of those!”
“Wow! So weird and cool! I hope we can see them someday,” I said, and I even got so excited that I started wagging my tail.
My brother was about to say something, but he and I saw something in the edge of our vision, and there was also an unknown scent in the air. It was weird, because the things that they were just talking about had appeared and they were walking towards them. They were really tall, and one had a club while the other had some brass knuckles a diamond dog would have. Me and my brother stood watching them walk towards us, and when they were a few paws away, they squared up, flexed their muscle and stood there, looking at us. It was really weird.
The one with the club coughed. “We’ve come to retake this mine.”
“Oh, okay...” said my brother, unsure about what was going on.
“...You can come attack us, if you want to,” said the one with the brass knuckles.
“Oh, sorry, it’s just that we were surprised. We never saw something like you,” I said, trying to articulate everything as best as I could. Me and my brother still stood there.
“Aren’t you supposed to warn the other diamond dogs? Like, you know, one of you fights us both and the other goes to tell about the intruders,” said the one with the club. Both of them looked really similar to each other. Still, they would look out of place anywhere in Equestria.
“Do you want me to say the leader we are being attacked? I can do that. But this is more of a duel than a fight,” said my brother to the beings.
“We expected that you would attack us in sight, and then more and more of you would come, and we would have to fight all of you off,” the one with the brass knuckles said, and he deflated a little bit. Their voices sounded really weird, nothing was similar to it.
I sniffed the air. More of them were coming. “Are there more of you?”
“Yeah, we were actually going to free the ponies, and all of that. Do you,like- do you mind going for your leader, and then we see if it is a duel or a whole battle,” the being with the club asked politely to my brother. They looked creepy, but also cool.
“Okay, I’ll go for her,” said my brother, and he turned into the mine looking very confused.
The other beings, plus a pony, were getting closer, but I was alone with these two. It was really uncomfortable, so I tried small talk.
“How was you day,” I asked politely.
“What,” asked the brass knuckles one incredulous.
“It is of good manners to ask that question,” I said, showing off my intellect.
“You know that if your leader doesn’t choose the duel, we might fight to the death,” said the one with the club, which made me feel really stupid. I stayed silent, and waited for my leader to come. Sometimes we would have a split second of eye contact, only for us to look away inmediatly. My brother was taking such a long time, that all of the other creatures, plus a pony, got there. They talked a language I didn’t understand, and there was a discussion, but they also waited. I didn’t have much time to see how they were, apart from one being shorter, and one being really tall.
I finally heard some steps coming from the mine, and the leader, along with my brother and a few fellow dogs, came. She was actually a bit shorter than the rest of the dogs, but her claws and teeth were a lot sharper. Between those dogs, Rex, Jaw and Claws were there. She was surprised at how the creatures were, much like me and my brother, and how many there were. She glared at my brother, but she kept walking towards them until she was at the entrance of the mine, which is where she stopped.
“My group has decided that my friend and I will be the ones speaking,” said the brass knuckles one. He had a face that looked like ‘Knuckles’, so I’d call him that.
“Is fair,” said the leader. “Why have you come here?” She always asked the good questions.
“What? Didn’t that dog told you we were taking this mine back,” asked the one with the club. He had a face that barked ‘Club’, so I’d call him that.
“Alpha knew that,” said leader with a very scratchy voice, and she already had a scratchy voice. “You want duel with Alpha?”
“Really, we can? Were is the Alpha,” asked Knuckles, not knowing how much he offended the leader.
“It is in front of you,” she said extending her arms.
The two beings looked behind the leader, like they hadn’t just been told it was her. “Where is he? Are you, like, a messenger or something similar,” asked Club, oblivious that it was her.
“Me! Me is Alpha! I am leader! I not messenger,” said the leader, stomping the ground with her hind paws.
“Oh... that doesn’t make sense. An Alpha is the strongest male. You would be a Beta, at best,” said Knuckles, really sure of himself.
“NO, NO, NO, Alpha is strongest dog! I strongest dog! I Alpha, not Beta,” barked the leader, and she was jumping and stomping at the ground.
“Alright, jeez, no need to get so angry. So, how do we do th-“
“Alpha ask questions! Not you,” interrupted leader to Club. “Way we do duel is three strongest against three strongest!”
“There’s a little problem. We don’t really have a third strongest one. It’s just him and I,” said Knuckles to the leader, pointing at Club.
“Alpha don’t care. You choose third one and fight,” she said simply.
“I can be the third one,” said the pony, tiny compared to the lanky and tallest of the hairless dogs.
“You,” asked Club. “You got hurt by one of those guys badly. You won’t be able to do much.”
“I got hurt because I was running away, but this time I’ll put my hoof down,” said the pony as she trotted forward.
“Aha, yeah, sure. Just stay behind us if we choose you, okay,” said Kuckles in a doubtful tone, as if he wasn’t talking to an earth pony, which are really dangerous. “Give us one minute,” said Knuckles, and he went to talk to the other beings.
Meanwhile, my brother approached me. “Why did you take so long? It was uncomfortable being there,” I scolded.
“Sorry, leader was mating when me found her. She is angry now, and she almost scratched me,” my brother said in shame. I forgave him. No one wants to interrupt any mating female of any species. Overall the leader.
“We have one question,” said Club. “Will it be a fight to the death? Because if it is, then we won’t duel, but we will take the mine even if we have to knock out all of you diamond dogs.”
“We never kill,” said leader. “We only harm at best. Alpha makes sure there are no deaths.”
They talked for a bit more, and they agreed on something. “Sapphire, you’re up. We do accept the duel! Wait, sorry, that’s not how it’s said. We challenge you to a duel,” said Knuckles, correcting his mistake.
“Duel accepted! Alpha, Rex and Claws will fight you three,” she said in a booming voice. As booming as a female diamond dog can be, at least.
Club, Knuckles and the pony whose name I didn’t remember at the time moved forward, and the squared up. Alpha, Rex and Claws move forward.
“Watch out with earth pony,” I whispered to the three of them as they passed me.
“Watch out with any pony,” Alpha whispered back.
“Wait a second, why do I have to fight the female one,” asked Club offended. “Why doesn’t the female fight the female? I want to fight that Claws guy.”
“You underestimate me,” asked Alpha with a growl.
“No, good lord, no. It’s just that my mother always told me to never hit a girl. I mean, I didn’t really take it seriously, but it feels wrong,” explained Club with a soft tone. But there was something weird with his tone, and he made a little tiny smile that looked creepy.
“Alpha don’t care! You fight Alpha, or all dogs fight you,” barked Alpha frustrated. Club growled under his breath, still doing that smile, and he got ready to fight.
The group had a face off, waiting for the other to move. It was silent. Not the most silent duel I ever saw, but silent. And suddenly the earth pony raised both hooves, and hit the ground... only for nothing to happen.
“What,” asked the earth pony confused. The three dogs jumped out of the way, and Claws even dived, but they were also confused. “Wait a second! Time out,” the pony said desperate. “I’m going to try to use my magic, but it won’t be directed at you. Let me try.”
The earth pony looked in a direction where there were no things to use it on, and she stomped the ground with her hooves. Nothing happened. She hit the ground again, but still, nothing happened. It looked from side to side, and she sprinted towards a nearby tree. She turned her back towards the tree, sprung up to hit it with her hind hooves, and she hit it with all of her strength. The tree only shook a bit. It didn’t even bless her with a sad little leave falling of the tree top. Every being was watching her hit that tree with all of her strength.
“Is she alright,” asked Rex, surprisingly. “Does earth pony not know how to earth pony?”
“We don’t really know,” said Knuckles. “I think she’s going to get hurt.” The grunts and the breaths of the pony could be heard from here.
We all saw her hit the tree for minutes, and some diamond dogs and even some of the beings sat down. After fifteen minutes, the pony was sweating, and incredibly tired, so she fell to the ground. She was breathless, and one of the beings, not Knuckles or Club, approached her and talked to her. Some diamond dogs dozed off, and Alpha was tired of being there.
“You beings can come inside mine. We can talk there, after Alpha mates. Alpha is too tired to fight, and we can talk it out,” said Alpha in a defeated and exasperated voice.
The beings were pleasantly surprised (Except Club, that looked a bit upset), but only wanted to come in if we promised we wouldn’t attack them, and Alpha ordered to not attack them. One of the beings picked up the pony, and they all got into the mine. That was the first time I ever saw a Human, a name I didn’t know at the time, and they fascinated me.
"I win! Get fucked," exclaimed Sebastián to Julio, that had just lost at a rock paper scissors.
Julio crossed his arms, and he pouted a little bit. "Whatever. It's just a stupid kids game."
"One that you decided to play, and that you still lost at," mocked Sebastián, with a big stupid smile. Julio raised his fist, and he quickly brought it down onto Sebastián's leg. It hurt Sebastián quite a bit, but he was still smiling.
The boys were in a small room made out of carved rocks. Even the stools were made out of clumsily carved out rocks. They had followed the dogs through the oddly made caves, and they had been waiting for fifteen minutes for Alpha to stop "mating". This made Hugo specially uncomfortable, since he was quite religious, and it left him appalled that someone would talk about something so important with such a nonchalant nature. Still, he told no one, and he was on a rock stool looking a bit nervous. And even then, he understood that they were in a completely different planet, and it would be weird if aliens from a planet they technically "invaded" knew about religion and that sort of stuff. So he was having quite the debate with himself. But we don't really care about the internal struggles of characters. If we did, the story might be considered good or redemable!
One diamond dog came into the small room. It was Claws. "Alpha stopped. You can talk to Alpha now", he informed with nice manners. "Follow me", and after that, he ventured off to a seemingly random direction. The boys had to follow him now, or they might get lost, so Julio put the still unconscious Sapphire on his shoulder, with Hugo right beside him for support, and they scampered off.
Claws walked the boys through the mines. The ceilings were really short, and Felipe had to sometimes kneel down so as to not hit his head. On the sides, there were precious rocks and minerals, and there were some minecarts filled to the brim with those metals and crystals. It was a beautifull sight, but they had to keep their eyes on Claws so as to not lose him. In fact, they would have lost him if it wasn't for Gabriel who always kept by his side.
Finally, at the end of some dimly lit tunel, there was a source of light. Claws started walking faster, and the group scampered so as to catch up to him, and they could see that at the end of that tunel was the Diamond Dog Alpha and a group of ponies with shackles, with one standing up at the front and looking defiant. A serious debate was about to surely brew. The boys finally caught up with Claws, who was already waiting in the room, and Julio gently dropped Sapphire in the ground. Alpha and the apparent miner leader were face to face, and they were going to have the most grueling and hot headed debate in the history of ever. Buckle up, dear reader, because... WAIT, SHIT! OH FUCK! NO, NO, NO, NO!
The video was glitching out, advancing at a really fast pace.
DAMN IT! I hit the remote control. Fuck! I am so clumsy, you could not believe. And I don't know how to loop back! I am so sorry, I am a disaster! Where is that damn remote! There it is! And continue!
The debate had been ardous. Points were brought up, there had been some insults, and things might have gone horribly wrong. But it ended up not going that way. Sapphire was crying in the shoulder of the pony that was the leader, Diamond Dogs were removing the shackles that the ponies had, Felipe, Alfredo and Gabriel were tending the wounds of some ponies, which all were minor, Julio and Samuel were talking to some Diamond Dogs, and Sebastián was talking with Alpha. It had been a very long and hard debate, but it had paid off enormously for all sides. It was great.