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Don't Lose Track

by Make A Sequel To Space Jam

Chapter 2: 2. Chapter 2: Welcome

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So here's chapter 2. Enjoy.

"How is he nurse?" Asked an elegant female voice.

"He was in serious condition. He's lucky to have lived, we had to remove that piece of metal which could have caused this. He's fine now just give him a day to rest." Replied a harsher female voice. I heard footsteps leave the room.

"I'm afraid we can't waste time." Said the elegant voice. I tried to open my eyes. At first it was blurry and all I could see were little specs then it cleared slowly. And in front of me was a white horse with a flowing blue and pink mane and tail. Now I've majorly tripped balls before but this...this is new. I took more of my surroundings in. A long hallway that looked somewhat regal and a mirror behind me. I tried standing up but I fell right over. My arms landed in front of my eyes and I was mortified.

Where'd my hands go?! And why are my arms gray?! I tried to push myself up onto my legs but I fell back down again. I then went on all fours. I had no trouble moving like this. I walked around a bit to get a feel for walking now. I looked back at the mirror and I flipped out.

"What the fuck?! Why am I a mother fucking horse!?" I yelled looking at my reflection. I was gray with a blonde and brown mane and tail. I also had a horn on my head. I made poses in the mirror to look at the rest of me.

"Excuse me but please refrain from that kind of language. Also I believe these our yours." Said the white horse pointing to my guitar and back pack. "Now to answer your questions. You are not a horse, you are a pony. We found you with a piece of metal in your head that caused a fatal injury. We conducted surgery here to save you. You fell through the mirror."

"I think I'm high. Did you give me drugs?"

"Goodness no."

"Okay well what's with the horn on my head."

"You're a unicorn, a type of pony that can use magic. You'll learn it soon enough."

"Listen I think I'm high but I don't want to be here nor be alive. I tried to commit suicide for a reason. I'm done."

"Well before you try to leave or anything else, hear out what I'm going to say."

"I guess."

"Our world is coming to an end. A comet discovered long ago by a wizard named Starswirl the Bearded is going to hit Equestria. If it does, the whole planet will be destroyed. We have dreaded its arrival since it was discovered. And now it's three days away from hitting us."

"So what am I supposed to do? I'm one person-err pony."

"There is one solution. A magical device known as the catalyst. It was used to collect happiness and friendship from ponies all over Equestria. Then when it became powerful enough we could use it. But unfortunately a strong pulse of hatred recently came from Ponyville which rendered the catalyst obsolete. All of this was predicted by Starswirl, even your coming. You are the one to help us. Please help us." She said. I scratched my head. This was just all sudden. Should I help them? My mind paced the question. I don't want to live anymore, however if I stay here to help I'll fulfill my want.

"I guess I'll try." I replied sighing.

"Thank you. By the way, I am Princess Celestia and I rule alongside my sister Princess Luna. I will call a carriage to take you to Ponyville. You should meet with my student Twilight Sparkle who lives in the library, she can help but whatever you do, don't mention the comet to any pony. Wouldn't want widespread panic would we?" She explained.

"I guess not." I replied. Celestia and Luna, that's the same name of my principles. Odd. She called for the carriage to come and take me to Ponyville. I still think I'm high but I guess I'll see about that. The princess gave me a deed to a house down there with a key. She also gave me a bag of something called bits, which apparently, is the currency here.

Soon enough, the carriage had arrived and I went my way from this place and to this "Ponyville" taking the bits, my back pack, and guitar. I looked all around while on this carriage. Ponies with wings were pulling it through the air. I went thinking into mythology and remembered they're what's called a pegasus. Horses with wings or in this case, ponies with wings. I think I'll still just go along with this though.

I asked the ponies pulling the carriage to take me to this "Twilight Sparkle" and her house. We were already halfway to Ponyville when I asked so it shouldn't take much time. About half an hour later, I arrived at my destination. Apparently she lives in a tree. What is she, a fucking monkey?

They dropped me near the entrance of the tree. A red door. I knocked on the door with my new hoof. A couple seconds later I heard someone walking. My knocking was answered by a purple midget.

"Finally another human!" I said in relief.

"What's a human? I'm a dragon." Replied the midget.

"And there goes my sanity." I said face palming-err face hoofing myself. "I'm here to see Twilight Sparkle."

"Twilight you have a visitor!" Said the dragon.

"Okay let who ever it is in. I'll be down in a second." Said the voice. He let me in.

"My name is Spike, what's yours?" Asked the dragon. Well it seems like everything here is screwy.

"My name is Sir Fuckington." I said sarcastically.

"Really? I don't believe you." He replied.

"No. My name is Nathan." I said dropping the obvious lie. I looked around at the large collection of books, all in alphabetical order. A feminine voice then caught my attention.

"Hello I'm Twilight Sparkle. And you are?" Asked a lavender pony coming down the stairs. She has a long mane that was a darker shade of her coat with a little stripe of pink. The same is with her tail. Her eyes were a close purple color as her coat as well.

"My name is Nathan. I uh moved here recently. Would you mind showing me where this house is?" I asked showing her the deed.

"Oh sure I know where that is. Follow me I'll show you." She said beckoning me with her hoof. She led me outside and started walking north. I followed close behind her diligently. So talking horses? Not the strangest thing I've ever seen considering I'd get high at any chance I could. Taking in my surroundings in Ponyville, I question how there could be a lot of hate. These ponies are so multicolored and look friendly. What happened to this place and where's the hatred?

Just as I pondered this question, it was quickly answered. I caught a glimpse of an argument between a dark blue pegasus, a black unicorn, and a big red regular pony. A overheard some words they said. Something about a turf war?

"Um Twilight. What's with all the ponies here?" I asked going to her side.

"Well I'm sure you're talking about the fighting. Those three over there used to be good friends. Black Lightning, Speedy Gonzales, and Smash. Basically the earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns hate each other now, and these three are participants. It seems like everypony is though. The only ponies I've ever still seen as friends now are the Cutie Mark Crusaders. But the worst of all this is probably my old friends. All of them deserted me, even the unicorn ones. It all just came so fast. I wish some pony could help fix it all." She explained a bit sorrowful. I felt kinda bad for her. But why did a pony of her own kind desert her?

"Well I came here to fix it." I replied.

"Really?" She asked happily.

"Yes. Um but I will need some help."

"Okay whatever you need. I just want to have my friends back."

"Can you tell me about your friends?"

"Sure. First there's Rainbow Dash. She's a cyan pegasus with red eyes and a rainbow mane. Then there's Fluttershy who's a yellow pegasus with a pink mane. You have Applejack who owns Sweet Apple Acres. She's an orange earth pony with a blonde mane. And then one of the strangest is Pinkie Pie. She's a pink earth pony with a darker shade of pink in her mane, be careful around her. Finally there's Rarity, a white unicorn with a purple mane who's all about fashion." She explained. That's strange. I know who all of them are. They're students at my high school, there's no way this is possible. "Are you ok? You zoned out there.

"Oh yeah I'm fine. Just uh processing this." I replied. I barely noticed I zoned out. After a little bit more of walking, we arrived at the house.

"Well here you are. You're new home. I'll be at the library if you need anything." She said leaving my sight. I took my key out and placed it in the lock. I turned it until I heard the "click" then I opened the door. On the outside, it looked like any normal house but on the inside it just felt like mine. The other houses might be the same but this house is mine. In front of the door was a stairway a good distance away from the entrance. To the right there was a living room. A small table in front of a sofa and recliner surrounded by many different works of art on the wall. To the left was a kitchen. A stove beside a counter top that separated a sink from it. Many different racks and cabinets stood around holding silver ware. A fridge was against the wall in the corner beside a dishwasher.

This was better than any house I've ever had. Although its not my choice of arrangement, its very convenient. I traversed up the stairs and what was in front of me was intersection of hall caused by placing of rooms. The hall had two different bathrooms that were across the intersection. There also were three different bedrooms. I saw that one corner had a room that seemed just for decoration or trophies of some sort. I decided to take the biggest bedroom, seeing as I own the house.

As I went in, I was amazed. The bed was big and looked so soft. A bedside table was to the left with an alarm clock. A bookshelf was to the right standing against the right wall filled with many different books. Not that I did much reading other than the necronomicon. On the bed was a wrapped present box. I decided it could be time to try this magic stuff. I tried to pick it up using my horn. I concentrated and strained. Eventually I got it to levitate. Then it dropped back on the bed. I decided to use my hooves and read the tag. It didn't say who it was from but it did have my name on it. I opened the lid and inside was a letter and a watch.

"Dear Nathan. I know where you're from and what you are. Although I cannot meet you right now as I am stiff, I have a gift for you. This watch can bend the fabric of time. Pushing the small button on the right side will set the time to what it is now and keep it there always on the dot. Pressing the big button on the right will send you back in time to the time you pressed the small button. A little bonus I also added is something you will soon figure out. I know of the meteor and the prophecy. I cannot stop it right now so I rely on you. Because if this world is gone, I will have no where else to spread my favorite type of magic. Good luck and tootalooo." The letter read. Odd, I heard a deep laugh at the end. It boomed through my head. Sounded like a nice bass guitar tune as well. Do I believe it however? No. I'll try it anyway, no harm in trying. I put the watch on my right arm-err, right foreleg. I pressed the small button on the right like it said to do. The watch did stop on the current time. Oh well I guess whenever the time comes it'll show whether it works or not.

I heard a knock on my door and laying my guitar on the bed, I went down to investigate. I opened the door and saw a group of unicorns. The front two being Black Lightning and another I've never seen. The other has a black and blue mane and tail and an orange coat with green eyes.

"See I told you there's a new unicorn Galaph!" Argued Black Lightning.

"Yeah yeah. Well is he the one trying to bring us all together?" Asked the dark orange unicorn.

"That's what Twilight said." He replied. "Listen I thought to give some help I'd get a bunch of unicorns together who have past earth pony and pegasi friends. Trying to unite all groups together at once...you'd be insane. However start small and work your way up, and it might just work. Also an earth pony named Smash destroyed some of their houses so they wanna know if they can stay." He said to me.

"Smart. Okay I guess they can stay. But stay out of the big bedroom!" I said before they all burst in trampling me. I got up with hoof marks all over me and shut the door. Inside the numbers of them looked huge. I didn't feel like wasting time counting so I just went upstairs to my bedroom. Some of the unicorns scanned the upstairs and looked a bit cautious as I passed by. I opened the door to my room and entered to find a white unicorn looking at my guitar. I shut the door behind me and got closer.

"Hey I thought I said to stay out?" I said startling her a bit.

"Oh sorry. It's just your guitar, it looks amazing." She said turning to face me. Something made me curious. Her fascination with my guitar, those purple glasses that went inwards, the blue mane, and that voice. Is that Vinyl?

"Vinyl?" I asked.

"Well most call me DJ PON3 but that's my name." She replied. Wait all of these ponies are so familiar. This Black Lightning and Galaph have the same exact voices and hair colors as Gane and Sam. And if I'm correct the five friends of Twilight Sparkle should be like they are in Canterlot High. I'm also sure there was a "Twilight Sparkle" in school. It all fit like pieces to a puzzle. This is an alternate universe to the one I lived in, considering if I'm not actually high. This is so fucking weird and disturbing on so many levels.

"Okay I have a question." I said.

"Ask away." She replied looking at the guitar again.

"Are you friends with anyone by the name of Octavia?" I asked. She perked up and turned back around looking puzzled.

"Well I was. But we had a big fight and she's probably going back to Canterlot soon because of it. I wish I could just work things out with her." She replied. Okay so, this would be starting small. "Oh well enough of that. Why do you keep looking at me like that?" She asked. I noticed I keep getting lost in her. I didn't even notice until she told me! What's with me, why am I getting infatuated?

"I-I'm not really sure." I stuttered. She kinda laughed and blushed.

"Um listen. Do you want to hang out later?" She said looking directly in my eyes. Oh fuck I must be giving off some odd look. It's no good trying to change it she'll notice! "Are you panicking?" She asked. Fuck I am.

"A b-bit. It's n-no big deal." I replied. "But yes that would be nice."

"Great. So um meet me at...the stage when the sun sets." She said pointing out that window and at the sun.

"Yep that sounds great." I said leaving. "I'll see ya then." Did I seriously give off that much of a look? I went back down the stairs and saw that most of unicorns were calm and organized. Huh that's convenient. I figured I'd press the small button again to see what happens. As soon as I did it switched to the current time and froze the hands on it. That's pretty neat. I need to talk to Lightning and Galaph, maybe they can help me. I found them in a kitchen with shots of, what looked like, apple cider.

"Hey what's that?" I asked pointing to the bottle from which the drink came from.

"This is alcoholic apple cider from Sweet Apple Acres. Although it looks light, it's probably the heaviest drink you'll ever find. Trust me." Said Galaph taking a shot. As soon as he took it he shook his head hard and let out a sound of relief. He poured me a shot and motioned me over. I'll take up what he says about the cider. I've drank 40oz straight vodka in an hour, not a smart thing to do, I nearly puked my guts out for the next three days. When I got over he sat the shot on the counter. I tried to levitate it to me for some odd compelling reason. I did it though. It was held near my mouth. I slowly opened my mouth and used my magic to pour it in. The two unicorns were watching with big smiles waiting for me to swallow the drink. Slowly I forced the drink down.

Fuck. It went down and tasted fucking awesome. Now here's where it bit me in the ass. It was like something heavier than that straight vodka went down, which I thought was impossible. About twenty seconds after I drank it, Galaph got a bucket from under the sink and placed it by my head. Right on time. I puked in the bucket for what seemed like a lifetime. Every chunky little bit flowing in the bucket. It was actually about five minutes of hard breathing and puking, five long painful minutes.

"Okay I'm sorry dude. We gave you the one that is "drink at your own risk". This is something that could kill just from a shot. Sorry." Said Black Lightning holding back his laughter. I looked up from the bucket. He held Galaph's shoulders as he stood behind him. I tried to flip him off but I remembered a key problem about doing that, no fingers.

"Never do that...again!" I shouted pulling my head away from the bucket. I proceeded to go to outside of my house and shut the door behind me. Now where to first? Maybe if I find where Octavia is I could try to patch things up with Vinyl and her. Or I could find the earth pony "Smash" and try to get his help. Something just tells me this "Smash" just might try to smash me so I think I'll find where Octavia is. Wait. I don't know where she is. But maybe Smash knows. I decided to look for the strong earth pony. He wasn't that hard to find. Over by Sugar Cube Corner, he was talking to a pegasus...calmly. I got closer and as soon as I was ten feet away they both darted their attention to me.

"What do you want?" Asked the pegasus grumpily. He was the pegasus I saw earlier. A dark blue coat with a purple mane and tail with green eyes. Speedy Gonzales I think?

"I need to speak to Smash." I said. He came a little closer to me.

"Well I'm here. Speak." He said towering above me. On closer inspection, he had a black and blue mane and tail with light blue eyes. He looked down on me with a vicious look. Obviously he's trying to intimidate me, it's not going to work.

"I don't want trouble. I'm trying to bring everyone together." I said. He stepped back and looked surprise.

"That's right. You're new here. That means you're not part of the unicorn uprising." He said. Unicorn uprising?

"Unicorn uprising?" I asked.

"Yes. See a while ago, a pegasus named Jerry Westerner came through Ponyville. He's blue with a gold mane and tail and has gray eyes. He's a very skilled thief and loves being paid to cause trouble. He's lightning quick as well, which makes him impossible to capture. We came up with a theory about why the town fell apart. The unicorns are a powerful race, they can do almost anything a pegasus and earth pony can do with magic, making them very powerful. A group of unicorns who randomly appeared two years ago who call themselves "The Justifiers", came to Ponyville and stayed three months after the first appearance. No pony knew much of them other than they'd buy food and supplies every once in a while, however only talking when buying. Eventually we heard from a unicorn who snuck in that they were a rebellion group or, up-risers. We believe they hired Jerry to cause trouble by stealing massive amounts of food. That caused a serious rift in trust between the three types of ponies. I've been smashing unicorn's houses trying to find them with no luck. Hell I got the pegasi on board with me and against Jerry with an order of AOS for him. But the problem is the rest of the earth ponies and the pegasi won't get along." He explained.

"I have a bunch of unicorns in my house. All claiming you destroyed their houses." I said.

"I figured they'd go to some pony new. Just be wary of them. Now what is it you really want?" He asked.

"Oh yeah almost forgot. I'm looking for the pony Octavia." I said.

"Okay see where the stage is over there." He said pointing south. I saw it barely in the distance. "There's a house to the west of it that you can't see. It's the closest house to it."

"Thanks. See ya." I said waving off as I left. I remember Octavia in school. She would hang out with the band geeks. My band was the cool band, they played with gay trumpets. I've always liked all string instruments though. Octavia really held herself high and would be as fancy and polite as possible. I have to admit as well, she was beautiful. At last I reached the house Smash told me about. I knocked on the door with my hoof slightly. I could hear movement from out here as I waited for my knock to be answered. The door opened and what I saw was a gray pony with a black mane and purple eyes. I could tell it was her. So many similarities.

"Is there something you need?" She asked with her fancy voice.

"Yes. May I come in?" I asked politely.

"Come right in." She said moving out of the way as I entered. The door was shut behind her as she led me to a sofa where we both sat down. It's awkward trying to sit with this horse body. It took me a little bit to get comfy and sit up straight. She looked at me oddly the whole time I squirmed.

"You're Octavia right?" I asked. I already know she is but it'd be weird if I said her name without asking or acting like I know.

"Yes. What's yours?" She asked.

"Nathan. Nice to meet you." I said. "So uh. Did you have a friend named Vinyl?"

"Yes. Not anymore however."

"What happened?"

"Oh I'm surprised you'd want to know. It had nothing to do with that so called "uprising". We got into a fight because of house problems. So imagine it's really early in the morning and you just wake up. Then you're finally climbing out of bed when ear shattering sounds of wub make you crash into the ground. Then when you check what's going on, she's cleaning the dishes with wubs! Who does that?!"

"That's pretty ridiculous."

"Yeah but after that she leaves and just does whatever she pleases, while I stay here and clean after her messes. She doesn't appreciate what I do! Even when I was doing a performance, she didn't come, she never comes always saying "I'll come to the next one. It's alright I'm sorry!" It gets so irritating!" She explained angrily. She started to tear up a bit. Then she put her hoof to her chest and took a deep breathe. Then she pushed her hoof outward while breathing calmly outward.

"Are you okay?" I asked getting closer to her.

"I'm fine. I'm surprised about you though. Most just don't listen to me, but you actually listened. Thanks." She said touching my hoof with hers. I barely noticed so I continued with a different conversation. We got into the subject of stringed instruments after I saw the case that goes to her double bass. I saw outside that its been dark for a while then I remembered about meeting Vinyl.

"I'm tired. Well I'm going to bed. I had a great time talking to you, promise you'll come by tomorrow?" She asked getting up.

"Sure." I replied getting up. And heading for the door.

"Okay. Bye." She said waving her hoof as she went up a set of stairs.

"Bye." I said leaving the house. What did I just agree to? I agreed to come back, she grabbed my hoof, and the way she talked. Oh no. Fuck no. I'll deal with it later. The stage was a short distance away from the house. I got onto the stage and looked outwards. A great view of the town was in my sight. I can barely see my house from here. Why is my house on the whole other side of the town?

"I see you're late." Said Vinyl from behind. It really scared the shit out of me. I jumped up in the air and clung onto a light beam.

"Hi." I said looking down and waving. I was losing my grip on the beam. And then I fell and hit the stage face first. She just giggled at me. "Ow."

"It's fine your late. But maybe you should be more careful." She said laughing. "Follow me. I wanna show you my equipment."

"Sweet." I said following as she went behind the front of the stage. There's a wall that separates the front from the back. Lots of instruments lie all over the floor in cases in an unorganized mess. She led me to the middle of the mess and there was a mixing table. Lots of buttons and notches surrounded two discs in the middle, there's even an attached keyboard to the side of it all. I'm not sure how it works though, I'm a whiz about guitars not mixing equipment.

"This right here is perfection. Nothing spins or wubs better than this right here." She said patting it. "But no previews. You gotta come to my shows to see and hear it."

"Figures." I said rolling my eyes.

"Now for the real fun." She said pulling out a bottle of pills from a bag underneath the mixing table. I could see the label and it read "ecstasy". Wait, this doesn't sit well with me! My face reeked of fear. She busted our laughing. "I'm just kidding. I wasn't gonna use the pills on you." She put the bottle back and brought out two bottles of that alcoholic cider. It wasn't the same from earlier that made me puke so that's a plus.

We drank it at the stage and just stayed there talking about dubstep or "wubstep" as she calls it. Hours later I woke up in my bed not sure of what happened after that.

Okay there it is. I did this on my Ipod so some stuff may be off. I hope you liked this chapter. In case you didn't already know, I know a lot more about alcohol and drugs then someone my age should. Next chapter will be up when I'm done with it.

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