Half Life: Equestria
Chapter 3: The Path
Previous ChapterAs the door shuts behind me, I examine the room. There is no roof, so the sky is open over my head. The ground is dirt with a few wooden boxes sprawled around everywhere. I look around the room for an exit. The only way out would be to fly out or climb onto a ledge into another room inside of a balcony like thing.
I lay the boxes into a slope contraption. I hop up onto each box, carefully climbing my way to the top.
Once I reach it, I look down. About a eight foot fall. There is another box down there that may stop my fall from breaking my knees (Horses do have knees).
I hop down and land on it with a CRACK! The box breaks from under my hooves. The chunks of wooden scrap fly in all directions as I fall to the dirt ground. I'm in a fenced off alley with a door leading into a big building. I trot to the door and open it with my dirty hooves.
When I enter, there is nobody around. The room is covered in grime and water machines. The room has scratched up benches. I walk over to the only hallway. Half way there, one of the strange ponies blocks the path. He points to a trashcan right beside the hall frame. A can stands on the side. He flicks it onto the ground and points at it. He pulls out some metal rod object with his mouth and chomps on some button.
"You dropped that can," he begins, "now pick it up." I stand there and look around to see who he is talking to. I am the only other pony inside of the room. "I said," he continues, "pick up the can." His voice becomes more demanding than declaring.
I walk over to the can and grasp it with my teeth. I drop it inside of the can as the pony backs off into a big room with regular and strange ponies. I follow and walk over to another hallway that leads to two big wooden doors.
The doors creak open as I gently push them open with my right hoof. It is a huge plaza filled with different ponies. The suited ones, pegasi, earth-bound ponies, and unicorns. All of the Pegasi wear vests that disable them from flying.
I take a right and walk down a road to a blocked off road into a highway. There are three of the strange ponies searching a pegasus and a unicorn. I turn a right to avoid them again.
I feel a strange presence taking me this way. My inspired path is blocked off by a fence. I know that this is the right path, but there is no way around it. I look around to see if anypony is watching me. I look up to see the same pony that I saw in my "dream" standing on a building. He swipes his hooves and walks away.
I blink and suddenly see that the fence has dissappeared. I trot on by to a stone path that has two ponies standing by a column. They seem to be looking at the suited ponies guarding an apartment door.
I walk over to where the two ponies are. One an earth-bound pony, and another a vested pegasus. They seem to be whispering to eachother until they notice me. They look at my cutie mark and walk away into another apartment building. I follow them and enter the apartment.
Well. It seems that this may be a start. A strange start.