A New World 2: Nightmares
Chapter 9: Three
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I look at the Brit before I start down the isleway. He is wearing a white T-Shirt, a white scarf, and some baggy brown shorts. Not really dressed for the weather.
“Dude, why is it so cold?” The Brit asks, “I swear it was at least twenty degrees before I woke up.”
“Um, maybe you hit your head a little.” I explain, trying to come up with a reason for his delusion, “It’s almost Christmas, you’re pretty far off...”
“Are you kidding me?” I shake my head, “Bloody hell, first the outbreak then this! Maybe the whole world is just falling down around us, right mate?”
“Uh, yeah...” I respond nervously as I slowly lead him off the bus, “Something like that. By the way, I never caught your name...”
“You can call me Wise, all my friends do...or at least they did...” I see him look at the ground, a solemn tone to his voice, “Goddamn infected got ‘em before I could do anything. I killed them all with my own gun. I killed my friends!”
“Damn dude, that’s harsh.” I frown, seeing a similarity between me and Wise, “So how old are you?”
“21, you?”
“15 years.” I pound my chest, “So, about the residents here...”
“Yeah, what about them?” He asks me, eyebrow raised, “Are they deformed or something?”
“No, but...they’re all friends, okay?” He nods, “Just remember that, and they’re not used to people like us.”
“What do you mean?” Wise asks me, still puzzled.
“When you see them, you’ll know what I mean...” I feel my heart pounding as I open the front door of the bus. I get out first and motion for the ponies to stand back. They abide my request and begin to back up a few meters. I step out of Wise’s way as he gets off the bus. Once they see the human, they open their eyes in shock, but not fear. I see Derpy over to the right, mouth gaping wide. I hear murmurs begin to travel across the crowd, but I don’t pick up anything specific.
His eyes bolt open at the sight of the ponies, scanning the crowd. He starts moving his mouth, but stays silent. Probably talking to himself. After a minute of this, he, without warning, falls to his knees and begins to cry, a smile on his face.
“Oh my god, I...I can’t believe it...” The Brit says under his breath, “I...I’m in E-Equestria...”
“You okay?” I ask the man, who is obviously a former brony judging from his reaction, “Guessing you were a brony?”
“‘Aye...the only thing that kept me going...kept me happy...” He answers me, still crying tears of joy, “H-How? A-Am I in Heaven?”
“No, you’re not. Trust me, this place is pretty damn real by any standards.” I grin at Wise, who smiles back at me, “Now I’m sure you wanna say hi to everypony here, right?”
At those words, he stands up once again to his full height of roughly 6’ 4’’, much taller than me or Danny. The ponies seem a tad intimidated by his height, and some back away even more. He just stands there for the longest time, shaking for no apparent reason. Eventually, some ponies begin to walk up to him. Among those are Twilight and Pinkie. The second Twilight is within an arm’s reach of the new arrival, she starts asking him questions.
“Who are you? Where are you from? Why are you crying?” She stares him down with a studying eye, “Are you going to answer me? Was I too upfront?”
Wise suddenly bursts into tears, still smiling. Twilight looks saddened by this and turns away, ears flopped down as she faces the crowd. Without warning, the human reaches over and gives her a hug, causing the unicorn to jolt in surprise. She turns around and looks at Wise once again, a blush on her face.
“Y-You have no idea...what I’ve been through...” He states, frowning at the ground, “Zombies...Friends...”
“What was that?” Twilight asks, the other ponies having backed away by now, “I didn’t quite get that?”
“I had to fucking kill my only friends!!!” He suddenly yells, “They all got infected and I had to kill them myself. Imagine that, having to stare down your friend with a gun, then shoot him in the face. Could you do that?”
“I...I...” The mare seems at a loss for words, tears beginning to form in her eyes, “I don’t know...”
“I was alone for three months in that living hell! Three months of a literal hell on Earth!” Wise yells through tears, “You have no fucking CLUE how bloody awful it was. I got around ten hours of sleep a week! That’s when I wasn’t being attacked by reanimated corpses who were out for my blood. Every fucking day, every fucking hour. The same damn shit. But I kept on, I kept on going. I don’t know why, but I kept going.”
I look around the crowd as the human has his moment of silence. Most ponies are shocked at what they hear, horrified looks on their faces. Pinkie Pie in particular seems affected by this, her mane flattened out.
Wise seems to notice Pinkie’s condition and starts towards her. The pink mare just stares at him blankly until he is upon her. He crouches down so that he can look Pinkie in the eyes. After about ten seconds of staring into each other’s eyes, Pinkie finally talks.
“That’s so sad...” She suddenly grips the 21 year old in a tight hug, surprising him, “Do you think a party will make you happy?”
“Pinkie, just being in Equestria makes me happy. A party from you would be awesome!” He returns the hug, looking happy. Pinkie looks surprised for a second, then her hair poofs back into its usual cotton candy-ish state.
“Oh boy! We can have games and candy and drinks and hot sauce and-”, I cut off the mare by placing my hand over her mouth.
“I reaaaally didn’t want to hear her go on for another hour, sorry.” I explain to a confused-looking Wise. I grin awkwardly at him for a second, then he starts to shiver.
“Pretty cold, isn’t it?” I comment, grinnin in a trollish fashion, “That’s pretty normal during winter, you mad?”
“Are you seriously trolling me now?” He chuckles a bit, then stands up, grinning the whole time. Looking back at the crowd, he spots a saddened Twilight slowly making her way back into the mass of ponies. Looking depressed at this, he starts towards her.
“Hey, I’m sorry I snapped like that...” He says, stopping Twilight in her tracks with his voice, “I’m just not used to...other people, or ponies. I guess I forgot how to talk, is there anything I could do to make it up to you?” Twilight turns around slowly and I get a look at her sad eyes. Wise waits patiently for nearly ten seconds before Twilight finally answers him with a weak smile.
“Well, you could tell me a little about where you came from...” She explains, still looking rather downtrodden, “I mean, I don’t remember Jaycee or Danny telling me anything about zombies.”
“Hey, I’d be glad to tell you about my world, or at least what it became...” He grins at the purple unicorn, trying to cheer her up, “Wait a minute, who’s Danny? Is there another human here?”
“Yeah, he’s over in the hospital.” I see Rainbow Dash answer, flying in out of nowhere, “Come on, I’m sure he’d love to meet ya!”
The pegasus then darts through the crowd over to the hospital, leaving both Wise and Twilight in a thick blanket of snow. The human quickly shakes off the white fluff and begins to shiver heavily, shooting a glare at Dash.
“B-B-Bloody Hell!” The freezing human replies, “W-Was that r-eally nec-c-cary?”
“Wahahahaha!!!” The cyan mare begins to wail in laughter at the scene she had accidentally caused. Wise shoots her an evil look, clearly annoyed at her antics.
“Alright you two, come on.” I step in to prevent this from escalating, “Let’s go and see Danny, I’m sure he’s wondering what’s going on...”
“Oh, w-whatever.” The disgruntled man huffs, “Let’s just get out of the bloody snow.”
After this, Twilight and Wise begin to follow me over to the hospital, both of them shivering by now. I wonder if the hospital has any hot chocolate... Our group walks into the building, Wise still bitching about the cold.
“...I can’t believe how cold it is. I mean-” I cut him off, getting tired of his complaining.
“Dude, if you REALLY came from England, you should be used to fucked up weather.” I explain to him, shocking Twilight with my language. This shuts him up quickly, making me chuckle a bit.
Once his bitching is over, I lead the two to Danny’s room. I stop outside the door to knock, tapping three times on the wood with my fist.
“Come on in.” Danny’s voice yells through the wooden door. I turn the knob and gesture for the other two to go in first. Twilight leads, then Wise, and finally I enter, closing the door behind me.
Once inside, I take a brief glance around the room. I look straight and see Danny’s bed, which is currently occupied by Danny and Dash. To the right of the bed is a nightstand with a small lamp and a card from the CMC. His laptop and headphones currently are lying on the human’s lap. I take all of this in before even a second has passed, giving me time to observe Danny’s reaction.
“Holy shit!” He exclaims, a shocked look on his face as he notices the extra human, “Who the hell is that!?!”
“Hey, I’m Wise.” Wise calmly walks over to Danny, “I was driving this bus into a group of zombies, crashed it, and here I am. I’m not gonna hurt anypony, hell, I just wanna get away from the hurt. I’m just glad to be here.”
“Wait, zombies?” Danny asks, confusion in his voice.
“Yeah, zombies.” He answers, sounding a little surprised, “When did you guys get here?”
“Around October 2011.” I answer for Danny, “He came here a week before me. We were the same age back on Earth, but when we got transported, I got sent to a 2020 warring Earth as a soldier and he got sent straight here. If you count alternate dimensions, that makes me fifteen and him fourteen.”
“Woah, woah, woah...” He backs up a step with a shocked expression on his face, “The date before I got here was June 2025 and I was born in 2004! That means you two are older than me and younger at the same time.”
“God damn, this is getting weird...” I sigh, slightly confused by all of this trans-dimensional stuff, “Are you gonna tell us anything about that zombie bullshit?”
“Yeah, I guess.” He sighs, “Okay, where do I begin...”
“Wait!” Twilight suddenly interrupts, sounding worried, “I have something I want to try! It’s a new spell that lets us actually see and experience memories. An improvement on the memory transfer spell I developed earlier.”
“What do you mean by see and experience?” I ask the mare, who looks quite proud.
“I mean that we’ll be what are basically ghosts.” The unicorn explains, “We won’t be able to feel anything, talk to anypony in the memories, or interact with anything. We’ll just be floating around three meters from your past self, watching what happens.”
“I get it, sorta like that one A Christmas Carol story.” Wise says, nodding his head in understanding, “We’ll still be able to talk to each other, right?”
“Yeah, I think.” Twilight answers, “So, do you want to do this?”
“Hell yeah!” I exclaim, “Let’s do this!”
“Ok then, here we go!” The unicorn yells as a large purple ball of energy gathers at the tip of her horn. Once it has gotten to about two feet in diameter, she turns her head to the ground and releases the energy.
I see an extremely bright flash, then the world falls into a dark haze. When I open my eyes once again, I am standing in the middle of a destroyed, dilapidated street. Looking around, I can see Twilight, Danny, who appears to be floating on his back as if he’s still in his bed, Wise, and Dash, who is flying very close to Danny. Goddamn, it worked...
Okay, here you guys go! This chapter was pretty late and I apologize, so have mercy! By the way, Wise is the OC of Wise2Fox. All credit for the OC goes to him. The reason I did his human OC was because he asked a long time ago before anyone else. I am still taking pony OCs, but I might not be able to fit them all in.
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