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Life at Canterlot High

by Down with Chrysalis

Chapter 1: Episode 0: Introducing; Michael Bacon!

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A bus passed by a nice open field. There are cows eating in this field, and for some odd reason they have huge smile on their faces. Inside the bus, a little girl points out the window at the cows and tells her mommy on how pretty they are, to which her mother nods back and agrees with a small chuckle. In a nearby seat a young. newly wed couple are holding hands and smiling and giving loving looks to each other. The husband tells her that she's the most beautiful thing in the world, and she responds by telling him he's the greatest man in the world. Behind them sits a teenager on the phone with his best friend who he hasn't seen in over a year. They agreed to meet at the city this bus is going to, and are going to spend the whole day catching up. Yep, this bus is full of happy people, not one person is frowning, not a single on-

"Ugh....why must my mom hate me."

Well...everyone but me at least. You see that one teen slumped in the back row of the bus with his manga book, that has waves of angst coming off of him, yeah that's me. Name's Michael Bacon, the most anti-social kid in the world. And no, I don't mean I'm anti-social because I can't make friends or because I have a terrible personality, I really don't; I have a great personality and I can make friends if I want to. I just prefer to be alone with a nice manga or video game rather than be outside with people my age. Ever since that incident, I just like to be alone.

I'm medium in height, but I tend to slouch a lot so people always think I'm short. It really bugs me when people call me short. I mean seriously, if I was short then that would make my arms freakishly long! Anyway, it looks like the bus is entering....wherever the bus is going. My mom forgot to tell me where I'm going to be living. I swear my mom has a heart of gold but the forgetfulness of a student before final exams. I look out the window and see...a sign with the name of the city on it.

Huh...convenient.

I read the sign and say out loud

"Welcome to the city of Ponyville. We're smiles and friendship are always present? Oh god.."

I sigh in annoyance and mutter

"Of course, my mom sends me to the cheeriest place on the planet for me to 'make friends'."

Now I'm using air quotes when I say 'making friends'. As I said, I don't really care for making friends. But my mom on the other hand, loves them. She was the most popular kid back in her school, so she finds it unacceptable that her only son isn't as popular as she was back then. That, and she thinks that someone 'as handsome and nice as you should have plenty of friends.' Being a teenager, I promptly ignored her and went back to playing some Kingdom Hearts. However, my mom had other plans. She had bought a two story house in...what's this place called again....oh right Ponyville as soon as she said she was gonna get me friends rather I liked it or not.

You know now that I think about it, mom had packed all my stuff the day she told me I was moving. And she did tell me the week before that big changes where coming, and I had to prepare to move on in life.

...

"Mother of god she must have been planning this for months! That sly she-devil! How could I have not notice that at all! Stupid, stupid, stupid..."

I continue to mutter "stupid" at myself for just now realizing that my devil of a mom was cooking this whole friend plan for a while. After a few more minutes of calling myself stupid, I look up from my manga (yes I was reading it while thinking and calling myself stupid. Multitasking is a great skill) and out the window as the bus passes by this really big building. It has this horse statue in front of the building. I see a bunch of teenagers with backpacks walking out of the building. I hum to myself and think,

Huh... This must be the school mom was talking about. She wasn't kidding when she said this place was huge. It looks more like a collage campus more than anything.

As I continue to look out the window, the bus stops at a red light. Conveniently in front of a statue plaque with the schools name on it. As I read the plaque I say out loud

"Canterlot High. Home of the Wondercolts? Huh...strange name."

Seriously, who names their school and sports team after a horse pun? I mean I'm all for puns, love them like there's no tomorrow. But naming your school's sports team a pun is taking puns too far in my opinion. Oh well...I didn't name the school or the team so it's not my problem. As I continue to look out of the bus window, the light turns green and the bus continues on its schedule. As we past by the rest of the school, I see a black car with a lighting blot painted on the side. And I may not be much of a car person, but I will admit that car is awesome looking!

Too bad whoever is driving it is probably a rich snob. High school rule number 15: Never trust people with cool cars.

With that thought, I return to my manga (Naruto issue 32 for those wondering). My stop isn't for another few hours, so I'll get back you all when I get to my new home. See ya then.

A FEW HOURS LATER

Welp, this is my stop. Hopefully my new place has all my stuff and furniture is in it by now. With a sigh, I pick up my luggage (4 luggage's, two small two big) and get off the bus. I look at the street name, and my eye twitches in annoyance as I say out loud,

"Friendship Lane....only my mom can find a street called Friendship Lane."

With another sigh I start to walk down the street, when I see some...strange things. For one I'm pretty sure one of the house's here is painted completely pink and lucky me whoever lives there lives a few houses down from me. Another thing I notice is that a few blocks down I'm pretty sure one of the houses is a tree house. But the strangest thing I saw was that at the end of my block their was a forest, and it was one creepy one too. Looks like it's haunted by every ghost and ghoul out there. But what's even stranger is that is actually looks like someone lives there! No seriously, there is a house right on the edge of the forest. I hereby call this forest the Super Creepy Never Go Near Forest of Death. All who enter will surly die and the person who lives there must be a witch.

...

Yeah...my imagination can go a little bit wild sometimes. Anyway, back to getting into my new home. As I continue to walk down the street, I go over what my mom told on how to find my house

"What did she say...oh yeah! My house should have a red roof and it's the only house on the block that has a chimney, and that it has a weird stone statue on the front lawn."

Nodding my head at remembering my mom's description of the house, I begin to look around for it. I eventually find it...right in front of the bus stop. My eye twitches in annoyance as I think

Well...this has to be the dumbest moment of my life. How did I not notice it as soon as I got off the bus? Oh well, I'll blame my short attention span on it.

With that thought, I turn around and walk over to my house. As I enter the front gate, I can't help but stare at the statue. I mean I know my mom said was weird looking...but this is just strange.

It looks like the person who made it got whacked in the head, grabbed a random animal statue, and then smashed it into another animal statue. Then whoever made it smashed more animal statues five or more times, made them look like their singing at a opera, and then glued it all together. And I swear to god that it's looking at me.

Shivering at how creepy it is that the eyes seem to follow me wherever I go, and quickly rush to my door, unlock it, and get into my new house. I slammed the door in the process, and quickly lock it. Now to some this looks like a teen running away from a funny looking statue. To me...well I'll think of something that'll make me not look like a loser. I look around the living room to see that all my stuff is here and in boxes. I would unpack now, but I'm tried so I think I'll hit the hay early. With that said I walk over to the couch that is still covered in it's plastic warping's, put my luggage down next to it with my I-phone, along with my manga, but not before putting a bookmark on the spot I'm at. I take off my hoody and throw it somewhere behind me. I lay down onto the couch and surprisingly the couch is still really comfy even if it is covered in plastic. I yawn as I lay down and fall to sleep, with only one thought on my mind...

...I wonder if mom made sure this place has cable yet?

THE NEXT DAY

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEE-SMASH*

God I hate that stupid alarm clock. Every day that thing goes off at the same time even if I don't turn it on! And the strange thing is is that it pops up outta nowhere right next to my ear. I've tried locking it in the basement once back at my old house, next day there was a alarm clock sized hole in the floor and mom grounded me for a week. Also, no matter how many times I smash the thing and throw it's remains into a fire it still appeared next to my head in the morning. I eventually gave up on trying to get rid of it and just smashed it every day.

Sighing as I reluctantly get out off the couch, I walk around the still empty house to get a feel of the place. From what I found there are eight rooms in total; two bedrooms, one kitchen, two bathrooms, a living room, a laundry room, and a back room I'll probably find a use for later.

You know, the rooms that are always in every house. Walking back into the living room, I look at the stacks of box's both large and small with dread and say

"Ugh....this is gonna take awhile to unpack all my stuff. What time is it anyway?"

I glance down at my watch (which I forgot to take off last night) to see it says

6:23 am

I stare at my watch for a few seconds remembering the paper I got from the school shortly before I had to move here; it said that my bus would normally pick me up at 6:30. I slowly process this before realization hits and I yell in panic

"SHOOT! THE BUS FOR MY NEW SCHOOL WILL BE HERE ANY MINUTE!"

With that I panicky grab my I-phone, manga, and my hoody off the ground and I run out the door (locking it in the process). As I sprint down the sidewalk towards where the bus dropped me off yesterday I put on my hoody. I finally get to the corner of the street and look around in amazement to see that there were no other kids around here waiting for the bus. I looked around confused as to where everyone was. I couldn't possibly be the only guy waiting for the bus, can I?

Not that I mind at least, that just means I can read the rest of my manga peacefully without any distra-

I stop mid thought as I see a...pink wall...or maybe a pink blur. And Its coming right for me... huh. I can't help but wonder about this out loud,

"Is...is that a wall of pink coming towards me?"

I stare at the mass of pink for a few more seconds, but it starts to take a shape as it closes the distance. I can now make out some blue on it and what looks to be a backpack on it's back. It looks like a...is that a person?

"Dang...someone really likes pink. And whoever they are, their skin is pink too...strange. And that smile is huge! I didn't know someone can have a smile that big. Oh well, hopefully whoever this person is won't bug me. you know, it doesn't look like they're going to slow down... I should probably get out of the-"

*CRASH*

I fall down as the pink person slams into me like a bulldozer. I close my eyes as I impact the ground. "Oof! Oooww…" I hold my head in pain as I think in shock,

Dang! Was that even a person that hit me? There's no way anyone could have slammed into me that hard.

I grumble to myself through the pain and try to stand up, but something is stopping me, something heavy. I open my eyes to find and hopefully remove this obstruction, only to see a pair of bright blue eyes taking up the entirety of my vision.

“GAAAAHHH!” I shout in fear and surprise. But to contrast my newfound mood, I hear giggling coming from in front of me and a girl’s high-pitched voice says

"Wow! You sure can scream loudly! I don't think even I can scream that loud, and my friends tell me I have the loudest voice in the whole school. I even had to see the principle once because I was cheering too loud at the chess tournament last week. Oh, that was sooooo much fun, but it was really quiet to. Dashy said it was too boring but I thought it was really suspenseful and exiting. Say, you must be new, because I know everybody on the block, and I've never seen you before, not even at school; and I know everyone there too. So that must mean you’re new! Ooh I can't wait to throw you a 'Welcome to the Neighborhood!' party! It's gonna be off the hook!”

Holy taco bells, this girl can talk a mile a minute!

“Ohmygosh! I was so caught up with talking to you that I forgot to introduce myself! Silly me, the names Pinkamena Diane Pie, but my friends call me Pinkie!"

I can only stare at the pink girl with the fluffy pink hair (which makes her head look twice as big from where I'm laying) in both shock at horror. Shock because I'm pretty sure she just broke the fastest talker record twice just then, and horror because of how much pink I'm seeing; I think I'm gonna see pink for a week because of this! I try once more to get up, but I find she still has me pinned, and that she’s looking at me, as if she's waiting for me to tell her something.

“I’m Pinkie, and you’re…” she leads me on.

I just continue to stare at her awkwardly before I say the most intelligent thing I can think of at this moment

"Uhhh..."

Yep that was definitely intelligent. I bet NASA is gonna give me an award in intelligence just ‘cause that sentence was so intelligent. This girl, Pinkamena or Pinkie or whatever, just giggles and says

"Wel 'uhhh', it's nice to meet you. Say, why don't we be friends?"

I just stare at her for a second and tell her

"I would have to answer your question with..."

TO BE CONTINUED IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!

Author's Notes:

Hellllloooooooo Bronies and Pegasister's (and any of you in the Hive Mind if your reading this) of Fimfiction! DWC here to bring you my newest fic...Life at Canterlot High!

Now this is gonna be my first independent fic (not a comment driven one I mean) that I have ever written. So please do give me both positive and negative reviews please, but not too mean please :fluttershysad:.

Now this fic is gonna be my 'relax' fic. Basically this is gonna be a fun little fic that I'm gonna write from time to time whenever I'm not working on my main fic ( The Life of a Wanted Changeling Season 2: Debt to a Doctor (Comment Driven Story) or I just have nothing else to do. So don't expect updates to come often (but knowing my track record with updates I'll probably write the second chapter by next week).

Anyway, onto more important things. Character tags will come and go as the story continues. For now it's just OC until more characters are introduced.

Also, as you can tell from the description this is a AU fic. Why? Well if you didn't read the entire description, then I'll tell you. This fic takes place where the movies never happened. As in no ponies, no portal to another world, no magic (well, not the mlp kind at least), none of that. However, the characters from the movie (human Mane six, Sunset Shimmer, the Dazzling's, etc) do existence, but they might have different roles depending on who they were in the movie (for example, Sunset is just a bully, not a pony from Equestria).

And to remind you all from the description, anti-social in my eyes is someone who just doesn't like being around people. But can have great personalities. Again I'm sorry if I offended anyone.

Also, some events from the pony world (say for example Applebuck Season) might be humanized and placed in highschool. Most likely not gonna happen, but it could!

That's all I can think of to tell you now, but if something comes up I'll be sure to tell you next chapter!

Oh, before I forget. Like in my main fic, I'll have a question for you guys who read this to answer in the comments. Today's question is...

What are your first impressions of this fic?

Come on people/ponies/bugs (for all you changeling fans out there), what do you think of the fic? Is it good? Bad? So bad that I need to burn it? I don't know, you tell me!

BYE!

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