"For the last time,  I'm telling you guys to leave me alone! " I yell as three guys dressed in dark suits try to corner me.

All of them except for the leftmost one look quite strange. The one in the middle has blue and hair, and the one on the right has green hair that ends in a deep brown.

"You snitched on us boy." the central man calmly tells me while he pulls a switchblade out from his overcoat. The blade itself is engraved with an emblem of a candlelight, surrounded by a shadow.

"You've gotten me confused with someone else! I've never seen you before in my life!"

"Oh don't worry, John, we know exactly who you are." says the green haired one. The one in the middle glares at him for a moment, but then turns back towards me.

"You know what we do to your kind aro-" 

The center man is cut off when I kick him right in the balls, and start to run like hell. I run out of the alley they cornered me into, straight into traffic. Cars honk and beep their horns as I start down the street, turning around to see them struggling to keep up.

Keep running John, you have to lose these guys.

I spot a back alley down the street, and start running towards it. While i'm running, the world around me starts to blur and flash random colors.

Keep going motherfucker, they probably poisoned you earlier

The flashing continues as I run.  The faster my heart beats,  the faster the distortion and flashing become.  As I started down a back alley, still focused on getting away, I look back quickly to find those thugs weren't following me anymore. 

"holy ....fuck..." I say to myself  as I lean against the brick wall of the alley, trying  to catch my breath. 

I get up a few minutes later, having recovered from my spell,  I look up to notice that the crazy ass flashing has stopped. 

The poison must've worn off. Strange, why wouldn't they just dose me with something to knock me out cold?

I get up to start for my house, only realizing after leaving the alley that I had no idea where in the hell I was. I whip my phone out of my pocket, and fire up the GPS app. 

*Error,  4G LTE unavailable*

"God dammit" I silently curse as I kick the sidewalk pavement.  

"Hey buddy,  you lost? " calls some guy as he walks funnily over towards me.

Did this guy learn to walk, like, a day ago?

" Um,  uh... yeah actually.  Where am I exactly? " 

The man takes on a very confused look for a second, but then says

"Well son, I reckon you're in downtown Danvil-"

As the man speaks I start to feel a light trickling down my nose, past my mouth. I put my fingers up to my to my nose and then examine them. Blood. I pull my arm back as I feel someone else's hands on my back. Before I can a dizzying feeling take over. The world around me spins, and slowly gains speed. Colors and lights flash just like earlier. The world around me ages thousands of years in mere seconds. I watch as the man in front of me goes to a skeleton, and crumbles away. Cars on the streets withering away before me. Beautiful trees and plant life nearby, decaying.

I fall to my knees and watch as-

"BEHOLD THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE HAS BROUGHT A BEAST FROM ANOTHER WORLD!"

Gasps and cheers come from around me as tiny, pastel colored, horse-like creatures stomp and cheer.

"The fuck?"

"IT... SPEAKS?" exclaims the light blue creature, who is wearing a fucking wizard hat.

"The fuck?"

"THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE HAS BROUGHT AN INTELL-"

"Who the fuck are you, you blue ass motherfucker?"

"WHO DARES TALK IN SUCH A MANNER TO THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE?" She yells in a really annoying voice.

"Nigga, what?"

I walk up to the creature, trying to gauge if its a threat or not when, suddenly, the stick on its heads starts to glow.

"FEAR NOT PONIES, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE WILL VANQUISH THIS BEAST!"

Oh, so they are horses. Huh that means this bitch is a unico- WAIT VANQUISH WHAT HOLD UP NOW!

"WHOA WHOA WAIT A SECO-"

The unicorn Trixie, as she calls herself, releases a beam from her horn. Striking me right in the chest. I fall down on my back and look down. Are those my... ribs..? A horrifying pain, worse than anything I've ever felt, fills me as my blood oozes out through my back, onto the ground. My vision all starts dim. The last thing I hear is Trixie screaming.

"OH CELESTIA THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HURT.... IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO SEND HIM BACK!"

Am I... dead?

Everything is still black.

Nothing.

This must be it...i'm ...dead..? But how would I still be able to think? Maybe I'm not dead... maybe.. yeah i'll wake up. I have to wake up. Please get up.

Suddenly colors flash and everything distorts until... I'm back where I was before...

"You know what we do to your kind around here boy?" 

These guys again... but how? What the fuck? I died?

My thought is cut off when then center man stabs me with his switchblade,  then turns around and starts to run like hell.

I look down to see blood trickling from my chest, right where my heart is. I try to scream, but nothing happens. The normal guy in the group of thugs jumps down and holds me.

"NO, THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. FUCK! AX- FIX ME!"

"It's too late for him. You know whats going to happen."

"You're......you're right, I'll be fine." The man looks down to my bleeding body with a smile only a madman could produce.

"Boy, I'm in for one hell of a ride, aren't I, buddy?" The man says with a slight chuckle as he looks to the green haired man beside him.

Colors flash. My vision dims.

Why was he talking like he was me? The hell?

"You know what we do to your kind around here boy?" 

Not this time motherfucker

Before he can stab me, I grab his arm and twist it. The man drops the knife and shrieks in pain. I pick up his blade and get the hell out of dodge. As I'm running from the alleyway, I hear the two from before chatting.

"I told you that would happen! You owe me fifty bits, biatch!"

"Pfft, hardly fair, you already knew what would happen."

I keep running, not paying them any mind.

Whats happening. Everything is just.. resetting. Am I cursed? I thought I was dead... I was dead..

Before I can continue my thought, I run into the guy from earlier.

"Hey buddy, you lost?"

"No no no no not again.... I SAW YOU DIE! YOU TURNED INTO A SKELETON! GET THE FUCK AWAY! WHATS HAPPENING! I DIED, BUT I'M NOT DEAD"

The man looks at me, surprisingly his expression unchanged. He just smiles and nods to me. However, nearby people begin to stare because of my outburst. By the time I look around, I'm horrified of what I see. The exact same thing as last time happened. People turn into dust, buildings crumble. Cars wither away.

I feel that hand on my back again.

Colors flash. Everything shifts again.

"BEHOLD THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE HAS BROUGHT A BEAST FROM ANOTHER WORLD!"

Everything is just repeating... the day just resets. Everything happens in the same order.

"Not this time bitch." I calmly say as I pull the stolen switchblade out of my pocket. The unicorn barely has time to put a horrified expression on her face before I shove the blade into her neck.

She falls down, lifeless. Unaware of what she did to me prior.

Before I  can regret what I've just done, the ponies nearby swarm me. Their hooves kick into me, breaking bones and skin. I scream out in pain as everything goes black.

Am I cursed to live through this forever?

...................................

"You know what we do to your kind around here boy?"

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"Hey buddy, you lost?"

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"BEHOLD THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE HAS BROUGHT A BEAST FROM ANOTHER WORLD!"

This time I turn around and fucking bolt.

I can't die again. No more. I don't want to feel that pain again... that horrendous, mind breaking pain.

I run down the candy colored streets. Everything in me telling me to go faster, even though nobody is pursuing me. I keep going, past building after building. I see a narrow alley between two shops and head into it, collapsing as soon as I'm within its confines.

"Hey buddy, you lost?" calls a green unicorn with dark brown hair. He stands at the end of the alleyway, with a strange blinking light on his wrist. As he slowly moves towards me, the blinking of the light quickens, when he's only ten feet away, the blinking is going nuts.

"NO! NOT AGAIN! AW HELL NAW! I WONT LET YOU TAKE ME AGAIN!"

"Um... I was just wondering if you're okay kid."

"WHAT IS THAT ON YOUR AR-ER-HOOF THEN? HUH! SOME KIND OF DEVICE TO SEND ME BACK. MAKE ME GO THROUGH EVERYTHING AGAIN? WELL I GOT NEWS FOR YOU BUDDY, YOU AIN'T TAKING ME TODAY!"

I turn around to run, but get nowhere when I  trip and fall.

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