Episode 20

By ma252

Assisted by DFatman

A few hours after we got off the train to Ponyville, Pinkie and I decided it would be a good idea for me to find an adequate place for me to live in the town of ponyville.

Looking at house after house, i kept finding problems with each one, either the basement wasn't big enough, the kitchen was too small, or it only had one bedroom.

And now, i'm just sitting in a chair, thinking about other options as muffins cook in the oven. Yes, i was doing my work in sugar cube corner. It was about time i paid the cakes back for all the damages. Pinkie on the other hand, was singing some sort of song as she walked up and down the stairs that lead to her room, most likely out of boredom. You see, where as most people would not understand Pinkie, and why she does some of the things she does, i have an almost complete understanding of the oddity that is, Pinkie Pie.

I put my hands together and thought of my housing issue, which was my worst problem at this point, because without telling anyone i kinda slept on the street last night. Mom would kill me if she found out that i slept alone, in a dark alleyway.  

“Well you could stay with me Maxy!” I hear from behind me. I turn around in the chair and face Pinkie, who was inches away from my face, smiling coyly. I raise my eyebrow and physically turn the chairs position. “Pinkie, do you really think the cakes would want someone as dangerous as me living with them?” i ask as my head hangs. Pinkie walks up to me and puts a hood on my chin then lifts my head so im looking at her. “Maxy, you're not dangerous, i think the cakes will understand your situation, plus; Celestia has guards following you wherever you go, but shhhhhh” she puts her hoof to the right of her mouth and whispers “Its a secret!” then giggles.

Well after the muffins were baked, and I had said goodbye to Pinkie so she can work for the rest of the day. Another concern came across my mind as i walk through the quiet streets of the town called ponyville. That pony, who was supposed to be protecting me, what was his name. I scratched my chin as i arrived at the hospital where whatshisname was held in. I walked up the the front desk, which Nurse Redheart was sitting at. Oh man, i always wondered who the sassy black nurse was in this hospital, apparently its Nurse Redheart.

I look at her and she glares back at me with a dangerous amount of sass. “Woah there Laverne, i'm just looking for a stallion that got in here the other day.” i say as i hold up both hands in front of me.

Redheart raises an eyebrow and says “You're going to have to be more specific Human.” she says narrowing her eyes at me. Was that racist? i think that was kinda racist, fucking calling me a human. Does she have no respect for humans? i mean yeah im a human but- I stop myself before i go any farther.

I try to remember some prime details about his figure, maybe a part of his name.

I snap my finger and look at the unimpressed nurse before me. “He’s a stallion, Orange coat, brown mane.” i spin around on my heel and put my thumbs on my forehead to think.

I close my eyes hard and try to remember more. “Uhhhh, also his name has the word Fire in it?” i ask/tell Redheart. Her eyes grow wide and she says “Hes right down the hall, first door to your right.”

I turn on my heel and stride down the hallway after i get down the hallway i walk into the first door on my right. As i walk in and see the pony i've been looking for. Firestorm, which i just now remember, is levitating a book in front of him as he changed the page with his left foreleg since his right one was down to a nub and bandaged up, the book he was reading seems to be “The Time Machine.” By Neigh G Wells.

“Ugh, i hate puns so much.” i say as i sit down next to his bed. He gives me a skeptical look then looks back to his book. “Im glad to see youre okay.” he says as his eyes glide over the words on the pages of the book.

I raise an eyebrow at him and say “Well im glad to see youre okay as well, but something tells me you gave an arm and a leg to protect me.” i say with a snicker. He stared at me with squinted eyes before hitting me on the shoulder with a foreleg.

“So what have you been up to since your return? hanging out with the marefriend I assume?” he says with a smile. I look at him with a smirk and rub the back of my head. “I guess you could say that.” i say tilting my head to the left and remembering what i was doing today. I smack my forehead with my hand and say “Oh yeah, i've been looking for somewhere to live on my own!” i say looking at him with a smile. He puts his good hoof to his chin and says “how did that go for you?”

I put my hands in my face and exhale deeply “I need somewhere to stay, i’m not going to keep mooching off of ponies, and so far i’ve had no luck.” Firestorm puts his hoof down and looks at me with a smile.

“ I may have an adequate solution for you.” he says with a smirk. I raise my eyebrow and look at him with narrowed eyes “Talk, and dont dissapoint me.” i say crossing my arms.

Storm looks at me and puts his book down, revealing the stub which made me cringe.

“I used to live in this old house down at the edge of the Everfree Forest, near fluttershy’s cabin.” he says looking up, i imagine he's trying to remember the exact location of it. “Its about two miles south of here.” the orange stallion says looking at me with a raised eyebrow. I look at him with a furrowed brow, because i have no fucking idea what direction south is from here. “What way is south, just point with your hoof.” i say scratching the back of my head.

Firestorm Looks to the wall with the window and looks at me with a deadpan face.

I walk out of the hospital and look in the direction i need to be going and start walking.

After a few minutes i break into a light jog, which then gets my mind on a few things. Yeah im one of those guys that thinks better at a faster speed. My mind wanders from the house, to Pinkie pie, then to Celestia and then it drifted to me being the vessel. As i jog i look down at my hands and wiggle my fingers a little, then half smile. I think of all the things i've seen Alpha and Omega do, obviously Alpha has a different type of magic than me, i'm not dumb enough not to see that difference. But i dont even fucking know how to use my magic at all, maybe while i'm at this house i should try to learn, maybe make it my private dojo for a while. I giggle at the thought of having a dojo to train myself in mystical powers, which is exciting for someone like me seeing how many movies i've seen that actually involve doing the thing im planning on doing. Maybe some of that knowledge from the said movies will help me figure out this complicated creation shit. I mean, the guy in my head created the universe it had to be complicated as fuck.

I laugh to myself and throw my head back to laugh. “I mean i can't create a universe with the snap of my-” I interrupt myself as i snap my fingers. My vision is flooded with a white light and suddenly I appear what seems like hundreds of feet above the surface.

I feel my eyes bulge out of my head as i start flailing mid air. “FUck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.” i say as i close my eyes and snap my fingers again. I open my eyes and yup, still falling. i let my body go limp as i accept my fate. “Well at least i can say i had a few-” i'm interrupted by the ground colliding with my face. Well at least i can say that i lived a moderate to good life.

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White, all i saw was white.

again

“Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck” i say as i throw my head back in frustration. “What's wrong, my friend?”  A voice that suspiciously sounded like morgan freeman said.

I look around and say “What the hell happened to the german guy.” This seemed to thwart him, but he answered confidently. “I am still the same entity, just a different voice. Allow me to, explain in ways you might understand.” I throw my hands up in the and and yell. “Stop!”

I could feel his eyebrow stand up, i knew he was doing it even if he didn't have an eyebrow. “Can you PLEASE say something for me, i know you're not the real Morgan Freeman, but i need you to say this before the story progresses any more.”

The voice picks up a sarcastic tone and says “Alright, I’ll humor you.”

“Yes!” i say as i pump a fist. “Alright, i need you to say ‘I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but prison is no fairy-tale world.’”

I hear the voice sigh before it repeats what i asked it to. “Do you know why you're here Max?” the voice asked me as i stood in the white void. I put my finger to my chin and scratch it. “Hmmm, did i die?” i ask as i look up at it expectantly. I hear a chuckle as the void turns black, I hear the voice say something before I felt a large jolt in my body.

“Cmon, i don't want to lose ya, Pinkie would kill me.” I hear a brash voice say as another shock went into my chest, which hurt, like hell. “Stop fucking shocking me..” I get out with a uneasy breath. I open my eyes to see Rainbow Dash with her hind legs in the air. “Why are you going to kick me Rainbow dash?” I ask looking at her with a raised eyebrow. Rainbow dash tackles me with a hug as i recuperate from my fall. “I thought i lost you.” i heard her say as she flies a good distance away from me. “What did you even do to me?” i ask looking at my hands, which were glowing blue for some reason. Rainbowdash looked at me and then back to a large crater on the ground. I get up and crack my back, which was unreasonable cracky today and walk over to the crater and look up, then back at the crater. “Shit, did i make this?” i say as i scratch my chin and look at the Cyan pony next to me. She looks at me with concern and says “Yeah, when i found you you were in that and you were kinda glowing blue. I came to see if you were okay and i didn't feel a pulse.” She finishes and looks at me with worry. I look down at my hands which are still glowing, which reminds me of a certain Doctor i know. “I wonder if i'm turning into Doctor Manhattan.” i ask myself as i start walking in the original direction i was walking in before. “Where are you going? you need to get to a hospital Max, you literally just DIED.” i heard Rainbow Dash say before i went to my happy place.

A few minutes later i came to the outskirts of Ponyville i found what i was looking for. The building looked like it had gone through hell, the entire building was ash grey and all of the windows in it were void of glass. It looked familiar which is odd but i guess anything is possible, said the guy who has the creator of the universe in his head. Also, i was still glowing blue, and I recall seeing many dead things around me come back to life, like plants and flowers; which slightly worried me, but i guess thats the curse of the creator. “Deem never to kill and only to bring life to those who need it” I say as i walk up to the house, which immediately started changing color as i walked into it. The door matt refurbished itself as i walked onto it, and the glass on the front door sort of regenerated into place as i opened the door with a twist of the knob. I walk into the hallway and look around to see broken picture frame, im sure that would refurbish itself sometime soon, maybe ill put everything that isn't mine into a box and use it as firewood. I walk around the halls that became more and more familiar. The tan wallpaper was returning to its natural color as i ran my hands across the walls, and a tear drops slowly from my eye. “It can't be.” I say as I turn left into a small room with dark blue wallpaper. I look around and see a bed start to put itself together as i get closer to it. I feel the cloth blankets start weaving themselves back together to make a dark blue comforter. This was my room, which i had grown up in for a portion of my life, and this was my fathers house. My head started spinning as i tried to wrap the possibility of how my fathers home came to this strange land of talking ponies and shit. I fell face first into the comfort of my old bed as I closed my eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

“Where do you think he is?” I hear faintly in the background as i turn in my bed. The dark blue covers encase me as I flip them over my head to guard me from the offending rays of sunshine and ambient noises. “Maxie!” i hear a certain pink pony yell as the voices get closer. I roll over and let the sun cover me through the blinded window to my left. Yep i was in my old room, this is probably the best moment i've ever had in my entire time in equestria. I finally had a place i could call home, and there were probably six ponies who were wondering where i was in my front yard.

I take all of my clothes off and open the closet on the far side of my room, and look through it finding nothing but old shirts, pants and- I stop in awe as i see my old light blue robes with a light blue fluff lining the stitches. I put it on over my nakedness and start walking toward the door, as i reach the door i see six ponies roaming around the front yard of my house. I tie my robe and open the front door. “What the fuck are you guys doing in my front yard?” i say as I wave my hands in the air. “Maxie!” i hear as Pinkie rushes up against me and gives me a huge hug. Which was awkward because i was wearing no clothes under my robe. “Uhm Pinkie.” i say with my hands in the air. Pinkie snuggles my legs as i crouch down and pick her up into my arms. “So this is kinda awkward.” I say looking at the 5 displeased ponies in front of me.

“Why don't you step into my fucking office?” i ask quietly as i walk into my new house. “Darling, this wallpaper is….” she pauses as i take a left into the living room which banks off of the entrance hallway. I see all of the furniture is restored to the way it used to be, i take some time to look around the room, which is what i should have done before i passed out from the initial shock of my fathers house being in equestria, which is completely reasonable considering what has happened to me so far. “Old.” she finishes by sitting down on the shaggy carpet in the living room.

After we finished talking in the living room, five of the six ponies in my new house found their way out.

All that was left in the house was Me and Pinkie pie, which left a the two of us cuddling on the couch, which was pretty awesome. I ran my left hand through her tangly hair as my other hand scratched under her chin, which made her putty in my hands. “Maxy, i could get used to this.” Pinkie said as i scratched under her chin. I smiled and continue to run my hand through my mare friend's hair.

As i did this i started thinking about the things i could do with my “creation powers” that I’m supposed to have. If I snapped my fingers and teleported far up in the air, what else could i do?

I held my left hand up and held it out as if i was holding a glass of scotch and closed my eyes. I pictured a glass of scotch in my hand, and then snapped my fingers. Low and behold, my hand was still empty, not even a glow. My other hand continued to scratch Pinkie, but this time I was giving her ear a good work over. I watched her left hind leg just kick out like a dog would.

“Hey Maxy how did you find this super place?” Pinkie asked before her tongue just rolled out of her mouth.

“Well I decided to go check on FireStorm in the hospital to see how’s doing and we got to talking and he pointed out this place he use to stay. So I figured I would check it out since you know I was trying to find a place so I’m not crashing at Twilight’s place all the time.” I explained as Pinkie and I just relaxed in the living room.

“If Stormy use to live here. Where does he live now?” Pinkie asked as she turned to look up at me.

“I don’t rightly know. Possibly the hospital or something, maybe he’s crashing at Twilight. I mean he was reading “The Time Machine” and all.” I guessed.

“Nope my ear isn’t flopping.” She said with a smile. I couldn’t help but laugh at this.

“Maybe we should ask him sometime.” I said as I stretched out. Pinkie climbed onto my chest and laid her head there as we just enjoyed some quiet time together. It wasn’t like both of us run on full steam all the time. I mean no matter how energetic Pinkie can be, I know she can just as calm and relaxed as anyone or anypony. It was late afternoon when Pinkie decided to say something.

“Maxy?” She began looking directly at me with those bright blue eyes of hers.

“What’s up Pinkie?” I asked.

“I think Stormy needs cheering up.” She said a little out of no where.

“What makes you say that?”

“Well… after you went to look for a place, I decided to help the cakes at sugar cube corner since I was out from that meany pony attacking. Well I also asked if I could make some super tasty treats to thank Stormy since he was super nice to try and help protect us from that red meany pony pants but was overwhelmed like Applejack when she gets out right stubborn about her farm. Like when she tried to buck all the apples in her apple field when Big Mac hurt himself and couldn’t help and Applebloom wasn’t ready to start with that yet. So she tried to do it day after day, after day, after day, after day, and so forth to the point she launched Dashie into the air when she wasn’t ready causing her to crash into Twilight’s balcony when she was reading the newest at the time Daring Do book but don’t tell Dashie that because she likes the books way to much now but that besides the point. I went to visit Stormy and I found him reading a book. I think it was about the journey to the middle of Equestria in this big drill thing. But every time he went to turn a page he tried to reach for it with his little foreleg, which made me sad because he lost it trying to protect the both of us but he didn’t really say it. But I could tell because I didn’t get the numby tail saying that he was content but was super upset about it but he’s too stubborn to say anything about it to anypony even the nurse. And I know RedHeart can be really stubborn in her own right, especially when she is dealing with stubborn ponies like Stormy and Applejack and so many other ponies. Come to think about it there's a lot of stubborn ponies in Ponyville. But anyway so I brought him some of my Pinkie Famous Pinkie Pie Cheer You Up From The Sadden Super Special Cupcakes Of Yumminess. all he said was ‘Thanks Pinkie Pie” before he went back to reading his book. Which I could tell the lost leg was still bothering him both on his mind and physically. But like I said he’s really stubborn about showing the pain and I know you visited him because after I got him to talk a little bit he told me about showing the place he use to stay and now that I think about it I should have asked him where he was staying but I guess I was a little worried about you since I hadn’t seen you since then and when Dashie said what happen I was even more worried and I knew something was wrong because of the Twitchy Leg saying somepony close to me is hurt and I can have that so I got the girls to come and find you and we found you here and we got to enjoy this moment together but I still worry about Stormy since he’s still upset and hurting from that meany red meany pony pants attack.” Pinkie said in one breath and was a little surprised how well she pulled of FireStorm’s voice like that. But the more I thought about it I did kind of take his home from the guy. The more it rattled in my brain the more of a dick I felt like. He told me of this place and even told me he use to live here. And what did I do? Pretty much took it over.

“Pinkie I think you're right.” I helped Pinkie back to her hooves and got up to grab a shirt on. It was a few minutes to get back in town since I was further away than both Applejack and Fluttershy from Ponyville. We first went to the hospital and found out that FireStorm was checked out a few hours ago. It seems that his leg wasn’t able to be magically healed because of some strange magic that was used on it. So they had to fix it up as best they can. After that we asked about where he could have went and Nurse RedHeart who was still being a bit of a stone cold bitch towards me pointed towards the center of town. Pinkie was getting a bit more worried saying something about a jittery ear. We finally found the stallion sitting on a bench in Ponyville Park with a newspaper floating in his orange magic. The closer we got the more I could feel the chill that was just radiating off him, which is odd with the name like FireStorm you would figure he would be rather warm to be around. Pinkie and I stood in front of FireStorm as he continued to look over the paper. It took a few moments for him to fold the paper down to look at the two of us before he flipped it back up.

“Yes?” He asked in a very flat emotionless tone.

“You alright bud?” I asked.

“Oh yeah, just peachy.” He stated and I could see that Pinkie take that answer well.

“Stormy.” Pinkie began.

“I’m fine Pinkie.” he said cutting of the bubbly mare.

“Dude, what’s wrong?” I asked a little annoyed now myself. That was enough to get him to fold the top of his paper back down to look at both of us with a very flat cold stare.

“Really?” he asked as his right eyebrow rose. I must be getting better at reading ponies because I could tell he was quite angry at someone or somepony. He left out a sight before he folded his paper completely showing that his numb of a leg was flatten off with a metal plate and what I would call a pony prosthetic that just looked like a steel pony with no bend or anything. “If you must ask after what had happen then let me give it to you straight. One, I’m rather angry after the whole ordeal and you had to tell me something I already knew and not even a thank.

I mean how hard it is to say “Hey thanks for protecting me and my mare friend at the close of your leg that you use to walk with leaving you a pony tripod.” Two, how about the fact that I was stuck with the coldest mare for a nurse that didn’t make this any easier all because I asked for a glass of bucking water. Three, how about the fact that out of all of this I now don’t have a place to stay so I can keep an eye on your flank because you took the one place I had to stay which wasn’t any better being a burnt, nearly unlivable shack of a place. Than let’s chuck a fourth being asked to explain that to somepony that should have figured it out being both a bucking prince to Princess Celestia her’s as well as a student in her school. Does that answer what the buck is wrong?!”

He said… well more yelled by the time he got to the end of it and I didn’t realise how stressed and angry he was about it. With that he magically picked up his paper and with a strong flick reopened it. “Now if you excuse me I have to figure out a new place to stay since the Travelers inn is fully booked.” He finished with a snore that sounded very equine. Okay so I was well beyond wrong. He was super pissed off about what happened. I turned to Pinkie who in turned look at me. In that moment I saw something in those eyes and I couldn’t help but agree to it. We nodded before Pinkie reached into her mane and pulled out one of those suppression rings I saw on the other FireStorm. I picked it up and looked at it a moment to see the bright platinum ring with a gemstone band in the middle of it. I smiled flipping it into the air and catching it before I snuck around FireStorm and with in a moment slipped it onto his horn.

“What the buck are you doing?” He said trying to reach up to take the ring from his long orange horn. With in a moment I picked him up and held him under my arm with his forelegs pinned.

“We are going to go work on your mood bud-dy.” I said with a cocky grin as Pinkie followed next to me.

“Yuppers, we are going to throw you the biggest super duper awesomest party I can to get mister grumpy pony can be mister happy pony.” She said zipping off pulling out a basket filled with envelopes as she went from house to house. I could help but laugh at Pinkie’s antics. So while I dragged the grumpiest pony alive and I’ve seen Celestia be grumpy without her morning coffee after raising the sun. But this pony takes the cake. But anyway I dragged FireStorm back to my place which was formerly his place. I took him into the living room and dropped his orange but on the sofa. He tried to get up from the sofa so I had to act whick and wrapped his but up in  the thick blanket on the sofa.

“Let me go Max!” He yelled at me, I’m just rather glad this wasn’t the other Storm because I think I would be a roasted human at this point.

“No can do, you are going to be a happy pony or so help me I will shove happy down your throat.” I said patting him on the head.

“You do know that pony napping a guard is a chargeable offence?” He threatened.

“I don’t think that would work. But go ahead charge the Element of Laughter for Pony Napping you to throw you a party. I wonder how far that would go?” I said with an amused grin as I looked at him. There was silence between the two of us as we stared right into each other eyes his with anger and mine with an amused glint in my eyes. “Look what’s the big deal with us throwing you a party?”

“I’m not a party kind of pony, especially a big Pinkie Pie party.” he mumbled.

“Seriously?” I asked with a cocked eyebrow.

“Yes, long story don’t ask.” He said with narrowed eyes.

“I wasnt going to fucking ask anyway meanypants.” i say crossing my arms.

“Good, cause i wasn't going to tell you” The orange pony says crossing his hooves.

I look around and think of something to break the awkward silence. “Sooooooo, on a completely different note, i died again the other day.” I say looking at him with a half smile, causing his eyes to grow wide and an eyebrow to cock in curiosity.

“You did what now?” he asks me incredulously.

I shrug and say “Yeah, i died. I was walking and snapped my fingers, which just so happened to teleport me hundreds of feet in the air. After that i went-” I slap my hands horizontally together “Splat.” i say with a serious tone.

Storm was looking at me with wide open eyes. “How are you sitting next to me now if you died, why didnt you tell Celestia, and most importantly do you think im stupid. A pony doesn't just die and come back to life miraculously.” he says rolling his eyes.

I feel offended and roll my eyes in response to his sarcasm. “I know that it sounds unbelievable-”

“Completely and utterly impossible Max, there is a difference.” he says looking at me, his eyebrow still cocked.

“Ugh, fine don’t believe me.” i say throwing my hands in the air and jumping off of the couch. I needed to move, all of this staying still was bothering me. I start pacing back and forth before i notice Firestorm giggle a little bit. I look over to him and raise an eyebrow. “The fuck are you giggling at bitch?” i ask with hostility in my tone.

He points at the ground with his prosthetic hoof and says “You're pacing”

I look around for an audience, and listen for a laugh track, but hear nothing. “I don't hear the fucking punchline, bitch.” i say mimicking Jesse Pinkman from Breaking bad.

His face twists a bit and he looks at me, then chuckles. “Theres no joke, you just remind me of somepony i know.” he says before he looks up and sighs.

I continue to pace back and forth before i say “Listen, I know you don't have a lot in the luck department right now, but i think i can help you out to the best of my abilities.”

He adjusts himself on the couch and says “What are you getting at?”

“Im saying, that i want you to live with me, here in this house.” i say pointing down at the ground as i pace. He looks at me with a raised eyebrow before he crosses his foreleg and prosthetic.

“Let me get this straight. Somepony who just stated a pretty crazy, granted not the craziest but still pretty up their statement that they had died and got better. On top of being the same pony that got I ended up trying to help and failed losing a leg in the progress just offered me to move in with the same place that I use to stay in this place which I can’t figure out how you fixed it up so fast. Did I leave anything out?” He asked with a cocked eyebrow.

“Besides the pony I asked is being a bit smartass as well as a little moody.” I added, this was followed by him face palming or hoofing whatever it’s called here.

“Ah buck it.” He said throwing up his legs up. “Sure why the buck not.” He said as he hopped of the sofa and left towards the bedrooms. I just eyed him as he left.

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