Monotone

ooooohhh, I'd have to say that Torchlight 2 has a very nice soundtrack. It's very foreboding and ominous, a refreshing change from the epic orchestral scores of most RPGs. Also the 'John Dies @The End' Movie has a very interesting soundtrack. This is very hard to explain so I'd recommend you listen to it for yourself. Torchlight 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exk-15gy2GA John dies @ The end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQfrN8iYY94

Monotone stared out the window, thinking about everything that has happened so far. Should he really have saved Daydream's life. It's hardly been a day and was already going back on his decision. His concentration was broken by a purple flash of light outside, followed by his door getting smashed by some pony's hoof. Monotone quickly slid out of his chair, making his way to the door. His limp was now starting to fade, thankfully. He creaked the entrance open to find a purple alicorn standing outside his door "Can i help you ms.Sparkle?" "Did you have anything to do with this!?" She shoved a Newspaper Monotone's muzzle, the headline stated. 'Everfree Forest massacre!' The rest all just seemed like drivel to Monotone. "What? no! Of course not" Twilight couldn't tell if he was lying, his voice never changed pitch no matter what. He was usually honest though, even if he said things that were best left unsaid, so she gave him the benefit of the doubt. Monotone noticed she didn't look too well. "You okay Twilight?" "It's just awful! I'm supposed to be protecting these ponies, teaching them about friendship... and they're murdering each other!" Tears of frustration rolled down her cheeks "Hey look" Monotone couldn't believe he was about to support the hoity-toity pony, but he needed to blend in with other ponies "It's not your fault..." She nestled her face in Monotone's neck and wrapped her hoof around his back, Tears flowing from her eyes. 'Oh great, i have to be supportive' "you should probably come in... its getting a bit chilly outside" "Th-thank you" Feigning compassion was probably one of the hardest tasks Monotone had to try to accomplish, much harder than killing a group of mercenaries. "You've changed Monotone" Twilight said, resting her back on the sofa. "I never thought you would" He sat beside her in silence, even though he wasn't being so pleasant in some areas, He couldn't deny he was changing. Whether he would accept that, only time can tell. "Do you have any friends?" She questioned, though her hope that he would answer 'yes' did falter. "Yes, a pegasus called Daydream" She almost fell out of her seat. "WHAT! I mean, uh... good for you!" He turned to her and almost gave her a heart attack, one side of his lips raised to form a smirk. She couldn't take this any more. "Well I uh, gotta go, heh. You know, princess stuff." "Alright" "And Monotone" "yeah?" "Thank you" She said with a smile before she departed. Not only did Monotone question his moral standing, he was now afraid of the time when both sides of his lips raise.

Monotone didn't know how to respond. Sure he's f**ked up beyond belief, but is it really his fault? No, no he's a monster, i saw what he did near that cave, no pony should do that. He killed those ponies and many others before them, probably in much more gruesome and horrific ways . He ruined the lives of many and killed many more and that cannot be forgiven. Meaning I'm just as bad as him, i've killed just as many ponies, if not more. But they deserved it, all of them. Then again those ponies would have been fathers, mothers, spouses... who's the monster out of the two of us? The back and forth argument waged in Monotone's head as he stared at Daydream. The pistol shook, the trigger slowly squeezed. Daydream noticed this and shot a look of terror at Monotone. The gun flew across the room, landing under the sofa and out of Monotone's range. Daydream breathed a sigh of relief. Monotone held his head and wondered if what he did was right. "I was thinking about which is the monster, the one who the other should hide from... be afraid of..." Monotone muttered not making eye contact until he raised his head in Daydream's direction. "I've realised that we are both monsters, we should be afraid of each other... we have both killed, and enjoyed it. We are no different. So i gave us two options, both of us live, or both of us die." "I can see which option you chose" Daydream interjected "And i hate it" The two stallions sat on the coush, watching the hypnotising flames of the crackling fire. "What are you doing here anyway?" Daydream asked, breaking the awkward silence that hung around the air like a bad smell "what?" Monotone blurted out in confusion. "Well you know... you don't seem to have a job, yet have this house. And you seem to hate pony kind, and ponyville is probably the friendliest place in Equestria. But you moved here anyway." "I guess you deserve an explanation, because you've been such a good boy. Well you see, Ponyville is home to the elements of harmony. You know, the six mares that have managed to save Equestria several times. " "riiight..." "Well, considering the Everfree forest is right next to Ponyville ,the six mares who have saved Equestria have a very high chance of dying." "Okay" "And seeming as princess Celestia and Luna quite like equestria in its currently not blown up or enslaved state they need some pony to protect the elements of harmony. As princess Twilight has rejected any guards to come and protect Ponyville she is very vulnerable. They needed one pony to make sure everything is in line, as to make sure Twilight didn't get suspicious. Seeming as a large group of ponies would raise many more eyebrows they only needed one. That's where I come in. With my proficient skill in making ponies, creatures and many other things that can be a potential threat slightly less alive, they hoof-picked me. Many higher up ponies objected to this as I was only a low rank of the royal guard. But unlike everypony ,i passed every test and requirement with flying colours, despite how experienced every other pony was. They offered me a lot of money and instant promotions to high ranking positions, but i only really wanted to do this to break from the monotony of standing in front of a gate in 12 hour shifts." "Well if the Elements of harmony are so vital to have to keep protected... Why did you protect me instead of Rainbow Dash?" "Because you're my... you're my... friend..." Monotone's face sagged, as if to suggest he was disappointed with himself that he actually made a friend.

Monotone sat on his bed, staring outside the window to watch Celestia drag the sun behind the rolling hills. His hind leg bounced up and down, he looked nervous. 'If Daydream is capable of that, i don't want to know what happens if i piss him off... well, if i don't get to him first anyway'. He heard the door handle being pulled, but the door didn't open. It was then followed by an impatient knock at the door. Monotone limped down the stairs and opened the door to, of course, find Daydream outisde. "Well Monotone, I don't know about you but I am pretty tired" He walked around Monotone and headed for the staircase, but he was stopped by a familiar clack of metal. Daydream spun around to find Monotone holding a small pistol pinting in his direction. "...you are going to tell me everything, and i mean everything. I need to know why i risked my life for you, and how or why you did... what you did earlier." Monotone stood there weakly, his speech shaky and desperate. He was really beginning to show fatigue from the past two weeks. "Look Monotone-" "Sit down, now" Monotone gestured the gun towards the kitchen table. They both walked to the table. Monotone not breaking eye contact with the blue maned pegasus. They sat opposite each other, The gun still trained at Daydream. "You are going to give me the most meticulous detail on how we are here right now Daydream, am i clear?" Daydream slowly nodded "Good, go on then." Monotone commanded. He probably wasn't going to like what he was going to hear, but he deserved the truth.

I think because of the human like eyes and the somewhat realistic horse head, they start to cross uncanny valley territory. It's realistic enough to know what it is trying to represent, yet it doesn't quite get there, causing many people (including me) to be a tad unsettled. Kind of like puppets and Victorian china dolls.

Monotone threw himself behind a tree, three guards made their way out of the cave: a unicorn, a pegasus and an earth pony. They surveyed the area. Pacing around to find whoever produced that gun shot. Monotone stood behind the trunk, regulating his breathing, preparing himself for the inevitable fire fight. He peeked over, just ever so slightly getting the guards in viewing distance. One of them swung around and spotted him. "He's there!" The pegasus guard peppered the bark with a burst of fire from his assault rifle that he held in his hooves, whilst he back peddled behind a rock. The rest of the guards leapt behind cover. Monotone waited for the right moment. He heard more gunfire and then the infamous clicking sound. "S**t I'm out!". Monotone jumped from cover and a shell ripped its self through the body of the unicorn floating two pistols beside him. The unicorn hit the ground in a bloody mess. Monotone rolled when he hit the floor, quickly standing back up to hear gunfire coming from above, the pegasus. The ground was riddled with bullets, each one missing Monotone's small frame. Monotone ran and weaved between the hail of bullets. Again, the clicking. Monotone stopped, skidding and spinning around before shooting the retreating pegasus out if the sky. The earth pony leaped from cover, bucking the shotgun out of the way, making the magic around it implode, leaving it flying out of range. They held a very menacing looking knife in their mouth and wildly swung at Monotone. He ducked and jumped out of the way of the slashes before finding an opening when the earth pony swung a little too hard and very slightly lost balance. He quickly turned around and bucked the earth ponies fore hoof, snapping the bone clean. The earth pony fell to the dirt in a painful thud. Monotone quickly floated the knife out of the stallions mouth and stabbed him in the jugular. Monotone quickly responded to Daydream's slurred speech with a swift shot to the unicorn's neck. The magic faded around daydream and left him in a dreary state. The earth pony quickly drew a pistol, but was only met with buckshot digging into his shoulder, making the pistol slide across the floor. The stallion was thrown to the ground, holding his right shoulder with his left fore-hoof. He crawled back to get away from Monotone, but he knew his attempts would be fruitless. Monotone stood over the earth pony and raised his shotgun, ready to pull the trigger. "Wait!". Monotone stopped from the stallions request, he was about end to this ponies life, he may as well let him have his final words. "Before you kill me...." He stopped, the pain was too much for him to talk consistently. "Ask yourself this.... Is that pony..." He looked towards Daydream "Really the pony worth protecting?" The earth pony waited for a response. Monotone couldn't think about how to respond, so he put the stallion out of his misery. He made his way over to Daydream and untied him. Daydream flopped on to the ground, too exhausted to land on his feet. Monotone then trotted over to a small cage in the back. It was holding the crooked eyed mare. She didn't seem to move, was she dead? No, she's just passed out. Monotone shoved a key that he took from the earth ponies corpse into the lock and threw the cage door open. He swung her into his back. 'Is that the pony worth protecting?'. Those words were already beginning to ring through Monotone's mind, and probably for a long time to come.

"Aaaaargh, shit", Montone cursed to himself as the pegasus disappeared from view. 'Welp, one of the only ponies i can tolerate is dead now... ugh,I'll guard Rainbow Dash then, I guess. In case those mercenaries get cocky.' "You really don't need to stay here Monotone, they can't get me.". Said Rainbow dash, sat up in her bed. The grey stallion kept silent as he stood by the open door way. Watching the corridor as patients, doctors and nurses buzzed from room to room. "Ugh, fine have it your way... Where's Daydream anyway? Monotone?" He couldn't hear her, she was only white noise. He didn't know know what to do. He abandoned the only two ponies he considered.... friends.... is that the right word? Monotone couldn't have friends. It was impossible. Were they really his friends? 'yes.... yes they are' "You're right, I don't need to guard you any more." The blue mare was surprised by his sudden burst of speech. "He needs my help" "Wait... what do you mean by 'hel-'" He was already galloping away. Her stomach sunk, Daydream obviously wasn't safe. He finally saw it. He finally saw the true image of Daydream, in the form of two stallions sown together in a grotesque collection of bloodied body part strung up to a tree. Monotone had seen some things, really f**cked up things. But nothing on this scale. Not even one of the most elaborate curses could sum up a reaction the image that Monotone had to observe. He heard a very silent, guttural wail. 'Oh, oh- one of them is still alive...'. He slowly paced closer, to find an eye writhing around, it looked down to fixate on Monotone. The barely living pony said no words, but Monotone knew what the stallion wanted. He slowly raised the shotgun that lay in its holster. the end of the barrel pointing towards the cranium of the mangled skull. "I'm sorry" The sound of the escaping shell ripped through the formerly silent forest. The ponies scalp was reduced to nothing more than little giblets. He heard rustling coming from the cave. He braced himself for what he had to do next.

cookies... man I want to eat them just thinking about- NO! I WON'T I GIVE IN! EDIT: Also garlic bread, I can't get enough of it

The two ponies walked away, drenched in blood and exhausted, both physically and mentally. "Daydream... I'm starting to get the feeling that those pegasi deserved to die." "well what makes you think that!" Daydream shouted at Monotone, the stress obviously starting to burden the grey pegasus. "It's just i- i dunno, it's sort of a gut feeling..." "Well, keep your feelings to yourself" Daydream hissed. "Alright, fine" Monotone didn't want to provoke him any further, he knew those pegasi well. His lack of empathy towards that kind of thing wasn't helping the unicorn to be at least slightly compassionate. They were almost at Monotone's house when they noticed something. Derpy's door seemed to be left open. Daydream ran up to the door to find that the handle had been shot off. "oh no, OH NO!" Daydream shouted, probably the worst possible thing had happened. He charged in the house to see blood stains on the carpet. "no no no no no no no!". He spun around the main room and found that a note had been attached to the back of the door. He rushed over and grabbed it with his hoof. 'Daydream, Your lack of co-operation and your unicorn friend has been causing us a lot of trouble, you need to pay for your crimes. So we took the only thing you cared about. She is held in the Green Dragon's cave in the centre if the Everfree forest, as shown on the map below. 3:00am, Come alone and unarmed. If we so much as catch a glimpse of any short grey stallions holding firearms, we will not hesitate to rip that 'special somepony's' head in two. Don't keep us waiting.' A crudely drawn map shows the location of where they have kept Derpy captive. Daydream collapsed to the floor, in a fit of hyperventilation and weeping. Monotone, floated the note to viewing distance. "Oh sweet Celestia..." Monotone mutters in shock. "Daydream... what are you going to do?" "...I need to go.... I can't let an innocent mare's child become an orphan." 'Oh no, she has a child? Shit.... Wait, 'pay for your crimes', 'innocent' mare? He has definitely done something... something bad enough to warrant an operation of this scale.'

The next morning the pegasus was far from his relaxed attitude. His eyes were sunken to his skull, stress overtaking his mind, and foreboding thoughts that couldn't escape his head. "so... why are we corralling ponies?" Monotone asked, breaking the painful silence, whilst he shoved a sizeable revolver in his bag. "I'm afraid I can't tell you" "Why not?" "look. Monotone...innoce-..." Daydream's face screwed into that of a guilty look as he caught his words. He avoided eye contact with Monotone to think about what he was going to say. "p-ponies are going to die Monotone, let's leave it at that..." 'What was he trying to say? Innocent? Why wouldn't they be innocent?' This further catalysed Monotone's suspicions, he was itching to ask questions and internally screamed for answers. But he knew he probably wasn't being the most transparent of ponies either, so he kept his place and asked no further inquiries, hopefully they would be answered by the end of this ordeal. They both paced through town. Daydream's new expression causing looks of confusion to the residents, they expected to see the distanced, easy going pegasus, and only saw a tortured soul. Monotone was starting to look like the cheery one now. He turned sharply left towards a small cottage nearby. Monotone was so caught up in thought, trying to put the pieces together, that he went about 5 feet forward, before realising that Daydream had tuned off. Daydream knocked on the door with his fore hoof, Monotone standing beside him. "Why god mor-" The yellow pegasus behind the door paused when he saw Daydream stern look. "...D-does there seem to be a problem Daydream?" "Monotone, could you give me a couple minutes with this fellow. Make sure NO ONE, gets close to this door." "Can do..." Monotone said with an empty look in his face. They both entered, the yellow stallion slammed the door shut, leaving Monotone with his thoughts Several door visits later Monotone started to realise a pattern. They were all pegasi. He tried to recall any incidents in recent history that involved exclusively pegasi. 'A pegasus supremacist cult was caught by the royal guard, sacrificing unicorns and earth ponies... no, they would have a problem with a unicorn guarding them. hmmmmm, C'mon Montone think, Oh! The factory incident... nah, all the culprits were caught. At least I think so...'. These thoughts continued late into the night. Monotone just lay there, a pool of information swirling around him, trying to turn into one current of reason. He needed answers, he craved them.

"Monotone: Relationships advisor" He called himself, proudly, whilst he limps away from the door and flops onto the couch. He floats a near by newspaper towards him and glances at the headlines. 'Sadistic grey pony leaves Ponyvile in terror!'. 'I hope they get that bastard...'. A knock at the door grabs his attention. 'Wow, two ponies at the door in one day? I must be very popular, or the world hates me'. He opens door to find Daydream's favourite boss. "I need you to do me a favour" she says in stern voice. "Daydream cheated on you?" He asks, she doesn't respond. She makes herself inside, closes the door with her hind hoof and snakes around the short unicorn. "Hey, excuse me, do you mind not barging your rainbow coloured ass in here?". Her back is turned to him, still no response. "Hello? Look whatever it is you wan-" "I need you to hurt me" "...what?" Monotone blurted, confused by what she was asking "You need to break one of my limbs, any of them" "what!? why? why me?" "You're known to be a bit violent aren't you?" "wh- wha-" "Twilight told me about what you did whilst you were at school." "Ah- look they threatened me with violence for my lunch money, I refused, one of them hooked me in the chin. So I broke his fore leg, and made one of his little comrades not able to mate anymore. Not like he deserved the right to anyway... But that's behind me, I don't try to hurt ponies any more." "oh okay, I'm sure Rip-snort would have something different to say if he was still alive" "He killed innocent foals in drug induced rampages! He deserved to die! I made it quick and painless anyway... wait how did you know-" "well, you break my bones and I won't tell. Prison doesn't too awesome now, doesn't it?" "But, why do you need to be injured?!" "You don't need to know." "I hate you" "good. Now do it." Monotone paused, thinking about how he was going to go about this, "okay... you're an avid flier right?" "The wing, not bad..." She spread her right wing, it shook a little. She knew this wasn't going to end very well. "just lie down on the floor. It makes it quicker." She had dirty and immature thoughts flash up after he said that. But it wasn't in front of agenda right now, and for good reason. She slowly descended to the floor and rolled on her back. Monotone stood over and raised his good hoof. The light blue mare tensed, bracing herself for what was to come. Monotone hesitated, he didn't want to do this. He had never wanted to do this again. Not in a million years. Because he knew he would enjoy it. He slammed his hoof down on to the mare's wing. catching it on one of the weaker joints with almost surgical precision. She screamed in torment as her wing snapped like a dry twig. "hospital....rrrrgggg! now!" He picked her up and slung her on his back. Her hooves dragged across the floor whilst he carried her through the town. It was surprising to all the ponies that went past that a unicorn of such a size, an injured one at that, can carry a fully grown mare without so much as breaking a sweat. Not to mention the fact it was the same unicorn that caused so many of the residents anguish.

Monotone lay in his bed. His expression vacant as he thought about all the events that transpired. 'Not even a fortnight and the town already hates me. All of them, they just don't understand the meaning of privacy. I would rather not be noticed than hated, but no pinkiepie has to go and ruin it all. Celestia dammit, why did i have to take this job? I could be just standing in front of the Canterlot gates right now; just me, my thoughts, and the tourists that try to get in without the proper documentation. Seeing their little faces screw into disappointment just makes my da-' His thought was interrupted by a knock at the door. 'Who in the hell could that be? Probably mail, why would I get mail. Probably the mayor wishing to kick me out, even though I've done nothing wrong...' Monotone slowly made his way down the stairs, careful not to trip. A few knocks of impatience hit the door. "Coming! just give me a second, I'm trying not to snap my neck!" 'Even though it would probably give me a sweet releif from this wretched town' "Oh, Sorry mister" A voice shouted from the other side if the door. That voice seemed familiar... "Special delivery for- Monotone?" The crooked eye mare said in surprise. Whilst sporting a mail mare uniform "Yes?" "Oh, heh, sorry. Small world eh? Anyway sign here please". The mare held her pen on her mouth. The pen was wrapped in a field of magic and was scribbled along the page. "Thank you Derpy, or Ditzy. Derpy?...Ditzy..." "Either one's fine" "Okay then, Ditzy" 'A conversation? How have i talked to somepony for more that 5 seconds, and not insulted them in anyway?' What's happening to me...' "Stupid rainbow dash..." DayDream cursed under his breath. "You can't go into work because you're tooooo hungover. Meh meh meh meh meh..." He said in a tone that somewhat mocked the voice of the rainbow haired mare. "You're going to have to be suspended from pay-" He stopped his insulting his voice to find that Derpy was in front of Monotone's house. 'This is it' he thought, his one chance "Hey, Daydream in here?" The light grey coated mare queried. "Oh, uh, I'm afraid he left for work half an hour ago" "oh... okay..." She seemed slightly disheartened by that fact. "No I'm here, I'm here" Daydream trotted from behind the mare. "Oh! hi... heh heh" Ditzy's face went a slight red as she gently kicked the dirt. "y-yeah, hi" Daydreams cheeks went a similar red twinge as they made eye contact, well, sort of eye contact. "I've uh, gotta deliver these, heh... sorry." "No no, It's fine you have a job...". They both stood there, much longer than they should have. The air was almost crushing from how awkward the situation was. "Well... i'll just go then... away... from you..." "Yes... you are..." "Oh for the love of Luna's sweaty panties. Just ask her out already Daydream" Both of the Pegasus' faces turned to Monotone, their cheeks almost a emitting a red light. They faced each other again. Daydream produced a small*squeak* instead of what was meant to be speech. "Fine I'll ask her out for you. 7 o'clock, outside Sugar Cube corner. Can you make that time?" The mare's head weakly nodded. "Okay then. Ditzy do your job, Daydream get ready for tonight." The grey mare flew off, chuckling to herself as she did so. Daydream on the other hand didn't know whether to hug Monotone or strangle him.

"wakey wakey, s**t-head. Oh, I'm sorry, I mean sleepy head" Monotone said, bursting into the room of the groggy pegasus. Opening the curtains of the dark space, flooding it with light. "wh-wha..." Daydream was confused, either from the fact that somepony had awoken him prematurely, or that the owner of the residence wasn't telling him to get out of their house. "Breakfast is on the table, and you are being my tour guide" "Tour-what?" "Somepony needs to show me around town. And I have nominated you." "But why so... early?" "less ponies to annoy me" If this was any other pony he would have questioned why they would have said such a thing, but this is monotone. Questions were probably best left unanswered. 'Food... real food'. Daydream thought to himself, as he stared at the bowl of cereal. Sure it was only a bowl of Wheat Crunch, but it still didn't seize to amaze him. "... You gonna eat that? Or try to absorb the nutrients with your retinas?" Monotone asked flatly, on the other side of the table. "Oh... uh, yeah..." He promptly dug his face into the bowl, 'what sweet ambrosia is this?' Daydream thought to himself, amazed at the fact it wasn't moulded over, dirty or festering. "You're a bit distant aren't you?" "Thrshhh wuurld-" Daydream soon realised he hadn't swallowed, he did so soon after finding out his own mistake. "That would explain my name" "oh, of course" "-And that's why you never order the lemon surprise." "Oh... okay then" Monotone was slightly perplexed by Daydream's reasoning, but he hated lemon anyway. "Well... home sweet home...". He said, whilst inspecting his house. 'Wait a minute... I didn't draw the curtains... did I? No I didn't!' He rushed to the front door as fast as his three remaining legs could carry him. He opened it to find... no... "Surprise!" His house was trashed: banners saying 'get well soon', a party buffet, cheery music, balloons of various colours. And in the middle of it all was the culprit. Pinkie. Along with a collection of colourful and cheerful ponies that surrounded her, all invading his house. His space He shook furiously, his face glowing red, he was about to shout the most profane language any pony had ever spoken. But just as he was about to, the wheel support snapped in two. He fell to the ground, landing on his broken leg. He screamed in agony, It felt like his leg had broken five times once he struck the ground. The music stopped, the ponies stood there, silent. "Oh my gosh! Are you okay?!" The pink mare shouted, running over to his assistance. She grabbed him from under the shoulders and lifted him up, until he shook free of her grasp. "Get offa me!" He still wanted to shout at her, but it was no use, he knew she would just assume it as him being 'grouchy' because he was in unbearable pain, so she would keep pursuing him no matter what he did. So he didn't waste the energy. Instead he got up, slowly yet surely, and made his way to the stairs, with only the use of one of his forelegs to help him travel in that direction. The crowd of ponies parted, to make way for the seething unicorn. He dragged his body up the stairs, not being able to just simply walk up them, and finally made it to the top. He stomped his hooves on the upstairs floor, almost shaking the entire house. Out of view, his bedroom door slammed shut, the timber frame of the house began to creak from the force he had exempted.

Whilst in the hospital bed, he flipped through a book that Twilight had gifted him. Even though Her brief experience with him was very unpleasant, she couldn't take away the fact that he almost died that night. He lifted an oatmeal muffin to his mouth and took a small bite, Given to him by the crooked eyed mare that he had been so 'generous' to. 'Thanks for the muffin! and get well soon!' It said on the paper that held the cake. It was surprisingly neat, especially considering it was written with her mouth, as well as her disability potentially hindering her writing ability. "Well Monotone, I think you are free to go" said the doctor pony leaning in the door way, with a wheel support held by the nurse beside him. "Just take one healing potion per day for the next week and your leg should make a swift recovery." He said, as the nurse tightened the straps around his Monotones chest for the wheel. "It's a bit big isn't it?" Monotone asked, grunting a little every time the straps became tighter "I'm afraid that's the smallest one we have." The nurse said apologetically, releasing the straps from her mouth. "We don't usually treat patients your height, and the foal ones are much too small" "okay then" Monotone replied, a twinge of annoyance in his voice as he had to wear this oversized support for a week if he wanted to walk. "Do you have anyone to take you home?" The doctor questioned "No" "Well, you need somepony to help, in case the support comes loose or you trip" "...Well... there is one pony" "Thank you" Said monotone. Daydream was caught off guard, he didn't think he would hear anything positive from the short pony "oh..uh, no problem" He states awkwardly, still surprised from the fact he was thanked. They finally arrived at Monotone's house. "Well I guess I owe you" Monotone claimed reluctantly, he didn't want to pay the pegasus back. But he couldn't just leave and not say another word to him again. "No it's fine i-" "Your living with your boss at the moment right?" "...yes?" "I have a spare bedroom with your name on it, well, unless your bosses couch and or body is more appealing to you" Daydream, was surprised by this, the pony he had caused so much anguish to actually wanted him to stay in the same residence. What would he do? would he take the offer?

The howling, that incessant howling. It rang through the forest and entered the ears of the tired residents, wanting to sleep, NEEDING to sleep. Monotone lay in bed thinking of the drastic scenarios the howling could lead to, 'an attack on ponyville?' What if they killed anypony.... what if they killed the six....'. He could no longer remain in bed, just thinking about what can befall the town, and more importantly, what could befall him. He had to do something. He paced to the other side of his room, still limping from his fall from earlier, to the closet built within the wall. He swung it open to find a large array of weaponry: Swords, maces, rifles, pistols, grenades. You name it, it was probably in there. He looked through briefly to find what he had been looking for, a flame-thrower. Very effective against the Timber Wolf population that potentially threatened the town. If the Everfree forest looked intimidating during sun set, it certainly would make the bladders of some ponies begin to flow during the late hours of the night. The howling was closer and louder. The flame-thrower on monotone's back unslung and was readied by his side. He tried to make his hoof steps as quiet as possible as to not have his throat ripped out from the wooden beast before he can even get the smallest ember out of the weapon he held. He silently parted a bush, to find an opening of the forest containing the beasts in question. Gathered around the corpse of a bloodied and ripped stag. 'This is it Monotone your first kill in ponyville' Monotone leaped out of the bush, flame-thrower at the ready. They both stared each other down, the Monotone staying silent and the timber wolves growling at him. Two more had appeared behind him from the brush. 'Damn it... surrounded, nothing i can't handle though'. One of the wolves in front leaped towards him. He swung the flame-thrower in it's direction and torched it, a pile of burning wood and ash left. The rest closed in on him. Due to the opening left by the now deceased monster, he made a break for it. The Timber wolves in hot pursuit. Due to his injuries from earlier Monotone couldn't run that fast, but he still kept his distance from the beasts. One managed to close the gap bearing it sharpened fangs and preparing to bite at Monotones hindquarters, sadly getting closer only managed to get the wolf turned into smouldering residue. Though as he ran, one thought did come to mind, 'Why do planks of wood want to kill me?'. From pondering this he was able to catch his hoof in an overgrown tree root. The telekinetic field around the weapon imploded and made it fly through the air. It managed to get itself out of his horn's reach. He attempted to get back up, but it was in vein as his leg could no longer hold his weight. He inspected the damage to find that a bone was protruding from his fore-leg. He couldn't feel the pain due to the shock, but this didn't negate the fact that the Timber Wolves closed in on him. One of them towered over him, placing its splintered paw on monotones chest. "Look out below!" That voice was familiar. A grey and blue streak fell from the sky and the Timber wolf on Monotone's chest was shattered intopieces. Beside Monotone landed the pegasus that had given him so many pleasantries from before, "look, I'm sorry I haven't been the best pony and I-" "SHUT THE F**K UP AND HELP ALREADY YOU C**T" "OH, right, sorry" Daydream flew over to where the flame-thrower had fallen. He grabbed it in his teeth and threw it in the direction of the broken unicorn. Flame spewed across the forest floor and lit up the once dark night. All that was left was the charred remains of the monsters and the burning leaves of the trees.

It has now been 5 hours. The pegasus was still mumbling about how sorry he was and many other unrelated things that even the element of honesty wouldn't share. Monotone tried to drown it out, but it had no use, the pegasus' voice was gnawing at his mind, slowly eating away at his sanity as he rocked back and forth in his bed. He couldn't take this any more, he had to take action. He drew the curtains and opened the window. "shut...up" Said monotone, in a quiet voice. No effect had been taken, the pegasus was so in to his own ramblings that his perception had completely shut down. "Shut, UP!" Still no response. Monotone levitated a small ornament on the shelf next to him. he threw it in the direction of the hovering stallion, sailing past his head. nothing. This was beginning to test his patience now, well, it was already tested five hours ago, it was even more so tested. He bombarded the light grey stallion with miscellaneous object in his room a lot of them hitting and, you guessed it, nothing. Monotone growled in anger, drastic action was going to have to be taken. He back-pedalled five steps into his room. Lowering his body in an readied stance. He ran full sprint towards the window, hopped onto the bottom of the window seal and leaped towards the pegasus. The small grey unicorn flying towards him certainly caught his attention now. Monotone grabbed him, the pegasus wings struggled to keep both of them afloat, but they tumbled to the ground in a mass of fur and limbs. They landed five feet apart, both of them sprawled on the floor and their bodies bruised. The taller stallion writhed on the floor in agony, but the smaller unicorn managed to defy his injuries and limped towards him at an alarming speed. "You f***ing imbacile, shut up, shut up, just SHUT UP!" the unicorn was now on top of the pegasus, pinning him down so he can't escape, "I will not hesitate to strike your neck with my hoof, or better yet, do a very messy labotomy with my horn. Stay away from me, don't ever come near me again. Only if you save my life will I even CONSIDER looking you in the eye."

Monotone woke to find his bed cover thrown across the room and his body contorted in what didn't seem like a natural position. He sat up, his spine making multiple and loud pops. "dammit body, why do you have to pretend you're a gymnast whilst I sleep". He hopped out of bed, floated his covers back in their place and made his way downstairs. "typical, no food..." he muttered to himself. He closed the cupboard doors and made his way to the front window. He very slightly opened the drawn curtains, to see if any surprises were waiting for him behind the front door. He breathed a sigh of relief when he found no pony had been waiting to share their opinions on balloon colour or to assault him with their buttocks. He stood their with his head pressed against the door, trying to gain the courage to go outside. 'c'mon Monotone, you can do it, just try to ignore them'. He made one last deep breath and swung open the door. Silence, save for the breeze that rustled the trees nearby. Thankfully most ponies were probably asleep, but that wasn't going to be for long. He rushed out the door and quickly headed to the centre of town to find anywhere that sold any sustenance for his ever increasing hunger. Hopefully i can actually find somewhere that sells food at this time of morning' He spotted an apple stall held by the orange mare he had met on his way through town yesterday. Probably isn't it such a bad idea to stock up on a few apples'. He galloped over to the stall, bits at the ready. "why howd- oh, its you..." The pony said, a small scowl drew itself on her face. "Yes it is, thank you for your amazing deduction skills" He nickered. "10 apples" He threw the correct amount of bits on the counter. "Hey, now what you did to mah friend was-" "Thank you, have a good day." He interrupted her, and strode away with the apples floating into his saddle bag. "Not even the elements of harmony can save that misguided soul" She claimed to herself. He made his way deeper into town, he saw ponies had started to wake. 'I need to hurry'. He looked for the nearest shop. 'Ah, sugar cube corner.... it sounds disgusting', despite that he made his way in anyway. As soon as he went through the door he saw... her "Hey! Monotone" The pink mare made her way towards him. He tried to escape, but she already had him in her clutches. "Look, I know it's tough moving and people get reeeeaaal grouchy! So i can understand, by the way my name's Pinkiepie, MAKE UP HUG!" "no no no-" It was too late he was trapped in her repulsive embrace, his stomach began to churn. Soon enough he could feel his rib cage beginning to creak under the pressure of her constriction "better?" "NO! YOU PIECE OF-" he caught himself on his words, he didn't want to have lose his temper again. No matter how tempting it may be. "just give me like, three oatmeal muffins or something" His body was trembling from the resistance of not shouting at her. "Okey dokey loki" she skipped over behind the stall and grabbed the requested goods. "Here ya go!" "Th- thank you" he floated the muffins into his bag. "I hope we become reeeeeally good friends in the future" "Yeah, and i hope you die an exrusiatia- i mean...uh, have a... good... day" Wishing such fortune on somepony like her wanted monotone to empty the contents of his stomach, thankfully nothing was in there to be able to escape. "bye!" Pinkie bidded before Monotone slammed the door in her face, as to not have to talk to her again for at least a small while. All this socialising was beginning to take its toll on his mind.

"Now look here you little s**t!" He said, his face flushing red from the shear amount of blood flowing up to his cheeks. "I have had enough of you bloody ponies, I've been stalked by a large crowd, verbally tortured by that pink... thing, and you have the audacity to break into my house and bestow your ass cheeks upon my face!" He was trembling from the pure rage that was boiling in his hateful little mind. "You may think I am of no threat" Monotone exclaimed, as he began to pace towards the other pony "you are a short, scrawny and an untidy little colt, all you could do is bite my ankles" his voice mocked the unnamed stallions, but in a much more higher pitch and insulting way. Monotone then started to press his face up against the taller stallion's, even if he did have to stretch to reach "But oh am I a threat" After that remark Monotone turned and promptly walked off. "Oh and be glad I didn't make you to sit on my horn and spin" He shouted with his back turned. As Monotone walked he began to calm down from his sudden outburst of rage, though he still ranted in his mind and thought words that no pony should hear let alone say. As he walked he heard a collection of howls in the distance, his ears scoped towards the sound quickly followed by his eyes staring into the dark expanse of the forest. Though this did hardly effect him, he couldn't help but feel somewhat intimidated by such an ominous noise.

I can see how you would not like the series, it is very specific in what it does and what it sets out to do. In fact I hate most Life Sims and I really don't know why I have been coming back to New Leaf, as I down right despise some of the features and gimmicks it has. I think the hypnotism of the Animal Crossing has no effect on you.

Immediately after unpacking all that is left in his saddle bags, he decided, 'I should probably walk around for a bit, map out the area for future reference'. He immediately leaves, only to find the pink mare still at his door. "I know, brown ones" he dismisses the pony and makes his way around her and out of the gate. She soon follows suit, bouncing behind him, persistent in getting even the smallest bit of information out of him. "green balloons, how about that?" she asks, bouncing by his side. Monotone huffs, trying to ignore her grating voice. "blue?" her bounce turned a gallant stride. "black?" her hooves now starting to drag across the floor and her infectious smile was faltering "... did I say green?".The grey pony still paced forward, observing his surroundings, but still avoiding eye contact with the pink menace. She stopped dead in her tracks and her haunches fell to the floor in defeat. 'Finally she gave up' monotone thought to himself 'I Should probably get out of her sight though, in case she has one more colour epiphany'. He hurried around the corner of a building to find him facing a slightly less populated part of town. A few moments of trotting around later he found himself on the edge of the Everfree forest. Most ponies would be intimidated at the sight of the dark tree line and the mysterious noises that seemed to emanate from the bowels of the woods, but his expression remained hardly unchanged, in fact he started having thoughts of exploring it, but the sun was beginning to fall beyond the horizon as Luna crept the moon over the landscape. He may have been been fearless, but he was by no means stupid, 'only Celestia knows what comes out at night'. He turned around to see that a light blue mass of hair and a light grey hind leg hanging from a cloud floating above. 'Is that the pegasus from earlier?' he questioned to himself.

OOC:http://mlpforums.com/topic/106252-tainted-thought/#entry2926170 It was like any other day in Ponyville, the sun beaming down, not a cloud in sight, the birds were chirping away with their beautifully composed songs and the residents were going about their business. Though one pink mare was bouncing in anticipation. "I wonder what he looks like. Is he tall. Short. Blue. Green. Purple. Handsome. Maybe he is good at making cupcakes!", At the speed she talked it was amazing that she didn't run out of breath. "Well I'm sure they're going to be a great inclusion to the town" said twilight, though her voice did slightly falter, as if she had a small doubt in her mind that... no, it's fine, it's going to be fine. "Oh, I hope he has good fashion sense, I've always been looking for male model in this forsaken-" Rarity caught her words as she felt the cold stare of her friends slowly make their way in her direction. "... this divine little town" She smiled, feigning confidence in her own statement, but the other five ponies easily caught up on what she was intending on saying about the 'divine little town'. All six of them stared eagerly at the trail this mysterious resident would be entering through. A few minutes passed and finally hoofsteps could be heard in the distance. The mares braced them selves, smiles raised and eyes narrowed. Over the horizon came what looked like a grey and brown silhouette. Twilight's smile dropped "oh no..." "twahlight what's wrong?" Applejack said with clenched teeth and hardly moving lips. "no, no no no" her head was shaking and her legs began to quiver. "Twilight, seriously, knock it off" Rainbow dash said still trying to make eye contact towards the grey figure. The pony became more clear, they were a short grey stallion, with a long unkempt mane and grey eyes, His face seemed to be stuck in this sort of scowl and his eyes looked vacant, as if he was in very deep though whilst he paced in the direction of the town. He was but five feet in front of the ponies and he stopped, making direct eye contact with them. All of them, but Twighlight shouted "Welcome to Ponyville!". The stallion was unphased. He began to make his way forward and they parted as to not get in his way. He trotted off, ignoring the confused stares that followed him. "was that the right feller?" asked applejack, perplexed "Twahlight?" "That was..." Twilight paused, she had to conjure up the strength to say the name of the stallion in question "...Monotone"

Monotone slowly creaked open the door and tried to spot any available seats, he was disheartened that all of the corner and edge spaces were taken, meaning he would have to be surrounded by ponies. This thought made him want gag, but he kept his composure, and slowly, yet reluctantly he strode over to the nearest remaining desk.

eh, i'll come to yours (post limit post limit post limit)

sounds good, I'll throw a perfect pair or two at you anyway. I have way too many of them

Well, well, well you are in luck my friend. Well, okay, maybe not the best luck as all I can offer you are pears and peaches, though i am more than willing to give away a bunch of perfect pears. Also, side note, i recently restarted my game so I won't be decked out with bling or rare items or whatever. This information may not be necessary, but i thought i would mention it anyway. Friend code: 2766 - 8328 - 6967