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[Snowy Storm 57]

@@ActFast231,

Icy looked back at the mare."Are you ok?" wondering why she was walking up to him before noticing the dart in her neck

"You know I am suppose to be the damsel in distress" He said sighing. He walked back over the mare. ready to support her in case she fell over.

@[member='Cinderscribe],

"Scribe do me a favor and take care of this one" A dart shot out and hit him. lucky, it hit the patch on ice on his coat.

"And by the way I am deeply touch you actually care about me" he said being coy.

[ActFast231 432]

@@Snowy Storm,

 

"N-noooo. I-I-I want you to be the one that does the taking care of uh, of me." Max said in a rather whiny tone. She was still standing, but had the balance of a drunk at the moment, so that could change at any moment.

 

"You are-y-you, my good sir, are funny." She said, laughing a little too enthusiastically for what was absolutely nothing. She tripped, falling over on Icy, before getting stuck on his ice plates.

 

"Don't worry, I will be your shield, buddy." She unfolded her wings to make herself appear bigger. 

 

"Come at me bro!" She shouted at the wall.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@Snowy Storm,

@@ActFast231,

 

"What? I'm not... Never mind..." Scribe blushed a little before dragging the poisoned, deranged pony clear of danger.

 

"So I'm not supposed to hit her, right? That doesn't work.."

 

Well, as least she was still strong enough to hold down a Pegasus, if need be. Hopefully she would cooperate though.

[ActFast231 432]

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@@Snowy Storm,

 

(Time to have a bit of fun )

 

Max was being dragged away from the hall by Scribe, but at the same time, she was struggling with all her drug addled might to break free.

 

"Nooooooo, I wanna help the nice colt. I-I like him cause he's funny and nice and a third thing. Lemme gooooo. Scriiiiiiiibe. Stoooooop." She was acting like a fussy filly at this point, trying desperately to help Icy from what she thought would be his certain death.

 

"I wanna help his pretty face. Lemme help his pretty face. Scriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibe." She continued to whine. 

[Snowy Storm 57]

"I hate being a colt" He said.

"Why can't anything just be normal again" A thought came to mind.

-Was I that annoying when I was a mare?- Still something about a mare like that actually made the stallion in him want to be more heroic or something. To show off maybe?

"Stop it. stop thinking like that. I am a mare. Have to remember that" He cleared his mind of thought. Still he pressed on ahead. not looking where he was stepping. he took another step before a net trap had him hanging from the ceiling. 

"I hate everything!" he said being hung up in the air.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@Snowy Storm,

@@ActFast231,

 

Scribe looked right: Icy was hanging from a net, suspended in the air and looking... Inconvenienced.

 

She looked down: Max was (mostly) pinned down beneath her looking... Rather interested in the once-mare.

 

"Oh buck... Are you okay Icy?" She asked, unsure whether to help the... Stallion.

[ActFast231 432]

@@Snowy Storm,

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"Oh noooo. He's in problems. I'll save yoooouuuu." She doubled her efforts to break free, only to thrust forward, and fall on her face. She began to tear up, getting very emotional.

 

"Ooowww. Now he's trapped, and my face huuuuuurts." At this, she began to sob. Thankfully the effects would wear off soon.

[Snowy Storm 57]

@,

"Don't mind me. I'm just hanging out. feel free to join me." He said. He waited for Scribe to do something.

"Could you at least get me down?" sighing in defeat. There was no way he could get down on his own.

"I will be in your debt"

@@ActFast231, 

he facehoofed and smiled. He thought what regal would say.

"Do not cry my dear. For tears on such a lovely face only ruins it" If he was stuck as a colt he might as well just roll with it.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@Snowy Storm,

@@ActFast231,

 

A rare bright idea invaded Scribes mind: she formed a shield in the shape if a bubble: but facing inwards, around max. It wasn't terribly powerful... but it should be enough.

 

"No need for debts Mada... Uh... Sir?" She stumbled over her words as she approached and started to hack away at the net through a combination of cutting with a particularly sharp edge of armour and biting hopefully at them.

 

"Uh, I think... She? Likes you." She added in what could only just be classed as a whisper.

[ActFast231 432]

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@@Snowy Storm,

 

Max looked up, sniffling, but smiling too. Though she couldn't move do to the shield holding her in place.

 

"You-you are awesome, you." She slurred out. She tried to stand up, while wiping away tears, bu suddenly lurched forward, vomiting violently. After a minute of puke-which thankfully landed away from her-she looked around, confused, and obviously experiencing discomfort.

 

"Ugh, what the hell...?" She looked around her, seeing Scribe assisting Icy.

 

"Wait, when did that happen? Why am I on the ground, and...why can't I move?" She struggled against the shield, thinking it another trap.

[Snowy Storm 57]

@@ActFast231,

Icy looked away and clapped

"Truly that was a class act. You have more refine then a drunk" He said in jest.

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Icy missed what Scribe said. since she was speaking so low.

"I'm sorry did you say something?" The only word he heard was you.

"What about me? Is something wrong with me?" He said checking himself. Then he looked down.

"Hey careful I don't want to be dropped on my face"

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

 

@@Snowy Storm,

@@ActFast231,

 

"Icy, I might not be as refined in magic as some of us here but you know that I will not allow you to... The net gave way and the stallion fell. Scribe blinked and shifted what little magic she had into a barrier below him: cushioning the fall only slightly and freeing Max in the process.

 

"Fall! See!?" She announced proudly to the stallion who had once been a mare.

[ActFast231 432]

@@Snowy Storm,

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Max looked at the colt with confusion, before rubbing a hoof through her mane, only to find something protruding out of her neck. She removed it, and in her hoof she saw a poison dart. The same that drugged the mare from earlier. Instantly her face turned a very deep red, her ears fell flat against her head, and she looked away from the two ponies before her, not bothering to get up after being freed.

 

"Umm....what did I do? While I was drugged, that is." She said in a low, bashful tone.

Edited August 31, 2013 by ActFast231

[Skitter Run 44]

Skitter run looked at the whole display in confusion

" Did the dart do that?"

Skitter run started blushing.

"Um what did I really do after I was shot"

Getting a feeling that she might have giving just more then advice. She looked at sunset then blushed even more

[Snowy Storm 57]

@, 

"I still fell" He said as he rest on the barrier. He wiggled a little and moved off the barrier to place his hooves on the ground.

"Thank you very much" He said shaking his mane. 

@@ActFast231, 

"Not much, Just tried to eat another pony and shoved me into this trap" He said smiling,

[ActFast231 432]

@@Snowy Storm,

 

Max couldn't meet his eyes, still extremely embarrassed. She moved a hoof to rub her eyes, and found them wet. Her whole face was.

 

"Did...did I cry? Why did I cry for? Oh, what you must think of me..." She said, using her fedora to cover her face. She can't recall a time in her life where she was more embarrassed than she is now. It made her want to crawl into a whole and disappear.

[Snowy Storm 57]

@@ActFast231,

"look don't cry I was only joking. You never did any of those things" Icy Never knew how much a sad mare could effect a stallion. Now was her change to feel it first hand.

"It was that dart. you had no fault in anything you did" He said unsure if to approach her... him?

He walked over to Scribe,

"What should I do?" He said. "You were a guy can't you tell me what to do?"

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@Snowy Storm

 

"Uhn... I don't know if you noticed, but I wasn't exactly the best at conveying emotions and stuff as a guy. I couldn't even... yeah, probably not the best pony to ask for advice on that sort of stuff.

 

She avoided stalling. Just. This wasn't exactly her area of expertise.

 

"I can hit her if you like?" She offered, hoping to divert attention from the awkward situation.

Edited August 31, 2013 by Cinderscribe

[ActFast231 432]

@@Snowy Storm,

 

Max lowered his hat enough for his eyes to be visible, the signs of tears still visible. 

 

"It's just...I get a chance to make some new friends, and that happens. Really screwed this up." It was strange being so emotional for Max. She never has been this emotional over anything. And it was making her irrational. She returned her hat to its place over her face.

 

(No rhyme intended)

[Snowy Storm 57]

@,

"You can't solve everything with punching. Is that what you did as a stallion? If so you are very violent then"

"You can't what?" Icy wanted to know what she couldn't do as a male.

@@ActFast231,

"I think it's because hormones of being a mare that is causing you to be so emotional"  He placed his hoof on her.

"Don't worry several months from now you'll get used to it" he smiled

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@Snowy Storm

 

"Well... Most of the problems that I actually managed to solve. Ghost? Hit it. Rock in the way? Hit it. I went a bit loopy? Hit me... It's a pretty universal solution in places like this where things are trying to hurt you...

 

At the second part of the question, however, she did stall.

 

"Uh. Deal with other stuff. Emotional stuff, like I said. Nothing important... Say, isn't the architecture here unusual? Very... Forbidding."

Edited September 1, 2013 by Cinderscribe

[Drago Ryder 641]

Tempest sighed and glanced at the others. "So, does anypony actually know how to get out of here? I mean, we've been walking around for what seems like hours, and we still haven't done what we left that bloody room to do." He said. The cyan pegesus was close to losing her patience, and she doubted the others wanted to see that.

[Skitter Run 44]

Skitter ran up to max and started yelling

"What sent you telling me you lying pony. Tell me everything that I did and tell me now"

There were tears in her eyes and her face was red with embressement

"please tell me I didn't say anything stupid or something"

[ActFast231 432]

@@Snowy Storm,

 

Max slowly removed the hat from her face, replacing it on her head.

 

"Thanks, Icy. Hopefully I won't still be a mare several months from now." She was going to say more, when suddenly...

 

 

 

Skitter ran up to max and started yelling "What sent you telling me you lying pony. Tell me everything that I did and tell me now" There were tears in her eyes and her face was red with embressement "please tell me I didn't say anything stupid or something"

 

Max jumped at the sudden arrival of the mare, looking back and trying to make sense of what was being said, which was hard with her fried nerves.

 

"Look, what I said was mostly true. Just...reverse the roles and the entire truth becomes known." 

[Charcoal Embers 169]

Charcoal just watcher as everything around him unfolds. Walking down the hallway past everypony Charcoal walks by himself through a series of corridors. Walking down the long dark hallways with every hoofstep echoing was a bit unnerving. After a long time of walking he finally finds a room different from the rest. It was full of technology, like the room where they had first meet the pony that did all of this to them. Turning around he calls back: "Hey everyone, come down here I think I found something!"