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A Mistake and a Correction

May 15th, 2016
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  1. >It's 1 AM in the morning
  2. >Browsing /mlp/ for something interesting
  3. >Two choices thread
  4. >Hey, these are usually pretty entertaining.
  5. >They sometimes have pretty good writers too.
  6. >What harm is there in leaving a reply?
  7. "If I had to choose; Option 2. I'm not about to get sucked into pastel land."
  8. >Post
  9. >You wonder when the parts you ordered for your corvette are going to arrive.
  10. >It's already been a week.
  11. >You're a total car enthusiast, and after grinding 2 jobs for a few years you'd finally been able to buy a new C7 Corvette.
  12. >Feelsgoodman
  13. >Your Corvette was your only motivation to get out of bed sometimes.
  14. "Might as well deal with those wheel wells."
  15. >After only 3 weeks of owning the C7, you'd starting modding it.
  16. >First, an intake.
  17. >Then an exhaust.
  18. >Then some weight reduction.
  19. >Then an ECU reflash.
  20. >Every time you gained some power, you got used to it after a day or two, which led to more mods.
  21. >And more power.
  22. >This time, it was stripping the rear wheel wells of plastic to make room for bigger tires.
  23. >30 minutes pass
  24. >Your doorbell rings through the house.
  25. >This is unusual, as you live in the middle of a pine forest in a cabin, about 15 minutes away from the nearest civilization.
  26. >You look out the garage door window to see a UPS truck pulling away.
  27. >At last!
  28. >Maybe your new harness has finally arrived.
  29. >You rush out to the front door, and retrieve a medium size cardboard box from the doorstep.
  30. >It has the SIMPSON Racing Equipment logo on it, so it's definitely it.
  31. >You open the box, and sure enough.
  32. >The 5-point harness you ordered 2 weeks ago.
  33. >Thunder rumbles outside, and you notice it getting darker.
  34. "Let's throw this in real quick."
  35. >You head back to your garage, and open the C7's driver side door to get to work.
  36. >As you bolt the two waist straps to the floor, the thunder grows louder outside, and the wind starts to pick up outside the cabin.
  37. >Then, mid-installation, you hear another sound.
  38. -----
  39. >A car door slamming, (presumable the same vehicle) starting and driving off.
  40. >Out here?
  41. >Literally in the middle of the woods?
  42. >You poke your head out of the Corvette just in time to see through the garage window, a white van pulling away.
  43. >What did they do?
  44. >Curious, yet cautious, you step towards the garage door and peer out the window in the direction of the front door.
  45. >An oddly shapen burlap sack, tied shut with twine, lies on your porch.
  46. "What in God's name could that be?"
  47. >You stop for a moment, and think.
  48. >Did you order anything that would come in a burlap sack?
  49. >Not that you can remember.
  50. >You walk through the house, to the front door.
  51. >You peer around the area, just to be sure there isn't someone waiting to jump you the moment you step outside.
  52. >Nothing out of the ordinary.
  53. >Damn.
  54. >Living out in the woods can be nerve-racking sometimes.
  55. >You open the door, and study the sack carefully.
  56. >It's sitting in such a way that would suggest that its contents are quite oddly shapen.
  57. >You nudge it with your foot.
  58. >Its contents have some resistance, so it's not like a bag of grain, or apples or anything.
  59. >Rain starts falling on the pavement of your driveway outside the porch.
  60. >You look back down to the sack, contemplating your next move.
  61. "Well, there's no use just letting it sit on the porch."
  62. >You decide to bring it in, and investigate its contents.
  63. >You grab it by the neck, and hoist it up.
  64. >It's surprisingly heavy, maybe 40 pounds at least.
  65. >You bring it in, and set it on your living room floor.
  66. >Upon closer inspection, the sack looks rather old, and dirty.
  67. >All beat up and stuff.
  68. >And the twine is knotted and frayed in such a way that would take you HOURS to untie.
  69. >Knife to the rescue.
  70. >You cut the old twine, and it falls away.
  71. >The neck of the sack slackens and opens up.
  72. >You lean over to peer inside
  73. >IMMEDIATELY JUMP BACK
  74. "...WHAT?!"
  75. >This has got to be some kind of joke.
  76. "How is this even possible?"
  77. >For in that sack, lied Octavia, the pony.
  78. -----
  79. >Step 1
  80. >Don't freak out
  81. >Step 2
  82. >Don't freak out
  83. >Step 3
  84. >Don'T FREAK OUt
  85. >freak out
  86. >You trip over the sack, and move your legs out from underneath yourself to aviod squashing pone
  87. >Your face smashes into the floor
  88. >You get up, eyes watering from the pain
  89. "What am I going to do now..."
  90. >The clock read 2:23 AM
  91. >Octavia is still out cold, inside the sack.
  92. >Might as well take her out.
  93. >You reach into the bag, and lift out the limp Octavia.
  94. >You set her on the couch, in what appears to be the most comfortable position achievable.
  95. >What now?
  96. >Food.
  97. >Eh, what do ponies eat?
  98. >Dasies and shit?
  99. >There's some salad in the fridge.
  100. >Perfect.
  101. >You don't really know why there's any of this rabbit food in here, but you're glad you have it now, anyway.
  102. >You dump some of the salad onto a plate, and grab yourself a loaf of bread from atop the fridge to snack on.
  103. >You return to the livingroom, salad in hand, and view Octavia's sleeping figure on the couch.
  104. "Maybe not the couch."
  105. >You decide to move her to your bed instead, inter-universal travel warrants more rest than a shitty couch can provide.
  106. >You set the plate aside, and lift her in your arms.
  107. >She's breathing steadily, and doesn't appear to be in pain.
  108. >You enter your bedroom, and set her down on the bed.
  109. >You pull a blanket over her, and turn to exit the room.
  110. >You'd been pushing it to the back of your mind for all this time, but it was becoming harder and harder to ignore.
  111. >Sure, to you it was but a silly theoretical question of morals regarding fictional characters.
  112. >How were you to know?
  113. >Some shitty general, meaning nothing.
  114. >This was probably some kind of cruel trick.
  115. >Whatever, you have classical music pone now.
  116. >Win.
  117. >The living room around you is a bit messy, and cluttered.
  118. "First impressions are everything, may as well tidy up..."
  119. >You go about cleaning the living room, all the while thinking about the situation you're in.
  120. >A literal shitshow.
  121. -----
  122. >Your mind travels back to the Corvette, and the unfinished work on it.
  123. >You glance over to the microwave clock
  124. >3:12 AM
  125. >Jesus, it's late
  126. >You'd go to sleep, but it would be difficult with everything on your mind.
  127. >You decide to contiue your work on the Vette.
  128. >You resumed tearing the useless plastic filler out of the rear wheel wells,
  129. >All the while thinking aobut what you were going to do.
  130. >You finished up the passenger side and test fitted your new drag wheels and radials.
  131. >Like a glove.
  132. >Those shortened axels were a handful, but it was worth it.
  133. >You stood up, ready to take on the other side.
  134. "Well, perhaps I should check on her."
  135. >You turn around, and walk into the house.
  136. >On the way through the kitchen, you note the microwave clock: 3:56 AM.
  137. >You poke your head into the bedroom, and shine your phone light at the bed.
  138. >Octavia is sleeping peacefully, in a different position that you set her in.
  139. 'Good.' You thought.
  140. 'She isn't dead.'
  141. >You head back to the garage.
  142. >The driver's side wheel well was a bit different, there was a mounting point for the plastic bits behind the fuel filler neck.
  143. >It took a while to work around, but eventually you got it unbolted and removed.
  144. >After fitting the other rear tire, and letting the car down off of the jack, you were very tempted to take the Vette out for a spin.
  145. >Pone.
  146. "Dammit."
  147. >Why would you not take this pone off of your mind?
  148. >You had this feeling that something terrible was going to happen, and having a literal supernatural turn of events happen was not aidng in how you felt.
  149. >You dont know why, but you feel like something is happeing NOW.
  150. >Like, right now.
  151. >Your ratchet clatters to the concrete floor as you dash towards the door, and through the kitchen.
  152. >A massive thunderclap rattles the house as the bedroom door comes into sight.
  153. >It's cracked open.
  154. >You left it completely closed.
  155. >Your heard begins to do gymnastics in your throat, and you halt dead in your tracks, merely steps away from the door.
  156. -----
  157. >You close your eyes, and hold your breath
  158. >Listening as hard as you can through the torrential downpour.
  159. >Not a sound.
  160. >Breath still held.
  161. >You inch closer and closer to the door, your eyes struggling to adjust to the low light.
  162. >In a split second descision, you throw the door open and flip the lightswitch.
  163. >There.
  164. >In your room.
  165. >The infamous neckbeard himself.
  166. >OP.
  167. >He was in a comical sneaking position, hands above him, tip-toeing all the while.
  168. >His head whips around to peer at you over his trenchcoat collar.
  169. >No.
  170. >THIS was the last straw.
  171. >Your sanity had already taken enough damage.
  172. >You swing the door shut behind you, and press your back to the door.
  173. "No, this isn't happening."
  174. "I choose to not accept this."
  175. >You simply cease all brain activity and die momentarily.
  176. >Returning to function, you open the door, prepared for the worst.
  177. >Same picture.
  178. >OP, in his comic sneaking pose, a few paces closer to the sleeping pone.
  179. "huh?"
  180. >There were no words to describe the confusion you are feeling.
  181. >"Look pal."
  182. >"You picked option 2, I delivered a pony."
  183. "Ok?"
  184. >"And it was the wrong pony."
  185. "Oh."
  186. >"So I'm here, to take this pony back, and give you a brand new one!"
  187. "..."
  188. >"Please don't hurt me."
  189. "..."
  190. >"Look, the forces that be are gonna have my head on a silver platter if I don't do this."
  191. "I understand, dude."
  192. >"Y-you're cool with it?"
  193. "Yeah. Actually, can you just not give me a pony?"
  194. >OP resumes his shitty act of professionalism, and adjusts his fedora.
  195. >"No-can-do pal. You selected option two, you're gonna see the results. You do know the rules don't you?"
  196. "Uh, I think I remember the important bits, yeah."
  197. >"You THINK you know or you actually know?"
  198. "Whatever. I can just check the thread."
  199. >"If you're sure."
  200. >You both just stand there for a moment, looking at the snoozing pony.
  201. -----
  202. >Suddenly, OP springs into action, much faster than a man of his size could ever have moved.
  203. >He snached up Octavia around the middle, and stuffed her in a new burlap sack that he conjured from his massive trenchcoat.
  204. >The sack dissapeared into said trenchcoat, and OP threw down a small glass vial, filling the room with white smoke.
  205. >It caused your eyes to water, and you were coughing profusely.
  206. "Was that really necessary?"
  207. >You step out of the fucking gas chamber into the hallway, and down that, towards the living room.
  208. >Out of the front living room window, you see the white van pulling away, down the road through the forest.
  209. >You sit down on your couch, a grin spread across your face.
  210. "Stupid faggot. He forgot to give me a replacement."
  211. >It was interesting really.
  212. >Hadn't he said he'd be in deep shit if he didn't fix the issue and give you another pony?
  213. >Not like it matters.
  214. >YOU wouldn'e be the one getting in trouble.
  215. >You didn't really care for taking on the responsability of a pony anyway.
  216. >Through the rain, you hear the sound of rubber screeching on wet pavement.
  217. >You peer out the front window in curiosity.
  218. >You see a pair of reverse lights on a van fast approaching your driveway.
  219. "...Goddamnit."
  220. >OP backs clean up to your house, and hops out, rummaging in his trenchcoat.
  221. >He walks onto the porch, and conjures yet another sack, placing it on your doorstep.
  222. >He attaches a small note to it, and waddles back to his van.
  223. >It starts up, and the old van pulls away once again into the dense forest.
  224. >Hopefully for the last time.
  225. >You get up from your couch, and make your way to the front door.
  226. >Opening it, you get hit in the face with 2 things:
  227. >A torrent of wet wind, and a truckload of déjà vu.
  228. >Not hours before, you had been staring at the same picture.
  229. >Doorstep.
  230. >Burlap sack.
  231. >Except, this time, it had a note attached.
  232. >'Here's the correct one. Read the rules.'
  233. "...Here we go again."
  234. >You pick up the sack, and close the door.
  235. -----
  236. >You return to your couch, and set the sack at your feet.
  237. "So. What'll it be this time, OP?"
  238. >You stare blankly at the sack, as if expecting an answer.
  239. >There's no difference in this sack and the last one.
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