001: There's No Place Like...[TEXT]

[ex_daio198]

[Twelve days had passed since his arrival in Ponyville. He had befriended(if you would call it befriending) a butterfly and Luna, both who had helped him go through the ins and outs of being a newcomer in Equestria. And ever since then, he had been cocky and arrogant, laughing at a few ponies' misfortune during the Poison Joke episode or being an overall jerk to others by demanding food to be cooked or attempting to rile those who had crossed his path. But today is different, very different. As of now, he's homesick and missing the way things used to be.

He wanted to go home and rule Dreamland, to boss his Waddle Dees around and have a few Gourmet Races with Kirby, but is it wise to want that? Before he made it here, he was captured by a huge spider who imprisoned him in a barrier and was taking him away to some unknown place. He doesn't want to deal with that. He doesn't want to experience the fear he had then, not knowing what was going to happen to him. Course he had been through worse and had came out of it with little trouble, but the fact that it's been happening constantly is getting to him. He haven't talked to anyone about it since those events occurred, not even to Bandanna Waddle Dee. He kept it all to himself. And now, sitting under an apple tree at Sweet Apple Acres staring at an apple in his hooves, he contemplates giving a small piece of himself to the public. But he isn't sure if that's a good idea, especially since he doesn't know anyone that well.

Taking a bite of the apple, he opens up the scroll and began to write. He isn't sure what came through his mind at the time, but he wrote it there anyway. Maybe he'll get an answer, maybe not. Regardless, he felt somewhat better asking a question like that. Not enough to eat all the apples on the apple tree, but enough to keep his hopes up or at the very least entertained. That's all anyone could ask for, right?]

So... you ponies who decided to make this your second home. Would you rather return to where you came from if you had the chance? Or would you live here to get away from it all?

Comments

[tinkertytonk]

She's the only one we know of who can, old prune. There's a clever sort of beazel working from the inside to free everyone, but she's sort of... well, it's all a bit complicated, you know? Corruption and Elements and all sorts of nonsense. 'Fraid I'm not the best fellow to be banging on about it all.

I've been here since we all started arriving, but here's hoping you won't have to be twiddling your hooves that long, eh? Rotten luck getting dragged in.

[ex_daio198]

I'M NOT AN OLD PRUNE! [Dedede wrote hastily and in capital letters] I have a name and it's KING DEDEDE, but you will address me as YOUR MAJESTY!

[Now with that being nipped in the bud, they can continue on with the conversation.]

I don't plan on staying here for a few years like you and a few others had. I'm going to find my way back home, even if I have to face Calice myself!

[Calice may be scary and she does have a lot of power, but Dedede(with the help of Kirby, though he wouldn't admit that) had sent their enemies to their doom. When there's a will there's a way and Dedede has plenty of will. He's not going to let the Pale Pony have her way, not of he has anything to say about it]

[tinkertytonk]

[A king? Well then!]

Oh! Righto, Your Majesty. Frightfully sorry! I'm Bertram Wooster, at your service entirely.

I am afraid it's not really as simple as facing up to Calice, though. We've been trying to do that for an age. She doesn't exactly come 'round on invitation, and even ponies like the princesses and Zetta haven't been able to keep her down for long.

We are working on it, though. Something to do with the Elements of Harmony and friendship, you know?