the Oddball

Chapter 2: My name is Ray

Clouds start moving across the sky.

"I thought we cleared all the clouds earlier on..?" A voice perks up underneath a sleeping Rainbow Dash sitting in a tree.

Lightning flashes near to the center of town, and it starts raining profusely, jolting Rainbow to a standing position, alike to that of an unhappy cat, when a rain drop lands on her head, and rolls down to her face, dropping off of her nose.

"HUH?! Why.. Oh my Celestia, look! What.. What is that?"

A flailing object was falling from the sky, out of the clouds. It looked to Rainbow like somepony dropping from the top of the world. She sets off from her branch on the tree, flying at full speed toward the falling figure, and leaving a trail of rainbow behind her. Beginning to have doubts about getting to it before it hit the ground, she altered her angle downwards and sped up as much as she could. Her eyes, watering, she could barely see anything through the rain. Suddenly, she felt an impact on top of her forelegs and started to slow, seeing that it was the object. It looked like some type of weird monkey, with some type of wings?

Rainbow hit the ground, slowing herself down with her hind legs, and let the monkey fall from her onto the soaking ground as a crowd began to gather around.

"Somepony clear the clouds, pronto! Get Fluttershy, or Princess Twilight, Applejack, anyone!" shouted Dash.

A few pegasi flew off to deal with the horrible weather whereas a group of earth ponies ran off to get help.

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I awoke with a jolt, being hit by something soft and furry on my forearm. Spluttering and opening my eyes, shielding them from the rain, I wondered what was hitting me. Turning my head towards the thing, I noticed that clothes were frayed and smoking at the ends, with several holes punched through. Looking up, I saw that what hit me was a light blue... Horse? What was that thing? And why were there a crowd of other colourful ones standing behind it? What the hell? I slowly rose to my feet.

"Hello..?" I said with some caution as I rose to my full height.

The colorful things took a step back with shocked expressions, looking up at me as I stood up. I noticed that they were quite short, about 4 feet at most. Some were only as big as my foreleg and a bit, I assumed they were children. No wonder I seemed intimidating to them.

The one directly in front of me, the blue one, then moved around me, looking at my figure with an inquisitive look. It poked my hip, then as it got around to my  back it poked my leg and then jumped up to do what I assumed was hit my back, but I stepped forward so that it couldn't. It seemed fairly annoyed at me for this, so I let it walk round to my front again.

"Hi.", it said. Wait, did it just speak? English? "My name's Rainbow Dash. You fell out if the sky. I caught you. Hello..? Anyone in there, buddy?"

I didn't know quite how to respond. A blue horse with wings was talking to me. Yup, I'm dead. I have to be. There's no way this is real. But, deciding to humor my imagination, I went ahead and replied.

"Hello, uh, Rainbow Dash, was it? Um.. My name's Ru- Ray.. Where.. exactly.. am I?", I asked, still not having fully recovered.

"Welcome, Ruhray, to Ponyville. You made quite the entrance, my friends here seem to be very shocked at your sudden appearance.", spoke up a new voice. I saw a purple one walking towards me from behind the crowd, which promptly split to let it through. This one had wings too, and.. A horn? This was getting weirder by the second.

"Uh, hi, I guess? My name's, Ray, by the way, not Ruhray." I replied, scratching the back of my head.

"Alright then, Ray. So, I'm sure we're all interested to know what you are and how you got here, so, go ahead.", it said.