001 - Arrival

[fasterthan]

[Action - 1665 Nelson - Morning] [When Wally wakes up, the world is molasses.

No... that's not right. The world is still the world, it's just he's moving through it like it's molasses.

Okay that's kind of overstating it. But still. It's obvious from the moment he wakes up and tries to look around the room that he can't move even a tenth of the speed he's used to. In fact, he falls rather spectacularly out of bed when he tries to zip around the room and ends up flailing, tripping, and landing quite gracefully (and loudly) on the floor.

He's stuck at normal speed.

How...

He's kind of freaking out. The room is weird, there are weird pictures with him in them and the clothes are all wrong... and everything he does is so slow. True, he wasn't The Flash his whole life, he was normal once, too, but just like he had to get used to suddenly having super speed, now he's suddenly without it and he has no idea what's going on. Time to start talking himself through it.]

Okay. So I have no idea where I am, my suit's nowhere to be seen, and my powers are completely gone.

[He scratches his head.]

Guess this calls for some investigating.

Crap. Never was really good at that.

[He sighs.]

Guess I should start by getting dressed. Don't want to start an investigation in my PJs.

[He'll do so and start poking around the house.]

[Phone - Later that morning] So hey, Wally West here. Sorry for interrupting your beautiful morning but I'm randomly dialing and you're the lucky winner! I seem to be new here... uh... I think I got the basics down... mind helping me out with some specifics?

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[foalingaround.livejournal.com]

[She makes no effort to get off the couch.]

Name's Rainbow Dash! You new here?

[fasterthan]

[He spreads his arms out.] That's me, the new guy. Name's Wally West. Nice to meet you, Rainbow Dash.

[After all, he's seen weirder than a talking winged pony.]

[foalingaround.livejournal.com]

Hey there, Wally! If you're the new guy that means you must've finally replaced the creepy drone guy that used to live here. He was kiiiinda freaking me out there for a while.

Anyway, welcome to Mayfield and all that, even though this place stinks and no one wants to be here.

[Rainbow Dash is the most welcoming yes.]

Have ya gotten the full explanation for this place yet?

[fasterthan]

Well I've gotten bits and pieces, but I don't think I've gotten the full explanation. For instance this is the first I've heard of drones. What are they?

[foalingaround.livejournal.com]

Drones are like walking zombies, except instead of skin falling off and eating anypony they come across they just spout off a bunch of mindless stuff and talk about how great Mayfield is.

They think they've always been part of the town, and when bad stuff happens they never seem to notice it. And they're like...creepy cheerful, all the time.

[fasterthan]

Oh, so that's why Foster called them zombies. I gotcha. So they're usually called drones?

[foalingaround.livejournal.com]

Uh, well that and the time they really did become zombies, buuuut drones are what humans usually call 'em, yeah.

[fasterthan]

Gotcha.

So how long have you been in town, Rainbow Dash? ...or is it just Rainbow. Or just Dash.

[foalingaround.livejournal.com]

A few months...what is it October, now? I think I got here in the spring.

And just Dash is okay.

[fasterthan]

[He nods.]

And you're holding up okay?

[foalingaround.livejournal.com]

Me? Tch, I'm doing fine! I'm not letting any dumb town get to me!

[fasterthan]

[a grin.]

That's what I like to hear.

So what's a pony do for fun around here?

[foalingaround.livejournal.com]

Me? I like flying. Too bad this place is way to small for my style of flying.

[fasterthan]

[He leans on the couch.]

What kind of style is that?

[foalingaround.livejournal.com]

I need way, way more room for my kind of flying! I can't even try to do a Sonic Rainboom in a place like this.

[fasterthan]

...Sonic Rainboom? That sounds awesome.