The Five Year Struggle...

"Why hello there..."

We just stared at each other for a minute or so. Twilight's eyes were wide with fear, as I can imagine I probably look pretty intimidating to her. Her jaw slowly opened and I thought she was going to say something. I couldn't be more wrong, however. A scream erupted from her throat as she started to kick away from me and over the unconscious bodies of her friends. Her screams and sudden movements made me jump back a bit as I watched her panic.

"Please don't eat me! I don't taste very good!" She yelled at me trying to separate me from her as much as possible.

"I'm not-" I began to say, but she interrupted me.

"Girls, girls! Wake up, please! There's a monster here!" She said pleadingly to the other five. Applejack was the first to stir, her eyes hazy and voice slightly slurred.

"What ya'll goin' on about, sugarcube?" She asked groggily.

"Monster! There's a monster!" Twilight repeated. Immediately, Applejack sparked to life and shot to her hooves, her emerald green eyes locking onto my chocolate brown ones.

"Stay back Twi! Ah got this!" She yelled charging to me. But, still being a bit groggy, Applejack stumbled in her charge and face planted into the wet road. A small groan of pain came out muffled as she laid on the road, then got up slowly.

"Alright, Ah got ya'll this time!" She said, but her body caught up with her and she merely sat onto the ground and looked at me. "What are ya...?" She asked me. I was about to answer when I saw movement coming from the other four mares who were just now waking up.

"Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie! Wake up! Now!" Twilight whispered hurriedly. Moans of discomfort came from the other four as they all got to their hooves and shook their heads of discomfort.

"What's the matter darling, you sound distraught..." Rarity said fixing her mane with a hoof.

"Yeah, did something happen?" Rainbow Dash asked as she stretched her wings.

"There's a monster..." Twilight whispered to them, pointing a hoof in my direction. Looks of shock came other the other ponies faces as they turned to face the direction Twilight was pointing in. Silence came over the seven of us as we all exchanged looks. The sounds of rainfall against the road and surrounding area filled the silence.

"Hi-" I began to say, but as I did, a blur of color shot forward and knocked the wind out of me. I was sent flying into the hood of my car and suddenly felt a weight on me. I opened my eyes to see a pair of angry magenta ones piercing mine.

"Run girls! I got this creep!" Rainbow Dash said as she slugged me in the cheek with a hard hoof. "What in the hay are you?" she asked, raising another hoof in the case I didn't answer.

"I'm a person!" I yelped out slightly.

"A what?" She asked. "You better not be lying to me, or I'll sock ya' again!" She said. Although I was in the grasp of Equestria's fastest flyer, I had to admit that her tough act was nothing but cute. That cuteness was temporarily cut off when another hoof struck me in the other cheek.

"Come on, answer!" She yelled.

"Alright, you know what?" I asked.

"What creep?" Rainbow Dash replied raising an eyebrow.

I leaned forward and picked up the cyan pegasus with both hands and slung her over my shoulder. Her kicks and slaps to my chest and back slightly hurt as she cried out in shock.

"Hey, put me down you freak!" She ordered me. I ignored her and turned my attention to the five other mares, who now, looked very pissed off and ready to beat me to death.

"Put our friend down, you beast!" Rarity commanded me, her horn beginning to glow blue.

"Don't make us hurt you!" Pinkie Pie said, giving a not so intimidating growl. Rainbow Dash continued to beat her hooves against me.

"Put Rainbow down, and we'll be on our way without incident." Twilight said, her horn glowing also. We all just stared at each other again and soon Rainbow Dash's grunts of effort puttered out and she dropped the struggle.

"Please put me down..." She said tiredly.

"Will all of you listen then?" I asked warily. Twilight looked at me, but I could tell she was thinking it over.

"Fine, we'll listen if you let Rainbow go." She replied, her gaze never leaving mine.

"Deal." I said setting Rainbow Dash down gently. She left my grasp and flew over to her friends and hovered there, her wings flapping to keep her aloft.

"Alright, first off, I'm not going to eat any of you. My kind doesn't eat ponies. Second, I'm not a monster of any kind. Do I look dangerous?" I asked spreading my arms slightly, getting a bit of a nervous twitch from the mares. I sighed a bit as I continued on. "Anyway, I promise I'm not going to hurt any of you, alright?" I asked them.

"But how can we trust you?" Twilight asked me.

"Trust me, I'm probably the only one who can help you." I replied giving a small smile.

"Speaking of which, where are we...?" Rarity asked taking a look at the surrounding trees and road.

"You're in Delaware, twenty minutes outside of Dover." I replied. The ponies gave me a collective look of confusion as I told them.

"Come again?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Twenty minutes outside of Dover, in the state of Delaware." I replied.

"You mean to say we're on an alien planet?" Pinkie Pie asked me. I gave a curt nod and she smiled widely.

"Oh boy, I get to throw a party now that we're somewhere new!" She said happily, bouncing in place. A rumble of thunder was heard overhead and the ponies all looked to the sky.

"Oh yeah, I forgot it was raining." I said looking up also. Then my mind started to run rampant. What will I do? Where can I take them? Then, it hit me.

"Hey, come with me. I can take you to someplace dry." I told them. At that moment, the rain went from a light fall to a heavy downpour, soaking me and the girls to the skin. Rarity's mane fell out of its' luscious form and drooped around her.

"Can we please get out of this rain!?" She screeched.

"Follow me then!" I replied running back to my car. i could hear galloping hooves behind me as I reached the car, then a collective gasp was heard.

"What in Equestria is this...thing?" Twilight asked as she gazed at my Lancer.

"It's a car." I replied opening the driver's door and unlocked the rear doors.

"A what now?" Rarity asked confused.

"A horseless carriage." I stated simply.

"What?" Rainbow Dash asked confused. A sigh came out of me as I hit my head on the steering wheel. Then I remembered they often used a cart for a variety of uses.

"An automatic cart." I said simply. This seemed to register better with the ponies as they gave a collective Oh.

I waited in silence for something to happen. "Well?" I asked.

"Yes?" Twilight asked in response.

"Are you girls getting in? We have to use this to get to where I'm taking you." I told her. The girls nodded simultaneously and each entered the rear of the car. "Please close the door." I told Fluttershy who squeaked in response. She slowly and nervously managed to close the door and I locked the doors. I started to drive off and the girls all gave a cry of surprise as they felt the sensations of the car as I drove.

"Well this isn't that different from riding in a cart back home..." Twilight said eventually as they relaxed.

"How soon will we be at your home?" Rarity asked me. I checked the time on my dashboard.

"It'll be about ten minutes now." I responded. "Anyone want to listen to some music?" I asked.

"You have music? I love music! All kinds of music! My favorite kind is-" Pinkie started to rant on about, but a hoof from Twilight covered her mouth.

"Yes, sir. We'd like to listen to some." She replied. I turned on my iPod and got out of the Fallout: Equestria chapter line up and went to some Smooth Jazz I had uploaded onto my playlists. My screen seemed to catch Pinkie Pie's eye because the next thing I knew, she was sitting in the passenger seat watching my fingers work the small device.

"What is this?" She asked curiously.

"It's a small music box." I told her. She tapped the screen with a hoof and frowned a bit.

"I've never seen a music box like this before. Usually they're wooden, or like Vinyl Scratch's which play loudly with big disks she uses." She told me. The thought that Vinyl Scratch could possibly also come into existence here fluttered through my mind as I started up the jazz with some of Kenny G's Songbird. The soothing saxophone began and soon a mellow atmosphere came over the seven of us as we drove.

"Wow, this is some pretty nice alien music..." Rainbow Dash said sleepily.

"There's other kinds out there. Hundreds of genres to choose from." I replied as I drove. Soon enough, I started recognizing the road I was on.

"Alright, we're almost to my apartment. All that I ask is that you six try to walk quietly. I have no idea how well hooves sound on a thin carpet, alright? I don't want to alert my neighbors." I told them.

"We'll try our best." Applejack said to me as I pulled into the parking lot.

It took about thirty minutes to reach my front door to the apartment, mostly because I had to keep checking the corners like I was on some sort of military spec-ops mission, checking for any people taking a midnight stroll through the halls. Luckily, the coast was clear all the way to my place.

"Alright, we're here." I told the ponies as I unlocked the door and opened it. I entered with the girls close behind me. I stood aside to let them in and turned on the lights as I closed the door and locked it again. I watched the girls as they looked around at my modest apartment.

"Well, it's not terrible. It's actually quite- HOLD ON ONE MOMENT!" Rarity yelled. I watched her take off to my curtains and let out a small groan. "Who would put these curtains with these colored walls? It's absolutely gaudy!" She scolded to me. I gave a small shrug.

"It's grown on me. Trust me, I didn't like it at first, but I've gotten used to it over the years." I said in response as I watched the others looks around and explore.

"It's odd how close an alien's house it compared to ours." Twilight said as she looked about the place. I saw Fluttershy sitting close to the wall.

"What's wrong?" I asked her. She squeaked a bit and looked up at me with her teal eyes.

"O-Oh...I didn't want to i-intrude..." she muttered a bit shyly. I gave a small smile and chuckled.

"It's alright, you can look around. In fact, I'm sure there's someone you may like to meet." I told her walking off to find my cat.

"R-Really?" She asked watching me come back with the orange devil himself in my arms. Immediately, Fluttershy brightened up and smiled as I set my cat before her on the ground. She leaned down to match his eye level and gave a cute smile to the cat.

"Well hello there. I'm Fluttershy." She said gently scratching him behind the ear. "Any what's your name?" She asked him.

"His name's Jorge." I told her.

"That's a wonderful name for a cat." Fluttershy told me as I watched my cat flop onto his side and let Fluttershy continue to pet him, a content purr coming from him.

"Hey Mr. Alien! What's this white box?" I heard Pinkie Pie ask. I turned to see her pointing to my XBox 360.

"Oh, I'll explain later. I'm sure you all are tired and want some sleep." I suggested to the ponies. Almost immediately, simultaneous yawns escaped the ponies.

"Ya'll got that right." Applejack said rubbing her eye with a hoof.

"May I ask where we can sleep?" Rarity asked batting her eyelashes at me. Is she trying to be flirty with me...?

"Uh, try and find someplace comfortable. Sorry, I wasn't expecting to come home with six ponies. I would've had rooms ready." I chuckled a bit at my joke and Rarity rolled her eyes.

"Well we sure weren't expecting to be teleported to an alien planet, I can tell you that." She retorted.

"Ah'm fine with sleeping anywhere." Applejack said sitting on the floor. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy both hovered over to my couch and rested on it. Twilight and Rarity took the smaller chairs and curled up.

"I only have one rule, no one goes into my bedroom. Understand?" I asked them. I was given nods of understanding and I turned to exit for my room. "I'll see you all in the morning then." I told them as I dimmed the lights.

I entered my bedroom and took off my shirt. Flopping onto my bed, I looked at the ceiling and went over what had just occurred. Six ponies from my favorite show had just dropped into my life and they were currently asleep in my living room. My mind wouldn't stop racing with questions and that made it difficult for me to sleep. Eventually, I fell into a light sleep, but that was when my door opened a bit and I could hear hoofsteps coming into the room.

"Mister Alien? Ya'll awake?" I heard Applejack ask. I sat up a bit and looked over to her.

"Thought I said no one was allowed in my room. What is it?" I asked her.

"Do ya' mind if I sleep in here? Rainbow Dash is snorin' like ah storm an' Twilight won' stop mumblin' in her sleep." She explained. I chuckled a bit and nodded.

"Sure, you can sleep in here if you'd like." I told her.

"That's mighty kind of ya'." She said closing the door. I tossed a couple of spare pillows onto the floor for her. "There you go." I told her. She gave me a glare.

"Ya'll expect me to sleep on some pillows afta' what Ah've been through?" She asked me.

"Oh..." I replied.

"Darn right, now move outta the way. Ah'm takin' your bed." She ordered me.

"Sorry, last time I checked, you're the guest here." I told her.

"Yeah? And? Aren't ya' suppose ta' take care of a guest?" She asked.

"Touche Cowpony. But my home, my rules, my bed." I retorted.

"Well then, looks like Ah'll have ta' force ya' out ma'self." She said pulling down the brim of her Stetson.

"Ha! Just try to." I said chuckling and laying back down. With a mighty "Yeeehaaawww!" I heard the sounds of a charging pony, slamming hooves, and me smacking into the wall. The wind was forced from my lungs with a mighty blow and I rolled off the bed onto the floor, curling myself up in pain. I only managed a faint "Ow..." as I saw Applejack hop onto my bed and look over the edge at me.

"Looks like Ah got ya' out." She said with a smug smile. She laid down after that small line and I could her her start to snore.

"Man...getting bucked hurts..." I mumble as I grab a pillow and start to drift off to sleep on the floor.