"Andrew. Aaaaaandrew. Wake up."

I gasped and nearly choked when I shot up from my prone body. The first thing I had to do was cough, then groan from all the pain the coughing made. I looked around the room I was in and saw a window and some other hospital beds. Before I looked anywhere else, I saw the bastard that sent me here.

"Morning," he grinned.

"WHAT THE FUCK?!" I shouted. "Are you trying to kill me?! Or can I not have my damn legs back?!"

He chuckled as he laid down in midair. "Ah, you forget Andrew, we needed to make this look as real as possible," he jabbed a finger chidingly. "They needed to meet you like this so you have an easier time fooling them."

"By dying?!" I looked over my body and saw lots of bandages on my arm and a cast around my leg.

"No, you're still breathing aren't you?" he smiled. "But now, your mission starts. You'll act as though you don't know where you are, you'll tell them you're human, your name, maybe a little background aside from your Marine life. And you must be grateful for two of them that saved you."

"And be pissed at you for nearly killing me!" I shouted again. He rolled his eyes and stood next to my bed.

"Relax, you're lucky I knew they would be out there," he said. "Now, the first part of your mission is to gain their trust. Tell them you're human, and that you need to find a way back home. With any luck, they might contact the princesses and start your second mission. Tell me when, or if, they get the princesses to help."

"And what if I can't get them to trust me?" I asked.

Discord smiled as his body started to get more transparent. "Say bye to your legs," he cackled.

I gulped, then winced from the pain in my shoulder. "Sure. Any idea how I can get their trust?" I asked.

"Be yourself," he shrugged. "Act suave, I don't know. Just act like you have no idea what happened. And keep those gems hidden."

"You haven't told me where I am," I reminded him. "So that shouldn't be too hard. Better hope my leg isn't lost or you can forget about our deal."

Discord chuckled, and his body started melting. I swear I'm never going to not get freaked out by that. "Don't worry, soon you'll be back in your world with your legs and your life back."

His body melted into the floor and disappeared, leaving me to my thoughts. Or so I thought.

"Oh, you're awake," I heard. I looked over to the door and saw a pale skinned nurse with dull pink hair.

"Just now," I groaned. "What happened? Where am I?"

"You were attacked by some timberwolves, and for where you are, you're in Ponyville. The hospital to be exact," she smiled. The 'timberwolves' part was understandable, but not this 'Ponyville'.

"Who are you?" I forgot to ask.

She giggled cutely, then smiled. "I'm sorry, my name is Nurse Redheart," she said. "Your doctor should be here soon."

"Is he awake?"

"Who's that?" I asked.

"You have visitors," she smiled. "Would you like to see them?"

"I guess," I shrugged. She nodded and stepped outside, then two girls came in.

I recognized them both, one having a light tannish skin color with purple hair and a streak of pink. The other was fairly white with long bubblegum hair. They looked worried, but then again I was nearly dog food however long ago.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle," she smiled. "Princess Celestia's personal student."

"My name's Fluttershy," the other one said softly.

"They're the one's who brought you here," Redheart told me. "You were pretty banged up when you got here. The doctor's took an hour to stitch you up."

"Does it hurt?" Fluttershy asked. I tried rolling my shoulder, and the stitches stretched a bit.

"Sort of," I grunted. I remember what Discord told me, and sighed. "My name is Andrew. Andrew Navas.

They were confused a bit by my name. "That's a… an interesting name," Twilight smiled. "Why were you in the Everfree?"

"The what?"

"The forest," Twilight said. "Why were you in there?"

I couldn't tell them, not if I was going to keep my legs. "I uh… I don't know," I stammered. "I was asleep, and when I woke up I was in that forest. Those things attacked me, and I did my best to get away."

"You don't remember how you got there?" Fluttershy worriedly asked.

"I didn't go there at all," I said. "I was asleep in my house when I slammed into the dirt."

"Where's your house?" Twilight asked. I took a moment to look at her horn, then glance at Fluttershy's wings.

"It's in Miami." They each gave a confused raise of their brow. "Y'know, Miami, Florida?"

"Florida?" Twilight seemed genuinely confused.

If she didn't know this, then I know something isn't right. "America?" They shook their heads and shrugged. "Twilight, what's the name of this country?"

She seemed even more confused when I asked that. "Equestria, and you're in Ponyville," she said like it was obvious.

"Do you have a map of it?"

"Hold on, I think there's one in the utility closet," Redheart said as she left the room. I was trying my hardest to not come to terms with what was happening, but if she didn't have a sensible map I was screwed.

"Here we go." She unrolled the large poster and held it up against the wall. "What do you need it for?"

I stared at the map for a full twenty seconds without moving. Nothing, in all my years of memorizing the countries of the world, matched this. There wasn't any place with Ponyville, or Canterlot, or Manehatten, or Apploosa. Nor was there a large country named Equestria, or Gryphos, or the Dragon Empire.

"Where the hell am I?" I said barely audible.

"We already said-"

"I know what you said," I cut Twilight off harshly. "This isn't relevant to anything I've ever seen. It's not North, South, or Central America. There's no city on the side of the mountain. And there are no horned or winged people where I'm from. What are you anyway?"

"What seems to be the problem here?" a man with short brown hair questioned. "Ah, good to see you're finally awake."

"Doctor, did you check for any signs of head trauma or any injuries to the head," Redheart tried to whisper. I could hear every syllable.

"I'm not fucked up in the head, and I'm just fine! So what the hell are you all?!" Discord never mentioned where I was going, or what they were.

"Sir please calm down," the doctor said.

"Don't tell me to calm down! What the hell are all of you?!" I started to shout. Fluttershy seemed a bit scared, and was hiding behind Twilight.

"I'm a unicorn, Fluttershy is a pegasus, and Nurse Redheart is a normal person," Twilight said calmly.

Pegasus, unicorns? Discord left many gaps for me to fill in, and pretty quickly too. "No, no you're not human! None of you are!" I shouted hysterically. "What is this place?! Let me out right now!"

"Sir, you still aren't in any condition to-"

"I've been through worse god damn it! Let me out of-GAH!" My shoulder started hurting like all hell when I tried sitting further up. Nurse Redheart tried making me sit back but I shrugged her off fast. "Don't touch me! None of you! Not until I get some answers!"

Seriously, I thought it would be me just talking to some regular people. Not these… whatever they hell they were. They weren't human, and I could be having a really bad dream, or Discord decided to be an ass to me and drop me in the middle of some planet or is just screwing with me.

"Andrew please," Twilight said as she slowly stepped forward. "These ponies can help you with whatever it is-"

"I don't need help!" I shouted, making her cringe slightly. "I need to know what the hell is going on! I-"

Doctor Aid's horn continued to glow as the empty sedative floated into the waste bin. "I'm sorry, but he was having a panic attack," Aid sighed. "We'll be sure to run some tests, see if he suffered any brain damage or stress to his occipital lobe."

Nurse Redheart carefully adjusted him in his seat and lifted the cast back into the sling. "Are you sure he'll be alright?" Twilight asked, a little concerned for Andrew.

"I'm sure it might just be a minor case of short term memory loss," Aid smiled. "He still remembers his name at least."

"But what about all the 'America' he was talking about?" Fluttershy questioned. "He seemed really convinced he was from there."

"Don't worry, I'll look into it," Twilight said to the pegasus. "Maybe it's some country past Gryphos, or maybe by Saddle Arabia."

Fluttershy glanced at Andrew as Redheart fixed him some more, then sighed sadly. "Okay, can you check on him tomorrow? Maybe he can talk then," Fluttershy asked.

"Sure Fluttershy," Twilight smiled. "We can't just leave him now, can we?" Fluttershy smiled back and gave her friend a quick hug.

"I think it's best if we leave him to rest," Aid said. "You can come back tomorrow for sure, after we do some tests to see if he's alright up here," he chuckled as he pointed to his head.

"Thank you Doctor Aid," Twilight nodded. "Come on Fluttershy, let's go."

Ponyville Hospital, 11:52 P.M.

My eyes slowly opened, still feeling pretty heavy. I looked around, kind of hoping I passed out on my wheelchair and I had some twisted dream. I didn't, and I was still lying on the hospital bed all fucked up. The conversation I had with the four… whatever's came back up in my head, and with my good left arm I reached into my right side pocket. I pulled out the green gem and tapped it twice. No sooner did it start glowing a dim white.

"Done already?" I heard Discord's voice cackle.

"You bastard!" I sneered quietly. "You didn't fucking tell me I would be on some place that isn't anywhere on Earth! Where the hell is this Equestria anyway?! And what the hell is wrong with these people?! Why do they have horns and wings?!"

Discord started laughing like a madman, or mad-whatever-the-hell-he-is. "Oh, you're doing an excellent job Andrew! Never did like change did you? I knew you'd be perfect for this." A part of me wanted to punch him, while the other half wanted to just get all this over with.

"Is there anything else you'd like to tell me asswipe?" I retorted. He hummed in mock thought, then snapped one of his appendages.

"Gain their trust, and keep your cover. If you contact me again, and you haven't gotten the princesses to help…" I felt my legs starting to shrink again. "Say goodbye to your legs."

"Fine," I said through clenched teeth. My legs went back to normal, and the glow died off completely.

The whole room was creepily quiet, and even though I was asleep for who knows how long, I still felt sleepy. I needed to go through with this, even if it meant meeting these things. Hey, they looked pretty okay until I noticed the extra body parts. But now, I'm a marine coming out of retirement. I have my legs, for now, and I have my first mission in three years. If I don't fuck this up, I can get my life back together and live like I never lost my legs. If I do, I probably won't remember and be sent back to my crappy life, or Discord could make me his personal bitch. Or kill me, that would work for me. But for now, I had to get my shit together and go through with the mission. My life depended on it.

Author's Note

Yup, second chap already. Remember guys, like, fav, comment, and have an awesome day or night. Peace off.