When Species Meet
Wake up and Confusion
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"Where am I?" Chris asked, in his head "Am I dead?"
His vision was beginning to come back, and he could now see some of the things in the room around him.
The pain was still present, especially in his right arm. As he looked at it, he could see it was wrapped with a soft bandage.
He was laying on a large bed, with a gorgeous white blanket; it was adorned with some beautiful purple curved lines. The bed was warm and cozy. He couldn't even remember the last time he had actually slept in a bed as comfortable as this one.
He looked around the room again, it was completely white, with neon white decorations everywhere. He stopped checking out his surroundings when he was interrupted by a sound. looking at him from behind a huge window were nine multicoloured beings. The window itself, was the size of a full wall. Williams was shocked and confused by what he saw.
"Why am I fucking seeing coloured horses with wings and horns!?"
Chris looked at them with wide eyes, not even moving or breaking eye contact. "I must be on fucking drugs", he thought. He rapidly shook his head, trying to stop the hallucination from his spreading. After several moments of this, he stopped, and realized that nothing changed. He was still staring at the freaky horse creatures in front of him.
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Twelve minutes before Williams woke up:
Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and the six element bearers were staring at the strange being behind the thick window that offered them protection. They were observing it, as a white unicorn was doing research on the still sleeping creature. He was doing light examination, mostly focusing on the head and face of the strange thing.
"Short black mane, all right."
He then looked at the skin of the alien."The alien has a light brown skin," he said as he wrote the information down onto his notepad.
The curious unicorn then put his hoof on the creature's mouth and slowly slid it open.
"The subject has white and clean teeth, they are clearly well maintained."
He opened it even more. Chills of surprise quickly invaded his body, as he stepped back in shock from the creature. Still shocked, he took notes on his notepad and exited the room. Princess Celestia was still looking at the unconscious creature, as the unicorn came to her.
"Your Majesty." he said, as he bent down.
"Hello there Doctor Red Cross, did you discover anything interesting about... This thing?" Celestia asked with her regular gentle tone.
Red Cross was hesitant, he didn't want to scare everypony. But on the other hoof, he didn't want to lie to his ruler. And even if he tried to lie, Applejack would have discovered it as quickly as lightning.
"Well I do have good news," Red Cross said, rubbing the back of his head. He was now very visibly worried.
"Please do tell us," Luna said as she came beside her sister. They were quickly rejoined by the mane six who were also intrigued.
This made the Unicorn much more uncomfortable, judging by the nervous look on his face.
"Well... the good news is, that the creature doesn't have any sort of claws or traits that characterizes him or her as a predator."
"Well that's good news." Twilight said happily.
"However..." The white unicorn said, as he looked to the marble floor.
Seconds passed, and he still didn't talk.
"Ya alrigh't sugar cube? What are ya so worried about?" asked Applejack.
"Well" He paused."While looking at the teeth, I've discovered something pretty... Umm, Shocking."
"Please, tell us darling," Rarity said.
"Well, I don't know if..."
"Oh come on! We don't have all day!" Rainbow added, clearly annoyed.
"Alright, fine, It... It has sharp teeth! Happy now!?" Red Cross almost shouted.
Everypony in the room let out a gasp of fear, surprised by the sudden news. Everypony except for one yellow Pegasus, who was questioning about why everypony else was reacting so badly.
"So you are telling us that this creature eats meat?" Celestia asked, fearing that her ponies might be harmed by some flesh eating alien.
"I'm afraid so princess," The Unicorn said as he looked at the alien laying on the bed.
"Oh! Oh! Look! Look!" A certain pink earth pony said, while jumping and pointing at the creature,"The alien thingy that crashed in Ponyville Square is waking up!"
They all turned at the window to see the now awake creature.
He just sat there on the bed, shaking his head back and forth wildly. When he finished that, he shouted out three words that the none of the ponies could remember ever having heard before.
"What the fuck!"
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Several minutes after the wake up:
"Ok, Chris? don't panic, you're just seeing things," Williams was talking out loud to himself now, still not believing anything he was seeing. "At least they're not talking horse or pony languages or something..."
Suddenly the horn of one creature started to glow yellow; and a microphone floated in front of the mouth of the largest horse.
Then a voice spoke clearly,"What are you?"
Williams was extremely surprised; as he jumped out of bed with wide eyes. "This can't be true! This cannot be true!" He shouted in disbelief.
"Did I say something wrong?" Princess Celestia asked to no one in particular, as she looked at the alien who was hitting his head repeatedly on a wall.
"I don't know," Twilight added, "maybe he's healing himself somehow."
Fluttershy could only look in pity at the alien. She knew it must be difficult for him.
Williams stopped what he was doing, and then sat back down on the bed.
Ok! Chris? Stay calm, you're not gonna die today right? He thought. They are only friendly little horses, nothing more.
"Can you talk?" The voice spoke again.
Christopher was nervous, but he decided to answer anyway. "Y...Yes, yes I talk," he spoke with slight difficulty.
Everypony was surprised to see the creature was actually talking perfect Equestrian.
Twilight took her notepad and quill and turned to her mentor smiling, content that they finally got somewhere.
"What are you?" It asked.
"I'm a Human," he answered nervously.
Twilight quickly took some notes, as the interrogatory continued.
"Why are you here?" Luna asked.
"Well... I don't know...I only remember that storm, being scared and nervous, before crashing I don't know where..."
"You..." Luna paused."Literally crashed in the middle of one of the most beautiful towns in Equestria."
still disturbed by the fact that it was in the middle of the small town.
Williams was shocked, this wasn't good. He didn't wanted to hurt anyone, specially innocent citizen. For a brief moment Chris felt like a monster.
"Did I...hurt anybody?" Will said nervously, praying for the opposite.
"If you're asking if you hurt anypony, well no. Miraculously you didn't."
Chris let out a sigh of relief. He was happy that he didn't injured anyone, even if these anyone were pastel coloured ponies.
"Where do you come from Human." Celestia asked, eager to listen what the alien has to tell.
"I'm from a country called Canada, North-West from here." He said, now much more comfortable than at the beginning of all this.
Celestia turned to her sister with a confused look."North-West?" She asked."There's nothing there except an endless ocean."
"I know sister."Luna replied."Is there really land out there?"
"I don't know more than you Lulu." She replied.
Celestia looked at the alien who was patiently waiting for another question. The human then looked down his tummy and rubbed it. As his stomach started gurgling
"You're hungry?" Celestia asked, as she looked the at him.
"um...Yeah..." He said simply.
"Doctor Red Cross? Can you...Doctor Red Cross?" She said looking for him only to notice a left open door, and the sound of some pony galloping.
Celestia faced hoofed, as she just remembered how Red Cross was scared of carnivores.
"*sight* Alright, anypony here volunteers to bring food to our guest?" She said in a serious tone.
Everypony looked at each other, unsure of what to do. After long seconds of silence, some pony finally decided to step in.
"I'll do it.." A certain yellow pegasus stated.
"What!" the rest of the mane six said in unison.
"Whoa! whoa! We can't let you do that! That thing can probably kill you!" Rainbow added, as she put herself right in front of Fluttershy.
"Rainbow Dash. get out of my way." She said harshly.
Everypony stared open-mouthed at Fluttershy, as she slowly made her way towards the metal door. She took the food tray that was waiting on a nearby counter, and slowly entered the room.
Williams starred at the cute little pegasus slowly entering the room, carrying carefully the tray with her mouth.
She carefully placed it on the table."Here you go." Fluttershy said, she then backed out a bit to allow the human to come sit at the table.
The human stepped out of bed and made his way to the simple wooden table. Everypony was impressed by the human's height. Celestia herself without her horn, was five feet tall. However, this creature was clearly doing 5,10 ft tall. This startled the rest of the group, fearing the worst for Fluttershy.
Williams sat down at the table, with Fluttershy joining at the other end. He looked at the food before him. There was a loaf of bread, lettuce salad, a glass of water, raw meat and..Wait! Raw meat? He took a closer look at the meat, and it was indeed raw. "Well at least the salad doesn't look so bad...." Christopher took the fork with right hand, and took a bite of the lettuce salad.
This took every pony by surprise, as he continue to eat."Are... you supposed to be carnivorous." A purple mare asked from outside the room.
Chris almost chocked on his salad. He swallowed the piece of lettuce, then looked at the unicorn and laugh"What!?" He Laughed again."No, my species is actually omnivorous." He said, trying to hold his last chuckles.
"But why aren't you eating your meat?" She asked.
"Well, lets say that my specie cannot digest everything, and most of our food must be cooked. Specially meat, to prevent getting sick from who knows what kind of bacteria. And I don't want to sound rude, but it looks pretty raw for me. " He answered, before taking a sip of water.
"Um, do you have a name?" A little voice at the end of the table asked.
"My name is Christopher, but you can call me Chris for short," He replied, "What's your name?"
"I'm Fluttershy"
"Well Fluttershy, Thank you for bringing me the food."
Fluttershy blushed a bit, "You're welcome." With that said, Fluttershy trotted toward the door and exited the room.
Minutes passed after everypony presented themselves. They told him that their species were herbivores, and that they lived in a country called Equestria.
For his part, he told them the basic of human philosophy and history. Every pony was interested, except one rainbow maned pegasus who only looked annoyed. The most interested of them all was the purple unicorn constantly taking notes every time he spoke a word.
Suddenly something clicked in his mind. "Chris? If you're still out there, I just want to say that we will not stop searching... until you are found..." Hopkins's voice resonated in his head. I can't stay here for too long, he thought. He then turned his gaze back to Celestia and Luna.
"Um sorry your highness, but I can't stay here for too long. My people will come searching for me and I don't want them to be worried."
Princess Celestia and princess Luna, looked at each other unsure if this would be a good decision. "Are you sure of that Cely?" Luna asked withe a worried tone.
"I'm afraid we have no other choice Lulu," Celestia replied."We cannot forbid him from seeing his fellow beings, nor that we can't separate a foal from his parents."
Luna let out a sight and proceeded, "Alright sister, but lets take a few guards. We could use some precaution."
"I agree, with you sister. We could use precaution."
With that said, they returned their look to the human. He was still waiting for a response,and finally got it.
We accept your proposition." Celestia finally said. The human beamed at the answer, finally able to get a bit of liberty.
"However, you will be escorted by a group of my finest guards and the bearers of the elements over there," she said as she pointed towards the six ponies with one of her hooves.
"Thank you." Williams said. as the door slowly opened.
"Your machine is located in Caterlot's royal laboratory," Luna finally said, as she walked back to her royal duty.
"If something happens, we will be at our quarters," Celestia said, and turned around to follow her sister.
"Now everypony... and everyone follow me," a guard said as he started walking toward the laboratory.
I can't wait to see the face of the others when they see this, he thought to himself as they all followed the guard.
Author's Note
Chapt 2 updated now chapter three might come in a few days.
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