My name is Josh Met, I live in a run-down apartment. I work a recording studio named "Big Joe's Records" It's one of the biggest recording studios in New Jersey, and I am a DJ. My career saved my house from as some people say, ‘From going under’.
I had no idea that on normal Tuesday boring everyday life, could change into the most interesting day of my life. Changing it forever.
____________
I was walking my way home when I saw a very big thunderhead moving in, I thought to myself
“I have to get home and quick”
Mostly fatigued from my day of recording, I was already tired and I almost didn’t have the energy to run home .
When I finally got home, I was out of breath; I leaned against my door to breathe a little. I waited there until my heart stopped racing. I got my keys out and unlocked my door only to find my dog, Amber, a pure-blood Labrador running down the hall and jumped on my legs.
"Are you hungry, Amber?"
I grabbed a bag of dog food and put some food in my dog's bowl, but she wouldn't eat.
"What is it?"
Amber ran to the back room and barked at my closed bedroom door.
I heard the thunderhead I saw earlier, rolled over my house, I looked through my screen-door, and fog was surrounding the whole apartment complex. I was a bit curious.
New Jersey didn't really get this type of weather in the summer.
I suddenly heard my dog shriek as she ran back into the kitchen. Then I heard a crash through my roof.
Running to my bedroom door, I heard voices.
"Whew! Twi that was awesome! Let's do it again!" A loud female voice said.
I stood behind a wall, outside my room.
"Rainbow. You made me mess up!" Another feminine voice said angrily.
"Oh.. T-Twi it's n-not her fault." A shy female voice, stated.
"Yeah Sugarcube." A country accented voice agreed.
"Yes, dear." Said another, slightly having a fanciful voice.
"Yeah, Rainbow was right, this is awesome. Haha."
That last voice sounded like someone had been hitting the alcohol a little too much.
I kept quiet as I heard the conversation ensue.
"Well... Where in the hay are we, anyway Twi?" One of them asked.
"Hmm... Not sure." The, I suppose, leader of the group responded.
Against my "better" judgment I spoke up, loudly I might add.
"You’re in my apartment, what do you want?"
"Who's there?" The leader asked me.
I came out from behind my bedroom wall and saw what I thought to be aliens, but I looked closer. Seeing creatures that I had never seen before, they had four legs, talked, and I think I saw horns and wings on some of them.
"HOLY CELESTIA!"
I looked down, one of them had their back turned to me and back legs raised as they hit me square in the face. I was knocked out, instantaneously. As I drifted off I heard.
"Great, Rainbow. What you do that for?"
"Well... I have no idea what the hay it is, so my instinct was to knock it out."
"Sure, we come to a strange place. The first thing you do is to knock out one of the things here."
____________________
I tried to come to...
"Oh Mr. Chevfeild, are those flowers for me. Oh you shouldn't of ha-"
I opened my eyes to see six pony-headed characters standing over me, some of them with worried faces.
I asked,
"Was I... Talking in my sleep?"
(The reason for asking was because, whenever I would have friends over, they would always say I talked in my sleep.)
The six figures nodded simultaneously. I slowly tried to get up, noticing that an ice-pack was propped atop my left eye.
They moved according to my movements as I tried to stand… but failed miserably, I laid back down.
"How long was I out?"
One of them spoke, a purple, to what I thought to be, a unicorn.
"About an hour."
My eyes widened at that these things could talk, I thought I was just seeing an illusion.
I shot up hitting my head onto a bed post, clenching my head as I throbbed with the mother of all headaches.
Another spoke up, this one was a blue pegasus with rainbow hair, which I found odd, probably like all humans who encounter random multicolored ponies crashing through your roof and knocking you out.
"I'm sorry about bucking you, s-sir." The pegasus apologized, smiling halfheartedly.
"Well... What brings you to this world?" I asked, slightly sarcastic, knowing they were definitely not from my planet, let alone my dimension.
Yeah, I believe in that kind of stuff... Shut up.
The purple unicorn answered for the group, "I was doing a spell and well… it was messed up." She gave the blue Pegasus an aggravated scowl.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, and that's Rainbow Dash."
The unicorn looked at the pegasi, as she introduced the rest of the group. "This is Applejack."
"Howdy." The tan pony, I noticed she wore a cowboy hat. Which was odd.
Twilight continued to introduce the other ones,
"this is Rarity, that’s Pinkie, and she’s Fluttershy."
The other three each gave their individual introductions to me. I held up my hand, getting the attention of Twilight.
I went to the side of my bed, trying to get my footing as I tried to stand up, successfully doing so. As I walked past all the newly encountered "ponies" and walked out of my room, the six ponies followed me, I walked into the kitchen and looked in a cabinet that I kept a stash of weed in; it helps me calm down sometimes. I looked at the bag, none of it was smoked, and I thought that I was seeing things in a result of the overdose of the Marijuana. I leaned on my counter looking back at my six visitors.
"Okay, listen... Is there any way you can get back to your dimension or something like that? Because my, uh, 'dimension' doesn't do well with visitors from other places, I mean look at what happened to The Roswell Alien."
I smiled, awkwardly, noticing these ponies didn't know what the hell I was talking about.
"Well. Sir.-"
I cut the unicorn off, "Call me Josh, I can't stand sir."
Twilight nodded, "Well Josh, I will have to get all my magic cued up, to go back home."
I tried not to laugh, but failed as I chuckled slightly.
"Magic!? You can't be serious?"
The unicorn's look proved otherwise,
"I'm deadly serious."
The other five went into my living room looking around, as me and Twilight discussed her ordeal.
Twilight walked closer to me,
“Listen, we can't leave until my magic is ready, so, sorry for the bad news."
"What you mean by 'bad news' I enjoy other peoples company, well ponies company."
I walked into the living room, seeing most of them sitting down on my couch.
I took a deep breath and looked at each of them.
"You six can stay here, for the time being, it’s the least I can do to help you get back home. I suppose, but there are rules."
They all looked at me.
"No excessive noise after seven. Some of my neighbors don’t like loud noise. Also, don't go out of this apartment room, unless you absolutely need to. I'll provide food, water, and shelter. Got it?"
They all nodded as one of them got up, and looked at me strangely, it was a white unicorn. She started to examine my clothes. Which I found slightly awkward.
"Hm... Your style is quite…, 'thrown together'."
I was slightly annoyed, at the fact that I was already getting made fun of by ponies that I had just offered shelter.
"What's wrong with a t-shirt and a pair of pants. You know don't answer that question. I have had a rough and rather strange day. So I bid you good-night." I walked back to my bedroom; I knew I shouldn't have left these six new visitors alone in my apartment.
I laid down on my bed as I thought of my day, thinking about my life, and what it would now be like seeing that six ponies had crashed through my roof hours earlier. Part of me wanted them to get back to their home, but part of me wanted them to stay here. I’m strange like that.
I saw my door slowly open.
"Who's there?"
"Oh uh- sorry I was just coming to tell your dog is trying to bite my friend."
Said a yellow pegasus, with light pink hair. I remember her name as Fluttershy.
I got up out of bed, hearing growling from my living room.
I got in the room seeing all of the ponies on the top of my couch, and my dog, Amber barking at them. I pulled her back,
"Amber, no."
I put Amber in a room connected to the kitchen. I went back into the living room, seeing Rarity, Pinkie, and Twilight got down from atop the couch.
Applejack was over in a corner of the room laughing, Fluttershy was at the entrance of the living room with a straight face.
"Well. I see you met my dog." I smiled, trying not to slightly laugh.
The white unicorn, Rarity, perked up.
"I'm sure if you met a ferocious creature in another dimension, you would act the same way."
"I don't think I would actually," I shook my head.
Going to bed was out of the question now; at least until I get all of them into bed, then I might be able to get in a couple hours of sleep.
The yellow pegasus spoke up, as she walked towards me, "Is there anywhere we can sleep? If you want to tell me that is..."
"Yeah, uh. I suppose some of you could sleep in my room, and then the rest could sleep in the living room. I'll sleep on the couch."
Fluttershy yawned; she walked back into my room. I assumed she was as tired as I was.
Some of the others went with her. One of them stayed back, it was Rarity.
I walked into the kitchen and grabbed a soda from the fridge. "Listen, dear. I am sorry for insulting you when we came here." She smiled.
I took a drink of the soda,
"It's quite alright, dear." I chuckled.
She shook her head and sighed, "Do you have a spare room or anything, I’m not one for 'slumber parties'?"
I nodded, "Yeah, there's a back room just down that hall. Take a left at the second door."
She smiled, and started walking to the spare room. "Um, Josh?"
"Hmm"
"Thank you for letting us stay with you."
I put my drink down,
"The least I could do. Oh and Rarity?"
"Yes, dear" She looked back at me.
"I have to go to work tomorrow so if you’re uh, friends ask where I went, just say I had to go to work. I will trust you to keep them out of trouble." I went and sat down on my couch.
"Your house" She walked into the spare room.
I laid down and started to fall asleep, my eyes slowly closed as I thought about everything that had happened to me today... and gettin' ready for what tomorrow might bring.
