All I wanted was some peace and quiet.

by mrlordowaffles

Rating: teen
Tags: Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Human
Length: 9320

I was out on a bike ride on one of my usual routes when I decided to try and go a new route, whilst doing so a blindingly bright white flash appeared.

Do you know that feeling where all you want is some nice peace and quiet and you go out and do some task you have always found relaxing? Well I do, in fact I know it very well. My usual way of getting that ever oh so desired peace and quiet was through riding my bike, on this particular day however, some son of a… less than nice fates decided that I would most definitely not be getting that.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-10-05 02:28:02 UTC

Chapter one: Meeting a zebra.

Chapter one

“Why does my everything hurt? Better question, why am I not on my comfy bed in my hotel room? Why in the buck do I hear…buck? Why did I just say buck?” Ignoring the new odd use of my vocabulary I decided to try and open my eyes and sit up, pretty solid mistake.

“Uhg…ow.” Before I could even really make another conscious decision I fell asleep. What I woke up to was a significantly smaller amount of pain and the ability to open my eyes… with a bearable amount of pain that is. What I saw was less than settling, I was in the middle of a pretty small clearing surrounded by trees. (Duh what other kinds of clearings are there “idiot.”) While the grass was soft and quite comfortable I decided I should probably stand up. While doing so I noticed that I was really, and I mean REALLY thirsty. I had a lot of questions, some such being,

"Where am I?" "What's happening?" oh and most importantly the statement I said. "BUUUCK! "Man what is going on why can't I use my usual profanities?" Okay time for a nice old fashioned mental checklist.

1.Find water.

2.Get food.

3.Find out what has happened to me.

4.Find civilization.

5.Get that whole word problem of mine checked out.

“Huh? A whole lot of finds in that particular list.” “The sun’s in the middle of the sky so I should probably get a move on.”

I headed in what I thought to be north by the sun’s position, it just seemed like a good idea… until what I could only assume was some kind of enormous mutation of a lion was chasing me through this horrid forest. “Buck buck buck… BUCK!" I say the last one with such vigor due to my tripping over a rock. While laying down in the dirt all I could think to myself was, “Great just… great I die from some severely mutated lion while in an unknown forest.”

I was just kind of laid there for what felt like ages when I decided to get up, turning around I say no trace of the thing, for lack of better words. What I did see however lifted my spirits even more than the prospect of not dying, was that I saw a shack, sure it might be abandoned but hey anything is way better than nothing. I began my walk there when I saw something very peculiar, a zebra... wearing a lot of gold. I thought this to be odd but if a zebra wearing gold was out here than that almost definitely meant that some kind of civilized people are here, albeit odd ones. "Excuse me, Is anyone here?!"

I heard a "Yes?" come from the direction of the zebra, the odd thing was that now the zebra was turning around. I looked like it was doing something to a small herbal garden.

I waited for someone to show up, while the zebra just kind of stares at me...I..I think it looks horrified by me. I begin to walk toward it and then it begins to walk back, now I have seen some crazy things in my life, ( No more shrooms for me. ) but I swear that zebra began talking.

"What are you being, why do you make me so fleeing?"

My ever oh so clever response was "Are you a..a?" I promptly fainted, the events of that day had just been too much for me, One second all was going fairly well when, BAM, no idea where I am leading to my being chased by some terrible monster and now to highlight it all a BUCKING ZEBRA THAT TALKS!

Several many hours later.

"Oh thank you it was all just a dream." I said while laying on a nice comfy bed...that was way too small. "Craaaap!" Seemed like a pretty accurate description of my current situation. I opened my eyes to immediately shut them again, all around me were some very creepy masks, oh and a zebra leaning over me, ya know, no big deal! "What in the tartarus is happening?!" I shouted a bit too loudly...tartarus?

"First I would like to know, what is making you put up such a show?" The zebra replied cautiously, and with a bit of fear, that made me feel a little bad.

"Oh I don't know maybe it was the getting chased by a lion thing or maybe the seeing a talking zebra, hmm or most likely it is the not knowing WHERE THE TARTARUS I AM!" At this point I just started feeling like a total flankhole... I  really need to look into what is causing that. "I..I'm sorry I usually don't burst like that, today has been rather... stressful."

The zebra was now looking more scared than ever, I decided it would be best if I left. "I am terribly sorry to have had an outburst like that...I-I am just going to go now."  The zebra then looked worried and much less scared.

She said. "No, I know you are sincere,but if you value your life then stay here." Not knowing if that was a threat or not I decided to turn around to look her in the eyes.

"If you are not threatening me then you had better do some explaining." Her pupils enlarged a bit.

"No that is not what I meant, your body would be not but a fragment." Not knowing what she meant I intelligently asked her. "wut?" The zebra proceeded to facepalm...er face-hoof?

"The forest is full of dread, it would tear you to a shred." On that note, I decided to begin acting like my usual self.

"I am terribly sorry for being so rude, I am kind of lost and a bit distraught, could I sleep here for the night I shall leave in the morning if you point me the right way."

She responded with. "Yes you may, it is I, Zecora's way." She seemed to have cheered up considerably now. I began to notice that we had a serious height difference I was at-least a head and a half taller than her. I also began to pick up on the fact that she always seemed to rhyme, I decided it might be rude to bring up so I let it be.

Taking in a better look of her home I noticed that while all the masks were rather creepy a few looked kind of cool to me, there were also several jars of what looked like herbs and such. "You have quite the collection of spices and herbs here ma'am." Now the the zebra...Zecora, was absolutely beaming.

"Being an apothecary requires quite the vary." She said a little mysteriously. I proceeded to ask her where I could sleep at and she motioned her hoof to the cot I woke up on. I said thank you and went straight to it. I had a lot of thinking to do tonight.

Chapter two: A string of oddities.

As I was waking up I recognized the familiar smell of omelets. I slowly shifted up to a sitting position, man that cot was not meant for prolonged stays for someone of my size. While popping my back I decided to go ahead and say hello to my strange host. "Uhm, good morning, I am terribly sorry to impose but where is your restroom?"

"Oh good morning being, need you go relieving?" She motioned to a small area with some some walls and a door. I nodded thanks to her and went to do my business.

"So what is it exactly that you do around here?" I asked without even thinking about it, for all I knew she could be like me and not have any idea where we are, but then I remembered her saying something about an apothecary, not wanting to look like and idiot I just let her continue talking without correcting myself.

"I am a potion brewer, nothing is truer." I took that in stride not fully understanding what it is that she meant exactly. I then got curious as to her food, as far as I knew zebras did not typically eat eggs, I proceeded to ask about her diet.

"Do please tell me...Zecora was it? Your diet seems a bit strange from what I know about zebras they do not typically eat eggs."

I tried to say that as tactfully as I could, but hey not everyone can be so good at being polite.

"Tell me non equine, where do you resign?" She answered my question with a question, great frowning slightly I answered her.

"I come from the United States Of America, to be more specific Montana." Now it was her turn to frown a little.

"I have never heard of this place, do tell, what is your race?" At this point I was getting a bit afraid, what was going on here?

"I am a human also known as Homo sapiens." I was now very worried, what if I during my bike ride I hit my head and this was all some really vivid dream or maybe some kind of wicked hallucinatory drug.

"Are you okay human, you seem a bit horror stricken?" She now had a quizzical face it seemed to have a, please don't faint again, you were heavy, look on it.

"I-I-I am fine." I decided that freaking out would not help out my situation at all. I now began to wonder if she knew of any other sentient beings. "Tell me zecora, are there any other intelligent races out here?" I said every few words between mouthfuls of omelet.

"Oh yes many, we have the zebras, the griffins, the minotaurs, and the pony." I thought that one was a bit far for her whole rhyming thing.

"Well that is...quite a few, how accepting of a..er.. being like me would the be?" I hoped I would not have to be here for a long time but I may as well try to get on good grounds with some of the ponies here...I tired to say ponies... peonies, that is getting out of hand! I noticed that Zecora was trying to get my attention, I felt a bit rude so I decided to tell her about my speech predicament. After she told me about the ponies here of course...

"I'm sorry zecora I got a bit lost in thought there for a moment. You were saying?"

"Ah yes, thank you, now concentrate, or I will be irate. Those ponies while cheery, will be quite quite leery." She looked quite stern while saying this, I got the distinct feeling that she had experienced some of that said leeriness. Thinking about it now I realized that she took me in rather quickly was she just very accepting, or perhaps due to her experiences she knew what it was like to be an outsider and not have anyone care for you?

...Crap she is looking at me again, she seems a little angry."Er sorry about that I get lost in thoughts a lot."

"No you're quite alright, just not very bright." She said with a small smirk on her face, now I began to wonder on how it is that I began to understand her facial expressions so well I mean they all seemed fairly obvious, but it still puzzled me.She was face-palming...er...hoofing again...

"I'm sorry Zecora, what were you saying?" I did my best to look as sincere as possible.

"I asked for your designation you abomination." She had a small smile on her face but I knew I was annoying her. Okay no more wandering thoughts, no more wandering thoughts, waffles, no more wandering thoughts...mmm waffles, err I mean no more wandering thoughts.

"My name is Christoph, but most ponies just call me Chris. Also my vocabulary has..changed a bit I keep trying to say one thing but it continues coming out as another, I would try to demonstrate but without the ability to use such words, well it is kind of impossible."

"That must be frustrating, sorry it is so grating." She looked genuinely sorry for me, I guess I have a friend in this strange place then, that's nice. "If we are going to introduce you to the ponies, then no more dilly dallies." I now wore a look of pure unadulterated fear, what if they reacted harshly and forever wished me dead or gone. Remembering that she said they were nice I calmed a little...not enough to be to noticeable though.

The walk through the woods was fairly peaceful, we only heard a few birds and saw some small creatures scurry by. I was getting more and more anxious by the minute, I was afraid of two things.

1.What if I am stuck here forever?

2.If I am stuck here forever, what if they don't like me?

Doing my best to stick those things out of my mind I decided to ask how much longer we had, she simply raised a hoof in front of her and did what I can only assume was point, I looked forward and noticed that we were not but only about 100 yards from a small town looking area.

A we entered the town, we gathered a lot of stares from the ponies, and I mean a lot, what stuck me as odd was just how brightly colored all of them were, then of course was the fact that some of these ponies had horns, what purpose could those possibly serve? Zecora began to speak.

You who is new, what do you wish to do?"

"I am actually still a little hungry, I don't suppose we could get a bite to eat? Sorry if that is a lot to as for." I asked her pretty sheepishly about the food, I felt really bad what with her taking me in and feeding me already, but she then began to smile almost... mischievously, I had a bad feeling.

She began to speak with an all new form of vigor. "Oh I know what you need, let us move with great speed!" She began a slow trot towards what looked like an enormous gingerbread house with a cupcake on top.

As we made our way in I say a very bright pink pony moving about some cupcakes. She looked at us and immediately gasped and just kind of zoomed out of sight. I have no idea how any being is capable of such movement. All Zecora did was smile at this. She told me she had some things to do now and that I should just stay here, great.

While she was gone I thought I would go ahead and see what was in my pockets, a paperclip, two sticks of bubblegum, some folded up paper and a nubby pencil.( I like to do some poetry now and then sue me. ) I figured I would go ahead and write some while I was here alone with nothing to do.

Oh a new land

what a bold stand.

to these equine

I must seem the opposite of benign.

How I wish to be home

in my little safety dome.

Upon finishing that I just kind of dozed off waiting for zecora, it was a fit-full sleep.

Chapter three: Magic is awesome.

I woke up via some poking, at this I was a little disgruntled. "Urmph go away." I am a little bit less than subtle when I am woken up. Now the hooves were shoving me a little bit harder, way to hard. "Hauh!" Such a subtle landing onto the floor I had, ballerinas everywhere would be jealous. "Okay i'm up. What do you want?" That last bit I said a bit loudly.

"Come now sleepy fellow, there is no need to bellow." Hearing that it was Zecora I got a little embarrassed, I just yelled at the one friend I had...smooth as a cactus Chris. "Come with me, we have places to be."

Not knowing where we would be going I decided to ask, I also was still hungry but like really hungry now, turns out I slept until it was nearly sunset."Where is it that we are going Zecora?"

"I can't say where we are bound, just follow like a hound." I took a little offence to that but decided to stay quiet and just go with her. We were heading up on what looked to be an enormous apple orchard, I mean like huuuuge. If I was not in a forest earlier today I would say that this was the largest amount of trees I had ever seen.

We were now approaching a barn that was light-less, oh great she is going to murder me, NO no thoughts like that, how would she even do it I don't see any weapons her... bucking paranoia. I have never really been all that suspicious of ponies before, but I was in an entirely new area, with ponies I did not know.

She motioned for me to go inside, so it was a trap huh, I narrowed my eyes slightly and slowly went in." SURPRISE!" I screamed like a little filly... great yet another word I can't actually say.

In front of me there were balloons and streamers everywhere, a large cake in the corner, a WELCOME TO EQUESTRIA banner was hanging between some rafters, and a lot of surprised looking ponies, guess they were not expecting my reaction. Slowly but surely the look of fear came off my face to be replaced with a smile, zecora had thrown me a party how nice of her, she really did not seem the party type though. At that thought a very pink pony, why the one from earlier that ran faster than my eyes could follow, walked up to me holding what looked to be a present in her hooves... how?

"Himynameispinkie-pie,Ithrewthispartyforyoudoyoulikeit? My eyes went wide and I looked at her, then to zecora, she smiled mischievously, I looked back, pinkies eyes were enormous with a look of questioning in them.

"A-a yes, yes I do this party looks wonderful thank you for doing it for me." I had never seen anypony talk so fast in my life before. Another pony began to walk towards me, this one had a white coat and a very well groomed mane and tale, both were purple. But what I noticed first was a cup... floating... in front of her. "How-how are you doing that?" I said pointing to the cup.

"Doing what? Oh do you mean the levitation? Do you not have that where you are from?" She seemed surprised that I was well surprised by her ability to levitate things.

"No, no we do not, that is so AWESOME!" I thought that was incredible, that was what horns were for, I noticed that her horn had the same kind of glow that was coming off the present, unicorns could levitate things...so...awesome. I then heard in the background.

"I like him."I heard this coming from a nearby hovering Pegasus with a rainbow mane, and a cyan coat... I know it should not surprise me by now but the Pegasi can fly...Zecora is rubbing off on me.

"Can you levitate me?" I asked with a look of wonder on my face, oh to be above the ground without being in a plane sounded wonderful.

"Oh no, I am nowhere near strong enough for that, although I bet twilight over there could." She had a look that told me she was not the type of person to consider doing such things even if she was strong enough. She then pointed to a purple unicorn with a purple mane that had one strip of lighter purple and another of pink.

"Rarity, come on I am not that powerful." She was blushing just a little and looking down and to the left a little.

"Oh why yes you are darling, you lifted and entire Ursa minor." She looked quite proud of her friend, I wonder what an Ursa minor is?

"What's an Ursa minor?" I probably looked stupid to them now...crap.

Twilight began to speak. " An Ursa minor is like a bear, you have bears where you are from right?"

"Yes, we have bears in America."  I gave her a dead pan expression.

"Well Ursa minors are a lot bigger." Her turn to give the dead pan look.

"Well then in theory you should be able to lift me, right?" I was getting excited again. I had always enjoyed the idea of machine-less flight.

"Yeah sure, but can it wait until the party is over?" Oh man, I could not wait. All of the ponies took to introducing them selves, there was Applejack, an earth pony with an orange coat with a blonde mane and tail, then came Rainbowdash, the cyan Pegasus with the rainbow mane and tail, up next was a yellow coated Pegasus with a light pink mane, Fluttershy, it was less of an introduction as more of mumbling and "eeping".

All and all it was just the eight of us, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie pie, Rainbowdash, Rarity, Twilight sparkle, and of course zecora. I must have been eyeing that cake more than I thought because Pinkie began to cut it into slices. "Oh sweet Celestia cake..." Why the buck did I just say Celestia? Meh who cares, cake!

I grabbed some cake off of the table and got a fork as well I sectioned off a small portion and brought it to my mouth, the result was me eating another 6 slices of cake, I was going to have one tartarus of a crash, but it was so worth it.

"Gift time!" was shouted by pinkie.

Rarity walked up to me first with a pouch that was softly jingling in tow. "Here, I got you these so that you could pay for any expenses you come across, inside is fifty bits."

Pinkie began to walk to me next. " I got you an interview with the cakes, we sure could use some hands at the store."

Rainbow floated by to me discreetly handing me a book, she whispered in my ear. "It is one of my favorite series, you'll love it."

None of the other guests had presents, they were not warned in time to get me any aside from the three, I did not mind at all though. The party began to wind down some, soon enough everyone was starting to leave, twilight walked up to me and began speaking. " I believe I promised you some levitation?"

I was positively beaming now, aaaww yis levitation time.

I felt her magic touch me and... nothing happened, I could see her starting to look confused, then suddenly I felt... powerful, have you ever heard someone joke about putting red-bull through a coffee machine, yeah I was at that times ten thousand.

"I don't get it I can't lift you up." She was now looking a bit worried, I felt my left eye start to twitch a little. "Are you okay, am I hurting you?"

"Twilightstop." I said this faster than I could perceive, I felt her magic go and I.NEEDED.TO.RUN.FAST. I began to start out with a walk, but the tiniest bit of motion was like me using every ounce of muscle in my body in that one spot, needless to say it did not start out at a walk, I was the flash, I was unstoppable, I ran into tree, I knocked it down, and then without warning I felt the effect of whatever it was that her magic did to me wear off. "Twilight? What did you do to me?"

Her mouth was agape. "I have no idea Chris, we need to speak to princess Celestia, I will set up a meeting with her as fast as I can, I have never seen magic effect anything that way."

On that note I was feeling terrible, All of my energy felt gone, this combined by my sugar crash did a great job of having me black out, I seem to be sleeping a lot nowadays.

I awoke to see myself in a very white room, remembering last nights events I understood that I was probably in a hospital. "That's good they cared enough to get me some medical attention." I said aloud to myself, well I thought it was just me but then I looked to my side to see all of them looking at me worriedly...don't I feel like a dick...so I can say that word, COME ON!

Chapter four: A good talking to.

"I really need to stop passing out, i'm gonna give myself a concussion." I woke to find myself in unfamiliar surroundings, and with a splitting headache. I was definitely not in the shack anymore. This was a serious improvement though, wood panel flooring, same with the walls, the bed was too small but it was comfortable, in a "if it were bigger this would be heaven." kind of way.

The sound of knocking came from the door. " I'm up come on in." Great now I am freeloading off of another pony, and I just gave them permission to enter their own house, first human in...er...wherever it is I am in, and I set some horrible examples on what we are like.

Now entering the room was the orange coated pony with the blonde mane, Applejack, I believe his her name. "Howdy Chris, how'd ya sleep?" She looked a bit worried,...and angry at the same time somehow?

"Yeah i'm fine, why do you look angry?" Now it was my turn to be worried, did I already matter this much to these ponies?

"Well ya passed out, then ya got back up and started destroyin' the place! Is that normal where ya come from?" She looked at me very questioningly. Was she serious, did I get back up? I had no memory of that.

"No, that is not normal, In fact I don't remember getting back up, let alone how I got here, or why my head hurts so much, or why I started to destroy your home." I felt like a horrible human being.

"Well... ya did not destroy ma home, but ya did destroy ma barn, which is fine it needed ta come down anyway."

"Hey! Hey you."

"Huh? Who are you?"

"A'm Applejack, remember, last night you met me at pinkies party?" She looked puzzled.

"No not you, someone else spoke."

"Nuh uh, you spoke...sorta. It said this mysteriously.

"No one else is here Chris, are you okay?"

"No lady he is not okay, he is hearing voices in his head."

"Yeah what he said." It seemed like it made sense at the time...

"Okaaay, well a'm gonna come and get ya when breakfast is ready."She exited back out the door, I think I heard her muttering something about a crazy alien coming in and getting her friends all crazy, wonder what that means. What did I do last night.

You mean what did we do last night. It sounded kind of cheery.

"What are you and where are you?" I felt a little frightened, somepony had the ability to turn invisible and only I could hear them, it is a pretty scary prospect.

"You're not very bright are you, I am you, or at least the part of you that was dormant until Twilights magic started effecting us."

I was surprised to say the least, I did not really know what to say to that. "Nope i'm crazy that's it, nothing else, I have obviously been hallucinating this entire time and am in a padded room gibbering to myself."

"Think what you want to think, but I am here and you are here, may as well have some fun right?"

"What kind of fun?" I was getting suspicious of this new voice in my head...not every day you get to think that.

"Well we could test out your new ability to use me?"

I was a bit startled at his...it's response . "What do you mean?"

"I am a personification of your innate ability to use magic, therefore you can use me. I.E magic.

"So, tell me if I am wrong but, I can now use magic, because Twilight hit me with a minor telekinesis spell, so in theory she jump-started me? How do you..er I know this if you are me?"

"Well if you must put it that way yeah pretty much. I have no idea how I know, maybe it is like one of those instinctual things, like how birds know where south is."

"Sweeeeeeet." Oh man I wonder what kind of cool stuff I can do?

"Well to be honest, I have no idea, I know we can do telekinesis though."

"Okay well how do I do..." I heard a knocking on the door again, "Come on in." It was Applejack again.

"Err...breakfast is ready if ya wanna come eat and stop talkin to yerself." She look both amused and worried.

"Yeah I will be down in just a moment, I have something I would like to test."

"Okay, well I hope you like apples."

"I enjoy apples, not my favorite food ever but i'll deal." I was really hoping she would go ahead and leave, she decided to go ahead and stay to chat, my mother-bucking luck.

"Chris is somethin' botherin' ya?" Oh, well she looked legitimately worried.

"Well yes actually, why are all of you being so kind to me, where I come from this kind of hospitality is very rare."

"You can say that again." Shut up magic, I can formulate my own answers.

I continued speaking." Where I come from, the people are much more hostile to others, I would assume especially so if they were some kind of odd looking alien." I was now nearly on the verge of tears. " Pfft wuss." Magic so help me if you anger me, I will... give myself brain freeze! Oooh scary, come on bro, in theory you would only be hurting yourself." Curse my logic.

I received a minor tap to the face from a hoof. "Oh sorry Applejack I was having a bit of an internal struggle."Her face said she was not amused.

"So your telling me, ya did not hear a word I just said?" Very much so not amused.

"Ha err... yeah, sorry about that Applejack. What were you saying."

"A'h was sayin', that ya could stay here instead of freeloadin' off of zecora, we will expect some work outta ya but it is all up to you. A'h am sorry about how yer world is so bad, but round these parts we ponies are pretty nice, so just accept these kindnesses and live life. There were some other things, but a'h think I will let those things play out on their own." She now had a smirk on her face, she thought I was curious...she was right...crap...

"Well I'll be down in just a moment all right?"

"Okay, hurry though, don't want yer food gettin' cold."

"K, got it, I'll just be a minute." With that she exited, she lingered for just a moment, but then went ahead and left.

"Well that was weird. You can say that again magic.

"Soo... testing telekinesis?" I pointed my hand at a piece of paper, pretty light weight object, and tried to focus on it, nothing happened.

"Perhaps it is more underlying magic, rather than unicorn style magic?" Ya know magic, you are probably right, remember last night, you seemed to effect my physical status a lot more than mental. I also thought you said we could definitely use telekinesis, what the hay man, ya know what never mind, lets go get breakfast.

I exited the room to find a staircase to my left. I went down it to some of the best smelling food I have ever had the pleasure of eating. "Applejack, I change my mind, apples are my favorite food."

Chapter five: Time to work.

Upon finishing the best breakfast I had ever had, I decided to go ahead and see what I could do around the farm to help, so as to pay for my room in a way of course.

"Okay AJ, can I call you AJ, where would you like me to do some work?" I said this quite happily, something about finding out I could become stronger than the average Hulk via magic just kinda makes you happy.

AJ seemed a bit surprised by my willingness to work, must have been my previous freeloading that made her think I was lazy, I'm not I just had no idea what was going on was all... Okay I'm a little lazy. " Yah you can call me AJ. Well ya could lift the buckets of apples and bring um to the cart."

"Sounds great, when would you like to start?" Okay, something was off, I am never this cheery, even if I am in a world filled with brightly colored horses and have super awesome new magic abilities.

"That would be me, thanks to the newly entered magic in your system your body is optimizing itself, basically we will be smarter,faster,stronger and have much better vision." At this news, I was really surprised. How long would this take? I dunno, but can't you feel it just a little? I certainly can tell the difference." But "I" is "we"...ugh whatever, I'm getting upgrades yay!

Applejack was repeatedly face-hoofing...I need to stop spacing off. "I'm sorry Applejack, where do you need me to go?'

"Just leave through the front door and turn to yer left, you should see Big mac out there, collect his baskets and bring them to the apple hauling cart."

With that I made my way to Big mac, it was a relatively short walk. "Hey, you done with these baskets?"

"Eeyup." Such elegant speech this pony had, it brought a tear to my eyes thinking of just how majestic his reply was.

"Okay, well I'm Chris and Applejack has asked me to help around the farm in order to aid in my payment towards you all for letting me stay here."

"That's nice." I liked this pony. I bent down and tried to lift the basket, I could not...that is just sad. "Might I be of assistance perhaps?"...I forgot about that. Now to figure out how to use yo... "I CAN LIFT THE WORLD!" Big mac was now staring at me as I stacked two baskets on each other then did so again with another two, then lifted the four baskets, two in each hand.

I tried to walk forward, but like before it ended up faster than my sprint while not using magic, this ended up with me getting to the cart and back in less than a minute, I was surprised I had not tripped, I guess that magic improved my coordination as well then.

*About 7 hours of work later:around 1:00.:*

"FOOD!" I ran to the table, as it would turn out magic made me burn through food faster, it did not however use any of my reserve energy. I can only assume it does this to help not consume all of my magic at once. By the time I was done thinking this I had already inhaled two apple pies, 3 apple tarts, and a single apple. I could go for a smoothie right about now.

All the apple family was staring at me in awe, obviously they had never seen any being eat like this...except maybe pinkie pie, I saw what that mare did at the party, how on earth she is anywhere near as fit as she is, I have no idea. Applejack began to pick her jaw up from the ground to talk. "Uhm Chris, care to share at all?"

With the apple still clutched in my teeth, I nodded to her and stepped away from the table, they must think I am some kind of glutton, I was afraid to explain to them about my newly found magic... a thought that should have come to me a lot earlier finally came to me.

"Excuse me, Applejack, would you mind if I went to see twilight...and if you helped me find where she lives.?" I looked at her pleadingly.

"Ugh, sure, Big mac can ya get the rest of the work done?"

Big mac the expressive then said with the grace of a ballerina. "Eeyup."

"So, Chris what's it like where ya come from?" She was probably trying to start up a conversation for the walk ahead.

"Well, I lived with my foster parents in some woods, I'm an orphan. I went to a pretty okay-ish high school, most of the people there were jerks though, I have to admit everypony here is so much nicer here than the beings from where I come from."

"Huh, she sure does seem to like orphans." She said this under her breath but I heard it pretty well, guess I made a pretty good friend at that party.

"Might I ask who it is that I made such good friends with last night?"

"Err...you'll find out eventually ah'm sure.

I had no idea what it was that she meant, but I saw the quaint little town now so, that's nice. She guided me towards a large tree house looking area. "Uh AJ, she lives in a tree?"

"Yeah, ah don't get it either. It's also the towns library."

"Huh that's cool, so what are you going to go do?"

"Ah'm gonna go grab some things for the house, meet ya back here in about two hours?" I nodded my head in reply. "Well alrighty then, I'll see you then."

At that I walked into Twilights house.

Chapter seven: Flying is hard.

"Flap harder!" Rainbowdash was yelling at me to try and get higher, as it was I could barely get to five feet off the ground. This was by far my best day in Equestria yet. I was flying, and with a beautiful mare at that...dude you're human, none of these thoughts.

"Chris, you need to flap harder if you want to get higher, come on!" I was trying, I was trying hard, I knew that I could do better, I could just feel it but it was so odd to have these two appendages on my back that I was entirely not used to at all.

"Oh I'm sorry, were you given two new wings that you have absolutely no idea how to correctly move?" She winced a bit at that, oh great now I feel bad, better make this right. I landed on the ground and motioned Rainbowdash over to me. "I'm sorry Rainbow, it's all just really hard, I am doing my best to take it all in stride, the only reason I have not asked about going back home is because I don't miss it, things just seem so much... better here, the people are nicer, you are a great example of that, you barely know me at all and yet here you are helping me to use my new wings." I looked her dead in the eyes.

"Oh, that..uhm thanks." She was blushing adorably, my word that mare does that a lot. "Thanks for, you know saying those things, but we should focus on you flying...right?"

"Uhm yeah, thanks Rainbow, would you mind showing me how it is exactly that you move your wings?" Okay focus on what you were doing. Try to stop blushing...focus on her wings...that is a really cool tattoo...and flank, NO! Nope none of those thoughts come on dude.

"Are you even looking?" She was looking at me quizzically, I really hope she did not just catch me doing what I had just done.

"Yeah of course I was. I am going to give it another try now." Okay, you can do this just flap like she did...however it was that she flapped. I was now flapping harder as I could and... was still at about five feet.

"Chris, close your eyes, relax just... I don't know, let it come naturally." I went back down to the ground and tried what she was saying. I focused on clearing my mind...focus on clearing your mind just sounds wrong, let me rephrase I was now just emptying my head of any and all thoughts.

"Okay, I got this, I can do this." Rainbowdash was now nodding her head in encouragement. I began to flap my wings as easily as my hands would just go ahead and grab something it came naturally it just felt... right. "I-I'm flying, I'm bucking flying!"

"Okay, now to work on moving, angle yourself forward a little and have your wings propel you forward." I can do that, just position mysel...

"CRAA." The taste of dirt entered my mouth, it was horrible, Rainbows laughter was nice though.

"Chris, are you okay?" She said each word in-between snickers.

"Well aside from my teeth being brown and the nasty taste of dirt in my mouth, I'm great, just peachy." It was nice seeing her happy, I liked seeing her smile... Celestia darn it, none of those thoughts! "Hey Rainbow, could you stop laughing long enough to help me get back to Twilights house, I think we should talk to her more about what's going on with me."

"Yeah sure, that's probably important isn't it?" She looked thoughtful.

"Well, I'll follow you there if you wouldn't mind." Twilight must have some answers by now.

The walk to Twilights tree was pretty short, idle chit-chat happened along the way.

"So what did you do for fun from where you came from?"

"Well, I did some bike riding, jogging mostly just kind of working out to keep myself out of the house and becoming fat and lazy. Thanks to my age and where I lived my foster parents didn't really care what I did so long as it was not dangerous.

"Oh, uhm, how old are you anyway?" She was blushing again, I don't really understand why it was that she did that so much. Maybe you embarrassed her?

"Well, I turned eighteen a few weeks before I appeared here." Now her entire face was practically purple from the cyan and the red combining, man why was she blushing so much, was there a stallion around she liked? I did a pretty quick sweep of the area and did not see anypony else than us, huh odd.

"Well uhm, you wanna hangout this Friday?" I thought about it some, aside from helping applejack I probably had nothing else planned that day.

"Yeah, sure. Should we meet at Twilights tree or..." I was interrupted by a loud squee coming from behind us, as it would turn out it looked like Rarity was on her way to Twilights house as well, and was behind us. "Uhm, Rarity, are you okay?" I had never heard such a noise come from any living being...ever.

"Oh yes I am positively beaming, you and Rainbowdash going on a date, how exciting!" I thought about it some...I think she was right, sweet Celestia I think she is right, I did not get to find out thought because before I could say anything to the rainbow and cyan mare beside me, she flew faster than my eyes could watch.

"Rainbow wait!"...She did not, crap.

"Is it something I said?" Rarity looked a bit confused, I face-hooved and went to look for Twilights house on my own.

Chapter eight:Nothing goes as planned.

I walked my way throughout the town not really knowing where anything was, until I found myself just kind of walking mindlessly. All of this was happening so fast, all I had wanted a few days ago was to be out on a bike ride for a little bit of quiet and relaxation time, but no, now I was a horse...pony... who had apparently already warranted the attention of a mare, and don't get me wrong the idea of being a Pegasus is awesome, but not having hands, it was terrible, how did these ponies without horns or wings do anything, I had seen Applejack carrying things in her teeth, is that what they always did?

While so deep in my thoughts I bumped into a tree, nope not the tree I was looking for. In fact, I have no idea where I am...ugh it's like the first night all over again, but now I can fly above the tree line and scope out the area, wings are pretty great not gonna lie, I still miss my hands though. I emptied my head and began my process for flying, empty head, check, extended wings, check, flapping, check, ready to go.

I gained height slowly and steadily, the town looked to be almost directly behind me, all I had to do was move a bit to the right and walk straight forward, how hard could that be? Now then, how do I land?

After the most graceful bout of aerobatic skills...oh who am I kidding I landed face first into the dirt again. Upon retrieving what little dignity I had left I began to ponder all of what had happened so far. The top five were that 1. I missed my hands. 2.I was no longer a human, quite upsetting. 3. Rainbow appeared to be attracted to me, not good. 4. I had no idea if I could ever get back home. 5. I am now a Pegasus, while pretty awesome, still no hands, not awesome.

As if on cue, something just had to go wrong, I heard a roaring. " OH BUCK NO, NONE OF THIS!" I started flying again, sure I sucked at it, but there was no way in Tartarus that I was about to be eaten by some freaky lion thing.

"Did you miss me?"...You have to be kidding, magic where have you been. "Well, I was kinda knocked out or something from the magic, maybe? To be honest, I only know as much as you do, remember?" Way to be vague as possible there magic, really how helpful, could you at least help me fly? "I can try?" Gee thanks.

I...we? Were steadily gaining height now, it was a lot easier, I was wondering how Pegasi were able to fly so easily, they must have had some kind of dormant magic or something. Okay, now to try and go forward. Magic, you got any ideas? "Hope for the best?" Yep, that sounds about right.

I moved my wings in a way that they were propelling me forward and keeping me aloft at the same time, if only Rainbow could see me now...aaaand I'm thinking about my problems again. The good news though was that I could see Twilights house, although it was pretty late, Applejacks farm was not to far away, I could probably fly to that.

"Okay." I said talking to myself. "It's landing time, you got this, not to hard now easy, stay on target, stay on target, stay on tarmbff! The familiar flavor of dirt was in my mouth, anymore of this and I would develop a liking to the flavor. I picked myself up and began to walk to the door, unluckily applejack was sitting beside it, snickering...

"Did you enjoy the show, you do realize that was only my second attempt at flight right?" She was still snickering and pointed at something with her hoof... an imprint of my face was on the ground...

"Yah, yah I enjoyed the show alright." She exploded into laughter, I went into the house and found the room I had slept in the first night I was on the farm. Man, nothing can just be easy can it, I need to sleep on my problems. Good night magic, sleep well... I think? "I don't know either bro, I just don't know.

(The following morning.)

Okay, plan for today, eat way to much breakfast, check, go to Twilights house, working on it, track down Rainbowdash, near impossible. Alright, got my plan for today, the walk to Twilights house was fairly uneventful, I saw the pony that went insane when she saw my hands though. "Ya know what, I am going to go explain to her what happened." It seemed so easy and sensible to do.

"Excuse me, ma'am?" Her head whipped behind her, it looked like she had not slept in days.

Her voice came out as not but barely a whisper. "yes?"

"I uhm have some information on the being with hands I thought you might like...." I was then tackled down to the ground by the mint colored mare.

"TELL ME EVERYTHING!" To say I was frightened would have been an understatement...I think I peed a little...

"I...uhm uh...I'm the human..." She was now giving me a ""Are you bucking serious?"" look. "No, really I am, Twilight Sparkle was experimenting  on me with magic, and when she tried transformation magic, well...it worked." This was getting awkward, she was still on top of me..."Could you also get off?"

"Sure, but promise me one thing?" She had a mischievous look in her eyes.

"Okay?" I was hoping it would not be anything to insane.

She then looked me dead in the eyes and stated simply. "Tell me every possible thing you can about your world."

Chapter six: Fun in the library.

"Oh Chris, I was hoping you would come to see me soon, I would really like to run some tests on how magic affects you?" I can only assume she asked instead of putting as a statement in a way of asking me if it was okay if she did this.

"Sure Twilight, might I ask what kind of testing we are going to be doing? Also I have something I really need to talk to you about." I really need to talk to her about the magic I now seemed to possess. "You do know I am here too, right?" Well yeah, but you're me, so you want to know too. "Darn, you're right."

"Chris? Chris are you there?" Well at least she was more tolerating than Applejack.

"Yeah, sorry, been spacing out a bit lately, it's about when you lifted me with your telekinesis."

"Yes okay, what about it?"

"So, I may now have another voice in my head and have the ability to call upon the same amount of strength that I had last night at will..."

"She looked dumbfounded " Uhm, well that is...new, I have never heard of, or read of anypony ever reacting this way to magic."

"Yes, well I'm not a pony now am I? The voice said that it was the dormant part of my brain that is reserved for magic, my body is slowly being adjusted to be far better in pretty much every way. From what it and I know, we share a collective base of knowledge, it is basically the same personality type as me."

"Chris, I think we should begin some testing, I am going to hit you with a minor dizzying spell alright?"

"Uh yeah sure." She proceeded to hit me, I felt nothing...no wait I felt a tingling, the next thing I knew I was standing on some recently charred wood..." Uh Twilight, what just happened?" She looked as surprised as I did.

"Well, I believe your body, or magic, rejected my magic touching it, or absorbed it, and then released it as pure energy."

"Oh, so what I am hearing is I am potentially magic resistant?"

"Yeah, pretty much, we should keep testing though."

About two hours of testing later, and moving to her basement for safety reason later. Within the two hours all the ponies from the party dropped by, all of whom stayed, Zecora of course did not show up, she did not have a lot of reason to come to town.

"Okay, there is one more type of magic I can cast on you, transformation magic, are you ready Chris?"

By now I had gotten the drill, get hit with magic, have something dangerous happen, move on. "Yeah sure, lets do this." I said this quite non-nonchalantly, this is really boring after a while.

"Huh, that's weird, I feel shorter, hey twilight did it work?"

Strangely Rainbowdash spoke first. "Sweet." Now I was worried, what happened, what did  Twilight do to me?

"Well Chris, you could say that it did work yes...just not how I was expecting it to." Initiate panicking...now.

"What did you do?! Get me a mirror, what went wrong!?"

Pinkie pie began to speak now. "Well, it's not baaaaaad... it's actually really cool, but you're gonna need a new name oooooo, maybe something like haurmapf." Thankfully rarity was nice enough to quiet her.

Wondering what pinkie meant. Twilight walked back in holding a body mirror. "Chris, just... don't freak out okay?"

I nodded, she set the mirror down..."I'm a..a pe...Pegasus... how...why." As is my usually response, I fainted.

Waking to find an annoyingly bright sun shining through the window, I brought the pillow to my head with my hooves...hooves? The events of last night hit me like a freight train, before my eyes was stallion pony with a dark brown coat and a jet black mane, to say it was less than settling would be an understatement. I began to scream and holler, loudly.

The first to barge in my room was surprisingly Rainbowdash. "Chris, are you okay?!"

"A little, how and why did you get here so fast?"

"I uh was flying by and heard you scream so I came to see if you were okay."

"Rainbow, I started screaming and in less than a second you ran in." I deadpanned

"Okay so me and the others may have stayed to make sure you would be okay..."

I went to get out of the bed, the way my limbs worked was weird if I thought about moving them it seemed off and kind of forced, but if I just went like how I would with my old appendages movement came very naturally, once again, just plain weird, probably something to do with this janky magic.

I walked down the stairs with Rainbow to see all of the mares sound asleep. "Heh, heavy sleepers ay?"

"Yeah, in their defense though they were up all night worrying about what to do, Twilight, only fell asleep a few hours ago.'

Well, I felt terrible. "Oh, I'm sorry. All this fuss just because I switched from a human to a pony, no big deal." The last few words had sarcasm flowing so thickly through them they were copious to ponies health.

"Well yeah, it is kinda a big deal I mean, I would hate not having my wings, that has to be something like not having your hands." She was really trying to fell for me, this pony was nice...and cute...I am not comfortable with that thought.

"I think that when she changed me last night it affected more than my body."

"What do you mean?"

Trying to come up with a cover up I figured one out pretty quickly. "Oh well, I can't talk to the magical portion of my brain anymore."

"Oh, well that doesn't sound so bad, it was only with you for one day?"

"Yeah, but still it is just a little unsettling." As if to emphasize this point my wings fluttered and move around a bit, forgot I had these.

"Hey Chris?"

"Yeah, whatcha need?"

She was blushing a little...it was adorable...nope come on dude none of those thoughts! "Do you wanna learn how to fly, ya know, using your wings?"

I was sure I was blushing a bit now. "Uh..uhm yeah, I would love to do that, how about tomorrow?"