A sailor's tale in Equestria

by Cadances Paladin

Rating: teen
Tags: Slice of Life, Human
Length: 3227

Jimmothy, a captain of a cargo transport ship, was always a rough neck, but what happens when lightning and a little magic causes his life to change, when he enters a new world?

A man named Jimmothy is a sailor, well the captain of a ship, but a sailor none the less, and he loves his job, but he never expected his life could come to living in a world of talking equines!

"Whoa….. Am I dead yet?"
"Are you a SPY?"
"I found a way for him to get back home!"

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-10-07 08:24:00 UTC

The portal opens.

Somewhere in the Atlantic ocean....

It was a cold, stormy afternoon on The Hyena, and the ship couldn't have had to have left the docks of Miami, Florida, on a rainier day then this! The Hyena was a cargo transport ship, and was always ready for any job it was hired to do, and the captain of the ship, Jimmothy Smith, had stayed in his room, holding his cutlass, which he inherited from his father who inherited it from his father and son and so forth, with him incase any of the prisoners they were transporting were to escape somehow. Jimmothy was a young Caucasian man, with blue eyes, and long brown hair, long enough to cover his eyes. Jimmothy rocked back and forth in his chair, waiting for someone to knock on his door to give him something to do instead of wait. Although he was only 24 years old, Jimmothy was still the captain of the ship, and his crew members obeyed him like they would any other captain.

Curious, as to what time it was since there was no clock in his room, he checked his IPhone to see the time. "Great," Jimmothy began "It's the middle of the day, 12:46 PM, and we're still in the Atlantic ocean, trying to find a course to Washington D.C."

He complained some more, then went to check out what was taking them so long. He put on his red hoodie, underneath he wore a red t-shirt and wore his black jeans, and went out on the deck of the ship, still holing his cutlass and it's holster, and shouted "WHAT'S TAKING YOU ALL SO LONG?!" then realized no one was on board the vessel anymore.

"Something's up Jimmothy," He said to himself "There's something not right going on, and I feel like I know what." He continued, holding his cutlass with him at the ready, in case anything got on the ship tha could've killed his crew.

Jimmothy went out farther onto the deck, and noticed that all of his men were killed, they either were stabbed, or appeared to be strangled. "They've been released somehow..." Jimmothy said, realizing the prisoners were free "Now, the question is.... Where are they?" Jimmothy said, as he felt someone's presence get closer. The presence got bigger and bigger, and with one swift move, Jimmothy turned around and slashed the sword at one of the four prisoners who escaped.

"Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. Did your mother never tell you," Jimmothy said, as a smile grew on his face "NEVER! Battle a captain, on his own ship!" Then took the sword and plunged it into the prisoner's chest "I am Captain Jimmothy, the ruler of this ship, and I am it's sworn protector!"

Jimmothy took out the sword, and pushed the prisoner down, watching his body be pelted by rain, and then hit the cold metal floor beneath them. Another prisoner came by and said "Well! Didn't think we'd have to resort to THIS!" as he jumped down from a cargo crate, and landed on his dead friend "So, how you wanna die little boy?" The prisoner asked.

Lightning stuck out in the distance, and Jimmothy stood there and said "I'm not going to die, not now, not today, but another," As he readied a fighting stance "Prisoner 226543!" Then charged at the prisoner, and was met by another, who tried punching the captain, but hit the cargo crate next to them instead, breaking the bones in his hand.

As the prisoner with the broken hand screamed in pain, Jimmothy stabbed his other hand with a smaller dagger he concealed in his hoodie. "Now, welcome to MY ship gentlemen! Rule 1: If you break out of your holding cells, you die! No exceptions!" Jimmothy said, then continued to fight with the other prisoner.

It was a ruthless battle between Prisoner 226543 and Jimmothy. The two had begun to at first fist fight, then resorted to kicking at one another, but each other's attacks were stopped by the other who blocked the attacker's technique. Jimmothy, tired of the fighting, decided to end it, and pulled his sword out on the prisoner, and said "Well mate, here's your end. Shame you know, I won't get paid for dead prisoners...."

Then went to stab the prisoner, but the ship was struck by lightning, and created an explosion nearby, thankfully for Jimmothy, he blocked the dibree by spinning his sword, but the explosion had sent Jimmothy flying into a nearby whirlpool, along with everything he held with him.

Jimmothy landed dead center in the whirlpool, and he was trying to get to the surface of the water to breathe, he couldn't handle the pressure beneath him. Gasping for air, he shouted "NO! I won't leave without a fight!" But was stopped by the pulling of the torrent of water, and was sucked into the water. As he continued down, not being able to swim up, the area around him began to change, and Jimmothy thought "This is my end....." And closed his eyes.

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Twilight Sparkle, a lavender alicorn mare with a dark purple mane and tail which each had a pink stripe in them, left her house and was glad she had a day off from her duties for the Princess. Twilight knew where she'd spend her afternoon, over at the Ponyville lake, lying down and relaxing in the sun, or swimming in the water to keep herself cool. Instead of walking there, Twilight decided to be lazy and teleport to the lake. As Twilight teleported, anypony who noticed her teleport would've seen a purple orb flash right where she was. Once there, Twilight got her things ready to relax, and sat down in her chair, holding a book she got herself to read when she wasn't busy.

After an hour of reading, Twilight noticed something wash up ashore of the lake. Wait, what? Nothing just "washes up ashore of a lake"! but it could've landed in the lake at some point. Twilight went to check out what it was, and saw the thing wearing a red hoodie, and a long metal object was next to it, which had a long curved piece of metal sticking out of one end. Twilight heard a moan coming from the object in front of her, realizing it was alive. "Oh no! I've got to get you to someplace safe!" Twilight said, as she picked up the... whatever it was next to the living being, then teleported herself, and the being to her house.

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Jimmothy moaned, and tossed and turned in his sleep, feeling the pain of the explosion. "Oh man..... this hurts so much!" Jimmothy said, as he began to wake up, then tried to get out of bed. He didn't notice it right away, but he was inside a wooden house, and was surrounded by books, books by the shelves! "Huh, someone must love books here." He said to himself, then went downstairs, and what he noticed couldn't make him believe in reality anymore.

"Oh, you're awake and moving!" Twilight said, as she was looking for a book, with her assistant Spike looking around shelves. "My name's Twilight Sparkle, and this is my assistant Spike!" She said, holding a hoof towards the purple and green dragon looking for the correct book.

Jimmothy couldn't help but scream, and then shouted "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!" wondering how he ended up with a talking unicorn, which was candy colored.

"Me?" Twilight asked "I'm an Alicorn. What are you?"

Jimmothy stood there, atop the stairs, confused at the current situation, looking around to see if there was any stings attached to walls for puppetry happening around him "Whoa.... Am I dead?" Jimmothy asked, then felt a pain in his side, greater then earlier.

"Careful!" Twilight warned "You're not dead, but you're very much hurt! I don't know how, but it seems you've broken a few of your bones there!" Twilight said, examining Jimmothy's body "By the way, here's your sword, I hope this is yours at least." Twilight said, giving the cutlass to it's respectful owner.

"This is my cutlass!" Jimmothy said, picking up the sword from the unicorn who was holding it with her magic for him. "Uh... where am i exactly?" Jimmothy asked "what country is this? What's going on?!" Jimmothy said, bombarding the lavender unicorn with questions.

"The country? You're in Equestria, at my place here in Ponyville." Twilight explained, then went on to explain as much as she could about everything that happened in Equestria's past, while trying not to freak out Jimmothy.

"wow...." Jimmothy said "A world of talking ponies, that live under a talking pony princess, that's a winged unicorn, who raises the sun while her sister raises the moon, and everything is peaceful...." Jimmothy continued, trying to take it all in "Well, I'd say I'm dead! So, anyone here know what a human is?"

Twilight looked confused "Human? Hm.... OH! Zecora might know, come one, we'll go see her!" Twilight said, pulling Jimmothy out of the library and towards the zebra's hut in the Everfree forest.

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"Hmmm...." Zecora began "Different, he seems to be. However, his species is unknown to me." Zecora said, looing deep into Jimmothy's eyes, trying to figure out what he was.

"Yes, I'm human. You know, something looking like me, but we all look different from one another, as well as sexes." Jimmothy explained "Ever heard of the planet Earth?" Both he zebra and unicorn stood there, confused as to what he just said. "You know, big blue planter, has the U.S.A, a lot of war going on." Jimmothy explained, giving no detail in the slightest about Earth.

"I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about." Twilight said "What about you Zecora?"

"This place you speak of. To me, it's knowledge is above." Zecora said, looking through one of her books.

Twilight sighed "Thanks anyway Zecora. Come on-!" Twilight said, before realizing she didn't know this.... stallion in her eyes, then asked "Oh, uh... What's your name?"

Jimmothy was looking at the floor beneath them, and what Twilight asked made him glance up and say "Hm? Oh, my name's Jimmothy. I'm the captain of The Hyena cargo transport. Or I was, until my ship was ransacked by the prisoners aboard it. " Jimmothy explained, as he put his hands in his pockets.

Twilight ignored the last part, and said to Jimmothy "Come on Jimmothy, we're going to go find you a place to stay!"

To be continued....

A place to stay.

Jimmothy and Twilight had left the hut in the middle of the forest, and ran straight back for town. Once there, Twilight began to ask herself "Where would be a good place for you? Where.... Pinkie, Applejack, Fluttershy's?" Twilight began, then looked back to Jimmothy "Do you know anypony here?"

Jimmothy facepalmed and said "If I knew anyone here, do you think I'd be questioning this place?" then looked for his phone. He found his IPhone, but soon realized that it wouldn't work with all the water that it was in, so he just put it back into his pocket and kept walking through the town.

Jimmothy and Twilight had walked for what felt like hours, meeting mares and stallions that Jimmothy didn't feel anything good about, and every time the two had walked closer to somepony Jimmothy hadn't liked from the look of them, Jimmothy would ready his cutlass, as he always assumed anypony to be an enemy unless proven otherwise. This was short lived, as Twilight told him to not take it out when they went to the next five places before heading back to her library.

The two had went virtually everywhere! They firstly went to Sugar Cube Corner, where Jimmothy met a crazy pink pony with pink poofy hair, and three balloons on her sides, named Pinkie Pie, who gasped for air when she met Jimmothy, then dashed out of the bakery. "Probably trying to find a place to hide from me... Zecora was shocked when she saw me, who knows about that chick..." Jimmothy thought when he saw Pinkie Pie dash out of the bakery.

They then went to a farm outside of town, and met a family of apple farmers. They met a small filly, with a red mane and tail, the mane held up by a bow, and a light yellow coat, who then in turn introduced Jimmothy to her brother, sister, and grandmother. The pony Twilight introduced Jimmothy too was the little girl's sister, Applejack. Applejack was an orange earth pony mare, with a blonde mane and tail that were both held by red bands, three apples on her sides, like the pink mare from earlier, skin and everything, and wore a Stetson atop her head, symbolizing she was the head of the household. She was... rather annoying, her thick country accent had pushed this onto Jimmothy, and Jimmothy declined the invitation.

They then kept on moving, and met a cyan pegasus with a spectrum mane and tail, who flew faster then a jet! The three talked for a while, but Jimmothy didn't need to decline the invitation on living with the rainbow headed mare, as she lived in a bunch of clouds, something Jimmothy could never do.

Jimmothy and Twilight then went to the edge of a forest, where Jimmothy saw a light yellow pegasus mare, who had three pink butterflies on each of her sides, again skin and everything, who seemed a bit timid of Jimmothy. He tried to talk to the mare, who said her name was Fluttershy, the best he could, but when ever he asked a question, she'd whimper a bit and whisper an answer. Jimmothy decided, though he felt rally bad about doing so, to not live with this mare.

They arrived back in town, and Twilight saw her friend Rarity, who said to Twilight as she walked over to her "Twilight, Darling, how are you? And who's this?"

Twilight smiled at her friend, happy to see another of her friends was happy to meet Jimmothy, and said "This is Jimmothy, I found him back at the lake, passed out nonetheless, and I brought him to my house, then later took him to see Zecora." as she extended a hoof towards Jimmothy.

Jimmothy extended a hand to shake Rarity's hoof, and said "Hi, I'm Jimmothy. It seems no one, not even this 'Zecora' could tell I'm human." as he shook Rarity's hoof "Now, we're looking for a place for me to stay at, till we can find me a way home at least."

"A way home, are you lost Jimmothy?" Rarity asked, as she set her hoof on the ground, then turned to Twilight and said "Also Twilight, he could stay with me if he'd like!"

Both Twilight and Jimmothy replied. "Well, I know one thing, this isn't Earth, my home, so I'm either dead or in a different universe." Jimmothy told Rarity. "Well, Jimmothy can if he wants to... Do you want to live with Rarity, Jimmothy?"

Jimmothy turned to Twilight, and said "I'm not sure, I think I'll stay at the library with ya,"

Rarity raised a hoof and said "Nonsense! you're going to live with me! Besides, Twilight gets busy with her studies everyday, and she needs to focus on them. Well, she says so, but my work isn't as hard as hers! You're going to live with me, OK?"

Jimmothy took note of Rarity's persistence, and said "Well, aren't you a generous soul? Definitely worth protecting and saving my friend! Please, let me go get my things, and then once that happens, we shall depart to your home of residence. Are we at an agreement?" as he stuck out his hand again, wanting a hand shake to symbolize Rarity's agreement to his plan.

Rarity put her hoof into Jimmothy's hand, and for her, even though Jimmothy seemed to be a tough... whatever he is, his hand was soft to the touch, like a foal when you hugged it. Rarity's face turned a shad of red, and said "Well thank you Jimmothy! And yes, darling we're at an agreement." And the group was off to the library.

Once at the library, Jimmothy picked up the things he had with him that were left at the library while he went to Zecora's with Twilight. Jimmothy picked up the one thing that seemed to have com along with him, besides his sword.... his wallet, with everything he had about him in it. "OK, let's head out Ms. Rarity." Jimmothy said, before heading out the small front door of the library.

The walk was long, for Jimmothy at least, since he didn't know where to go, but the Jimmothy and Rarity finally made it to Carosoul Boutique, the place Jimmothy would call home. Rarity opened the door, then walked inside with Jimmothy following her inside. "So, this is your place? A tailor's shop?" Jimmothy asked "Well, beggars can't be choosers all the time."

Rarity giggled at what Jimmothy said, for a reason even unknown to her, then said "Come with me Jimmothy, I'll show you your room." then took Jimmothy upstairs to the guest room, conveniently the room closest to hers, and opened the door, showing the room with just a bed and dresser. "I'm sorry if it's a bit under decorated Jimmothy, I don't get a lot of overnight visitors that stay a while."

After Rarity told Jimmothy the truth, she heard the front door open, and also heard a filly walking in and saying "Rarity! I'm back from mom and dad's!" then went downstairs to greet her little sister. "Sweetie Belle! I'm glad to see you Sweetie. Jimmothy, come down stairs please!" She lastly said to the young male upstairs in the guest room.

Jimmothy walked downstairs, where he saw the alabaster unicorn mare with a purple curled mane and tail with a young white unicorn filly, with a curly light pink and light purple mane and tail, and said to the filly "Hey, the name's Jimmothy. What's your name?"

"I'm Sweetie Belle!" The eager young filly replied, as when she said her name, she also jumped into the air "What kind of pony are you?"

Jimmothy laughed a bit, and said "I'm not a pony, I'm a human. So," Jimmothy continued, before turning to Rarity "What are the plans for today?"

"Well, it's getting awfully late." Rarity began, as she headed for the kitchen "I'll go make us some dinner. Would you like soup, or a salad Jimmothy?" Rarity offered, as she got down the needed ingredients for both soup and salad.

"A soup for me please, never enjoyed eating salads..." Jimmothy began "Besides, I've had soup for the past couple weeks now, being on my ship I had low choices on food, so soup was the major choice. Yeah, so having soup for dinner has become a custom thing for me." Jimmothy said, walking into the living room with Sweetie Belle following him. Jimmothy hadn't been wearing his hoodie this time, nor his shirt, and he just waked into the living room casually, not wearing a shirt at all. Jimmothy also didn't have his sword with him, something that had been a major change for a while.

To be continued...