A Train to where?

Nolan rubbed his frozen toes, slowly letting the feeling return into them. He had taken temporary shelter in a barn he found. Where it sat was surrounded by apple trees so it was not hard guessing what the ranch was for. He was hiding in the loft behind a bunch of hay bales. He had made himself a spot to sit and take stock of his situation. 'okay, so i'm in Equestria... Okay, but i have no way of getting home... I'm doomed if i can't find this, Twilight sparkle... What have i got to survive with?'

He proceeded to empty out the contents of his pack. First that came out was his Notebook, then his drawing pad, his digital camera, then his school I.D. Followed by a canteen half full of water, an empty mug that had once had coffee in it. Next came come pencils, pens, a calculator, and the clip and holder for his I.D.. last thing was a black tie he threw in there after formal.

'Oh i remember that night, the night i asked out Lacey... Oh yea Lacey must be flipping out right about now... shit.'

He took off his letter man jacket and placed it next to the pile, next came his phone. He took out his wallet and opened it up.

'Okay, forty bucks probably doesn't help me here, Neither dose the driver license... Maybe it might help.'

He tossed it on the stack and sat up on his knees. 'It's not much to work with, but... not much.' He put everything back into his bag, his phone and wallet back into his pockets, and put his jacket back on. He stood up to leave, now fully warmed up, when he watched the barn door open up. He ducked down and got as low behind the hay bale as possible.

'shit shit shit shit'

He heard the steps of whoever it was going from stall to stall feeding pigs, chickens and various other animals brought in from the snow.

'Come on... I AM NOT HERE!'

He listened to the footsteps complete the loop around the barn and began to walk out. Nolan released his breath he didn't know he was holding. Suddenly a dog began to bark and the footsteps stopped.

What now... Please do not have found me...'

"What is it Winona?" Said a female voice with a southern accent.

'Nobody, Nobody is there, here, me...'

"Winona what is it? HELLO?" The voice called out through the barn.

'Not good, not good at all.'

Suddenly a small flock of birds that had been sitting up in the rafters went flying out the barn door and the barking followed. "WINONA!! WINONA COME BACK!!" Nolan listened as the voice and the barking disappeared into the distance.

Nolan peeked over the hay bale and let out a sigh of relief. 'Shit that was close.' He hopped down and got back next to the road and hid behind a large tree. 'Okay, So the ponies don't like me. That's a given, So if i am going to get into town i'm gonna have to sneak in... Fun. Probably best to avoid the road then...'

He began to walk parallel to the road continuing to try his best to remain unseen.

LATER

Once back in town Nolan began to search the town for the library. First he had ended up in a large area of tents where there were booths, farmer stands closed for the winter, and assorted other farmer market type things. The Sun was starting to get low on the horizon. So i should have this place pretty much to myself... Hopefully.

He made his way through the back alleys of the town, only slipping up once and popping out on one of the main streets. Thankfully he had done so unseen. He continued his search for another half-hour before an idea struck him. 'This is going to take me a long time like this. I need to go up...'

Nolan found a building with a semi low beam and heaved himself up onto the roof. Slowly climbing to the roof he saw a that caught his eye. He was a native to Las Vegas, so city lights were nothing to him... But these lights of the town were just... 'Beautiful'

He laid his bag down next to him and laid down on his arms. Looking across this town he could see the town hall, the little farmer market like village to the side, a small pavilion where there was a small hub of ponies. All the doubt, the fear, the anxiety was purged from his system. He felt like he was lying on a cloud looking over a god like city. It captivated him. He could have kept him there for hours, but his eyes shot to a large house built into a tree with a sign on the front with a book on it.

'If that ain't the library I don't know what would be.' Nolan jumped down and sneakily he made his way down the alleys towards the large tree house.

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Nolan sat in a bush outside the backdoor pondering how he was gonna go about this... 'So i could just walk straight in and ask for help... Simple and should have a good turnout. or the pony in there could kill me... Let's see I could sneak in and probably get in trouble for spying... And if they do want to kill me i can run... I'm cold.'

Nolan continued to ponder when he heard the flap of wings, A blue pony with wings and a rainbow mane came blasting through one of the window of the library. The window sat on an angled portion of the tree with a small branch that could hold him.

'Spying it is... Silent, Silent like an Urban ninja.'

He heaved himself up noisily onto the out facing branch and sat there a moment to catch his breath. 'Damn, that was much higher than it looked.'

He pressed his face against the glass and looked inside, There where three ponies talking inaudibly, the blue winged one, the green unicorn from earlier, and a purple unicorn. Well which the hell one is it.'

messing with the window a bit he was able to pop it open and listen in to the conversation below.-

"Lyra, are you sure, Remember the last time you claimed there was a human in Ponyville?" Asked the purple unicorn.

"I'm serious, I ran right into him, I was not dreaming. Ask Lily, she saw him two, she was the one who alerted the town in the first place. What about you Rainbow? Did you see him?" Asked the one Apparently called Lyra.

'Wow, I thought bronies were crazed... This is just backwards.'

"-Not be dragged into this subject, I'm just here because Fluttershy said Twilight could use my help." Said the blue winged one... 'Rainbow's her name, strange...'

"Help me? Why would she say that?" said the purple Unicorn. 'That's her, That has got to be Twilight Sparkle the yellow one told me. Yes!'

Nolan shot his fist into the air with the feeling of success in his heart, which was soon replaced by fear. He was falling in through the window without any form of catching himself. "AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" Nolan careened the base of the library when he stopped right above the ground level... "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHaahhaa... Hi." Nolan looked around him, he was surrounded by a purple glow, the source was the horn of the unicorn Twilight.

"I TOLD YOU SO!" Lyra blurted out as Nolan was dropped to the ground.

"I can't believe it..." Twilight said gawking at Nolan on the ground rubbing his behind, mumbling something about his ass.

Rainbow then and there in all her glory flew with fright to the second story balcony overlooking the library.

"They do exist." Twilight began to circle him staring at him.

"Um. Hi."

"IT TALKS!" Twilight blurted out suddenly.

Nolan stood up and dusted himself off. "Of course I talk, I am a..." Nolan was cut off by another blurting of Lyra.

"A human, I have read about so much about your kind. I have so many questions." Lyra pushed Twilight aside and stood directly in front of Nolan.

Rainbow jumped down of the balcony onto Lyra pushing her to the ground. She flared her wings probably trying to threaten Nolan. "ARE YOU A SPY?" She pointed an accusing hoof at Nolan.

Nolan raised an eyebrow and did an mighty odd thing for someone in his position. He took the hoof and shook it. "The names Nolan, Nolan Theodore Croco, Captain of the Star ship Enterprise.

Rainbow dropped her wings and her hoof went limp, obviously not what she was expecting. Twilight in the mean time got up, pushed rainbow off of Lyra, then helped her up. This was Nolan's first good look at one of the ponies without being in shock. They stood at the same height he did, and the arch of the back sat roughly at Nolan's stomach level. Basically the same size as him but... ponies.

"I've never seen anything like you. What was your name, Nolan. The names Twilight Sparkle." She extended her hoof which Nolan took and shook. "And you are the captain of the Star ship what?"

Nolan let out a small chuckle, "Oh never mind that. I was kidding about the captain bit... So where exactly where am I? A Yellow winged one told me I was in Equestria." He dropped his backpack to the ground and relaxed a bit.

"Yellow Winge... Pegasus?" Twilight asked. Lyra and Rainbow meanwhile had settled to the side and where chatting inaudibly about what was going on.

"Pegasus... THAT'S IT. Yea, with pink hair." He snapped his finger with the remembered notion of the name.

"Fluttershy, That explains why she sent rainbow over here, probably thought you were dangerous." Twilight glanced over to the two. Lyra was laughing at if all that was true, the hero Fluttershy was hoping for had run when Nolan fell in.

"I suppose, Why does everybody hide from me?"

"Because we have never seen a human in Ponyville, Let alone Equestria before." Twilight continued to walk circles around Nolan.

"Ponyville?"

"The town you're in." Rainbow tossed in before Twilight could say it.

"Oh... Makes sense." Nolan took off his coat, it was quite warm in the library. The extra layer was not necessary.

"WOW, DID YOU JUST REMOVER SOME OF YOUR FUR?" Rainbow jolted back at the simple maneuver.

"No no Rainbow. That was just some pants he took off." Lyra said poking at Rainbow correcting her.

Nolan could not contain himself, He burst out laughing. His laugh was a deep, Smooth laugh, not evil, but smooth like Water washing over a path of stones.

"What?" Lyra asked, nervous that what she had said was wrong.

"These are pants." Nolan said shaking the khaki shorts he was wearing. "More specifcly Shorts. What I took off was a jacket." Nolan said chuckling.

"Oh... I see." Lyra said looking at Twilight who shrugged.

"See you don't know everything about humans." Rainbow said, Poking Lyra back.

"Well at any rate, Twilight Fluttershy said you could help me. The first order of business is if you know anywhere I can stay While i'm stuck here."Nolan said With a slightly lost expression.

"OO OO OO!! HE CAN STAY WITH ME!" Lyra pretty much screamed.

Nolan gave a worried and scared look over at Twilight. "Lyra, I don't think Bon Bon would like to have a human sleeping on her couch. What about You Rainbow?"

Lyra gave a depressed sigh, "You're right, she would not see of it."

Rainbow got a nervous look and looked at the wall. "Oh, Look at the time gotta feed Tank." She took off and in a flash of rainbows she was gone.

"Tank" Nolan asked.

"Rainbow's Turtle. I guess your staying with me." Twilight said shooing Lyra out of the library.

"Thank you Twilight, I thought that NOBODY here wanted me." Nolan said picking up his bag.

"They don't." Twilight said trying to give Nolan a sympathetic smile.

"What... Then why..." He dropped his bag again and looked hopefully at Twilight.

"Lyra has read many books on human's... The most we have on them is something you called... World War 2. The history book talked much about the way the Nazi Party tortured so many." Twilight said shaking her head. "We trusted you because you didn't match any of the descriptions or pictures in the book. They had blonde hair blue eyes. Your clearly brown haired green eyed. Not to mention you wearing something completely opposite to the black uniforms."

"But that doesn't change what Lyra has told the others i suppose." Nolan said sitting down on his backpack reasting his head on his heads.

"No, not until we show you to everypony tomorrow?" Twilight said smiling.

"What?" Nolan shot up and looked at her as she was heading up the stairs.

"Oh never-mind. You will find out in the morning. Come here." She said disappearing up the stairs.

"Um... Okay I guess. That doesn't explain why you trusted me in the first place." Nolan said following her up into what looked like a small lounge with a couch, coffee table and a door, probably to where Twilight lived.

"Lyra at the time was trying to convince that a human had come to Ponyville, and a different one at that. She was telling us that we should look for you when you came crashing in." She said pulling out a blanket and pillow out and setting it on the couch. " You may sleep here, Me and the girls will tell you more in the morning."

"Um, Okay. Real quick question. What is the chance of me getting home?" Nolan asked looking hopefully at Twilight.

Twilight let out a sigh, "Being as we don't even know how you got here, or where your home is. I don't know. good night Nolan."

"Good night Twilight, and thank you."

Twilight hit the few switches by the door which turned the lights out in the library. Nolan laid his backpack by the couch and laid down. 'At least they have couches in this place. But I wonder if i will ever see or talk to Lacey or Kyle... What have i gotten myself into... I guess it's better than one of Mr. O's Field trips.'