Invisible

You are still falling, that much you know. You have lost track of time, that tends to happen when you are trapped in a black void.

“Am I dead?” You know nobody else is there, but it feels good to ask, however as you ask you feel as if you are falling faster, you can also hear something burning.

CRASH!

Your whole body shakes, as if you impacted something. You realize that you must be in some sort of container. The question is: Why the hell are you in a container?

You can hear screams outside the container, and what sounds like hooves clopping on a stone surface. “Maybe I landed in a farm,” you think to yourself.

You hear the sound of hooves again, but this time it appears to be approaching you. There appears to be a man and a woman talking, you can’t make out what they are saying but it sounds like they are talking about your container.

“As you wish Princess,” you make out from the man as you hear a door knob turning.

“What the hell?” Your container is opened and two unicorns are revealed. Before you, a white unicorn wearing purple armour,he has a mane with a stripe of light blue through the middle and dark blue on the sides, his light blue eyes are staring into yours as if he is angry. Another white unicorn is behind him, except this one is much taller, has wings, and has a pastel-rainbow mane. “Am I high or something?”

“What are you, and why have you disturbed my kingdom?” She seems pissed, you have no idea what you got yourself into. “Speak creature.”

“I am Josh, I have no idea how I got here.” You honestly don’t know what’s going on, it could be a hallucination, a dream,  or even real, so you decide to be as honest as possible.

“Princess, I do not trust this creature, should we take him in for interrogation?” the one in armour asks. You now know that the tall one is in charge and the one in armour has something to do with police or military. You also know that you most likely won’t like the one in armour.

“Is there something wrong with questioning it here?” You do not like the use of “it”, you realize this is going to be a long day.

The two unicorns bombard you  with questions like “How did you get here?” and “Why did you come here?”, none of which you know. “Look, I have no idea why I am here, how I got here, or what the hell is going on, I just went for a walk at night and ended up in this container somehow.”

“Do not lie creature, you are obviously here for a reason!” You are getting irritated, if they will not believe the truth, should you lie?

“I do believe he is telling the truth, after two thousand years, I know a lie when I see one.” You sigh in relief now that the princess believes you, and damn two thousand years.”Now, I believe introductions are in place” she offers her hoof to shake “I am Princess Celestia and this is Shining Armour, the captain of the Royal Guard.”

You shake her hoof “I am Joshua Tristan, it is a pleasure to meet you.” Maybe this is real, and that old man was right, but you are still suspicious. Only time will tell what is in store for you.

“You must be hungry after being stuck in that box for hours, come with me and we will get you something to eat.” You are surprised, how did she go from suspicion to kindness. “Shining armour, set up an escort to bring Josh to the dining room, and Josh, I am sorry but we can not reveal you to the public at this moment, the ponies might have mixed reactions” Ponies, that is what they are called, whatever.

You choose four guards from the squad that was surrounding the container to escort “the creature” to the dining room. Celestia may trust it, but you do not. Why would a creature land in the courtyard in a burning black container and have no idea why. It doesn’t help that he is the spitting image of the ancient bipeds.

As the captain of the Royal Guard, you are scared. This creature has something off about him, you do not know what, but you just have a feeling that he is trouble. Only time will tell.

You do not trust Josh entirely, but you did not detect any dangerous magic inside of him. There was a strange force, but it was benign. You can tell that Shining Armour does not want anything to do with Josh, which is understandable, but he must learn to deal with it. Josh fits the description of an ancient biped. You have always been intrigued by the ancient bipeds, many of our technology was created by them, but they disappeared many years before you were born.

If he is indeed, an ancient biped, this could change Equestria forever. You think of all the advancements this could make. You do realize that he might not be an ancient biped, but you still would like to get to know him and maybe find out why he is here, after it is proven that he won’t harm my ponies. Only time will tell what is in store for Equestria.

Shining Armour has sent four of his guards to escort you to the dining room to get something to eat. What perplexes you is that the guards all look exactly the same, golden armour, white fur, and light blue eyes. They also seemed emotionless. They sort of remind you of  Coldstream Guards.

The halls the guards escort you through look like they haven’t been used in ages. It makes sense, since they don’t want the citizens seeing you, but what fun is there in making sense?

You walk through more unused hallways for about twenty minutes, it must be a big castle. You eventually reach the dining room. It is big, that is the only thing you can think of. The table has at least fifty seats, most likely meant to seat many nobles. The sealing is very high, with huge golden chandeliers hanging above the table. The windows have depictions of various events, all involving ponies defeating strange monsters.

Princess Celestia was seated at the head of table. “Welcome Josh, please take a seat next to me.” She gestured to me to sit to the left of her. “and welcome, Shining Armour.” She gestured Shining Armour to Sit to the right of her, he had his armour off, revealing a mark of a shield with a six pointed star on his rear, actually, you noticed that all ponies had one of those. You decide to ask about it later.

“Our food will be ready shortly, now Josh, I would like to know a little better.” You hope she won’t ask questions that you can’t answer, you don’t want to lose her trust and get thrown in a dungeon or something. “Where are you from?”

“Gardner, Massachusetts, but you probably have no idea what that is though.” Seeing as you are in a kingdom full of talking ponies, you are pretty sure she won’t know what it is.

“I cannot say I do, what nation is it in?” She most likely won’t know that either.

“United States” You tell her anyway, she might know what it is.

“That does not ring a bell either, but Massachusetts does sound similar to Maressachusetts.” Great, pony puns for locations.

“Oh well, there wasn’t much to Gardner anyway.” It’s true, Gardner is just a bunch of three deckers and falling-apart houses.

“Thats a shame, but I must excuse myself for a moment.” She gets up and leaves the dining room leaving you with Shining Armour, great, just what you need.

“Celestia may trust you but I do NOT!” This is going to be a long night for you.