... Is anyone going to say anything?

It was rather stressful really, watching all six ponies in front of me seem to slowly process my name and species. No words were said, leaving Spike and I to quietly watch the others in confusion. Apparently, he was wondering the same thing I was. It wasn't any more than a few seconds later when Twilight suddenly broke the silence.

"Human? Definitely a new species... Would you mind if I asked you some questions, Richard was it?" She asked suddenly, being the first to beat her friends out of their stupor. As sudden as the question was however, I felt that I couldn't simply say no to her. After all, if I met a sentient being back home that had claimed to be from a different world, I would likely do the same. Plus, I certainly couldn't decline when it gave me the perfect opportunity to ask her some questions myself. In fact...

"Um... Sure, I guess. But would you mind if I asked about some things as well. After all, I still don't have the faintest idea of what's happening." Twilight nodded, before her horn drew the same glow it bore before. Quickly afterwards, a notepad and quill seemingly popped out of nowhere in a flash, floating towards each other in the air as the familiar purple aura surrounded them.

"Alright then. Name: Richard. Species: Human. Ok, we're all set!" she stated happily, smiling towards me as I nodded with an unsure confirmation. "First question. About how tall are you?" Aside from my initial shock, I shrugged off the idea of floating implements as I took hint to the fact that she was basically making a report about me. I could only hope that it wasn't a bad sign.

"About 5'6." I mentally hazarded a guess as I said this, Twilight's furious scribbling in the background. The ponies from this world seemed to be, relatively speaking, around four to five feet tall, considering the fact that they were about a head or so shorter than me, only reaching my chest height. When I heard that Twilight had stopped writing, I glanced to her, noticing she was watching me with a slight smile.

"My turn, I suppose... How are you doing that?" I stated simply as i gestured to her floating purple implements, no longer able to take the mental stress of attempting to figure it out myself. Her face shifted to one of confusion.

"Doing what?" She asked. Seemingly oblivious to what I meant. Had such a thing simply come natural to her?

"That." I continued, this time pointing towards the notepad and quill. "Is that some form of telekinesis or..." I trailed off, hoping she would fill in the blanks that continued to bewilder me. Realization hit her quickly, and her eyes widened as she glanced towards the subject of the matter.

"Oh, you mean magic?"

"Magic?" I asked skeptically, looking towards the floating objects with unease. Was she being serious, or was she simply attempting to joke around?

"Yes, magic. You know, spells, books, etcetera. Don't they have magic where you come from?" She asked.

"No. Well, in a way. Humans have a sort of, idea of magic, but most of it involves trapdoors and illusory tricks. No full blown magic however." Thankfully as well. If the human race, as powerful and violent as it already was, had access to something as powerful and various as magic, at least from what I've read, there would be no hell that could compare to that type of chaos. Nonetheless, I was still skeptical about the idea of her being able to use magic. After all, there was no such thing... Right?

"Really? So, nothing like this?" She asked me as her horn slightly grew brighter, swiftly enveloping the couch that was behind me. In a flash, it turned into a chicken, then a flower, then back to a couch in rapid succession. Startled, I stumbled back, yelping slightly as I did so.

"No! None of that where I come from!" I exclaimed in surprise. Any doubt I had originally had was now well beyond incinerated in the confines of my mind, instead turning into a slight twinge of fear towards the unicorn. In a matter of seconds, she had just shown me the impossible, keeping her implements floating the whole time without even breaking a sweat.

"My word. A world without magic? That sounds simply dreadful. How do you possibly get by?" Rarity chimed in. The others seemed to have re-arrived from their thoughts as well, as they all looked towards her.

"Um... Rare? Pegasus get by just fine without magic. Same with Pinkie, Applejack, and other ground ponies." Rainbow Dash interrupted bluntly. At this, Rarity's fur seemed to stand on end from the realization of her slight slip of the tongue.

"Oh. Yes, of course." She said with a sheepish smile as she attempted to pull up an already fallen plane. Rainbow Dash and Applejack didn't seem too convinced however, as they proceeded to roll their eyes at her.

"Anyways, back onto the topic at hand. It's your turn to ask a question." Twilight stated, gesturing to me with her fore-hoof. Still slightly in shock from her display of ability, I shook myself free from my state, nodding in gratitude as she reminded me, before thinking over what I should ask next. I had a viable plethora of questions, but my focuses shifted to my current location, rather than a more general question.

"Where am I, exactly? I don't need a geography report of facts, but at the very least, a name for this location." I asked, watching as Twilight opened her mouth to speak... Only to be covered by a pink hoof.

"I got this one Twilight!" Yelled Pinkie Pie. I mentally groaned at this. Please, please, PLEASE don't go overboard again. At the time, I was still in a state of migraine from this pink ponies' previous bout of insanity, so I'd say that such thoughts were understandable at that point.

"You're in Ponyville silly! One of the smaller, yet peppier, towns in all of Equestria." I blinked, and so did Twilight, likely wondering the same thing as me. Did... She just give a simple and informative explanation.

Though I admit that I had no right to think that, considering I hadn't known her long and it was quite possible that this had occurred other times, that one glance into her eyes I had gotten earlier when she had introduced herself was all that I needed to see to show me that, this kind of activity, was not normal for her. And I'd say Twilight knew this as well, judging by her expression.

"O... K? Moving on from that, its my turn again. What does your species diet consist of?" I flinched at this question. Once again, I wasn't too sure about the anatomy of these ponies, but if they were anything like the ones back home, then they wouldn't like this answer.

"Humans are omnivores." Surprisingly, neither she, nor any of the others reacted negatively to this, as if it were normal behavior. She simply nodded, before continuing to scribble on her notepad.

"Wait, you're all okay with that?" I asked, confusion and shock clear in my voice. They all chuckled, before Spike decided to speak up and shed some light on the issue.

"Dude, we've had to deal with sea serpents, griffons, and even the occasional Pegasus fish craving. Just cuz' you eat meat, doesn't mean there's a problem. So long as you don't eat pony that is... You don't right?" I shook my head slowly. Griffons... And ponies that eat fish... This would be the fifth time within a matter of hours that I had needed an internal reboot.

"Hello? Richard?" Twilight's voice came through. I shook my head and brought myself back into focus. These were questions for later, it was necessary to focus on the questions for now.

"Sorry, slipped away there for a second." I replied, as if it were a normal occurrence. "I suppose that my next question would be, who is Princess Celestia? You mentioned her earlier, and I've been rather curious since." Twilight sprang up at this, an extremely cheerful grin on her face. Perhaps she was closer to her mentor than I had originally believed.

"The Princess is one of our monarchs. Co-ruler of Equestria with her sister, Princess Luna, by her side. Not to mention, she's the best teacher I could ask for." She finished her explanation with a cheery expression. Though I will likely never make her acquaintance, Princess Celestia seems to have earned a lot of respect from Twilight. Though, that did leave me unsure as to why there would only be a pair of princesses as rulers, rather than a king or queen.

"Now then, we've established that you're an omnivore, you're taller than most ponies I, or any of my friends have ever met, and you don't have magic. Aside from that, and the more obvious things about you, I'd say there's only one more question I need to ask you." She reviewed. I nodded my head with understanding in return.

"Why are your eyes two different colors?" And just like that, any progress I had made towards exiting my usual social bubble shattered.In all the chaos that had occurred, I had completely forgotten about my eyes.

"I... Was just born like this." I answered slowly and carefully. I felt like I was treading on thin ice at this point. It was one thing to be made fun of by human beings, but in a world where humans don't exist, I truly had no idea how others would react. For all that I knew at the time, two different eye colors could mark you as some kind of omen. The others glanced towards each other, seeming to notice my hesitation.

"You alright Sugarcube?" I heard from Applejack. I glanced towards the others, noticing their looks of concern.

"Fine. Just... A bit of a sensitive topic is all."

"You're eye color?" Rarity inquired. I couldn't blame her, or the others, for seeming so oblivious. After all, they hadn't seen what I'd lived through.

"It's complicated. Lets just say that other humans don't like anything different and leave it at that, please?" They all seemed to still hold curiosity towards the subject, but they stayed silent about it nonetheless.

"Well, for the record, I think they look nice." Twilight stated kindly. I felt a small amount of heat rise to my cheeks as she said this. She was among the few that had ever said something positive about my eyes. So, I smiled.

"If you don't mind, I have one more question." She looked to me and nodded, silently urging me to proceed as she closed her notebook. "How did I get here?" The notebook and quill slightly faltered in the air, as Twilight and Spike both seemed to flinch at the question. The others and I looked at them curiously.

"W-well, you see..." Spike began, before rubbing the back of his head and looking at the floor.

"I... Kind of brought you here... By accident..." Twilight finished, a tinge of red on her cheeks from embarrassment and her ears lowering back towards her head. To her surprise though, I chuckled.

"Heh. I guessed as much. Back home, I heard you talking about a new spell through my mirror. I thought I was just hearing things, but turns out I wasn't." I explained. She seemed to be shocked, to say the least, with her mouth agape in the shape of an "O". She picked up her jaw, literally, and looked towards her assistant.

"Spike, take a note." Within seconds, Spike rushed to another room and returned with a paper and quill at hand. "Bookworm's Hook spell has a slight residual effect, causing-"

"Woah, woah, hang on. You're saying that you brought him here Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asked, interrupting her mid-note.

"Well, technically yes. But I wasn't trying to!" She quickly responded. "If anything, I don't know why the spell brought him here. It was just supposed to find some new books for the library." I had a momentary epiphany at that point.

"I think I may know what went wrong." I said, earning the full attention of Twilight and the others. "Twilight, you see that pile of books there?" I continued, gesturing towards the hardcovers that she had attempted to pelt me with when I arrived. She nodded. "Look through them. See if you can find anything that you don't recognize."

Keeping a grasp on her face of confusion, she proceeded to levitate the books towards her, silently reading the titles of each one before moving it to the side. She continued this process until, around her fifth book, she stopped.

"Huh? 'Reasons to Go'? I...don't remember this book." She flipped the book towards me so that the title cover could be seen. "Is this the book you were talking about?" I nodded, watching as she floated the book my direction. I carefully grabbed it out of the air, unsure of how I should've grabbed something away from magic, before unconsciously checking over the book.

"I think this is the reason I'm here. I was working on this before I was taken here. The spell must have been trying to get the book, but ended up pulling me along with it."

"Wait, you're writing a book?" Spike asked.

"Check it Twi, another egg head like you." Rainbow Dash added in, lightly elbowing Twilight's shoulder. She blushed in response, likely feeling embarrassed. I chuckled again.

"Wait." Twilight suddenly added. "If you were brought here because the spell was looking for a book, then the spell worked?" She questioned, looking to me for confirmation.

"Um... I think s-"

"It worked, it worked, it worked!" She interrupted, glee filling her mind as she began to bounce like Pinkie Pie had.

"Is she always like this?" I ask, looking towards the others for an answer towards her sudden change in mood.

"Only when she gets a spell down. Any other time and shes too busy studying to do anything else." Rainbow Dash answered. I rolled my eyes at her, I smile plastered on my as I did so.

"Nonetheless. It's been fun Twilight, definitely a rather... Unique experience. Though, if you don't mind, I'd like to head back home please." Twilight stopped bouncing almost instantly, freezing up where she stood. This, in turn, made me nervous.

"Twilight, dear?"

"Ya'll right there, Sugarcube?" I could hear her friends asking her, attempting to unfreeze their statue of a friend. I looked towards Spike, hoping he had an answer for this, only to see he had a similar expression as well.

"Twilight?" I asked. There was another pause, before Twilight finally sighed and broke her silence.

"The thought... Hadn't even occurred to me..." She said sadly. I raised an eyebrow at this, similar to her friends.

"Sending me home? You were distracted, I would hardly call that a reason for being so sad." She remained silent again, not even taking a glance towards my direction. It was at this point that Spike decided to speak up.

"Oh man... I don't know how to tell you this but... I don't think you can go back." I stopped my mind dead in any tracks that it had been attempting to pass. It wasn't a mental reboot, like before, but the beginnings of a breakdown.

"... Excuse me?" I asked, a tone of blankness in my voice. I glanced towards the others, noticing their shocked expressions as well.

"It... The spell was only meant to find and bring new books. It was never made to send them back... It's a one way spell..."

...

I had kept relatively calm to this point. When I saw the ponies, all I did was scream. When I saw the dragon, all I did was gawk. Even when what would normally be facts in my world were turned to fiction, I simply reboot and moved on. This however, was something different.

"One way... I can't go back? I CAN'T GO BACK!?!" I yelled in anger and fear. Mostly though, it was fear.

"Please, do calm down dear. There's no need to-"

"Calm down? CALM DOWN?! HOW in the name of HELL am I supposed to be CALM about this?!? Earlier today, I was just walking home, thinking about what would be on the news today and whatever else could possibly pass my mind. NOW I'm in a different world, with talking beings that were basically farm animals back in my world, and I find out that I may be stuck here for lord knows how long and you ask for me to CALM DOWN!" She and the others had all backed away, none of them, not even the two from earlier, had dared to mess with me while I was like this.

I looked towards Twilight, only seeing her back as she was turned away from my direction, and I felt another twinge of anger go through me.

"Everything has a loophole. EVERYTHING! There must be some way for you to send me back, there HAS to be!" I yelled, almost pleading, with both her and my mind, to tell me that there was a way.

"..." She didn't answer. I knew all too well what that had meant for me, as I felt something I hadn't felt in years.

"Everyone in this room, get out. The best thing any of you could do is give me some space to settle this." I told them in a sharp and cold tone.They stayed where they were, slight confusion on their fear ridden faces. I corrected myself quickly, failing to hide any of the anger I was attempting to suppress. "EVERYPONY OUT OF THIS ROOM NOW!" They were gone in an instant, dragging Twilight with them and closing the door to another room with a panicked slam.

I looked towards the door they had left through, then back to the floor, before finally letting out what I had pent up when I was told I couldn't return. I clutched my book, the only true possession that I had from my home, closer to my chest, and then, I began to cry. It was bittersweet of me to see the tears that had alluded me for all these years, choosing to finally show themselves when they were needed most.

Despite the pain I felt in my back, I sat and laid myself against the couch I had earlier awoken in, unable to stand while I wallowed any longer. I lost track of how long I stayed in that room, alone, crying, but eventually, the stress and fatigue of the eventful day had caught up with me as I soon slept with my fallen tears.

"... I suppose the mind can only take so much." I first thought to myself as I slowly stirred from my involuntary sleep. I took several glances around me, desperately hoping that everything was just a crazy dream. Of course, I was greatly disappointed when I saw otherwise.

I removed myself from the couch, noticing that the pain in my back had become much more bearable and that my glasses were streaked with dried tears. I quickly cleaned them as best as I could, walking towards a nearby window as I did so. I put them back on, ignoring the remaining stains on the glass, as I looked out the window towards the night sky.

The constellations were different, not that I imagined that they wouldn't, but the color and appearance was the same. Many worlds, but they share the same sky, one sky. It was something small, a simple choice of words I had once heard, but somehow, it helped to soothe me as I regrettably came to terms with my situation. I was stuck there and there was nothing I could do.

I glanced around myself once again, eyeing the library of books around me. I wasn't going to be able to get anymore sleep, not after the day I had gone through. Sighing to myself, I grabbed a history and anatomy book at random, before sitting myself down on the couch once more and beginning to read. As I did so, I glanced towards the blank covered book with the scarcity written title on the front, the very reason I was here. It was at that moment, that I recalled the same thing that I had always told myself to pull through a situation.

"I'm blaming an inanimate object for being randomly chosen by a magical unicorn that was experimenting with its baby dragon assistant. As I replayed this thought over and over in my mind I let out a shallow chuckle. "To each their own... I suppose."

Author's Note

There's chapter 3 guys. I'll be honest here, writing this chapter was a living hell. It's one thing to keep up conversations between 8 people (Technically 6 ponies, a dragon, and one person.), plus having to show Richard completely lose his schïzzer for the first time in the story. Once again, I look forward to any creative criticism and tips you have towards the chapter. If you spot any mistakes, just point them out to me with a message and I'll fix it right away.

P.s. Special thanks for GMP for his referencing towards a video. Really helped me out with characters.

P.s.s. I hid an old video game reference in the text for you readers to spot. Anyone who finds it will earn an Internet cookie from me. :3