I shook my head fervently as I tried to keep my mind on track. I truly didn't want to go through another mental reboot. "Focus!" I told myself.

After the initial shock had passed, I stood and turned to face the powerful draconequus. He rolled his eyes slightly. "Let me guess." He preempted. "Oh no! It's Discord, the chaos god who nearly threw Equestria into an all-out debauchery of chaos and disharmony! Wont somepony please help me! or something like that." He mocked, somehow pulling out a marionette of a pony from thin air as he did so.

I rolled my eyes at this, deciding to save myself the headache and ignore the lack of logic he had displayed. After all, he was the God of Chaos. "Nice to meet you too, I suppose." I replied, to his pleasant surprise. "I was just reading about you."

He floated up the book I was reading and began to observe the page I was on. The words all peeled from the pages and shifted themselves to spell "Discord" in big bold letters. "So I see." As he placed the words back and floated the book to its original position, he looked towards me with a friendly, yet mischievous, smile, one fang sticking out of his mouth.

"If you wouldn't mind my asking, what are you doing here?" He chuckled at the question before conjuring up a hammock hanging from two palm trees, much to my mind's logical side's chagrin, and beginning to drink from a coconut that seemed to be filled with chocolate milk.

"Oh, you know. I was just strolling around the neighborhood, adding a bit of mayhem as I strolled along, when all of a sudden, a new source of magic came from out of nowhere. Naturally, I wanted to see what it was, and to my surprise, it was a human!" The coconut drink disappeared from his hand, replaced by an odd newspaper titled, "The Chaos Chronicles". He then proceeded to hand it to me, holding open on a certain page. "It's funny really. My horoscope said something like this would happen." He pointed towards the horoscope section of the paper, under Pisces. True to his word, it stated "You will meet a Human" clearly in black and white.

"...He's a Pisces?" I mentally scolded how I organized my priorities before looking back at Discord. "How do you know about humans?"

Discord stretched in his hammock before crossing his lion and griffon arms behind his head as a pillow. "I've kept track of you, human," He stated calmly, not at all answering my question, "and I would like to make a proposition." He smirked slightly, snapping his fingers and making the hammock disappear, he landed on his two rear legs and stood over me, bending his back so he didn't appear as intimidating. "Before we get to that though, I didn't catch your name."

Another mental scolding afterwards, I quickly responded. "My name is Richard. Like I said before, it's nice to meet you." I stuck out my hand, watching as he happily shook it with his lion's arm. When he pulled away though, the arm disconnected, much like that of a doll, but continued to shake up and down. The amount of mental force necessary to keep from getting a migraine was tremendous. He didn't seem to care too much, however, as he grabbed the shaking arm with the other and nonchalantly reconnected it with a pop and squeak.

"Richard. Very well, then. Now, down to business." He said as he leaned against an invisible wall. "You see, its been a long time since someone like you has been here. A few centuries to be exact." I rose an eye at this out of curiosity.

"There have been other humans here?" He let out a hearty laugh, pounding against the invisible wall and somehow making the actual sound, before soon recovering from his laughing fit.

"Oh, of course not. I mean-" he stopped suddenly, one of his ears twitching as he stroked his goat's beard in thought. "Hmmm... You don't know do you?" He asked.

"Know what?" He let out a sigh.

"Exactly my point. It would seem I came a little too early... Oh well! We have some time before your friend and her assistant come by, so I suppose we can just talk until then." He was definitely odd, even for a chaos god. "He goes from asking a proposition, to asking me if I knew something, then just wanting to flat out talk to me?" I took a moment to gather myself. "Actually, at this point, I'm surprised I wasn't expecting this."

"I have no problems with that. Anything in particular you want to talk about?" The couch I was sitting on was replaced by bunk beds, as he proceeded to place himself on the top one. "Just go with it, Richard, just go with it."

"Actually, yes. First, let me ask you, how had your time in Equestria been so far?"

"Well, I can't really make any judgements yet. I've been here for less than a day, and I've just been sitting here reading."

"Fair enough. Annnnnnnnnnd, the ponies that you've met?"

"They seem nice enough."

"And me?" He continued, looking over his bunk towards me. I took a glance at his upside-down figure once more, noting the attempted face of pretend innocence as I let out a chuckle.

"Unpredictable, Illogical, Mischevious, yet entertaining and playful." His eyes slightly widened as his smile grew in intensity.

"Oh do go on. I suppose that Capricorns really are predictive aren't they."

"Well I-" I froze. "How'd you know I was a-"

"Any who, you wouldn't happen to have the time would you?" I shook my head "no" as he rolled his eyes and gestured to my right wrist. Curious, I looked downwards towards my wrist, shocked to see that there was indeed a watch on it. I rolled back my sleeve to get a better look at it. It was blue and white, hints of red here and there, with two platinum clock hands pointing the Roman numerals of 12 and 6.

"Er, 12:30?" The couch returned to it original place, albeit slightly tilted, as Discord floated downwards.

"I suppose I should get going then. I'll come back to visit when I can, but right now I have to tease Celestia about you. Oh, how fun!" He finished before lowering himself behind the couch as if he were walking down stairs. "Oh, and you can keep the watch!"

I looked over the couch towards where he had escaped my sight, noticing that there was nothing there, nor any proof of him being there. I looked towards my watch in confusion before shaking off an upcoming migraine and deciding to continue my reading.

A few minutes afterwards, the front doors opened again, revealing a floating array of bags followed by a happy looking Twilight, and a struggling Spike as he attempted to hold as many bags as possible. It didn't really take a genius to figure out that they had gotten more than just ink and paper. "We're back!" Twilight called as I made my way towards them and took some bags from both Twilight's magic hold and Spike's struggling grip. They both gave looks of gratitude, one more than the other, as I brought the bags into the living room along with the others.

"So I take it you bought more than just ink or paper?" I asked sarcastically. The two rolled their eyes with smiles as they began to organize what was contained in the menagerie of bags.

"Well, it started of like that, but then I thought that-"

"Twilight thought it'd be a good idea to get all the household supplies we would need for the next three months. She likes to think ahead like that." Spike interrupted, leaving Twilight with a face of shock.

"Only the essentials! Besides, it was a winter sale!" Twilight returned. "Some spices, preservatives, paper towels, soap and shampoo, extra s-" Twilight suddenly stopped in her listing, her nose slightly twitching. "Ugh!" She said as she attempted to cover her muzzle and nose with her fore-hooves. "Speaking of soap and shampoo, have you showered yet?" I gave her a deadpan look. Aside from the two hours that she had just taken to return, when could I have possibly had the chance to shower? "Did I just disprove my point?"

I shook my head, noticing she hadn't caught on to what my expression implied. "Well, then take this and go take a shower. There should be towels in the bathroom." She floated over a bar of soap and an odd scented shampoo that looked eerily familiar to one from my home. However, I just gave her another deadpan look, one that Spike seemed to catch on with. "Um, Twi? I don't think he knows where the bathroom is." Twilight grew a shade of pink below that of purple as she realized her mistake. "Oh, right."

After nearly an entire day of craziness and stress, a hot shower, though slightly cramped due to my size difference, proved to be exactly what I had needed to relax. As the warm water washed away my troubles and the hissing steam cleared my mind, I went through an old ritual of mine to go over how my day had gone.

"Lets review, shall we Richard? First, you woke up in this new world, proving that you weren't simply having a bad dream or hallucinating. Next, you spent most of the morning and afternoon reading books and learning the basics about where you are, during which, Discord visited, introduced himself, and had a small conversation with you before leaving. Finally, you ended the day with a shower. Not a bad day when you look at it from a certain perspective."

I turned off the shower and used one of the nearby towels to wrap around my waist. It wasn't until then that I had noticed an issue that I hadn't seen before. I only had the one pair of clothing I had come in.

"...Fuck."

Ignoring the issue for the time being, I exited the bathroom with the same long-sleeved white shirt and black sweatpants I had entered with. Twilight noticed this immediately as I made my way past her.

"Aren't those the same clothes you were wearing?" I turned towards her and gave a sheepish smile.

"I didn't exactly bring anything else with me. Heh." She gave me the same deadpan look that I had given her.

"Then why don't you take them off? You'll start to smell again if you don't."

"Pardon?!" I exclaimed, a slight tinge of red likely showing through my cheeks. Twilight didn't seem too bothered though, rather she seemed curious towards my reaction. It was a few seconds later that I remembered an important difference between human and stallion anatomy that I had read about. "Um, Twilight, human males don't have... Sheaths..." She grew a blush even greater than mine at this point.

"O-oh." She replied simply. "W-well if you need clothes, then I'm sure Rarity would be happy to help! W-we can go see her t-tomorrow." I nodded in agreement before making my way downstairs, already attempting to erase that embarrassing memory from my mind.

"I reaaaaaallllly hope I never have to explain that again."

Author's Note

And there's another chapter. You guys think I got Discord right? Anyways, as you can probably tell, Discord seems to have future intentions for Richard. Question is, what?

As for Richard, he pretty much knows all he may need to know about Equestria for now, ranging from pony anatomy to changelings. He isn't exactly a scholar, but he has the basics down. As for the whole, Richard cursing thing, I wouldn't worry about it being repetitive. He only curses when he's really annoyed or surprised.

On another note, it seems that Richard is finally going outside of the house. While he's out, I plan on having him give a proper greeting and conversation with the mane six, along with some important sub-characters. Thanks, and see you soon.