Chapter 1 (1/2)

                                                     Chapter 1 - Best Welcoming Ever

You know... I really feel awful here, in this damp and depressing cave: life feels like it is coming to an end... I've been stuck here in this magical shithole for about a month now, living with this unicorn named Twilight Sparkle. Now that I have come to peace with the fact that I'm going to die here, I've decided to leave this journal here as a testament… Funny, I don’t really even know what that word means. I suppose I should start at the beginning for whoever is reading this... not that anyone would be reading this. I mean, who is going to find my body in here? Anyways, I was sitting on the bus ride home from school. I was hanging with my friend, working so hard to blend in and seem a normal person. I sat reading my book "Abnormal Psychology" when suddenly my hands are gone.

Now, I was sitting there for a moment like 'what the fuck?' when suddenly everything below my neck disappears. Now, if you have ever tripped and hit your head, let me tell you, that aint shit compared to hitting the inside of your neck on the floor. By this point, everyone in the bus was losing their shit and I had a good head start on them (pun), and I would've been screaming but my lungs weren't exactly attached to my head so I really couldn't do shit but sit lie there on the floor, helpless. A few seconds later, my head caught up with the rest of me and I found myself immediately tackled by what felt like a lizard. It really wasn't that heavy, but hey, you try losing your head and not be in a dizzy spell when you get it back. Now, when I finally got my shit together, I realized I had my hands and legs tied to what felt like a wooden floor, a wooden splintery floor at that, and there was a sac being pulled over my head before I could get a look around. Oh Fuck! Someone drugged me and now Im going to get raped My mind began flashing back to all the things I'd seen on the internet, BDSM, Dominatrix, Bondage, Slave Masters, all of this, I was about to go through it all... and I started crying like a bitch.

"Subject is displaying tremors, possibly due to a dramatic change in climate, and is emitting loud noises, potentially trying to use echolocation or call out for a reply from another of its species."

I stopped my crying when I heard a woman's voice, it sounded dorky, like a bookworm or something. I was calming down my breathing and trying to listen to her description of this subject, when I realized she was talking about me.

"Subject has dark brown hair covering his head and the area between his thighs and the rest is mostly bare, with just a light layer of hair."

It was at that point I realized my clothes didn't get teleported with me. Well... Balls! I sat there, like I had a choice, and just listened to her drone on about my different appendages

"Subject has calmed down and appears docile; I shall place him in a confined space with my assistant Spike to see if he behaves violently."

"Wait, what?!" I heard a voice of a little kid say.

"Don't worry spike, look at how bony he is, I won't let him lay a hoof, or whatever these things are, on you..."

"Ok, I'll do it." The boy said. I was pretty calm by now. I'm actually a docile person, and was even more docile than normal right about then.

I felt myself being dragged somewhere else and then set on the ground on my side.

"Ok Spike, I'm sealing the door, try to stand still on the other side of the room, and we'll go from there. When you are ready, Ill remove the docility spell on him. A docility spell? Maybe I'm dreaming. Perhaps this is a hallucination due to PCBs they put me on. That's cool, I've always been slightly curious about what it would be like.

"Ok Twilight, I'm ready."

Suddenly, I was freaking out again, my heart rate went up, and my eyes went wide. The bag began floating off my head, and I mean literally floating, there was no hand on it. However, my hands were still tied, and I was on my side, so there really wasn't much I could do. So I say there

"Maybe we should try untying him, Twilight." My eyes shot to where the voice was coming from, and there was a little lizard man thing, looked like a kid. Oh yeah, I am so high right now...

"Good idea number one assistant." The voice seemed to be coming from behind me, but I turned over and there was no one there. I found my shackles being taken off, by nothing again, and they dropped to the floor.

"Did you see that Spike? He reacted to my voice! That is probably a survival instinct." Where the fuck was that voice coming from? I was looking all around and there was no one there. I suppose I should describe the room I was in, for anyone that's reading this, I hope you are. I hope someone found this. I don't want to be forgotten. It was circular room, book shelves carved into the wall, and lined with books of every color. It was seriously disorganized, I mean, some books were arranged in the shape of a triangle, and others were hanging off the shelf, held on by the weight of a book on top of them. There was a window over a table showing the outside world, there was a door to what was presumably another room in what looked like a house or library. The floor had a ring pattern, like the inside of a tree, and the table beneath the window had a bird feather, a yellow container, and a piece of parchment that the lizard boy had been writing on. A prominent color in this house was brown, and it was kind of depressing. Brown isn’t one of my favorite colors though, unless it’s a dark, earthy color.

By now, I was calming down again, and I got up. The lizard kid was eyeing me with fear in his eyes, and I knew that the next move I made would probably make or break my survival. Ok, so apparently I'm some kind of science project, and from what I can gather, these are lizard people that are probably going to make me a little monkey pet, or I'm insane and either went on a killing spree and killed everyone on the bus and now am in a hospital, or I'm having a seizure and am in a hospital. Either way, I'll play along for survival's sake.

I decided the least threatening thing I could do was walk away from the kid, so that's what I did, and he seemed to noticeably calm down when he saw me moving towards the desk.

"Interesting, the subject is displaying curiosity to the desk and is completely ignoring my assistant's presence in the room."

Her voice was farther away, so I decided I would try to find where it was coming from, so I turned around immediately and began probing the area where her voice seemed to come from. If I was in the middle of the room, and the door was behind me, the dragon boy in front of me, and the desk to my left, than the voice was to the right of the middle. So I began heading to the right side of the room, probing the wall for some kind of speaker or hole.

"The subject seems to be drawn by noises and is trying to find my location. Spike, make some noises!"

The dragon boy, who I assumed by then was Spike, began hooting like an owl and jumping around. I ignored him, intent on finding this voice, but it seemed to have moved somewhere near the door, so I went there instead.

"Subject seems not to simply be drawn by noises he hears, but by noises he cannot explain. He was initially startled by Spike's noise making, but seems to be ignoring it, and is trying to track me down."

If she knew I was trying to find her then screw it, she was obviously hiding from me for some reason. I just walked over near the table, took a random book off the wall, sat in the chair, and began reading. It seemed to be a children's story, judging from the repeated mention of magic and unicorns, but it had way too much detail to be a kids story, so it is probably a fanfic, or something like that. God I hate fanfics, if I was ever in one, I'd kill myself. I read it anyway, because it was actually rather interesting. The title was, "Obscure Unicorn History" by who the fuck cares. After a few minutes, I heard the dorky voice again.

"The subject appears to have given up searching for me, and is now examining the contents of a book. It appears to have understanding of what it is reading, but I cannot be certain."

"You know I understand every word you have been saying about me right?" I blurted, getting fed up with this charade.

"What? Why didn't you respond?" Snapped the lizard woman.

"Because if I did, you may have assumed I was a threat at the very beginning and held me down instead of giving me a chance to move around. Pretty simple, if you put some thought into it."

"But you aren't supposed to be an intelligent species!"

"Well you kinda fucked up with that one, we are pretty much the most intelligent race out there." I replied snarkishly… is that even a word? It is now! I really should have put some thought into that snarky comment, though, because it didn’t have a positive result.

"Oh, really? Well I'm not entire sure what I means to fuck something, but I assume it means to mess it up. Either way, you were completely justified with that assumption that I wouldn't allow you to move around, because that is exactly what I'm about to do."

I was promptly scooped up by nothing, and carried over to the door.

"Spike, bring the chains, please. We're tying him to the floor again."

I would've been yelling her head off about then, but my mouth seemed to be held shut by, again, nothing. So I just sat there in mid air not even bothering to fight back as I was carried into what appeared to be a library. I may as well describe this room as well. There was a door in the corner with a candle on it, there was another door next to it that we just came through, and there were a few bookcases carved into the wall. The wall with the book cases had a staircase up on the side of it, leading to what I assumed was a storage room or probably a place with more books.

When I was set down on the ground, Spike came and tied me up, being careful not to touch me. He didn't seem to dislike me, but he most certainly wasn't comfortable around me. Looking back, I can’t say I blame him. His mother figure was doing some kind of experiment and things weren't going the way she expected, that would probably unnerve most children. But, I should stay in the past, rather than look back from the present. So, there I was, chained down, and finally able to talk again, and I was still surprisingly calm. I decided to try and communicate with what was as far as I could tell a ghost.

"So, am I going to get to see who I'm talking to any time soon? As far as I know, I've been abducted from my home and am probably going to get killed. If that is the case, I'd like to know now so I can curse you from my grave."

"Kill you? No, I would never kill another living creature! I just brought you here to study you, and I thought I was bringing a non intelligent creature. As for seeing me, I think that can wait for later, I still don't know what you are or what you are capable of, so I'm going to have to make certain you aren't dangerous before letting you see anypony."

"Oh, well alright- Wait, did you just say anypony?"

"Er... Yes, I did, why?"

"What country am I in? You sound like your speaking English, but I know there is no such word as anypony!"

"I'm assuming that 'English' is your homeland language. I am not speaking English, I am speaking Equestrian, and you are in the beautiful country of Equestria." So I guess I’ve probably gone insane again... I wonder how this one will turn out. If last time is any indication, this is probably one of my alternate personalities I’m talking to…

"So... I'm in Equestria huh? And when will I be going home exactly?"

"Oh, yeah, about that..."

"What?" I asked, flatly.

"I can’t send you back, ever."

"What? Why the hell not?!"

"You can pull things into a universe, but you can’t push them into one." Oh my God…

"What do you mean 'Pull into a universe'? Are you saying that I have been removed from my universe?"

"Well, yes. There are multiple universes, and I pulled you from one and into another. I could send you out of this universe, but there is no guarantee that you will end up in somewhere habitable, let alone your own universe."

"Okay, so I was taken from my universe and can never return. That is absolutely terrific! Let’s change the subject now. How did you move me earlier? I didn't see anyone pick me up, but I was moved."

"Oh, perhaps your race is not familiar with magic. I am a unicorn, and we are one of a few races capable of manipulating the web of matter that holds the universes together. This web of matter is known as magic. It is intangible, and it is constantly changing. All universes are made up of more than eighty percent-"

"Hold on another fucking minute, you're a what?" The woman, who I now was assuming was a furry, snorted somewhat angrily at my interruption, but answered all the same.

"I am a unicorn. Unicorns are small equine mammalian animals. Of the five known pony races, Unicorns have the third thickest bones, second to Earth Ponies. Our brains have a highly sensitive extrusion that is connected to a special part of our brains that allow for manipulation of the web of magic that holds the universe together and keeps it from coming apart." I... so for the sake of my sanity, I must pretend that this is all real until I can find a logical error in it. When I find that error, then I will know for certain that I am insane. Keep an open, but analytic mind, and logic will see me through.

The alleged unicorn was just finishing her explanation on the bone structures of all ponies and how they all have sockets for wings and small sections of brain set aside for magic, even those with neither wings nor horns.

"Excuse me, this is really interesting, but it was nearing the end of the day in my world, and I really needed to get to sleep." I was lying through my teeth right then. I was on the bus home; I would be awake for hours. I just craved information, and that room had many books that would no doubt tell me about this place.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't even ask if you were tired. First I'm going to need to know a few things from you."

"Alright then, shoot away"

"Question one, what does your diet consist of?"

"Humans are omnivores. I prefer to add some meat to my diet, but I can survive off of plant alone, so long as there is some protein, like in beans. As for specifics, we can eat just about any plant, so long as it isn't poisonous, and there are some nuts we don't eat. We can’t survive off of grass, or flowers either, and I assume those are what make up your diet, being an equine and all. Vegetables and fruits, with some nuts, I doubt I’ll be allowed to eat any meat while in the company of a bunch of horses."

"First, we are called ponies, get it right. Second, I want to keep the environment you are in as close to yours as possible. If that means finding you a source of protein, I suppose I can have Fluttershy help you with that."

"Fluttershy? Is that the name of another unicorn?"

"Oh no, she’s a Pegasus pony. If you show yourself to be safe, I may allow you to meet her in person. Until then, I'm sure she will be excited to meet you, she is an animal expert." I was about to take offense, but then I realized that to this person, I am an animal, some alien from another world.

"Say, are there any other creatures like me in this world?"

"Well, the closest thing we have to you here are monkeys, but they are much harrier, and less intelligent. That reminds me, I'm going to have to conduct a number of tests on you to see what level of intelligence you possess."

"Well I'm sure you will have a lot of fun, considering that we are the most intelligent race we know of. We dominate everything else."

"Is that so? In what manner do you dominate them? Is it slavery?"

"No, most of the human race is against slavery right now, though in the past we enslaved each other. We dominate in the sense that almost nothing can touch us. Sure, there are times when an animal will take maybe five of us out, but if we wanted, we could scrub the planet clean of any life." That was probably a lie. For all I know, there are more humans that promote slavery.

"Would humans do something like that?" The Unicorn asked shock evident in her voice.

"No, we kinda depend on everything else to survive. Some humans probably do want to, but those are the unhealthy ones, we lock those away until we can find a way to treat them. It is called a mental disorder."

"We have some things like that to. In fact, I'm friends with a pony who has what you call a mental disorder, but it is really much more of an advantage."

"Well if that is all, I would really like to get to bed." What was earlier a lie was now the truth, we had been talking for a while, and I was more of a quiet person, content to just listen. Talking can be an exhausting task for me.

"Very well, but I will have more questions for you in the morning, it is pretty late right now, so I will take you to your room."

She led me into the room I was allowed to walk around in previously.

"You can sleep in here for tonight, but you are not allowed to exit the room until Spike or I come for you. Don't open the door for anyone, or break anything in here. You can feel free to read books, but make sure to return them to the spot you found them. Don't damage any of the books or else. Now, I should go get a bed from upstairs for you, It will appear in your room shortly. I heard clopping sounds, and then I assumed she was gone. I looked around for the lizard dude, but he seemed to have left. So I went into the room she directed me to, sat down, and kept reading the book titled "Obscure Unicorn History", now seeing it in a more serious light. It was difficult to wrap my head around some of the terms used to describe different magicians. I got chronomancy, but there were sub-divisions of chronomancy that just made no sense.

Twilight brought in a not big enough bed for me, and set it down on the opposite side of the room from the door. I set down the books that made no sense to me in their proper places on the shelves and went to sleep.