Second Chance

Golden Oaks Library, Ponyville, 3:32 p.m.

the mare in the room stare disbelievingly to the unicorn tied in the sofa, as if he had sprouted a second head.

"Can you repeat to me that last part?" the purple librarian finally says, " I think that you just say that you aren't from this world."

"That is correct, my purple pony friend" the tied white pony says, looking to the mare eye to eye, "I am an alien from a different world, and that" he says pointing whith his head to the card resting at the table, "it's from a popular game in my homeworld called Duel Monsters"

“Duel…Monsters?” Twilight asks, dumbfounded

“yep, Duel Monsters… you know, a Trading Card Game... Now, I know that it would get me in trouble, but please, let me explan. As soon as I woke up in the Everfree, I want to test something, so without thinking, I pulled out my duel disk and put Stardust to test if my things work properly, not my smartness choice but…” the door banging interrupt the stallion, who turned around (as much as his restrains allow) and again he do a fan girl scream.

“OH… MY… GOD, the mane 6, dude… kill me now.” Michael squeaked in delight, all the other mares looking the weird stallion tied on the sofa, and the to Twilight, who was looking at the stallion, her left eye twitching.

“How do you know about us... Are you some kind of spy?” Rainbow Dash almost shout in his ear, but a purple light enveloping her quickly shove her aside, now an angry Twilight Sparkle in replacing the prismatic mare.

“Explain. Now”

“OK… Ok, but first, restraints, please?” Michael says, trying to move more freely, after a wary glance from all her friends, Twilight sighs and, with a flick of magic, she loosened up the rope that was around the stallion, he quickly pulls out from the rope, and stretching his wings, he fold them neatly at his sides, getting comftable, he turns around to face all the ponies currently in the treebrary.

“Well, this is a long story, so I hope that you have some spare time”, he begin closing his eyes, noticing the deafening silence that has fallen in the abode of the element of magic,  he opens them, only to find all the mares looking at him, with a shocked expression on their faces.

“What?”

“Pal… you are an Alicorn” Spike flatly states, showing the obvious elephant in the room, “and you get handled by two ponies.”

“Not that I have much choice, my fair drake, I have been an alicorn for less than 24 hours.”

“How come?” the dragon ask.

“Well, this is a very confusing story, but it began apparently with my last memory, that is, when I saved some girl from being flattened by a bus driver in my own city, next thing I remember, I am awakening in the Everfree forest with a pipboy, you know, The blue thingy in my left forearm, and a letter saying that I have been teleported or whatever here and now that I am like my OC, also that all my stuff is in the pipboy and that I have to been careful because some of the toys and stuff may have become real. So I want to test my duel disk and I ended summoning my Stardust Dragon in the middle of the forest, finally I pulled out and find a place to stay until I can use the daylight and found Ponyville.” Michael quickly explains, avoiding Zecora because he didn't know exactly where in the timeline of the show he was.

“OC?”

“Summoning?”

“Bus driver?”

The alicorn was thinking how to answer those questions when he noticed that only 3 of the mares where addressing him, the other two, namely Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, where on their own world, the pink pony madly scribing something in a piece of paper that apparently popped up from her mane and the canary Pegasus hiding behind the couch.

“Hey pinkie” Michael says, facing the pink mare, “what are you doing?”

“Hiya there, you are Second Chance right, or I should call you Michael? I am getting your invitation for tonight’s “welcome to Ponyville party” for you, also I want to check out you card game, it sound so interesting, how do you play, can you teach me, and what if…” whatever Pinkie has still to say was muffled when Michael puts his hoof on her mouth.

“Ok, why I have asked a mare in a perpetual sugar rush what is she doing… anyhow sure Pinks I’ll let you check out on my cards, but I need to ask to you also some questions, all of you.”

“Let’s say that we believe you, how do you prove to us that you aren’t dangerous?” Twilight ask, raising an eyebrow.

“Ughhh… because apart of telekinesis, I don’t know any other magic, I don’t know how to fly, and also because most of my technology is harmless, granted, I know enough to make some weapons but I don’t want this planet to end like earth.” Good, apparently the kidnapping and all the other stuff about Nyx haven’t passed yet, Michael thought to himself, also it’s only me or Twilight is eyeing me like I am some sort of weirdo.

“But if you want a pinkie promise, I don’t want to do any harm to you or your friends, or anypony in this world, cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my… auch.” all the mares broke out in a fit of laughter, except Twilight, who still was eyeing the weird alicorn on her library suspiciously.

“Just like Twilight” Applejack states off handedly, gaining chuckles from the other mares and making Twilight blush.

Sugar Cube Corner, Ponyville, 8:20 p.m.

The party had been a blast, Second Chance had meet all the ponies from the town, and also had made some friends, because his good nature, and the fact that he always was carrying his cape, all the town only think of him as another acquaintance of Twilight, and so the fair town welcome him as another of their citizens, before some more explanation, the mane 6 had decided that he has to stay at the library, and also that he has to work in Sweet Apple Acres until he has enough money to get a house of his own, reluctantly, Applejack had agreed to that part of the plan, in the meanwhile, a shadow figure stands out of the library, also waiting patiently for the unicorn occupant to appear again, however it doesn’t know that now the library has a new occupant, unknown to it, Michael had been aware of this figure presence, but he has promised to interfere as little as possible in order that he doesn’t change anything from this reality, so when a panicked drake enters the library, he “apparently” was still getting his stuff out the pipboy.

“Spike, calm down… what happened, and more importantly, where is Twilight?” Second Chance ask to the agitated dragon.

“Somepony has kidnapped Twilight, I need to write to Princess Celestia immediately”, the drake half shouts, frantically searching for some parchment and ink, scribbling something really quick and sending it away in a wisp of green fire, before fainting from the whole ordeal.

So it begins the white alicorn though, looking to the looming prescence of the Everfree forest, I sincerely hope that this time I can make some difference.