Day Shift in Equestria

by blstar

A year later

Previous Chapter

Twilight was reading quietly to herself in her personal bedroom when a knock came at the door. She flew down to see it was her friends coming over for a visit. They all go upstairs to her living room and they sit down and start talking about different things. And as always Pinkie get rowdy and starts looking around the room.

"Twi, do you have any good books to read?"

"Sure Pinkie, I'll go grab some." Twilight gets up and heads into her study to grab a few books. She looks across the shelf until a certain book catches her eye. She pulls the old book out and opens it up. Most of the pages are damaged very badly but she starts reading it and then drops it. "This is...Nicks journal!" She picks it up with her magic and runs back into the room. She slams the book on the table and everyone looks down on it.

"Uh, Twilight what's this darling?" Rarity asks.

"Remember Nick? This is his journal he left."

"Oooooooooh.LETS READ IT!" Pinkie shouts as she grabs the book.

"Are you sure Pinkie?"

"Yes! I'll start off on this page!" She starts reading the book out loud.


I wake up from my sleep and turn in my bed. I sit up and notice my bowling ball sitting by my feet at the edge of my bed. The memories flooding my mind as everything came back.

"So this is their world,huh?" I ask myself, quietly. I notice my clothes laying on a chair on the other side of the room. I get up and change back into them from this small gown I have on. I sit back on the bed and pick up my Deadly Aim, looking closely at the surface to see if the oil settled into the ball. Sure enough it did so I wrap the ball into my gown and lay it in front of the window behind me. A few minutes pass until there's a light knock at my door. I look up to see a white pony, with a nurse hat on walking in with a smile on its face.

"Well it's nice to finally see you awake. How are you feeling?" she asked.

"Well...I'm alive so I guess ok. But what do you mean by finally awake?" I ask nervously.

"When you fell from the portal that orange bowling ball hit you on the head, knocking you out. So you've been here for about three days."

"Oh my..." I feel the back of my head and touch the sore spot. I flinch from the pain.

"Don't worry though. It's gonna sting for a little while but you'll recover soon. Now I must go and notify Princess Celestia about your condition quickly!" She said as she ran out of the room.

"Well it looks like I owe them a lot now or we're even since they destroyed my car. But wait they stopped it and fixed it. I hope I wasn't a burden on them much..." I fall back onto the bed with a sigh. But i hit the bed too hard and it hit the wall, causing my ball to fall out of the window and hitting a piece of metal below the bed. I start to look at what it hit but the bed shot up and flipped me off it. I smack the floor face first and the rest of my body follows. I get up and notice the ball hit and broke a small metal box that had buttons on it.

"Great, it's gonna be one of these days." I shake my head in disbelief as knocking comes from my door again. The same nurse walks in but with what I assume two guards behind her.

"Um, why are you on the floor?" she asks with concern.

"Because I'm polish. Actually the ball fell from the window and hit the bed controls and the bed flipped me off it. If it's broken I'm terribly sorry, also what's with the guards?" I ask as I look at their blank stares.

"They're here to escort you to Celestia'smain throne room. And don't worry about the bed. It never worked right anyway," she said as she smiled.

"Well thank you for the excellent care, even though I slept through most of it." I hold my hand up to shake hers but I forgot she didn't have hands. She holds her hoof up instead and I shake it. The the two guards point towards the door and I follow them. As we walk through the building I start to notice everything changing. The white hospital walls turning into old rocks as we continued on. Since the nurse said we were heading to her throne room I assume that this place is a castle. My assumption becomes true as we turn a corner and I spot these amazing stained glass windows. As we walk past I notice some of the ponies in them look oddly familiar, but I shake off the thought. There's no way that purple pony there is Twilight, is it? We reach these gigantic door with more guards standing on both sides, all looking like statues.

"Open the doors!" a guard announces. They open up with a bright light shooting out of them, blinding me. The light dims down and I see Celestia, standing in the door way with a smile on her face.

"Pleased to see you again, Nick. please come in." she pointed her upper leg to the room behind her and I followed. As we walk down the throne room the chamber doors slam shut. We both stay quiet as we walk down, making it very awkward. She sits back up in her throne and i stay down on the floor. She finally breaks the silence.

"Well since you finally woke up, how are you feeling?" she asked.

"Good I guess, but I'm not worried about my health and none of you should either. What I want to talk about is how am I going home?"

"Why should we not worry about your health, Nick?" Celestia asks, with a confused look on her face.

"I appreciate the attention princess, but I hate myself when I become a burden to others. Even if they are from another dimension, I just...whatever. Anyway why did you guys come to my world anyway?"

"My magic kinda sparked to fast when I was trying to teleport to Twilight and her friends. So instead of teleporting to them I teleported all of us to your world by mistake. But it was a nice mistake to meet someone as nice as you," she smiled to me.

"Well thanks but is there anyway back or am I stuck here?"

"Since you've arrived me and my sister have been looking nonstop, but we have found nothing yet. But until then we will supply you with the necessities needed until we get you home..."

"Don't worry, I'll be fine no matter what the outcome is and-" a small burst of light pops up behind nick, "-and what just happened?!!" I turn around to see Twilight Sparkle standing behind me. Her wings spread out and sparkles floating around her.

"Hello nick, it's great to see you awake finally!" before I could react she grabs me into a bear hug.

"It's nice to see you too, Twilight. Can you let me breath?" she releases me as Celestia chimes in.

"Good Twilight, you're here now we can go on discussing our plans. Did you contact, Discord?

"Yes, he said he will be here later today to help. He said some other things but he's coming anyway,"

"Good, now since your friends are worried sick about Nick, how about you guys head to Ponyville for the day?"

"Whoa, wait a sec!" I say surprised. "Won't others get scared because I'm a completely different being?" I'm pretty sure if they get scared of my car alarm, then who knows what'll happen to me if I go out there. As the thought hits me Twilight shakes her head.

"You won't have to worry. They'll think you're one of my experiments or something. And besides Applejack and Rainbow Dash have asked me a lot about your condition over these few days."

"OK I guess, but I'm not someone anyone should worry about. Princes Celestia, was there anything else that came through with me?" I ask.

"Yes, your other pair of shoes. Guard!" she yells. A guard gallops up behind me and drops my sneakers next to me then walks back. I flip off my bowling shoes and put them on instead.

"Alright, we shall contact you if anything comes up. I hope you have a fun time in Ponyville Nick," said Celestia. Before I could do anything, Twilight puts a hoof on my shoulder and we disappear from the throne room. I open my eyes to a...library!

"Twilight why did we end up in a library?" I asked.

"I live here that's why! This is my house and the main library of Ponyville!" she smiles as she flies up into the air.

"One doesn't simply enjoy libraries, Twilight." she flops down in front of me. "Heck in my world not many even exists thanks to technology. Every book becoming electronic and easy to grab. Book will eventually become outdated at some point. Which I hate to admit but the day's coming." I sit back onto the couch with a sigh and she hops up next to me. She starts to say something when a loud shot rings out. Books start flying at us as we jump over the back of the couch.

"WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" an over excited voice shouts into the air. I look up and see Pinkie Pie crash into the wall in front of us. She hits the ground but turns around instantly like nothing ever happened with a smile.

"Oh my gosh, Nick!!!!!" she grabs me and pulls me into a hug. "It's been forever since I've seen you. You came flying out of the portal thingy and you were like-boom- and lying there next you your ball and I was like-NOOOOOOOO-and everypony was like whaaaaaat!" She drops me onto the ground and we all laugh. Then there's a knock at the door and Twilight answers it while me and Pinkie pick up the books that are on the floor. I turn and put a book on the shelf as a lasso grabs me and pulls me back. I turn around to see Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy, all at the door way.

"Gosh, it's about darn time you woke up. How ya feeling, Nick?" Applejack asks.

"I'm well, How about you?" I ask.

"Better now with you back! Now you can make more fried pickles for me!"

"But didn't you try to make your own?" asks Fluttershy.

"I did but the pickles kinda...blew up." Everyone at once looked at Applejack with a surprised look on their face.

"How, just...how?" I ask.

"Pickles don't like my fryer for some reason. When I put them in, it exploded and grease and pickles went everywhere." Applejack rubbed her hoof behind her head but I smiled.

"Well that's better then me when I first started cooking. I burned boiling water." everyone starts laughing, including me. We eventually sit down and start chatting about different things. They tell me about everything that goes on in Ponyville, everything they do, what these Elements of Harmony are. I finally get to the parts I really want to find out.

"So what else do you want to know, Nick?" Twilight asks me.

"Well...where am I gonna live for the next few days?" I take a sip of tea that was fixed by Spike, who showed up later after the others arrived.

"I used to have a guest room but it kinda got filled with old books. Once it's clean you can stay here. Do any of you have any space for him?" Twilight turned to the others.

"Sorry darling, but I only have room for me and Sweetie Belle." Rarity shakes her head.

"Yeah I have a cloud house, so you'll fall right out of it. Unless you drink a floating potion, then you would be ok." replies Rainbow Dash

"I got to many animals right now, sorry," Fluttershy apologized.

"I have some space in my house. It'll be small since it's in my attic but you'll fit. I hope." Applejack stated. I nod and set my tea down.

"Thank you, Applejack. Now, if I can't get back soon is there anyplace I can work and get paid in, whatever you guys use as money." I ask, face palming at how stupid I sounded,

"Bits, and yes there is work you can do. There is a bowling alley here in Ponyville you can work at!" Twilight rushes to her bookshelf and pulls out a map of the town. She scans it quickly then circles something and throws the map on top of me.

"Is that it? It doesn't even have a name on the place. Just a bunch on pin and bowling balls. Man, I should open my own business then. Won't have to make a name just have a potato on the front but sell chips instead. Ha!" I laugh to myself as everyone looks at me confused.

"What's a chip?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"A potato chip is a awesome snack. I'll make some for you guys sometime." my stomach growls at the thought of food.

"Well somepony sounds hungry!" Applejack bursts out laughing, as do I.

"Well lets head to Sugar Cube Corner. I can whip us up some tasty treats!" Pinkie shouts as she bolts out the door, Everyone shrugs and follows out. We finally reach the store after a few minute walk, winch I would've thought it was some kids store, with all the sweets on the outside of it. But we all head in to find Pinkie pulling out tons of chocolate.

"Finally," she yelled, "you guys are slow. I got a ton of chocolate for all of you!" she starts darting all over the place setting food in my hands and on my head, which still confuses me. We sit down and I place the chocolate in the middle and watch as they start eating away at it. I guess I have a bad poker face since Pinkie caught me not eating any of it, very quickly too.

"Niiiiiiiick!" she whined, "aren't you hungry?????"

"Well, Pinkie I just don't care to eat choc-" she jumps over the table and tackles me to the ground, "-olete." Ow that hurt!" she starts bouncing up and down on my chest, which isn't helping either.

"But you can't hate chocolate: it's the greatest,"- she waves her front legs over her head, -"ever!"

"Hey I didn't say I hated it, I just said I don't care to eat it. Heck I won't eat my own birthday cake at times." She grabs my shoulders and starts rapidly shaking me, screaming until she's lifted off of me by Twilight.

"Pinkie, it's a;right that he doesn't care to eat chocolate," said Twilight. She drops Pinkie on the ground and she turns back to me.

"You don't even eat your own birthday cake!" I nod "Wow that's weird." Pinkie shakes her head in disappointment but I shrug it off. After everyone finishes we all say our good-byes and depart. I follow Applejack to her massive farm that's filled with tons and tons of apples. She starts telling me about what apple they harvest, sell, etc. We finally reach her house as the sun sets behind us.

"Ok stay here. I'm gonna go in and tell Big Mac what's happening so he won't freak out." she runs inside while I sit on the steps. I gaze out at the fields of trees, looking beautiful with the suns low glow upon them. As I day dream I didn't notice hoof steps coming from the opposite side of the porch.

"AAAAAAAH! A MONSTER!" I look over to see a very small yellow pony hiding behind a rocking chair. I smile and wave to her but it seems to make things worst.

"What the hay is happening?!" Applejack bursts from the door behind me while a bigger red pony follows. They both notice the small one and walk over to her.

"I think I scared her," I reply.

"How did you do that?" Applejack asks.

"I don't know. Have you ever looked at me before?" I ask with sarcasm in my voice.

"Oh...but Applebloom he's no monster, he's a good friend of mine," Applejack tries to calm the child or filly, if I remember right. The red pony, which I assume is Big mac, looks at me with anger but I try to ignore him. Then he starts talking.

"I would have to agree with my little sister here, you are quite weird looking. Maybe to weird to stay here."

"Fine"- I stand up-" I'll leave you guys alone. I won't stay around to cause more problems. I had a feeling this would happen." I start to walk away, until Applejack's voice comes from behind me.

"Nick wait!" she shouts. I shake my head and continue walking. As I got further away their voices eventually disappeared. I arrive back At Twilight's tree house/library thing. I gotta figure out what this is but that'll wait. I knock at the door and Spike answers,

"Hello, Nick. What do you need?" he asks.

"I need a place to just sleep. I know your guest room is occupied by books but I'll sleep on the couch." Spike allows me in and I lay down on the hard sofa as he heads up stairs to tell Twilight. As I'm dozing off a feel a heavy object hit my leg. I look down to my leg to see, yet again, a book lying on it.

"Well I thought you might wanna read something before you dozed off." I hear Twilight shout above me. she lands next to the couch and I shake my head. She asks what happened at Applejack's and I tell her.

"So you left and nothing happened after that?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, as far as I know. I knew it had to happen at one point. I hope some of the people here will learn to accept me at one point, if I'm stuck here for the rest of my days."


"And that's all there is here. Everything else is ripped off."

"So that's why he came back to twilight?" Fluttershy asks.

"Yeah..I was not happy at all with Big Mac after that but oh well..." The group starts going over the other parts of the book.

"Hey heres a small part!" Dash points out and starts reading it.


So I decided to go to the Alley today and get a job as I came out I was rushed by a crowd of ponies and man were they mad. I turned and started running away as magical blasts flew towards me. I think I hit the limits of town when Twilight appeared and stopped them.

"Everypony stop!" she shouted.

"Why?" The crowd asked.

"Because he isn't a monster. He's a nice human. He's from another dimension because of a spell error of mine and-" a pitchfork flies over our heads "-that was uncalled for!" Someone in the back yells sorry and-


"I remember that. Man that was funny!" Dash starts laughing.

They continued looking in the book and reflecting on the memories that it brought back to them. All missing him more and more. Eventually the reach the back where Nick left the letters and song lyrics on the back page.

"Wait what's that?" Applejack asks.

"Yet another letter. But it's marked to us." Twilight looks on the envelope and notices Nicks writing on it. She opens the letter and starts reading it.


Hello again everypony. If anyone finds this then it must mean I suck at hiding things, anyway this is to be opened by Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy or Pinkie Pie. This is only for them. Even if they don't care to remeber me I still want them to read this

I just wanna say one more time that you six are the greatest friends I could have ever asked for. I probably made the wrong choice in going back and I desperately wanted to stay with you all. But as I said I didn't deserve to be in a "perfect" world as yours. I left this journal here for you all. If you guys do or don't want to remember me is fine. I'm used to it from my world but I felt I needed to tell you all that you were the greatest ponies ever and I wish I could repay you all somehow. I hear them calling me now for me to go so I'll stop here. Also enclosed in this book is the fried pickle recipe for Applejack. Incase she screwed up again on it. XD Goodbye everypony I'll miss you all.


"Well we do miss you, you idiot!" Dash starts to sniffle a little. "You were an awesome guy to hang with!"

"Look everypony, we can't get upset with him gone..." Twilight tries to calm them but can't help herself from a few tears. After they hug it out they vow to stay happy and try to remember him in a good way.

"Maybe one day we might see him again!" Applejack points out.

"Maybe darling..." Rarity replies.

"But as he said he doesn't need to be here and we need to respect that." Twilight says.

"Only time will tell." Fluttershy replies quietly. wiping a few tears away. They continued to read the journal and they started to feel better.


A silver and blue BMW flew down the road, rain pounding the windshield. Cops fly over the hill chasing the car.

"Gosh they never quit." Nick mumbles to himself. He jerks the wheel left and turns down a narrow alley. He slams the brakes and his bowling ball smashes through the window. "Crud...Oh well I gotta get out of dodge." He watches the cops pass the alley then backs out and drives off. Car easily passing sixty in milliseconds.

Nick shoots off the highway and down a side road and into the forest. Trees pass by in a blur as he comes to a bridge that's closed off. He slams the gas and crashes into the signs and lands onto the other side. He parks the car and pulls his phone out and call Darius.

"Who's this?" Darius asks.

"Gee Obama, where do you need me to drop my car off?" Nick asks.

"Palmont Casino in Palmont City. I hope "everything's" in the car..." the line dies and Nick drives off. Thinking to himself on how he should've stayed in Equestria.


Author's Note

The parts in the journal are the parts I originally wrote but got rid of them. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this story.