Lead Me To Light

A/N: Not proofread, like the other chapters.

Chapter 3: Take a Whiff

All the ponies stood around grouped together giving strange looks to the creature. Zecora had explained as to how she found the creature: the strange sounds, the dead manticore, and the strange metal objects strapped to the creature. "As I told you before, I've never seen him in any country or store." She said slowly walking to the creatures, she had slight shiver to her hoofs. Not only her but the others ponies were slightly terrified of the creature, which is understandable due to it being completely alien from this world.

"Maybe its an alien." Rainbow Dash hypothesized as she tightly held Fluttershy in fear.

"Maybe its not. But it is definitely alien in a way, just not a sci-fi way Rainbow." Twilight deadpanned as the athlete gave a scour at the princess.

"Girls girls, I think its moving." Rarity pointed out as the strange creature started to wince and twitch.

Matt could breath, finally. He creaked open his eyes breaking the barnacles on his lids as the first thing he saw was wood. But clear with a light as his small bites of strength filled his body. He took that strength and moved around, as he pushed his head to the side to get a different view. He saw 7 blurs, all different colors. A blue one, a pink one, a white one, a purple one, an orange one, a blackish one, and a yellow one. "W-Wha-" He gave a few coughs as the blackish blur moved closer to him.

"Do not fear young one, for my antidote has won. But you need your strength now, moving you cannot allow."

"I....I...I.....can't....see." He said with the weakness in his voice. "Are....Are you God...?" He asked taking a weak shivering hand and tried to touch his god. But to only feel a soft coat of fur instead of skin. "S-S.....Soft..." That was the last word he said until he once more misplaced his strength instead of saving it.

"He could speak!" Rainbow yelled in small panic as Zecora quickly shushed the cyan athlete with a hoof to the lips.

"Shush little athlete! We don't want to him to wake up rapidly."

"Zecora's right girls, lets just wait it out until he's really ready." Rarity said carefully walking over to the strange being. "Now his voice was like a stallion, so that leaves us with a fact that he's a male right?" Everypony nodded with Rarity as Twilight walked next to the creature.

"Let me see what kind of creature this is." Twilight said casting a panel of magic over the creature and phased it through his body. The panel then vanished as Twilight's eyes shocked open as well as he mouth. "I....I don't know what it is." Everypony looked at her is small shock.

"No surprises there sugurcube, he's like from a fantasy or one of dem there video games Applebloom plays." Applejack stated as she placed a hoof on the middle of the creature. It felt hard like a rock. "This must be his chest, strong built this one is." Applejack eyed over to the contraptions of the creature, there was a long metal looking device that almost looked like an F. She looked at the metal object as she scooped it up with one hoof, noticing that it was quite heavy. "This darn thing was carried by that thing?" She asked pointing at the creature. "Why this contraption is heavy as Mac's plo-" She lost her grip, dropping the device as it borrowed gravity and dropped to the ground.

The device slammed against the floor with force as one end of the device flashed like a spell creating a deafening blast. With that the creature rose up with shock cold sweat as he held his ears in pain, along with a small pinch of panic. With small strength he peaked open his eyes and found his device on the ground, smoke fluttering out of the barrel. He rushed over to the mechanism and held it tightly by one of the stuck out branches.

"AGhh what in Celestia was that!?!?" A feminine tomboyish voice cried out in deafening pain.

Matt, who shortly recovered from the gunshot of his own gun, turned to find something he thought he'd seen from a fantasy or an anime. He saw a bunch of small bunch of little ponies, all who had colors of euphoria on them. "W-w-......what the f-fuck?" Even though the colors of euphoria were right in front of him, he felt fear and thought that this was all a dream. The orange one of the group stood up with a rattle as she looked at him with a death like glare.

"N-now Ah don't know who or what you are." She grunted, with the ringing of an explosion still in her ear. "But you better tell your pet there to shut the buck up!" She yelled with anger, waving her orange hoof with frustration at Matt.

"W-Wha........What are you?" Matt asked in complete bewilderment as he heard a small sniffling noise. He looked to his right to find another one of the strange bliss colored creatures, only it's main body was yellow and had pink hair. It was crying. She...she sounds just like her. But..... He paused his thought and looked at the other individuals. ....what are they? He took his rifle, strapped it onto his back, and walked towards the injured creature. But was soon interrupted as a blue winged creature with the familiar rainbow he saw sprung in front of him, hooves up look as if it about to box him.

"Who buddy, don't you dare touch Fluttershy!" Matt faced his palms towards the defending individual In peace.

"Relax I won't hurt her. I just want to see if-" He paused for a moment to take a quick look at the crying individual. "-if Fluttershy here is in real pain. I promise on my life miss."

"Let him Rainbow." The orange one granted for the Matt as the individual known as 'Rainbow' protested.

"But c'mon Applejack, I don't this.....thing.....one sort bit."

"Rainbow.....I know this may be hard even for me to say this but, I can see his honesty." She said truthfully, vouching for Matt who turned and nodded his head at her in thanks. Rainbow slowly flew aside, still glaring at Matt, as Matt slowly and gently approached the crying creature.

He kneeled down and gently placed his hand on the yellow fur of Fluttershy. "Hey.....shh it's okay. Are you okay?' he asked softly as Fluttershy hiccupped in her cries.

"I....*hiccup* I think I something bit me *hiccup* on my hoof." Matt's eyes widened as he looked behind Fluttershy to find a good round hole though the wall. He gave a heavy sigh as he looked at the rest of the creatures. "Hey where is my bag!?" He asked with threat as the black and white one walked over with Matt's bag in her mouth. He swiftly took his back, unzipped it, and pulled out 2 things: a small green bottle and medical tape.

Matt placed his medical supplies aside as he gently spoke to Fluttershy. "Okay...can I see your hoof?" She complied as she faintly gave her hoof to Matt, there was only but a scratch of his bullet as an injury. He gave a heavy sigh of relief. Thank God. "Okay now I'm gonna need some help. Who here is the strongest?"

"Me." Both Rainbow and Applejack said simultaneously as the two glared competitively at each other. But a snapping noise got their attention as Matt gave a glare at the two.

"Hey no time for rivalry, I'm gonna need you to hold Fluttershy down. The plan is I'm gonna pour this medicine to disinfect her wound and it's gonna sting." The two nodded with small hesitation due to the fact that it's gonna hurt, but if he was willing to help then they were happy to help. Rainbow and Applejack both approached each side of Fluttershy and held her down like a pair of cuffs. Matt opened the bottle of medicine as he gently caressed his hand on Fluttershy's crying cheeks. "Hey hey hey shh, can you hear me?"

She peaked open her eyes and gave a look at Matt. A feeble nod she gave to him as he gave a small sigh. "Okay Fluttershy I need you to be strong. First you're not gonna die and I promise that. Second I'm gonna give you medicine and it's gonna hurt. Can you be strong for me?" She gave a small whimper but gathered courage for a small nod. "Okay, now bite down on this." He said as he placed a roll of medical tape in her mouth. "I'm really sorry." He concluded, as he poured the medicine onto her wound.

Fluttershy's screams were silenced from the medical tape in her mouth as she could feel a unbearable burn. It kept stinging and singeing her wound like fire as Matt quickly took another roll of medical tape and wrapped it around her wound, sealing it for good. "Okay, you can let her go." He said to both Applejack and Rainbow as they released Fluttershy, causing her to react to the pain, holding her own hoof to try and ease the pain. She rocked back and forth in agonizing cruelty from the medicine as Rainbow had the instinct to help her friend, she held Fluttershy close with her wings as she continued to cry and scream through the makeshift gag in her mouth. "You can spit it out now." He told Fluttershy as he felt himself lift from the ground and slam against a wall, his face then met with a very, VERY, angry purple....thing.

"You've better not hurt Fluttershy or I swear to Celestia I will-"

"CALM THE FUCK DOWN!" He protested with gusto, silencing the creature. "I am NOT afraid to defend myself!" He said planting his hand on his rifle, ready to pull it out like a magic trick. "Now if we just calm down, this won't have to end in a bloody massacre." He said, giving a death like glare to his holder. She huffed as she released him, letting him down as he brushed off any dust. "Okay, first of all I gave your friend Fluttershy there medicine to help heal that wound of hers, so the least you can do is thank me."

"What was in that medicine?" The purple creature asked with a threatening tone at Matt.

"Just some antibacterial stuff, It's meant to clean the wound with a sting." He explained as the creature's scowl slowly lessened. "Look, before we get anymore hostile how about we just get along before I start a massacre in self defense." Matt suggested as everyone and thing nodded in the room.

45 minutes later

"Soooo let me get this straight. You girls are ponies minus the zebra there who saved me, thanks by the way, and I'm in some country that I've never heard before called Equestria. And that there are different species of these so called 'ponies' called Unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth ponies. And that you girls have two rulers in this whole damn country?" He asked after the whole group of ponies explain the small setting around him.

"Yes, well more like 4 rulers." The white unicorn corrected. "Twilight here is a princess and that makes her royalty, and her sister in law rules another part Equestria as well.

"Sooo four leaders slash rulers right? Is there no President or King around these parts?"

"So, last time I checked the last king was....destroyed to say the least." The purple unicorn said.

"Alright that's cool, I hate kings. And what are your names? Mine is Matt."

The unicorn stepped forward. "I'm Twilight Sparkle. The two Pegasi here are Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash." Matt easily differentiated which one was Rainbow Dash due to the rainbow hairstyle and knew who Fluttershy was easily. "The two Earth ponies here are Applejack and Pinkie Pie." Matt figured Pinkie Pie was the pink one (obviously) and the orange one with the apple tattoo was Applejack. "And this one is Rarity, also a unicorn."

"Well I guess it's good to meet you all but I have a couple of questions. First why do you all have tattoos on your uh....butts?"

"Well if you mean butts then you mean our flanks, and if you mean tattoos then you must be looking at our cutie marks."

Great....this definitely feels super cheesy.

"And what are these cutie marks may I ask?"

"They represent our special talents." Pinkie pie answered with a chime and a balloon in her hoof.....where did she get that?

"Alright make sense..... I guess. But enough about you guys, I'm sure you got questions about me and where I'm from." They all nodded even the timid Fluttershy wanted to learn. Matt gave a heavy sigh and sat down. "But first, do you girls have any uh....alcohol around here?" Matt asked around as he gave a hopeful look at Zecora.

"I do not have the stash or taste for alcohol, for it makes my head heavy like a cannonball."

"Damn....anyone have any booze."

"Matt, I have some whiskey back at the farm if you need some." Applejack offered as Matt gave a relieved sigh and smile.

"Thanks Jack, I'm gonna-" Matt was soon interrupted as Applejack cannoned her hoof at Matt's arm, causing it to numb for a bit.

"Agh for fucks sake, what was that for?"

"Do not call me 'Jack' y'hear?"

"Alright alright jeez, whatever keeps you calm." He said rubbed his arm to ease the pain. "Damn for a pony, you sure are strong as a damn forty five."

"F-Forty five?" Applejack asked in confusion as Matt shook his head.

"Nevermind, it's something from my world." He corrected as he stood up. "Alright, just take me to this farm of yours and I'll tell you all that you want to know I guess." he said walking to the front door, but none of the ponies followed him, he stood there confused as the group looked nervous and timid. "Well, what are we waiting for? I'm not just gonna wait here all day."

"T-Theres just one problem there sugarcube. Mah farm is on the other side of town, with a bunch of residents in the middle of all of it."

".....And?" Matt responded in a empty tone as the blue flier shot in front of him.

"And? AND!? And you're some sort of alien monster thing that nopony knows and everypony's just gonna think you're some sort of monster, or alien, or demon!" Rainbow Dash quickly and immaturely theorized as the man groaned in annoyance.

"I won't care, what they think is their business. I just need some booze right now." He said opening the door and taking a step outside, it may have been dark but it wasn't Earth nor America. He decided to take in a deep breath, his lungs filtering the cool, clean air as he exhaled in peace. "God it feels good to breath clean are, I'm been running from the dead too long." He said walking down the door stairs as the ponies behind him had curios and confusing looks on their faces.