"To conclude my report; the Royal Bank has managed to stabilize the Bit inflation to one dot two percent." Celestia observed the report while Clockwork examined his paper sheet to make sure he had not missed anything important. He simply nodded, seemingly satisfied so far and sat down.

"Hm, that is lower than we expected Councillor." Celestia said peering down at the financial report in front of her.

"Well, it was all we could manage. Prench investors have withdrawn support from the silk trades which threw our calculations out the window your Majesty." Miss Hearsay added of to the side.

Celestia pursed her lips, grumbling over the news. The silk trade was the biggest source of income they had and she did not like the implication this would have... a lot of her ponies was going to lose their jobs over this. She leaned back in her seat as she magicked the financial report file to the side; the empty spot was quickly filled with another thicker file from Spin Talk, her adviser of public relations.

Celestia leered at the grinning face of Spin Talk. She had suspicions about her motives as a councillor as Spin Talk seemed to try and do anything to beak her calm facade. It was not the first time that council meetings turned into scandals in local magazine tabloids. That grin just rubbed her the wrong way. Too bad she actually could not do anything about it otherwise she would spend the next ten years battling gossips and rumours about her supposed tyrannical rule

So she could only sigh inwardly and try and control the rumours that did get out into the public.

"Now your majesty, please take note of page nineteen, section A." Spin Talk began but before she could begin her report a loud clang rang through the council chamber.

Everyone in the room looked towards the main doors were the Guards pony that had produced the sound. It was a two century old design that somepony had come up with, she did not remember the name of said pony but it mattered little. It was a small metal plate set into the floor. That when struck produced a sharp clang. It was meant to be used to silence the, at the time, loud councillors when they got out of hoof.

The chamber doors were opened to let the Captain of the guards in.

Celestia sat up straight and tried her best to school her features. She had been waiting for the terrible news, ever since she sensed the powerful magical surge at the old castle.

"Captain?" She asked finally asked after a few moments of silence.

The purple clad earth pony bowed his head deeply to the floor.

"We have brought him to your quarters as instructed, my Princess."

'Him?' the words took her completely by surprise. All heads turned inquisitively towards her, more than a few with raised eyebrows. She let a few profanities fly in her head. She had nothing against the old Captain but he never did develop a sense of forethought. This was going to be on every newspaper not even by days end, she just knew it. It was one of the few things she did not like with her position, she had no privacy and no matter how innocent something appeared somepony somewhere was always going to twist her words or spread undue rumours.

She put on a friendly smile.

"Thank you captain," Celestia turned to Spin Talk,” I am sorry but I must leave, I think you all can manage without me for a while." She rose to leave.

"Oh no worries, Princess, have a good time." The mare sported a shit eating grin which infuriated Celestia.

If there where somepony she would not regret turning to mush, it would have been Spin Talk, just in that moment. She had barely left the council chamber before she heard a chorus of whispering voices behind her flare up in gossip.

She glared at the Captain who sheepishly walked one step behind her and avoided her gaze. She would have fired the fool if he was not slated to retire already in the coming month. She was not angry enough to give the old stallion a black mark in his perfect service record only weeks from retirement but she was going to give him a stern talking too later for what he had done.

She rounded the last corner to her personal study, idly taking note of the pair of guards flanking the door leading in to it. As she closed they stepped aside and bowed their heads to the ground. She took a moment to recover her breath from the fast canter. She had let her condition slip over the centuries.

She activated her magic and opened the door as she walked in.

She was brought up short, stunned by the sight before her.

"Guards, leave us." she commanded.

I awoke groggily, my head pulsing in pain. I could hear the spark of a fire close by and I could feel warmth surround me. I opened my eyes, blurry with sleep, so I raised an arm to rub them clear but was stopped even before I began by something around my wrist. Confused I looked down and found them sealed in cuffs and not the nice ones either. I blinked a few times confused at what I saw before I remembered what had happened.

I had been attacked and restrained by guard ponies, not the most pleasant first day in Equestria but at least I weren't freezing anymore.

'By the way... where am I?' I looked around taking in the tall book filled shelves and the myriad of different and soft looking pillows lying around me. I was lying in the middle of the room completely tided up... on a rug... in the only spot without a soft pillow to lie on. I sneered a silent insult to the guards responsible. I felt more than a little mistreated. Especially since I still felt slight pain from where they had pressed their hooves, particularly on my chin. It hurt slightly when I made grimaces.

Behind me stood two unicorn guards, flanking the only door out, who stared stoically at me.

I suddenly saw the door handle flare up in a pale blue shimmer, the grey unicorn guards stepped away and to the side, letting the door swing open freely.

I was stunned by the otherworldly sight. Celestia herself walked in through the door. I did not know what it really was that inspired awe in me; it might have been the sheer size of her, her flowing multi-coloured hair or something else entirely. I could not remember much except that I felt incredibly small in her presence.

She stared at me for a split second before she glanced towards each of the guards in the room.

"Guards, leave us."

Her tone left no arguments and all but one purple armoured guard disappeared out through the portal. Celestia glanced down at the white earth pony that wore Shining Armour's ... armour.

"You too, Shimmer Shield." her voice took a slightly more irritated tone. Shimmer Shield bowed his head before he turned and left.

"Just making sure, your highness." he said and I recognized that gruff voice. It was the same from that guard that commanded my capture.

The door closed and I was now alone with the princess. I do not think I liked the look she gave me as she circled around me. Her eyes scrutinizing and her posture sharp. She was clearly upset as she studied me.

"Who are you?" The question took me by surprise by how angry it sounded. She continued to circle around me giving me a suspicious look.

"I... um..." I did not know what to say. Should I tell her the whole story? I had not planned on being interrogated so soon... or at all for that matter. Celestia did not take kindly to my hesitation.

"Tell me, now." She stopped in front of me glaring sideways and down at me, head held high and a frown clearly plastered across her face.

"I-I don't think you'd believe me even if I told you." I said looking away; it was hard looking her in the eyes.

She snorted and walked away to lay down on a specifically arranged assortment of pillows that looked very much like a divan, close to the fireplace. She fixed her eyes on me again when she had made herself comfortable.

"Go on." she challenged.

"Oh... how do I explain this?" I tapped one of my bound hooves against the carpeted floor in frustration. "Well... I am, not, from this world." All response my words garnered was a raised eyebrow from the diarch who remained silent and waiting for me to continue.

"And... um..." I fell into an awkward silence, I were not good at talking at all. I often stuttered and lost words when I was put in the limelight in a conversation.

I laid there trying to look everywhere but at the princess. I felt incredibly uncomfortable being under her gaze as she just laid there silent and staring with a none too pleased expression.

"You have still not told me who you are." her expression softened and a small smile graced her lips but something told me it was only a facade and nothing more.

"I... can you be more, specific?" I asked. At least some of the pressure I felt earlier was subdued now when she wasn't actively glaring.

"As you wish," she humoured me, "What is your name?"

Again I was caught a bit off-guard by the question.

"My name's Boris Nozhivo."

Yet again Celestia raised an eyebrow.

"Then Boris, please explain why my guards found you in my old castle."

'Oh, this is a hard one...'

"I don't know... why, specifically, I was transported there of all places. I did not have much of a choice..." I said again looking away as Celestia's mask slipped and her eyes grew dangerously sharp.

"What do you mean with 'no choice'?"

"Exactly what I said, the Organization never gave me a choice where to appear!" I responded a bit hotly, my eyes widened as I realized I almost shouted at Celestia. I closed my eyes as I took a deep calming breath, "though I never did specify it in my wish did I?" I whispered to myself.

"Wish... and what has this... 'Organization' to do with you being in my castle, which I might add, is forbidden territory?"

I recoiled when I realized I'd been overheard.

"I... well, I don't know much about them." I explained a bit unsure how to proceed. I knew very well about the multi-verse gambling organization named... well, the Organization. They picked creatures up from different universes and put them wherever they wished to go... only catch was that my life was now a live reality show, which bored multi-verse billionaires now put down humongous bets on my life... frankly it sounded to ridiculous in my head. This is why I was reluctant to say anything. "They just came out of nowhere and offered to take me to... wherever I wanted and... I first thought I were being part of an elaborate joke, but the more I asked to more I were convinced... So I thought, why not. I wrote down I wanted to go to Equestria and as soon as I signed the contract I woke up in that castle!"

She mulled over my words. I could only shift uncomfortably in my bindings. The more time passed the more I wanted them off. It did not help that my headache did not want to yield, that and a slowly creeping hunger was doing wonders on my temper. Something I clearly noticed started to affect me.

"You said you were from another world, didn't you?" I nodded to her question, "And that you were transported to my castle, due to making a wish to this Organization, correct?" I nodded again, "You will have to excuse me if I find it hard to believe Mr. Nochee-wo."

I sighed; I expected she would... hell even I would not believe my own words if I had not lived through them first hand.

"But I am curious about you." I perked up as she continued to speak. "It is not every day one meets somepony like you..."

I scrunched my eyebrows together in confusion, wondering what she meant by that.

"What do you mean?"

"Don't play coy with me. How do you not... know..." she looked curiously at me, even going so far as to tilt her head to the side,"... no..."

She rose from her seat/bed and started to circle me again.

"What colour is your mane?" she suddenly asked.

"Um..." I was caught off guard again by the change in subject; I actually did not know what my mane colour was so I checked by looking at my tail, "grey."

She narrowed her eyes as she continued to observe me. It was grating on my nerves as she only stopped circling me to either speak or to listen.

"How long is your horn?"

"I have no horn," I admonished, "I'm a pegasus."

For some reason Celestia smirked, "Really?" she levitated a mirror over from one of her walls, "I think you are wrong."

I stared curiously at my reflection, or more notably at the horn sticking out of my head. 'How did I miss that!?' I closed my mouth when I saw it hanging open in the mirror. I glanced upwards towards where it should be, I noticed the orange tip enter my field of vision... barely. I actually could not blame myself for not seeing it... heck I could barely see it now that I tried.

Then it dawned on me. I had both wings and a horn!

"I...I..." I was at loss for words.

"Can you now be honest with me Mr. Nochee-wo?" Celestia asked.

"I have!" I could not stop my voice from being loud.

"Do not try to fool me, I have had a spell on you the entire time. There is something you are not telling me." she resumed her walk. Her mane flowing in a non-existing breeze.

My eyes widened in shock at the revelation.

"I-" I tried to begin but I was cut-off by Celestia.

"You are no pony, are you?" she asked, irritation was creeping into her voice. I could feel the hostility directed at me.

“No.” I admitted and yet again found myself staring a hole into the floor.

She again stopped in front of me so that I was staring at her gold clad hooves.

“Then tell me,” I saw the same blue shimmer congregate bellow under my chin and my head was forced to look up; into her eyes, “what are you?”

“I… I am a human.” I don’t know how but it felt like I was confessing to murder, and it scared me.

Celestia held my head in her magical grip, staring into my eyes, for a few short moments before she released my head and again went to her divan. She did not so much as look at me as she started to pull books seemingly at random from bookcases around the room. Setting the first to arrive on a bookstand the rest started to circle her, all open.

She was reading… reading! I was shocked by the complete reverse in her behaviour. One moment she had been interrogating me harder than I have ever experienced and now she did nothing to acknowledge I was even in her presence!

Well… it did leave me to collect myself and without much else to do I watched Celestia… study? It was the best I could guess with that concentrated look she wore. She was tearing through page after page almost as fast as… I don’t know how she could read them, the pages flicked almost as fast as the paper had time to settle? Which was pretty damn fast considering that it looked like she turned a page for each second even the books flying around her, one book at a time mind you, but it was still impressive how she were able to divide her attention to such a degree.

“Hue-ma-n…” I heard her say, it looked like she was tasting the word as she continued to read or whatever she were doing

“You won’t find anything in your books Celestia.” It was time to deliver everything. I had no chance at all to blend in anymore. It would be hard to hide amongst the ponies looking like an Alicorn.

She glanced at me but went back to her… work? “How do you know my name if you claim to be from another world, Mr. hue-man.” She asked me swiveling an ear towards me.

“Because of the multiverse.” I simply stated.

“Multiverse?” She looked away from her books and levitated them away, into a pile.

“It’s just a theory… or, fact.” The shadowed g-man who sent me here more or less explained it to me, “There are some in my world that… thinks, or have toyed with the idea that fiction is based on other worlds. That there is some kind of connection between worlds that certain people can access.”

“I am… not sure I follow.” Celestia said giving me a skeptical look.

“In my world, your world has been adapted into fiction, entertainment.”

Her lips pursed as she mulled over my explanation.

“If I, believe you.” Celestia said carefully, “How can you prove it?”

That was a good question… how do I prove it… hmm… I wished I knew ‘when’ this was. Oh, I can start with that.

“What time is it?” I asked.

Celestia blinked a few times looking perplexed at the question and she glanced outside.

“Roughly one hour to noon, why?” I winced; I should have realized how she would have interpreted it.

“No, I meant the year. Has Nightmare moon freed herself yet?” I tried again, this time being blunter.

The reaction was not what I expected. I had expected an angry outburst or some kind of denial. Hell I expected the answer more than the reaction I got. It was only a bare moment but I could see it. It looked like I had struck her as she recoiled from my question. For the first time it was she who looked away.

“No…” she said softly, almost sad, “But what is so important about Nightmare Moon?”

“Your student is going to succeed in unlocking the elements of harmony and release your sister from the Nightmare.”

At my words she sprung to her hooves her horn flaring in a flash of bright blue. Then she simply relaxed with a sigh as she collapsed in her seat again. I was starting to fear she was bipolar… otherwise I must have struck closer to home than she probably liked.

“H-how?” I could guess what she wanted from me and I gave her a similar answer.

“Multiverse.”

She snorted, her lips twisting into a sneer.

“It is the same reason I know about Discord in the garden.” Her ears flattened against her head as she stared at me in shock, It was actually fun watching her reactions. Even though I was bound and near immobile I could feel how my words held power over her, “Not to mention Tirek the magic stealer.”

Celestia’s eyes shrunk to pinpricks.

“H-how, no one but me knows about him!”

I could not help but smirk as I said; “Multiverse.”

“Enough!” she shouted at me and she tiredly let he head fall onto her seats armrest. “I have heard enough.

“Why did you come here?”

“Because I wanted too…” I answered lamely.

Celestia studied me for a few more moments before her horn lit up again. Immediately the hoof-cuffs fell off, my wings fell from my sides as the rope thingy that held them flat against my sides slid off, and lastly a single small ring fell and bounced of my nose/mouth bridge and onto the floor. I looked confused at the ring at first before I remembered the horn and thought of the single and only reason why it would have possibly been put there. I then looked up and at Celestia.

“Welcome to Equestria, hue-man Noshee-wo. My guards will escort you to your room and feel free to explore the palace. I will deal with you later.” She dismissed.

Seconds later I was herded out on unsteady legs by notably shorter guards. They looked more than a little uncomfortable.

Author's Note

Fashionably late as always. Shower me in praise and bask in the glory that is me!

(on a more serious note)
Please comment and let me know what you guys think. What was bad, what was good? Even if you don't find anything to either extreme give, give.