Falling For a Star: Heroes

Twilight's POV:

The moment you're hooves left Rainbow Dash's body, the entire crowd of ponies -once stomping and partying- turn all in unison towards Anon. You yourself can hardly believe the situation taking place, but it's happening right now and in front of you so you can't just say otherwise.

Along with the crowd turning, the music stops abruptly and soon the entire town is silent. Well it was silent before the sound of a plate shattering amongst the ground made itself known. Snapping back to reality, your eyes jolt towards Rainbow Dash where the sound originated from.

"Rainbow Dash?.... You okay?" You ask your flash frozen friend.

Blinking once it seems your words of worry never got the chance to hit her ears. Standing where Rainbow once was, was a broken plate, a pile of half-eaten cake and just above it a trail of rainbow colors that led over the crowd of ponies.

Anon's POV:

Suddenly you get the slight feeling that yelling out at this performance was a bad idea. Ponies everywhere are now staring at you with confused and awed expressions, however you do see some that have hints of anger showing. While all these emotions could be explained it still caught you off guard. This was a musical performance -one that they were stomping to- so having one bipedal creature yell out should be no big deal.

You know that you're the only human on this planet, but Diamond reassured you that ponies are quite welcoming of new species. Hell she even told me that Minotaur's live in peace amongst the ponies, so what makes you any different? All these thoughts brought you no closer to solving this mystery, in fact it raised more questions.

Well I never asked for thi-. You say to yourself only to be cut off by a blue blur and then the ground. As much as you admired ponies for their positive attitudes, the fact that they leap into action way to quickly counters it.

Rolling over with a grunt you come to lay eyes on a cyan blue Pegasus with a rather displeased expression upon her face. You lay there motionless as you stare into her magenta colored eyes. Suddenly the mental barrier snaps in your mind and memories of your passed life come flooding in. Memories of your fall are the first to come up from under the surface.

The image of the F-22 burning in the sky brightly, yet staying intact felt so real it made you feel like you were there now. As fast as the image came it faded away, being replaced by another then another. The first time you met a sentient pony by the river, your first job, the little filly that looked up to you, the little filly that you left.

Soon the images stopped coming only to be replaced by voices. "I'M RAINBOW DASH, FASTEST FLYER IN ALL OF EQUESTRIA!", "Takes true courage to do that.", "HE CAN TALK!", "But what if you don't get the job Anon?", "!حیوانات با اسلحه", "ANON WE'RE STALLING!", "I-" The last voice just cut off there, the exact point when you succumbed to the darkness.

Like the images did the voice ceases and you're left staring at the one mare that was with you the whole time. You don't care that she shot you, she did it out of self-defense. It was the one thing that you told her to do should someone come after her. No matter how hard your logical side wanted to blame her for all your suffering, you couldn't do it. For the eternity of your stay in Equss Rainbow Dash has done nothing but be loyal to you.

You were so deep in thought that you didn't notice said pony yelling at you. "We all thought you were dead! Do you know how much pain I went through to lug your limp body to the hospital! YOU HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!" You wince at the last part. Her volumes reaching levels that would mimic the music a couple of moments ago.

In truth you have a very reasonable explanation for all this and for sure you will tell Rainbow Dash, however now is not the time. Without any warning you reach up and hug Rainbow Dash. Instead of a hoof to the face that you were expecting, she full on hugs you back. You can feel her smile against your neck along with some stray tears.

As everyone knows all good things must come to an end and before you knew it Rainbow Dash was back on top of you staring down. To tell the truth you were expecting this from her, while you know she's happy that your back she still needs to uphold her 'image'. "I still don't hear you talking mister." She states with a stern tone.

"Yeah, yeah, I will get to that as soon as you get off of me." You reply. Her only response is to step back giving you ample room to stand up. Smiling your thanks you slowly get back up to your feet, but as things tend to happen in Equestria the simple task is disturbed causing you to digress from the main task.

Sadly the thing to distract you is a rather bright white light and a loud crack. Ah shit here we go again. You state mentally as you're dematerialized and are sent hurling through space. Within milliseconds you find yourself in Twilights library with all the rest of the mane six. Each one sporting a different expression, but out of all of them you like the yellow ones the best. What's her name again?

Your question is left unanswered as you now proceed to throw up. "Sorry teleportation really gets to me." You state as you stumble back and try to regain focus. "Celestia's teleportation's put me on the edge, especially since she sent me from Canterlot to Ponyville." The statement doesn't seem to affect any of their reactions, other then Twilight's who just gets more confused.

"Ya' got a lot of explaining to do sugar-cube, we all thought you died on us." Applejack states cutting right to the chase, however she was a couple seconds to late as Rainbow Dash said the same thing before the mass teleport.

"I will explain just give me a moment to recompose myself." You reply breathing heavily.

"Ah say you had enough time to 'recompose' yourself while you were laying in that coffin o' yours." Applejack snaps back. "Poor Rainbow here was so depressed that she spent most of her time in 'er house." This gets you to think, do they know how you died?

"Hay! I had no intentions of making you all feel like shit. If I wasn't sent to Tartarus from being shot then I would of gotten here much faster." This statement seems to shut the orange mare up, allowing you to get in a breath. "Now like I said I just need a couple of seconds or I'm gonna throw up again." You claim walking to the nearest chair in sight which so happens to be the couch.

Sitting down upon the couch you let out a large sigh of relief. For the first time in a long time you have your old memories back, and all you want to do is skim through them. Nevertheless you still need to tell these ponies what happened or else their going to force you.

"All I want to know is how you got out of you coffin after we buried it!" Pinkie states gaining the attention of everyone in the room. "What!? It would be a cool party trick?" Pinkie quickly states with a shrug.

"Coffin? I was never in a coffin." You lecture to Pinkie.

"Yes you were silly nony." Pinkie claims standing her ground.

"I have to agree with Pinkie darling. We held a funeral for you when you were claimed, forgive me for saying ...'dead'... by the hospital." Rarity is the next pony to join in the conversation.

"Yeah I carried you all the way to the hospital from Twilights house." Rainbow Dash adds in to support her friends.

"Does anypony not care that Anon just stated that he escaped Tartarus!" Twilight yells out catching the attention of everypony including you.

"There! At least somepony is willing to listen to my story." You claim making everypony turn their attention towards you. "Now like I said, here is my story on what happened." Sparking the attention within everypony the whole room goes silent. Gathering your breath you start to retell your tale.

"Okay my tail begins after Rainbow Dash shot me. When I woke u-" Was all you were allowed to say before everypony interrupts you at the same time.

"RAINBOW DASH SHOT YOU!" They all yell out in unison before turning their gaze towards Rainbow Dash who's face is now turning a tint red from embarrassment. Why do I even try to explain myself to these damn ponies. You say to yourself as Rainbow Dash immediately try's to inform her friends why she did it. To be honest you're not really surprised that she didn't tell them, nevertheless it's still fun to watch her try and wiggle out of murder.

"Now girls it was really dark and I couldn't see who it was, not to mention we were fighting other humans at the time." Rainbow Dash states backing up. "Tell them Anon!"

Your only response is to smirk at her when all the attention is drawn away from you. She gives you a pleading look and you can't help but split it up, as it's getting far enough. "Alright fine, she only did it out of self-defense. I told her to shoot anyone that came after her. What I didn't expect was for her to enter the apartment. It seems that Dash here isn't really the one for following orders."

With that being said all the girls turn back around. "So as I was saying after Dash shot me in the chest I was forced back to Equestria. Sadly that was the least of my worries, when I woke up I found myself in a pitch black room..." You go on to tell the mane six about your great escape and your journey back to Ponyville. Twilight as expected was writing down every word on a parchment, while the rest just sat and listened.

"... Then Celestia teleported me into the group of ponies. By the way why was there a concert in the middle of Ponyville?" You ask in confusion. "Ponyville is the last town I would expect to see a concert in."

"Why do you think! Today's my birthday!." Rainbow Dash is the first to break the silence.

A smile comes upon your face when you realized why they were playing your playlist. "So I guess you found my present." You claim. "It was hard enough keeping it a secret, what with you always following me around."

"Sorry to interrupt ya' but I think we have a more pressing matter on our hooves." Applejack interrupts, however Dash's expression is the only answer you need.

"And what may that be?" You ask curiously as not much can be more pressing then your return to Ponyville or the fact that you just recovered your memory from your past life.

"If your 'ere then who did we bury?" Applejack states.

Lorin's POV:

These past couple of days have been nothing but relaxing to you. With the change of scenery you really come to appreciate this place much more then Earth. While Earth does have lush forests, none of them have vibrant colors like this one. Since you don't require food nor water to survive and you never really get tired the days seem to slip on by without you noticing.

The village that you look for has yet to come into sight, but then again that might just be because you have no idea where it is or where you're going. Before your crash you did remember seeing a village west of the forest, but once the wolfs attacked, you wanted nothing more than to get out of the area. Sadly your mind was not thinking of where it wanted to go and instead of the village it lead you into the desert.

shrugging off your misfortune you continue down the none existent path in front of you. At times like these you would like to think that you knew where you were going but deep down inside you knew you were truly lost.

Letting out a large sigh you're caught off guard when you start to hear crying. Crying? who the heck is out in this god forsaken forest. You ponder to yourself as you follow the sound. The closer you get the more you realize that it's not so much as crying as it's screaming in pain. With this thought in your mind you quickly race to find out the source.

Jumping over roots and rocks you slowly make your way towards the sound. Branches that were once blocking the path now lay broken upon the forest floor. The feeling you were getting was so surreal. Here you where with superhuman powers running towards screams of pain. I guess dreams really do come true. You say to yourself as you dodge another branch.

However just before you reach the cries of pain you skid to a stop. If Chrysalis didn't know your race then for certain this creature wont and the last thing you want to do is scare it away. So instead of bursting through the bushes and meeting this creature face to face you slowly enter the bush and push back some of the leaves to give you a better view.

What you were greeted with was pony -literally a pony- trying to fend off some wolfs. Rage started to boil within you, your hatred for the wolves was unmatched by anything else you have encountered. Sadly you came a bit too late as the wolf was already hacking at the poor pony that lay on the ground curled up in a little ball.

Time to see if this disguise things works. You say to yourself as you copy the pony upon the ground. You yourself felt no change but when you looked to your hands you realized they were now hooves. This is so cool. You say to yourself as you jump out of the bush and continue towards the lone wolf.

Each step you take you put more power behind it making your speed increase exponentially. At the last second you jump into the air and perform a  flying kick. As expected you land the hit right in the wooden wolfs face with a crack causing it to tumble to the ground. Sadly you don't know how to work this new body out, so you too fall with the wolf.

Thankfully from your kick the wolf stayed down dazed and you regained your footing and turned towards the mare that lay on the ground. "Can you walk?" You ask switching back and forth from the mare and the downed wolf. "I need an answer quickly!" You state as you see the wolf start to get up. What am I thinking! Ponies can't talk! I guess after see Chrysalis my view on the world has changed significantly.

You get no answer as expected along with a slacked jawed expression. "Y-You're me!" She yells out to your surprise and then passes out right there on the ground. Wops should of seen that one coming. You say as you run up to the mare switching back to your human form. Wasting no time you pick up the pony and bolt it out of there not wanting to fight the wooden wolf any more then you have to.

You don't know how long you have been running thru the forest with this mare on your back, but you think it's safe to say that it was a while as the mare is starting to wake up. With a safe distance away from the wolf you place the mare down and instantly change back to pony form. This time however you make sure to change the mane style and colors. You don't want to lug this pony any longer then it's necessary.

Slowly the mares eyes start to open. "You okay? You took quite a beating back there." You claim getting on all fours as you expect this is normal for a pony. This planet is all sorts of fucked up. First the bug things now talking ponies. You state mentally.

"Yeah... I think I'm okay." She replies rubbing her head with her hoof.

"Good, do you have a name?" You ask curious to know this pony more and wondering why it's in a dense forest and not out in the plains.

"I'm Rose." The mare responds looking up towards you from her seat. "And you are?"

"I'm loran." You reply.

"That's an unusual name.." The pony states. Not as unusual as you -a pony- being able to talk perfect English. You claim to yourself mentally.

"So why are you out here in this forest?" You ask.

"I could ask you the same thing." She points out. "I came out here because this zebra named Zecora told me that there was a large patch of lovely rose bushes near the heart of the forest. While I did manage to find them so did the Timberwolves... There's talking zebra's too! What else!

"Well your safe now or at least I hope so." You lecture looking around the area making sure that the wolf didn't follow you the entire time. With a large sigh you turn back to the mare. "Do you know how to get out of here? Preferably to the nearest town?"

"Oh for sure Ponyville is right over.... over...." The pony spins around in her spot her expression turning to one of worry. "over..." She states again, this time her tone is much lower.

"You don't know where it is do you?" You ask sighing to yourself along with a well needed face hoof.

"Well I did! But now that you carried me away I have no Idea where we are." Rolling your eyes at her response you start to walk in a random direction. "Where you going!" She says still trying to regain her bearings.

"Somewhere, anywhere, maybe I will stumble upon a path." You claim looking back at the now still mare.

"Wait for me then!" She yells out as she takes a few steps forwards only to trip over her own weight.

Rolling your eyes once again you walk back to the mare. "Need some help there?" Her only response is to stubbornly get up herself and attempt to walk again with a humpf. "You know I don't mind helping you out, I did after all carry you away from the 'Timberwolves'."

"No I'm good, really." She says with a smile taking another few steps but you can see that she is obviously trying to hide the pain.

"Your lying is as bad as my friends, just as stubborn too." You state with a chuckle taking the mares front left hoof -the one that was injured- and flinging it over your neck for support. She doesn't say anything in response and just continues on.

"So this Ponyville, do you happen to know someone that goes by the name Twilight Sparkle?" You ask attempting to do two things at once. One break the ice and two get a lead on this creature you're supposed to meet and get to know.

  "Everypony knows about Twilight Sparkle she's Celestia's personal student. However she's not the one you should be looking out for, there is this big monster thing that has been walking around town." You lift up one eyebrow at this.

"Big monster thing?" You claim unsatisfied with the description she is giving you. "You're going to have to tell me more than that."

"Well the ponies in town call him a 'Human' however I call him for what he is and that's a monster. I have never seen anything like him, even the diamond dogs and Minotaur look less threatening." Your mind immediately skips over the fact that she stated two new species and focuses on the first one.

"A human, does he have a name?" You ask out of curiosity.

"Anon I think it was. Why are you so interested in him? He's nothing like me or you, he's a human! From another world!" Anon! He's here!

"I think you should be more 'accepting' of humans." You claim keeping your true identity and excitement sealed away under the surface.

"Why should I! He has done nothing but cause trouble." She says with an annoyed tone. "Did you know he ruined one of the elements of harmonies birthday party." Heh that's so the Anon I followed into battle. You say to yourself.

"Well you can't blame him, you know him being the only human on the planet." you reply.

"Just because he's the only one of his kind doesn't mean he gets any special treatment while the rest of us work our flanks off! Can we please change the subject?" Her voice is now pleading and you find it best if you go with it. I can't believe Anon is here!

The two of you continue to walk through the forest talking about random stuff that comes to either of your minds. Nevertheless you're thankful that you saved this pony as now you have someone to talk to during your journeys, even if she doesn't know what you truly are.

Hours soon pass by and you find yourselves exiting the gloomy forest and into the brightly lit plains. It was so bright that you had to shield your eyes for a while before you got used to it, but what caught your attention was a large city that lay at the bottom of a large mountain.

"Is that Ponyville?" You ask pointing out towards the city. "Because that looks more like a city to me then a town."

Rose finishes whipping her eyes and glances up. "No that's Saddle Lake City. At least we didn't travel in the complete opposite direction."

"How far is Ponyville from there?" You ask moving towards the city with Rose at your side.

"It's actually much closer from here but even still it would take us six hours on hoof. I say we stay at saddle lake for the night then head off to Ponyville. Your heading there too right?" Rose asks taking her gaze away from the town to look at you.

You nod your agreement. "Yeah I got a couple of questions to ask this Anon guy." You state with a small smile coming upon your face for the first time in a long time. "I hope you have money because I'm broke."

"What kind of stallion are you? Making the mare pay!" She states giving you a nudge in the ribs. "Don't sweat it I think I have some bits in my saddle bag." She lifts up her rear to emphasize the bag that sat upon it.

Once again the time passes by like chaff before the wind and you both find yourselves entering the city. You have never seen a city on this world and to tell the truth you were surprised to see that it looked a lot like the ones back on Earth, albeit smaller than the normal.

Another thing that caught your attention was that the ponies here seemed to be stuck in a era that is mixed with the medieval, early 19 century, and amazingly the modern era. Replacing the cars were ponies and buggies, they had modern lamps and medieval guards.

"Have you been to Saddle Lake before?" You ask Rose as you follow her into a large building.

"Only once, I came to see the annual flower convention. I stayed in this very hotel during my visit." She claims gesturing to the interior of the hotel. The hotel itself looked quite average, not complete shit and not high class. "This place even has a pool room with a hot tub!" It seems that entering this hotel has completely changed her frame of mind.

"I might join you, however we're getting your hoof fixed up first." You comment with a stern tone showing that you plan to get that done whether she likes it or not.

Rose smiles at your response and trots over to the front desk. "Sounds like a date." She then turns around towards the stallion at the desk. "I would like a room for two please." She states taking off her saddlebag and opening it up. I hope she was joking about the date thing. You say to yourself.

"One bed or two?" The stallion at the desk states as he turns around to look at the keys upon the wall.

"One, we can share they have big beds here." She claims nonchalantly -Now you really hope she was joking about the date thing-.

You really don't need sleep so you don't mind if there's only one bed. Worst comes to worst you will spend the entire night in the hot tub. The stallion at the desk picks up the key and hoofs it over to Rose. "If you want to stay another night all you have to do is let us know by twelve tomorrow." Rose nods and turns towards you.

"Alright so how do we get this hoof of yours fixed up?" You question.

"Well it doesn't look that bad so I think I just need to bandage it." Rose states obviously trying to avoid going to the hospital by all means.

"You're kidding me right? You can barely walk and when you do you fall face first." You say poking her on the hoof.

"Ow!" She yelps out in pain. "Fine! Let's get this over with." With a satisfied smile you help Rose with her saddlebag and help her out of the hotel and into the cobblestone streets.

While it took forever for Rose to get checked up it was necessary. When you entered the hospital it was just breaking six o'clock by the time it was all finished the clock struck ten. "See now I have to wear this cast!" Rose huffs in anger.

"That's what happens when you break your ar-hoof." Rose gives you a suspicious glare but then returns to trot down the street with just three hoofs, how she manages to stay standing blows your mind. "It's also better than the alternative." You claim.

"And that would be?" She asks.

"Dead." You reply simply.

This gets Rose to stop her little trot. "You okay Rose?" You ask walking up beside her.

"Thanks..." Rose states turning her head to look at you. "Without you I would of probably died today. I just want you to know that you saved a mares life today and that she is very grateful."

"Well I couldn't of just left you there to die now could I." You reassure her and continue towards the hotel. "Enough with this depressing talk, let's get our as-erm flanks in the hot tub."

Rose trots to catch up to you. "Don't have to tell me twice!" She beams.

Arriving at the hotel Rose splits off. "I will meet you at the hot tub, I just need to put these saddlebags away." Nodding you turn to the stallion at the desk.

"Can you tell me where this pool room is?" You ask. All the stallion does is point his hoof over to a door at the end of the room. "Thanks." You reply and walk off towards said room.

Opening the door you come to see that you're the only one in here. The main pool was decent sized, big enough for you and probably huge for a pony. However the pool is not what you came here for, what you came here for was the hot tub.

Walking over to the edge of the pool you look in to see your reflection. What you see staring back is a pony with a brown mane and beige coat. You didn't really think about the looks of the pony at the time you changed forms, so it seems like this is what you would look like if you were born a pony. I can't believe I'm still sane after today. You say to yourself with a sigh.

*boop*

Without warning you find yourself off balance and tumbling into the chilling waters bellow. Instinctively you let out a yelp in surprise attempting to turn around to see the culprit, nevertheless your vision is taken away when you enter the water and sink to the bottom.

Shit! How the hell do I swim in this form! You yell mentally as your breath is slowly being taken away from you. The cold water doing nothing to help you through this dire situation. Out of pure fear you start to kick around but to no avail.

You were just about to change forms when Rose jumps into the pool after you. Her expression is once again one of worry. Within a couple of seconds she grabs your hoof with her good hoof and helps you up to the surface.

*GASP*

You break the surface and grab a mouthful of beautiful, lovely O2. Rose pushes you over to the side of the pool and you quickly climb out gasping for more air. "Never. Do. That.... Again!" You state as you now proceed to spit out the chlorinated water.

"Well how am I supposed to know that you a stallion that can knock out a Timberwolf can't swim! Like what the buck man!" Rose claims dragging herself onto the side of the pool, she is also gasping for air.

"Whatever you crazy mare." You claim lying down on your back staring at the ceiling thankful that you didn't have to expose your true self to her.

Rose is the first to get up as she walks over to you and stares down at you with a smile. "Hot tub time?" She claims.

"Hot tub time." You reply as you roll over and get back on your hoofs.

With neither of you talking you both make your way over to the hot tub which is thankfully like a normal one and does not require you to swim. Placing your first hoof in your greeted with the relaxing sensation of the nice warm water. "Ahhh that's good." you claim climbing all the way in.

Rose follows in toe complementing the water herself. "Nothing beats a hot tub after a long walk." You nod your agreement and lay back closing your eyes.

"So what were you doing in the Everfree forest?" Rose speaks up.

"Everfree?" You ask propping open on eye.

"The forest that we were in." Rose states it like it should be obvious. "How can you not know about the Everfree! Everypony knows about it!"

"Almost everypony." You correct her.

Rose lets out another irritated huff. "Anyways what where you doing there. The Everfree is like one of the most dangerous places in Equestria."

"In all honesty I was looking for Ponyville so I can meet this Twilight Sparkle." You lecture closing your one eye again and let the water relax your every muscle.

"I get that part but couldn't you of taken the train? or at least asked somepony for directions?" Rose questions.

"I could of but I didn't." Is all you say in response, for if you give this mare any more information she might just break your mystery and all hell will break loose. "Enough about me what do you do? You a florist?" You ask giving your best guess.

"But you hardly told me anything about you!" Rose whines.

"Your lucky you got that much." You state with a smirk. Roses response is to simply splash some warm water into your face.

"Fine then I won't tell you what my occupation is." You crack one eye open to see that Rose is sporting her own little smile.

"You really didn't have to answer my question, because I know you're a florist." You reply closing your eye once again. If there is one thing this mare can't do it's keep something to herself. Plus it was pretty obvious with her looking for flowers and her name literally being a name of a flower.

"Why do you have to be so 'difficult'" You can't see it right now but Rose is now displaying the scrunch of the century "At least tell me why you need to see Twilight Sparkle."

Sighing you give into the ponies command. "There is another pony that wants me to get some information from her." Technically this was a white lie but most of it was true. "I don't even know what she looks like, she could be a griffon for all I know." You state jokingly.

"Twilights a unicorn griffons are off to the east." You don't even bother to give a fuck that griffons are real, however you will give one for the unicorn part. The only ponies you have seen have been normal -no horn what's so ever-.

"A unicorn!" You jolt up opening both eyes. "You shitting me right? Please tell me your shitting me?" You ask.

Rose gets a disgusted look on her face. "Why would I be 'shitting' you." She claims only making you face hoof.

"Never mind about that, tell me about this unicorn race?" You question, however Rose just looks at you like your retarded or something. "What? I need to know if I'm going to meet here."

"Have you been living under the rock all your life? Did you even go to school?" Rose asks with certainty.

"just tell me." You command, if you told her that you did take school she will ask where, due to your current lack of basic knowledge.

"Okay no need to get all grumpy." Rose replies crossing her arms. "Unicorns look exactly like us except they have horns which they can use to channel magic. The other race is Pegasus which have wings. I thought everypony knew about basic pony races."

All you do is just sit there soaking up all of this information. Magic I understand because Chrysalis showed me, Pegasus now that is messed up this is like a fantasy world! "Lorin you there bud?" Rose waves a hoof in your face.

Shaking your head you look towards Rose. "Oh, yeah, just rethinking my life." You say instinctively.

"How can that make you rethink your entire life?" Rose ponders out loud. "You grew up here right?"

Acting fast you reply "Of course I grew up here, but I come from faraway where ponies aren't a common sight." Rose just looks at you curiously. "I think it's time we get some shut eye." You claim getting up from the hot tub. Rose's expression drops but she follows you in toe.

Walking over to the lobby room you flank bump Rose causing her to yelp and fall into the pool. "That was for pushing me in." You say with a smile as Rose breaks the surface.

"I'm starting to rethink you saving me from the Timberwolves was such a good choice." Rose mumbles as she climbs out of the pool.

One finds limits by pushing themselves. ~ Herbert Simon