Only in my dreams

One week later

Jesse arose to the sun in his eyes, a thick layer of sleep still blanketed him from last night’s slumber. He yawned loudly, warning the guard outside the door of his arrival to the land of the living.

Whatever time he had gone to sleep last night, it was too late. This made clear by his muscles tensing as he tried to lift himself from the couch. The couch. He found it strange that he had yet to sleep on the bed yet. But, with Halflight keeping him up into the night, he was normally too tired to move even an inch, let alone far enough to get to a bed.

The last weeks worths of nights all stacked up on each other, he found it surprising that he could move at all. He thought to himself the idea of just letting Half go at it with his phone, but the possibility of her breaking it was too high, considering that it was his only source of entertainment in a world centuries behind his own. Only once had he allowed her to use his device without supervisions and the results were… not what he had expected. Or wanted. Put simply, she found things she shouldn’t have.

Fortunately for him, she caught her before she had seen too much, preventing one awkward conversation, only to start another, as along with his rush to steal the phone away from her, she had become confused as to what he was trying to be so private about.

After all, being out naked wasn’t looked down upon in a pony society. Basically, he had to explain to her that there were things that she should never see, and what she was looking at was among those things.

However, even with the one awkward situation, Jesse had the privilege of treating the bat pony guard to some of the best nights she’s ever had while on duty. And for her sake, he almost wanted to take that privilege away from himself in the case that he finds Halflight becoming a critic of how awful movies of her own era looked and how cheesy they were.

Deciding it was best to stop wandering upon the more pointless things in life, he moved on to messing around with this morning’s guard.

Leaving the sofa with a series of crackles and pops emitting from his back and other various areas, he moved to the door to the outside world. He cracked the door open ever so silently hoping to not notify the guard of his presence.

Instead of his plans to surprise the guard, he found himself surprised. There was no guard outside the door. Strange. I could have sworn I heard a pony out here. He fully opened the door, still expecting to find the guard on the other side. Instead, he found a pony Princess. Celestia to be exact.

“ Hello Celestia, “ he said as casually as he could, despite his plans for this morning’s guard. He looked anywhere but towards Celestia, evening whistling to make himself seem innocent to his attempted actions as he tried to think of something else to say. “ I see you’re just standing out here… would you like to come in?”

He motioned towards the inside of the room, watching Celestia closely as she retained her regal and emotionless form. It seemed like forever before Celestia said anything, but when she did, she sounded incredibly hurt. “ I would. Thank you.”

She entered the room, not sending a single look at Jesse till she reached the couch. When she did, she slouched on its backrest, looking nothing like a Princess and more like any normal pony. Or at least, what he assumed a normal pony would look like.

While Halflight was a good base for what a relaxed pony would look like, she was never fully enticed in whatever she was doing. She would always occasionally take a look at him, like she was waiting for him to do something wrong. It almost seemed like she was on her guard at all times, despite being able to watch movies for hours on end.

“ Is there something wrong, Celestia?”

“ Yes, there is.” She stated, dryly. “ But those are not your concerns.” That last part made Jesse all the more curious as to what Celestia was hiding, but decided to not ask about it. After all, back on earth, when you try to get into a woman's personal business, one of two things will happen. Either they will spill their guts, or they will spill yours. And personally, he didn’t want to take that risk on an alicorn that could likely disintegrate his body on accident if she wasn’t watching herself… Superman fanfics all over again… “ Instead, I have come to inform you that your stay here, in Canterlot Castle, has come to a close.

That was far from what he was expecting. In fact, those were words he didn’t want to hear now that he thought about it. He was enjoying his time here, even if he was stuck in the same room most of the day. However, here, he had a mix of ponies that he enjoyed talking to. Row for example. He was one of the few guys he had even meet so far! In fact, he was the only guy that he could talk to now that Shining Armor had gone home and Blueblood was a complete douchebag.

But this… Removing him from where he was was the same as stripping him of the only ponies he had met so far. The lack of friends added to a still new world and new race was more than he thought himself able to handle.

Celestia spoke again, cutting Jesse from his train of thought. “ You will be leaving for Ponyville in just a few hours by train. Princess Twilight Sparkle will meet you there.” With that, Celestia left the room, leaving the door swinging behind her.

Twilight Sparkle? I feel like I’ve heard that name before… Maybe Shining Armor said something about her?

oOo

The series of events it took to meet this Twilight pony were...  more than uneventful. Actually, it was probably the most exciting thing that’s happened so far in his entire time in Equestria. The guard had to personally escort him through Canterlot, making sure that not a single pony had seen him or even caught a whiff of his scent.

Why this was so, he didn’t know. Most of the nobles had already seen him so he doubted that there would be panic if anypony saw him. Or perhaps Celestia had scene to it that none of the nobles told anypony about him? Whatever reason, he wasn’t sure, but that didn’t matter.

The only thing he cared to do at that time was to stay hidden inside a few walls of ponies.

After they had finally arrived at the train station, the next problem was fitting so many guards onto a single cart. Simply enough, in the end, some of the guards had to stay in Canterlot.

Lastly, was getting to this Twilight’s place. Surprisingly enough, despite what he had been told, she wasn’t waiting for him there. That was when the fun had started. For some reason, the guards had decided that it was the best to do what they had done in Canterlot again, surrounding him in a wall of Pony. Sadly though, with the amount that had been left behind in Canterlot, there weren’t quite enough guards to do the job.

So maybe a few ponies get a glimpse of him. Just small portions but still enough to catch their curiosity. By the time they had finally reached Twilights castle, they had a whole crowd following in tow. That wasn’t even the interesting part. That didn’t start until they were INSIDE.

That interesting part was the sight they were treated to when they were finally face to face. Or maybe something like face to pile of ponies stacked on top of an Alicorn as she desperately struggled to get free….

He could already tell this was going to be an interesting stay…

Seeing Jesse in person, however, seemed to be all she needed to overpower the pile up of four ponies holding her down. As they lost their grip on her, she streaked from under them and directly at Jesse, holding him in her hooves with all the might she could.

Of course, coming from an Alicorn, there was more strength in her than anything her size had the right to have.