My name is… huh? Well that’s inconvenient. Driver? No, that was my title. Let’s just put that to the for now. Not long ago, I was a young man happily wrapped up snugly in my bed drifting off to Dreamland™ after a hard days work. Fate seemed to take issue with my contentment, because suddenly my blankets and mattress disappeared and I found myself falling a few feet onto what turned out to be a polished hardwood floor.

What the hell?! I thought as I quickly sat up trying to get my bearings.

After frantically looking around the room, I noticed I was in a windowless basement lined with bookshelves and a few small pieces of furniture. I also found, to my great embarrassment, that I was completely naked. I had somehow lost my favorite PJ's along with my bed and my room and my- you know what I’m getting off track.

I sat with my legs together in an attempt to be decent without losing the use of my hands. If I’ve just been kidnapped, I need to find a weapon before... unpleasant things happened to me. Just as I was about to reach for one of the larger books and a small desk, a feminine voice seemed to pass through the wall behind me. I turned toward it as I listened.

“See, I told you I could control where it appeared to within 10 hoof lengths” stated the smug voice through a large painting of a white horse-thing with wings and a horn. In my hasty search for weapons, I hadn’t noticed the painting or the small door it hung next to.

Oh thank God it’s a woman! I thought as I let out a breath. It isn’t that much better, but if my innocence is to be stolen, I’ll take what mercies I can get.

“I know you’re great at magic Twilight, but you need to finish reading the warnings on your spells before you try them out. What if the summoning caused a giant explosion when it grabbed the thing.” replied a childish voice.

Oh my God! What kind of sick freak brings a child along to- Wait, Magic? Spells? Summoning? I wondered for a moment. Oh no, I’ve been abducted by a cult! I’m gonna be sacrificed to the devil by his hippie girlfriend and her illegitimate child!

“Spike! I’ve told you before, that only happened once and it was because Rainbow Dash swapped my spell books halfway through without me noticing.” said the voice now identified as Twilight. I noticed as the voice shifted position behind the painting, I could hear the clip clop of hooves. “Anyway, this spell was far too exciting for me to sit and re-read the standard conjuration warnings again.” I heard the voice named Spike grumble something, but couldn’t make it out.

“What is this thing anyway? Is it some kind of hairless m-monster?” asked Spike with a slight tremble in his voice.

“What? No. The spell was designed to bring creatures from another dimension into ours, so it has safeties built into it. It has to be a common species on its world with limited intelligence and strength. As an extra precaution, I restricted it to non-magical creatures.”

Wait a tick, did she say another dimension? How- What does she mean by ‘limited intelligence?!!’ I may be a high school dropout, but I am no idiot. I huffed internally. Wait, that isn’t important. I was abducted by aliens! Oh God, I'm right back to being anally probed against my will! My internal screaming was cut off as Twilight spoke again.

“We still need to figure out just how intelligent it is though. It shouldn’t be any smarter than a rabbit or at most a dog. We need to make sure we can train it well enough that it’s safe to let it interact with other creatures or ponies.”

So, she wants me as a pet? It looks like being too smart or too dumb will make her think I'm dangerous. That doesn’t make a bit of sense, why not just buy a normal pet?! What happens if they decide I'm dangerous? My mind filled with visions of being put down by the aliens in increasingly horrible ways. No, that's not gonna happen. I can play along with the best of them.

“Hey Twilight, is it just me or has it been staring at us since we got here?”

“What? It shouldn’t be able to see us through the one-way painting… Oh! It can still hear us! It looks scared, it must be frightened by close noises is can’t locate.”

“Or maybe the talking painting is scaring it?” offered Spike with a hint of sarcasm.

“What could possibly be afraid of the image of Princess Celestia?”

I took this little exchange as my queue to stop staring and behave more like an animal. I remembered that our old dog Cody would hide under my bed whenever he was afraid. He also usually spent a week under it every time we moved apartments. I looked around for a bed to hide under… nothing. All that was in there with me were the overloaded bookshelves, a couple cardboard boxes and the small desk I wanted to use as a weapon earlier. No bed, really? What kind of owner doesn’t even prepare a place for their pet to sleep?

I thought back to Cody for inspiration again. He would sometimes grab our old magazines and make a little nest in the laundry room when we left him alone for too long. I figured this was as good an idea as I would come up with. At least it will show her I need more than a floor to sleep on.

I walked around the room like I had seen monkeys and gorillas doing at the zoo. I pretended to sniff at the few things scattered around. My embarrassment at being nude had subsided after I figured the creatures holding me probably didn’t even recognize what were or weren’t genitals on a human. I grabbed a few books off the shelves and looked them over, I quickly found that while their spoken language was the same as mine, their written language was incomprehensible to me.

“It seems to have gotten used to our presence. It looks curious about its new environment now. Go grab my clipboard, I want to record how it behaves in a new, unfamiliar setting.” directed Twilight. The order was followed by the sound of scratches quickly retreating and then coming near again.

I began grabbing larger books and used them to make a small two foot retaining wall around a section of floor in the corner. The sectioned off space would be just big enough for me to lie down inside it comfortably.

“Aww, look at that, it’s making a book fort, how cu-“

*RIIIIIIIIIP*

*CRUMPLE*

*TAP* *TAP* *TAP*

*RIIIIIIIIIP*

*CRUMPLE*

*TAP* *TAP* *TAP*

*RIIIIIIIIIP*

*CRUMPLE*

*TAP* *TAP* *TAP*

“KYAAA!!! What is it doing to my precious books?!!!” shrieked Twilight.

Her screaming instantly stopped me from tearing out book pages to make bedding. These were precious? Why would you leave anything of value near an unknown creature, or even a new untrained pet for that matter?! I quickly weighed my options and decided to hightail it to the corner farthest from the door and my attempted bed.

The door slammed open just as I reached my destination and put my back against the wall in case I needed to fight them off. A small purple horse-thing galloped into the room, followed by a smaller purple lizard-thing with green spines running on two legs. The horse-thing cried out in a voice that I recognized as Twilight from behind the painting.

“Oh Celestia, what have you done?!” She looked at me glaring with tears in her eyes. I was both ashamed and scared of what she was going to do to me.

“Twilight calm down, it doesn’t know what it did wrong! It was probably trying to make a place to sleep, or a nest to lay its eggs or something. That’s what animals do, it doesn’t know what a book is.” pleaded Spike. I vowed right then and there, that I would never speak another word. If she found out I did it on purpose, she’d kill me… or worse.

“You’re right Spike,” she said as her shoulders sagged a bit, “I shouldn’t have left these in here anyway.”

Common sense has finally made an appearance! I did a little jig inside.

“Not to mention, I haven’t provided it with anything. Its going to need a place to sleep and- Oh no! I don’t know what it eats or if it needs water or if anything we have will be poisonous to it!” I was amazed. She was clearly alien, but her features were very human-like and even the way she expressed her emotions was almost human.

“It’s fine Twilight. I’m sure a creature of that size can go a night without food.”

Hey, what are you trying the say? I thought.

“And Fluttershy can probably tell us what it eats tomorrow. As for water, we’ll leave a bowl out tonight, if it drinks it we’ll know it needs water.” continued Spike, heedless of my internal indignation.

By this point, I had calmed down and pulled my aching back away from the wall. Twilight agreed with spike and seemed to be calming as well. When Spike left to go get me a bowl of water, I saw a light shine on Twilights head. A horn above her forehead was glowing and I noticed the pages I tore out of the books did the same. By the time I processed what was going on, the pages floated back to their original books and seemed to heal back into place. I was shocked by the display and Twilight noticed my expression.

“It’s ok, I won’t hurt you. I’m not mad anymore.” She raised her right foreleg and reached a hoof towards me pulling it back in an attempt to coax me towards her.

I’ll be honest, I was more than a little hesitant. From the sound of it she could make things explode with her mind. I kept my eyes glued to her horn as I slowly approached her. That was when spike walked in with what looked like a mixing bowl full of water. Twilights horn lit up and I instantly jumped back to the corner. It wasn’t until I realized she was grabbing the bowl that my heart rate began to go down.

“Whoa! I think it’s afraid of magic. Did you see how it reacted when your horn lit up?”

“Maybe it has a natural predator that uses magic like unicorns do? I’ll have to keep my magic to a minimum until it gets used to me.” said Twilight with a sigh. “That means I can’t take it over to Fluttershys cottage, she’ll have to come here to the library.

Library? That explains all the books. There’s no way one person would have this many books without having some serious issues. I thought. So that horn glowing thing is their “Magic” huh? I guess the term unicorn fits though. My thoughts were interrupted by a yawn from Spike.

“I’m getting tired, can we finish all this tomorrow?”

“In a moment. I need you to distract it for a minute. I want to teleport the mattress and bedding from the guest bed down here. I also need to move the more delicate and expensive books upstairs for safety. I don’t need it to freak out due to all of that magic happening at once.”

“Sure thing.” he said as he walked over to a wall away from Twilight waving his little arms. “Over here- Wait, what do we call this thing?”

Twilight thought for a second and said “N. E. One,” at Spikes confused expression she continued, “Non-Equestrial One or ‘N. E. One’ for short.”

Spike shrugged his shoulders and called, “Here Eny, look at me.”

Even with Spike doing his best to distract me, I clearly saw the purple flashes from around the room. I ignored them as best I could, after a minute Twilight had the basement in order.

“Alright Spike, I’m done, lets write a letter to the princess with the information we have and head to bed.” said Twilight as she trotted out the door. As soon as Spike exited, the door closed and I heard the tell-tale click of a lock.

I looked around and noticed that about a third of the books were gone. The desk remained, but in place of my retaining wall was a small futon style stuffed mattress with a few pillows and a quilt of some kind piled on it. I couldn’t sprawl out on it, so I curled up with my head on one pillow while hugging the other and wrapped myself in the quilt. Before I had a chance to ponder my situation, I was taken by a dreamless sleep.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed reading so far.

I will be completely honest with you. I am making this thing up as I go along. It is totally unplanned, at best I have vague ideas of scenes I want to see in it.

Thank you and have a wonderful day. :)