“STOOOOOOOOOP!” A familiar voice screamed, making the two ponies stop right in front of him.

Matt blinked watching the ponies look at his left, curiosity getting the better of him he followed their gaze. Twilight was galloping to them, distress on her visible even from this far. Once she got close enough she stopped to catch her breath.

“Thank Celestia you came Twilight, give us a hoof in kick this thing all the way back to the forest where it came.” The cyan one spoke in a ruff and bloated tone.

“I have a… name you know.” Matt replied giving a displeased glare.

“It talks?” The orange one spoke on a southern accent, receiving a rolling of eyes from the young exhausted human.

“Yes he does,” Twilight answered before Matt could, glancing at him annoyed “And he is in big trouble.”

“I’m not… fucking five… you know.” Matt groaned.

“My goodness, what happened to you? Why did you wander into the Everfree Forest?” Twilight examined him, noticing the scrapes and some scratches on him. Meanwhile, the other two ponies stared at each other unsure of what to do.

“Uh… Twilight-” The technicolored one spoke again, being cut off by Twilight not long after.

“Oh sorry,” Twilight glanced at the ponies “Matt, these are my friends Rainbow Dash and Applejack. Girls, this is Matt, Princess Celestia tasked me to learn the magic of friendship with him.”

Matt was about to make one of his usual remarks, but a tug on his chest had prevented him to do so. Whenever he tried to take a jab at the ponies he was stopped before he could say a word.

‘It’s not wise to get them on their bad side, unless you want to be sealed away in stone or be banished away for a thousand years.’ Nightmare Moon finally spoke after being silent ‘Look, I know you don’t wish to befriend my subjects, but you need to play along for the time being.’

“I see where you’re going, fine, I’ll lay low for now.” He responded mentally to her as he took a breath, trying his hardest to look at the two ponies looking at him in awkward silence without any kind of spite.

“Nice to meet you.” He finally replied flatly.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and Applejack looked back at Twilight, no one said a word while Matt tried to get up on his feet only for his muscles to give away again.

“Here.” Twilight leaned below his belly and carried him up on her back with an extra help of her magic despite being pretty heavy for her. She struggled in her magic to keep Matt on her back without being crushed under his weight “Oof, sorry to cut this short girls, but it’s getting pretty late. We’ll talk later.”

“See ya later sugarcube.” Applejack waved at Twilight bearing a nervous smile, Rainbow Dash stared at the direction of the Everfree Forest. Her narrowed eyes not moving away from there.

“I don’t trust this.” Dash muttered.

“Yeah, me neither.” Applejack’s smile wavered as soon as Twilight was out of sight “Let’s keep an eye out fer now, Twi seems to have this under control.”

“Oh sure, she totally has this under control. Nevermind how he was able to slip away under her nose, she’s got this.” Dash turned to her, flapping her wings to take off before giving out a yawn.

“Rainbow.”

“Fine fine, I’ll stay low for now. But I’m gonna give him a good old beatdown if he does anything funny.” She finally took off into the night sky ready to hit the hay.

“What were you thinking?! Don’t you know that the Everfree Forest is the most dangerous place to go to?!” Twilight scolded the young man, pacing in front of him while he sat on a couch nearby since the time they arrived back at the library.

Matt didn’t dared to budge much less talk, mainly because his body still stung by forcefully being fused with an evil smoke monster that now lives in his head that seems to be eerily quiet ever since he was being attacked by Twilight’s friends.

“Are you even listening to me?!” Twilight stomped a hoof breaking Matt out of his toughts.

“Excuse me if I’m not in the mood to listen to your nagging, let’s roll you off a cliff and have me rant at your ear while you’re injured to see if you like it.” He spat giving her a glare.

Twilight opened her mouth about to give a response, but none had come to her. She stopped pacing and looked back at him after giving a sigh.

“Is that what happened?”

“Yeah,” Matt softened his gaze reclining back in the couch “Too bad it lacked any rocks to kill me on the way down.”

Twilight flinched at hearing this, in all of her life she couldn’t think of anyone that wished for their own death and to meet someone like that made her uneasy.

“I’m going to write a list of chores for you tomorrow before going to bed, from now on you won’t be going out without supervision.” Twilight turned her back to him heading up the stairs leading to her room.

Matt didn’t acknowledged her orders, with having chores to do while injured was bad enough. Scoffing as he curled up on the couch despite his body’s protests and how small he was in it “I’m going to sleep in here and that’s final.” He called out to her closing his eyes to sleep shortly after, or at least attempting to.

‘That certainly is a way to lay low if I do say so myself.’ Nightmare’s voice rang through his head once Twilight was out of sight.

‘Cut the crap, just how long do I need to be in this state to go find a way out of this damn world?’ He mentally replied back.

‘Not long really, if I am correct by tomorrow you will be able to stand up and walk normally.’

‘I better be, I don’t want to stay here for long.’

‘And then what? What do you plan to do? Return to your homeworld which you hate and hates you back? Do you even know how you’re gonna do that?’

The young human didn’t had an answer to that.

‘Remember that we are now fused, I know quite a bit about you. But I can help you escape this world.’

“...I’m listening.”

The next morning a familiar smell filled Matt’s nostrils, opening his eyes and got up with more ease compared to last night like Nightmare said. Sure, some pain is still present but it’s bearable now. Tracking the smell of cooking he found himself to be in the kitchen, a familiar dragon working on the stove.

“The fu-”

“Oh,” Spike turned to Matt, the frilly apron that the dragon is wearing now apparent “Um, morning Matt, I’m making breakfast.” He hesitated to say a word and turned his back on the human scared of staring at him for long.

Matt remained quiet until he took a breath, looking down at the small table he sat down on the floor and crossed his legs “Give me just milk and eggs Spike.”

“Got it!”

Twilight soon joined Matt sitting down on one of the pony sized seats, she wore a saddlebag with a scroll sticking out.

“I see that you’re all up.” She smiled as Spike served the breakfast on the table. Spike already is digging on his plate of gems that Matt didn’t bother to look at exactly what gems he was eating, while Twilight has fried hay.

“That’s all you’re eating Matt?” Twilight asked eyeing Matt’s fried eggs.

“Just tell me what the first task is Hera.”

“Okay…” She trailed off confused by his answer, bringing herself back to topic with a cough and taking the scroll on her saddlebag to open it.

Author's Note

With that ends the Introduction Arc, the next couple of chapters will be something I call the Accusation Arc. I decided to add this arc to call out and build up the mane six's bitchness factor of the show, if that's not your cup of tea you're not forced to stay and read. I won't be doing the episodes in chronological order though, but I will be mixing some of them with some made up events.

Next time the first chapter of the Accusation Arc, Dragonshy.