I Survived

Twilight didn't waste any time shoving me and Fluttershy out of her house to get the rest of her friends and head to the city they call 'Canterlot'. On the late night train ride there her friends, obviously, had a lot of questions. I tried to answer them as best I could, which was pretty hard to do. Even the questions about me personally were a challenge, sometimes I'd just shrug and say I didn't know.

We reached Canterlot and my breath was taken away. The castle in the distance looked beautiful, and the city was amazing. Even with all of the ponies staring at me. I found it a little odd that the city was on the edge of a cliff, but I just decided to roll with it.

"So, what do you remember?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Not much, just some basic stuff." I answered, too busy gazing at the beautiful city before me.

We walked throughout the city towards the castle. But honestly, I was more concerned about the amazing city sights I could see on the walk. I was so focused on the sights I didn't even see the guards until I bumped into them.

"Oh, sorry there." I said.

"Step back civili- Um. Creature?" The guard said.

"It's okay guys. We request to speak to Princess Celestia at once please. It's about him." Twilight pointed a hoof at me and I just stood there waving at the guards.

"Um.... Okay. I'll go... I'll just go get her." One of the guards said.

We waited for a bit before the guard came back and told us that Celestia is ready to see us.

Walking into the throne room I was amazed by the beauty of the castle, and the tinted windows. I looked ahead and saw a giant, white, pony sitting on the throne room. I heard her gasp when I walked into the room.

"Princess Celestia, I'd like to introduce to you, Brendan." Twilight said, bowing.

"Hello." Celestia said, walking towards me. She was almost as tall as me. And, unlike most of the ponies I saw, she had both a horn and wings.

"Hey, how's it going?" I said.

"What are you?" Celestia asked.

"A human." I answered.

"Where did you come from?" She asked.

"Well not from here obviously." I mumbled, looking at one of the tinted windows that showed the six ponies I was with.

"How did you get here?" Celestia asked.

"I don't know." I answered, returning my attention to the princess in front of me.

"How do you not know?" She said.

"I don't know. I can't seem to remember much about who I am, and how I got here."

"Right. Well I believe Twilight has some questions to ask you." Celestia said. "You can answer them first thing in the morning, you'll need somewhere to sleep though."

"I already know where he can live." Twilight said.

We then left and returned back to Ponyville, everyone left except Twilight, who took me a little ways out of town to a lake with a house next to it.

"Well you better get to bed. I'm sorry that the bed's a little too big for you. We'll get somepony to fix that tomorrow." Twilight said.

I nodded and closed the door to my new home. I sat on the couch that was in the living room and it immediately broke.

"Great." I said.

I sat down on the floor near the bed and tried again to remember what happened. Just like before I couldn't remember anything that had happened. I thought that I wouldn't be able to sleep, what, with all of the things that have happened to me in such a little amount of time. But the moment I laid down and covered myself with the blanket I just fell asleep right there.

I was woken up by someone pounding at my door.

"I'm coming! I'm coming! Calm down!" I said, wishing more than anything to go back to sleep.

I opened the door to find a purple horse in front of me. I was confused by this but remembered the events from the previous night.

"Oh no!" I said, hitting my head against the side of the door.

"What's wrong?" Twilight asked.

"Nothing." I said. "Other than the fact that I'm in a completely different world, surrounded by mutated ponies!" I thought to myself.

"Well, I have some questions to ask you. If you have the time of course." Twilight said.

I nodded and we walked back to her home. It wasn't long before Rainbow Dash found us.

"Hey, uh, Brendan, right?" She said.

"I guess." I said.

"Man, you reek. When was the last time you had a shower?" Rainbow said, covering her nostrils with her hooves and backing up a bit from me.

"Rainbow!" Twilight said.

"And you look like you barely had any sleep last night." She continued.

"Well I don't remember when I last had a shower." I said, sniffing my arm. "But I need one bad."

"Well you could use the shower at the library." Twilight said.

I agreed and we continued off to her home, Rainbow Dash leaving to do God knows what. I got to the library and Twilight told me where the shower was, and one look at it made me just shut the door. I stood next to the shower and it barely went above my waistline. I thought about if I could actually manage to pull it off, but I'm not Will Ferrell, I can't take a shower in this.

"What's wrong?" Twilight asked when I went back downstairs.

"If I stand in that shower It's going to shatter into a million pieces." I said.

"Oh, right." She said.

"Well, alright. Begin the questions." I said, laying down on the floor.

"Okay, eye color?" She said, getting paper and a quill.

I rose my head to look at her and let her see for herself.

"Okay, red." She said, writing it down.

I lied my head back down and stared at the humongous bookshelves in the room we were in.

Twilight asked me more questions, but much like the train ride, I couldn't answer a lot of them. I was angry at this, angry I couldn't remember my home, any friends and family, who I was. She then took me outside and said she wanted to test how strong I was compared to the ponies in Ponyville. She got a couple of ponies, including Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash, and mad me arm wrestle them all. I easily beat them, except for Apple Jack and Rainbow, it took me longer than expected to beat them.

Twilight then dragged me with her and Apple Jack and told me to lift some things they had at the barn.

"Why am I doing this stuff again?" I said, lifting a wooden box.

"I just want to see the extent of your strength. Lift it above your head, Brendan." She said.

I did and she made me lift other things. After a while I told her my arms were sore and aching and if I continued I would pass out. She told me okay and said I should go to Sugar Cube Corner, Pinkie asked me to meet her there.

I followed Twilight's instructions and found myself near a building that looked like it was made from sweets.

"Come one guys, I want to see him." I heard a voice from somewhere, but couldn't pin point where.

I then heard a gasp to my right and turned to see three smaller ponies in the distance.

"There he is!" The small orange one said.

I looked around me and I guessed they were talking about me. Well, I should have figured. I am a strange creature they would probably have a load of questions to ask.

"Hey mister!" The yellow one said while they ran towards me.

"Yeah?" I said.

I don't know why, but when they came running for me I put my left hand on my hip, as if I was expecting a pistol to be there or something. And them coming towards me gave me a feeling of wanting to flee from the scene if things got bad. Bad?

"What are ya?" The yellow one said.

"I'm Brendan. And I'm a human." I said.

"A human? Didn't we hear somepony start talking about humans once?" The white one said.

"Yeah. But, I didn't know they were actually real!" The orange one said.

"Oh, sorry. Allow us to introduce ourselves. I'm Apple Bloom, that's Sweetie Belle, and that's Scootaloo." Apple Bloom said.

"Well, nice to meet you." I said.

"What's it like where you come from?" Scootaloo said.

"I- I don't remember." I said, scratching my head. I silently said "Why'd you ask that?" when all of the questions started flooding their way back into my mind. And, just like before, found myself unable to answer any of them.

"What do you mean you don't remember?" The white one said.

"I woke up here last night, I can't remember near anything about how I got here, what I was doing before, I can barley even tell you about what my home was like." I said.

Scootaloo then looked at the building and poked Sweetie Belle, who then poked Apple Bloom. Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell ran towards Sugar Cube Corner.

"Wow. That's sad. I'm sorry." Apple Bloom said.

"Don't worry about it kid." I said "Go join your friends."

Apple Bloom ran off to go join Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle and left me to my thoughts.

It was kind of messed up that I don't remember my home. The only mental image I have of Earth, my home, is of me standing on top of a hill, next to a tree. I don't even remember what I was doing there. I remembered that Pinkie Pie wanted to see me in Sugar Cube Corner and walked towards the building.