Mach I

I looked around in awe at what was going on. Ponies were moving about the town square doing everyday activities at the stalls and various stands set up. I had never seen any of them from the show before. I assumed they were background ponies and I continued awkwardly strolling through the streets. I got a few strange looks, probably because I was new around Ponyville, ignoring them best I could I carried on. The streets were crowded where I came to, making me feel a little bit uncomfortable considering I knew next to nothing about real pony lifestyles. I kept walking through the streets, hopelessly lost, yet happy. Secretly I hoped to find one of the Mane 6's houses. After what seemed like an hour of walking I came to a sudden realization. I can fly.

One nice, hard facehoof later I stretched my wings. They came out about half way, before crumpling up onto my back. I thought for a moment on how easy it seemed to do something like this on the show. I tried again, getting my wings out fully this time. I silently cheered then tried to move my wings. They flopped around like my hand when it fell asleep. In the show the pegasi seemed to just flap their wings and zoom away. How can this be so hard? I tried flapping my wings like a bird, curling them up and jumping off small hills, but nothing worked! I decided to just figure it out later and I kept going on hoof.

During my second hour of walking I noticed something in a bush. Were those... eyes? I had no time to react. Something jumped out of the bushes and pinned me down. I tried screaming for help but a hoof shot out and covered my mouth. I looked around but the sun and seemingly everything was blocked out by a grey mass. A strong voice finally broke the silence by saying "When I take my er... hoof off of your mouth you will not scream."

I nodded my head and it took its hoof off of my mouth. I gasped for air and viciously whispered "What did you do that for?!"

The grey mass turned its head and I saw it was a pony. I sighed in relief and the grey pony said "I'm sorry, I am a tad disoriented from what just happened."

"What do you mean 'what just happened'" I silently asked.

"I don't know how I got here or what is going on, but I could swear this isn't a dream."

My curiosity spiked as I realized this my dreams aren't usually vivid. How did that fall hurt? I am dreaming, right? A hint of doubt plagued my mind as I came to the realization that this was all too realistic to be a dream. But going into the My Little Pony world? How did that make any sense at all? For the moment, I would have to accept that I am stuck here and there is a very good possibility that this isn't a dream and I might somehow actually be in Equestria. I thought wether I should tell him about me being a human and somehow ending up here. Oh crap, earth! How could I forget that I have a home in Texas? My parents and friends have to be worrying like crazy! Did I explode and now I'm dead?

The grey pony interrupted my panicked thoughts and said "I- I'm not supposed to be here. I'm not from, well... Ponyville. This is Ponyville, right?"

I nodded and told him that I wasn't from Ponyville, or Equestria either. To my surprise he grinned.

"Doesn't that mean you knew about this place before you got here? Are you... a brony...?" He asked silently.

"As a matter of fact, I am" I stated proudly.

"You got here like I did then?" He asked.

"Yeah, I blacked out right as I hit the sound barrier in one of my test planes, then woke up here. How about you?"

He waited for a moment, causing a small awkward silence and said "I was about to to take a bullet to my chest when I blacked out. Could've sworn I died. I still am having doubts this is real, too."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait." You got shot at?"

He smirked and responded "Yeah, U.S. Marines and proud."

"Wow, who was shooting at you?" I asked eagerly.

"My squad was doing reconnaissance in Afghanistan when we were attacked by a group of rebels. " he said glumly.

Realizing he was still pinning me down, he got to his hooves as I awkwardly as I did. He apologized "Sorry about the whole 'pinning you down' thing, I thought you were just a regular pony around here who would've run from my surprise tackle."

As he stood up I noticed he was a grey unicorn that looked all too familiar to Twilight Sparkle. The only difference I could see was that his coat was a dark grey and his mane was a bright neon red. His cutie mark was even the same as Twilight's except for the fact that it too, was grey. The most prominent difference was his snout which looked a bit more like a colt's.

"It's fine, really. We never introduced ourselves. My name is Chris, although my friends call me Inferno."

Nice to meet you 'Inferno', I'm Grayson, but the ponies around here gave me the nickname 'Neon' because of my bright red mane."

"We should find somepony around here who knows what the heck might be going on." I stated.

Neon stifled a laugh and silently said "Somepony..." before he broke out laughing.

I sighed and said "You should follow me, I bet Twilight Sparkle would know what the heck is going on. She is supposed to be incredibly smart after all."

He eventually responded after the laughter subsided "Yeah, this is seriously weird. Let's hurry too, the sun doesn't look all that high in the sky."

"Yeah, your right. Let's hurry up and figure out where we are."

"He looked at me for a second, then said "Why don't you fly up and spot where to go. You are a pegasus after all.

"Sorry, I can't figure out for the life of me how to use these wings." I stated a bit melancholy.

"Well, let's just hurry along and and figure out where that tree house is."

We set off into the fading light around Ponyville talking about how strange everything was at the moment, searching for the large tree house which would hopefully help us get back to our old lives. That is, if we even want to go back to our old lives...