Now, How would you imagine travelling realities would be like? The first misconception people can have is the mode of transport to get to Equestria, or any reality for that matter. Now I am not saying I took a car here, or the train, but most stories mention waking up and being taken to Equestria while they were asleep or when they died or by falling out of the sky. Not me though, I was transported to Equestria in the middle of the day, more precisely, during lunch at school,*sigh* I never got that lunch too. So there I was minding my own business just talking to my friends when I suddenly felt like someone had slammed their fist into the back of my head.- and I know what it feels like when someone slams a fist into the back of my head - My knees buckled and I was almost reduced to tears. And just when I thought that the pain couldn't get any worse I felt like every single atom and molecule in my body were being ripped away from me - I later found out that that's exactly what happened, damn the people around me must have been scared or confused - I knew that I had drawn a crowd around me but I couldn't make out a single word of what they were saying. I saw a familiar blackness envelope all I could see but fate, being the cruel mistress she is wouldn't let me fall into unconsciousness, so I had to endure the pain. I don't know how long I was there clutching my head while on my knees but eventually the pain started to recede enough for me to open my eyes, as my sight slowly started to come back to me I found that I could hear again. But. Something seemed off, I may have not been able to see but the voices I were hearing were not recognizable. And there were a lot more female voices than male.
After an agonizing wait, my vision came back, making me wish it hadn't as I realized I was staring at the sun. When I opened them again my jaw literally dropped at the sight before me. In front of me was the freaking Princess of the Sun.
I immediately tried to get up but found that I was still extremely dizzy and nearly fell to the floor."Ooh, still dizzy." I mumbled. When I regained a stable stance I found that I was just about the same height as Celestia - for any of you that want a height reference - I realized how scared everypony around me must be, so I decided to introduce myself when Celestia made a subtle nod to somepony behind me and one of Celestia's guards tackled me out of nowhere. Yeah not the greatest entrance to Equestria. The guard had tackled me to the ground and knocked the wind out of me so I couldn't speak. Suddenly a large group of guards surrounded me, tied me up, gagged me and threw me in a nearby carriage. All the while I just thought. Isn't this a little excessive?
After an unknown period of time I noticed the carriage had come to a stop so I presumed we had arrived at Canterlot, I mean where else would they take me. A guard opened the door and a few of the others picked me up and carried me to the dungeons. Just before they threw me in there they cut the ropes tying my feet together and then they literally threw me into the cell. when they left the room I sighed against the rope around my mouth and tried to untie it, after a few minutes I had manage to slip them off and started breathing heavily through my mouth. I thought about calling out to the guards but decided against it and hoped that Celestia would want to visit me. So I waited, and waited, and eventually heard some hoofsteps coming from the doorway so I rushed towards the bars of the cell to look at who was coming to see me. And to my surprise and joy I see Celestia enter along with the mane 6. Celestia is the first to talk, but I don't think she was talking to me,"What are you?" She asked herself while examining me."I'm a human from the planet Earth." I answered, I must say, the look on Celestia's face was priceless."Y-y-you can talk?" Celestia asked, I always thought it was funny that I surprised her."Yes, I was about to introduce myself when I arrived but your guards decided to postpone that." I was caught off guard when Fluttershy rushed up to the bars."A-are you hurt? Do you need any help?" Heh, so much for being shy. I thought."Thanks, but you don't need to worry about me, I'm fine." Fluttershy seemed pleased about this and went back to the back of the group.
Suddenly Rainbow Dash flew right up to the bars."What were you doing in Ponyville? How did you get here? Are you a spy?"
I nearly laughed at that last question but I managed to compose myself."To answer your questions, one, I don't know what or where Ponyville is" I swear I saw Applejack glare at me at that moment but I brushed it off as paranoia on my part."but I guess it was the place I landed in when I got here so I don't know how I ended up there. Two, I have absolutely no idea how I got here. And three, no." I looked over the ponies in front of me to. Twilight was mumbling to herself about how much she could learn, Rainbow Dash was eyeing me suspiciously, I couldn't blame her I mean how would you react if some alien materialized inside of your town. Applejack was glaring daggers at me and if looks could kill, I don't think I would have had much time left to enjoy the fact I'm in Equestria. Fluttershy had gone back to cowering behind her mane after she checked up on me. Pinkie was being... Well Pinkie. And Rarity was predictably eyeing up my school uniform. I finally looked back to Celestia who had re-engaged her poker face, - I mean how does she manage to do that? How can you keep a straight face while talking to a complete unknown? but, I digress -
"Sorry I haven't introduced myself yet have I? My name is Conner Sweet, and if the circumstances were better I'm sure it would be a pleasure to meet you." Celestia looked at me with that unreadable face still on."Well Conner, I think we will need to sort out a place for you to stay, so you will stay with my student Twilight Sparkle who will send me reports on your actions and whether or not we can trust you." I will admit those words stung a bit but I stayed optimistic in hopes that they would trust me eventually."Okay fair enough." I said.
"I shall arrange a train to take you and my student and her friends back to Ponyville where they can show you where you will live for the time being. Understand?"
"Yes, but one question."
"What is it?"
"Can you take these ropes off me?"
Celestia walked (trotted?) the mane 6 and I to the train."Remember, if anything goes wrong just send me a letter." Celestia told Twilight."What's wrong Princess, don't trust me?" I asked. "Yes well I want to ensure that my little ponies are safe if I leave you with them."
"Fair enough."
"AALLL ABOOARD"
"Well I guess we'll be off then." I said to Princess Celestia before I stepped into the train while the others were saying their goodbyes to Celestia. I took a nearby seat and reached into the inside pocket of my blazer and pulled out an ipod, I didn't know how long this train ride was going to be but I was going to enjoy my music until I arrived in Ponyville. Sadly, it seemed that somepony disagreed with me as I seen a cyan colored hoof snatch it away from me and by the time I could react she had landed a few metres away from me with my ipod in her hoof. Damn she wasn't lying when she said she was fast!
"What's this?" Rainbow asked me in a very demanding tone might I add!
"A source of entertainment for me. Now can I have it back?" I said.
"What kind of entertainment? How do we know this isn't dangerous?"
I hope hooves can't operate ipods because if she looks through any of the images, videos, or music I am royally fucked! I thought."The musical kind, and there is no way that could harm you unless I bludgeon you to death with it." I say in a frustrated tone. Hey! I may be in Equestria but that's no reason to take a guys music away. I always listen to music while travelling!
Rainbow seemed taken aback by my statement, I really didn't want to talk like that to her because She's my favorite pony, but, I was grouchy because I had just spent Celestia literally knows how long in a cell and now I had my only source of entertainment taken away. I would have just talked to them but that would require a lot of explaining on my part and I can be quite lazy for the most part."Why would you say something like that?"
"Look, I'm sorry. I'm still a little annoyed that I spent I don't know how long, hours maybe? In the dungeons of a castle in another world, possibly another reality, universe, dimension, I don't care, but please just give me a minute to calm down and I'll answer any questions you ask alright?" All the mares nodded."Good, I don't feel like any music right now anyway."
The girls sat around me while waiting for me to tell them they can start. God that wasn't how I imagined my first day in Equestria to be like. I was really naive to believe that I would be able to get ripped out of my own reality and shoved into theirs while being pieced together piece by piece and expect them to just outright trust and accept me.*sigh* I really didn't like the way I acted on that first day but I guess that's what a trip to the dungeons does to you. Anyway, where was I, oh yes! They had just sat around me and I decided I was ready, I mean, I knew they would ask the obvious "What are you? Where are you from?" questions but other than that I didn't know what else they would ask. I decided it would probably be better if there was some order to this so I asked them to sit in any order they wanted because I was going to go along them from left to right."Oh wait, I just realized, I don't know any of your names!" I exclaimed. - Also earning me another glare from Applejack, Goddammit how can she tell these things I mean even now it still confuses me, I know she's the Element of Honesty but I didn't think it would work on different species, anyway - "Oh sorry. My name is Twilight Sparkle. Personal student of Princess Celestia, but I guess the Princess already mentioned that before."
"I'm Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Equestria." Still boastful as ever! I thought to myself.
"Ah'm Applejack." Applejack said with a deathly tone to her voice. I swear to Celestia she wants to add "but you already know that don't you" to the end of that.
"Hello darling my name is Rarity." I didn't know whether or not to tell her I really don't want to be called darling!
"H-h-hello I'm F-F-F-fluttershy." Damn that last part was nearly inaudible
"And I'm Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie said while bouncing up and down in front of me.
"Well it's a pleasure to meet you all. Now, how about we get started on those questions before we arrive at Ponyville." I said in a much brighter tone now that I had relaxed."Okay we'll start on Twilight and go along so next it'll be Rainbow Dash, then Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and finally Pinkie. Okay?" They all nodded."Good, Twilight?"
"I'd like to ask where are you from?"
"Well like I said earlier, I'm from a planet called Earth which revolves around a star known as the sun, there are other planets in our Solar system such as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, I'm not gonna name the rest but you get the idea, there are any other Solar systems in our galaxy which is called the milky way and many, many galaxies in our universe. To be more specific, I myself live in a country called Wales on Earth. That answer your question?"
"Yes!" Twilight looked really excited, probably because she realized how much she could learn about humans from me, even though I could probably only scratch the surface of everything humans have done.
"Right then, Rainbow you're next."
"Oh, What is this really?" She said while holding up the ipod."You only said that it was a source of entertainment and could play music."
"Yes well that is called an ipod, it can be used to play music, videos, take photos and show them and play games, plus a whole lot more but that's the gist of it." Rainbow still looked confused after my brief explanation but then I realized."Do you know what videos are?" Rainbow shook her head."Ah, well then, the best way I could explain it to you is like. Imagine a moving picture, along with the sound. so what it does essentially is take loads of photos in a short amount of time and put them all together. I can show you one sometime." Just stay away from all the MLP related stuff. That may be a problem
I told myself. Rainbow seemed pleased with this so I went on.
"Applejack." Please don't go there, please don't go there, please don't go there! I repeated to myself in the hope that she might not ask.
"Why do you keep on lying?" Applejack asked. *imaginary table flip* Buck my luck. She actually went there. Dammit
