FGIE - Fat guy in Equestria

Sidney stood on the edge of an endless void, a thin gray line being the only thing to define where a black pit separated from the black floor he stood on. He knew from somewhere deep in his soul that something was waiting for him in the darkness, waiting for him to look over the edge and acknowledge it's existence, and he knew that it wanted nothing more than to hurt him. If this was a normal situation he would have already pulled out the pocket knife he normally carries with him or have just turned and walked the other way. Considering that for some reason he only had sweat pants with no pockets on and that for some reason he was in black nothingness he went with option C: Look over the edge and hope he could negotiate with whatever was there. With a last ineffective calming breath he got on his knees, grabbed the edge defined only by the line, and looked over it.

"Hey there young fella, you look like you could use a snack."

Sidney screamed in absolute horror as none other than Twinkie the Kid pulled himself over the edge and stood at his full height, towering over Sidney like some strange yellow spongy skyscraper.

"What's the matter? Don't a BIG fella like you like twinkies?'

Memories beat around Sidney's head of others  that emphasized the word big when they talked to him, and of all the teasing jokes about fat people loving-

"Here, have a twinkie.

Broken from his daze Sidney realized that Twinkie had materialized a much smaller one of himself right in front of him. Without anymore pause Sidney took the action that he should have taken from the second that he saw the cream filled being.

He scrambled to his feet, yelled "FUCK YOU, YOU GHOSTBUSTERS AUDITIONS REJECT!", and ran faster than he had ever ran in his life to the opposite direction of the monster.

Twinkie laughed like a demonic Santa Claus and began to walk, his giant stature making it unnecessary to go any faster.

"Now why are you doing that when you can just sit around eating twinkies?"

Sidney felt more prominently than ever his exposed stomach bounce as he ran. It was like it was made out of jello. He also felt more tired than he should have been for running just a few minutes, sweat pouring from his body and soaking his pants. These things as distracting as they were, were not his main concern at the moment, that being the thing he looked behind him at.

To his terror Twinkie was gaining what little ground he had managed to cover and getting closer. As the giants steps came right behind the him it spoke again, now sounding more demon like, unnaturally deep and double layered.

"Why don't you have a Twinkie?"

And with that it stopped walking and instead let itself fall forward. At the sight of the giant yellow brick rapidly falling Sidney tried to push himself even harder, but instead ended up tripping and falling face forward. Cursing all the while he tried to get up only to find that the monsters face was right above him, ready to crush him.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~~~~~~~~~~~~-

Sidney sat ramrod straight in his bed, breathing heavily. He could feel sweat on his forehead, though it didn't cover him like it had in the nightmare. He was however only wearing pants.

"Jesus, I haven't had a nightmare like that since I was a kid..."

With that finale thought he decided it was probably time to get up and greet the day.

"Wait, what?"

He was just coming to see that he wasn't in his room. He was in a weird blue and purple room in a bed not his own. The room seemed rather ornate to be so small, the ceiling  not being all that high and the doors that lead to a balcony, through which he could see that it was late afternoon, not being all that big. It looked to him like someone had wanted to make a regular old bedroom look grander than it was.

"How the he-"

He shut up instantly when he remembered. Everything in his house going crazy, the white oval thing, the ponies. If he hadn't just woken up from a nightmare and he was in a room not only not his but also matching the atheistic of what he remembered from earlier, then he would have just brushed it off as a dream.

"Oh no..."

Before he could even be allowed to start putting all the pieces together into some kind of recognizable picture the bedroom door opened and in came walking the yellow pony, holding a small bag with a red cross on it in her wings and with her a little lizard thing holding a small tray with a pitcher and a clear glass on it in his claws, the two talking to each other.

"Thank you again so much for all your help Spike."

"Aw it's nothing, you know I love helping out."

Facing forward the pony squeaked and fell to her behind and dropping her bag, seeing Sidney sitting up staring at them both. The lizard thing now named Spike presumably saw him too, but instead of being spooked he put on a warm smile, walking over and putting his tray on the bedside table, then turning and holding out a claw to the man.

"Hey, nice to meet you. My names Spike, welcome to Equestria!"

Sidney just continued to stare at him, his breathing being the only thing to prove he was still alive with how deathly still and silent he remained. Spike's smile became awkward, shaking his claw a little for emphasis on what he was expecting. It still was just left there to hang. With a huff he took back his arm, turned around, and began walking.

"I'm gonna go get Twilight, do you think you'll be alright looking after him until we get back Fluttershy?"

The pony now named Fluttershy nodded slowly, not taking her eyes off Sidney. She seemed almost to be transfixed in shock by the way he just looked at her, his mouth just the barest of a slit open. Spike sighed and walked out, wanting to get Twilight hopping that she'll know what to do. When he slammed the door behind him Fluttershy jumped a little at the noise, seeming to come to her senses. Still looking at Sidney, now with less fear and more worry at his absolute lack of reaction, she got back on her hooves and picked up her medical bag.

"Um...Hello. My names Fluttershy. It's um...very nice to meet you."

She tilted her head, looking concerned and confused at his unchanging face. Unbeknownst to her there was major work going on inside Sidney's mind.

("...I'm actually here. I'm in some weird pony world. Where the ponies can talk. And are pegasus. And are unicorns. And are both. And are cowgirls. Ponygirls? Whatever, doesn't matter. I'M IN ANOTHER WORLD!")

Fluttershy's worry only grew as Sidney slowly laid back down, now looking at the ceiling.

("I just...what do I even do? Am i stuck here? Did something in my apartment explode and hit me in the head? Just what the fuck do I even DO?!")

Seeing as he didn't move anymore, Fluttershy decided to try and take the chance to get a little closer. She stopped when he reached his hands up over his head, grabbed his pillow and took out from under his head then put it on his face. Now more confused than before she cut to the chase and just asked.

"If you don't mind me asking, what are-"

She nearly jumped out of her skin when Sidney started yelling under the pillow. She thought she could hear some kind of language between the screams, having no idea what a "Truck" was. When he was done he put the pillow on his lap and let it lay there. His face now had an emotion on it, annoyance. Letting out a sigh he turned his head and looked at Fluttershy, getting a small stab in the heart at seeing her shake wide eyed.

("Damn it, I didn't think it would scare her like that. I don't need scary yeller being my name here.")

Sighing, he sat up and turned his body to face her, crossing his legs. Suddenly remembering he wasn't wearing a shirt he felt really uncomfortable with his stomach hanging out so he pulled the blanket up under his arms. Looking back at Fluttershy he just stared again, not sure what to say. With another sigh of frustration he just said the simplest thing he could think of.

"Um...Hi. My names Sidney. Sidney Wilson."

Fluttershy stopped shivering but still kept quiet.

"I just uh...wanted to say sorry for scaring you. This is all very...disconcerting and screaming helps me to feel better. That's why I put the pillow on my face first, to muffle it. But I guess that really wasn't enough. Sorry."

Sidney rubbed his side, feeling really awkward. Fluttershy thankfully took this chance to try talking again.

"I-it's alr-right, really. I can understand being frustrated, I was just really surprised is all."

Fluttershy looked to get more comfortable. Now that he was finally talking she didn't feel as put off as before. She just hoped he doesn't scream like that anymore.

"Again, sorry. So...you said your name was Fluttershy?"

She nodded with a small smile.

"Cool, It's very nice to meet you too."

While it was just polite filler to him Fluttershy seemed to take it very well. With most of her nervousness gone she started to slip back into nurse mode.

"If you don't mind, I'd like to look you over. When you came through the portal a lot of other stuff came through too, and most of it was burnt. While I couldn't find any burns on you, you did have a couple cuts and bruises, and now that you're awake I can ask you questions while I work. I've never helped a human before, so I'm really excited to learn."

Sidney felt a little better now. The quiet excitement radiating off the admittedly adorable pony lifted his mood a fair bit. But he still had a lot of questions, and the idea that she was going to be examining him was contradicting with the good mood that had started to build.

"Um...Miss Shy, just how closely are you going to be looking me over?"

Fluttershy, medical bag in mouth, flapped her wings twice and landed right next to the wide eyed human. Not noticing his amazement at her casual flight she dropped the bag to the bed.

"Oh please just call me Fluttershy, all my friends do. Well except Pinkie sometimes. She likes to give everypony a bunch of nicknames. But as for my examination, I just want to check to make sure nothings hurting and get some information ready encase there's an emergency. We're hoping to get you back home soon, but I just want to be ready."

She dipped her head a little, hiding behind her mane, a blush clear across her face.

"While I'd really rather have all the information I can get, if you feel uncomfortable about me looking at your *Gulp*...private parts...I can skip over that part if you want."

Fluttershy had been using the thought that the man was like one of her animals to help calm her down. He was so different from just about anything else she had seen, even if Twilight's description of humans had given her some what of a picture, that it wasn't hard to make the connection. But unlike with her animal friends he could talk, and obviously had a idea of modesty, making it harder to just think of looking at him DOWN THERE strictly clinical.

Sidney for his part acted rather calmly, given the situation and how he was feeling.

"Fluttershy, I'm going to be a little blunt. I was just sucked through a portal violently to another world full of talking ponies, and a lizard thing. I don't even know why I'm so calm right now. Most other people would be freaking out. Maybe I'm just so shocked that I've gone full circle back to calm, I don't know. The point is that while I don't want to offend you, I also really, REALLY don't want a person I just met that's from another world looking at me in my genitals. I'll go through the rest of the examination though."

The idea that she would be scrutinizing his body for medical reasons was the far lesser evil of having her look at his junk, and so choose to just get over it and let her examine him. Though it seemed at the moment that Fluttershy was more worried about something else he said.

"Oh nononono, I'm not offend at all. I completely understand being very shy about being so open with a complete stranger. Especially with something so...private."

Sidney raised a well practiced eye brow at this.

"Really now? I don't want to sound...speciest or whatever you might call it, but you don't wear cloths from what I've seen. I wouldn't have thought you'd care about decency honestly."

Fluttershy was now digging through that bag of hers, pulling out a stethoscope and some kind of cream in a bottle.

"It's true we don't really wear clothes unless it's for a special occasion, but that doesn't mean we don't have any decency. It's just that ponies are kinda built to make it so that we're already decent. Plus we're taught when we're foals just how rude it is to be even looking there to begin with."

"Makes sense I guess. Uhhh, you want to get started then?"

Nodding Fluttershy then stood on her back hooves and put her fore hooves on Sidney's shoulders to gently push him on his back. The sudden contact gave the man a mini heart attack, but didn't let it show. He still wasn't really liking the idea of her looking at him period, or the fact that any of this was real and it was really starting to put him on edge. But he wasn't gonna take it out on the poor girl. He had been in many other, though by far less in comparison, confusing and embarrassing situations and had always kept to two rules.

One, know who to blame. Throwing around blame randomly was never a good idea.

Second, keep your temper and manners. This was a rule that Sidney had a lot of trouble with. There's only so much teasing one could take before they had enough. This is why he had these rule to begin with, to try and help him with his anger management.

The first rule was the one he was exercising now. He knew that the pony who had taken the blanket off of him and was checking his heart right just wasn't the one that needed to be on the receiving side of a verbal beating. That was reserved for whatever jack-hole got him here-

"Oh my, your heart rate is really high. Is something the matter?"

"Huh? My heart rate...? Oh, um yeah. It's just that getting a physical exam from a pony is...different. I can't help feeling, for lack of a better term, anxious."

His heart nearly stopped altogether when she gave him a soft smile.

("And I thought Sackboy was weaponized adorableness.")

"I know having somepony you don't know looking at you and prodding you can be really scary. Goodness me if I wasn't terrified the first time I went for an examination."

With a small nod and weak smile from Sidney she went back to checking him over. She worked simply and efficiently, checking his breathing, blood pressure, for any bruises or cuts she might have missed before, and reapplying the cream that she had apparently used on the wounds she had found. From what she told him the cream was a special medical mix that was safe to use for just about every species. It kept open wounds from getting infected and helped to keep  pain away. It wasn't long until she was done and packing her stuff back up.

Sitting back up, blanket wrapped around him again, Sidney took this chance to ask a question.

"So~ I think I've got my head around this all a little more, would you mind if I asked a few questions?"

Fluttershy snapped her bad shut and turned around to face him.

"I wouldn't mind at all. What do you want to know?"

"Well, I guess I'll start with the obvious. Just where is "here"?"

"Oh that's very simple. Like Spike said earlier you're in Equestria, the country ruled in perfect harmony by the royal sisters Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. More specifically you're in my friend's, Twilight Sparkle, castle. It sits just outside of Ponyville next to this beautiful waterfall. You can actually see it if you go out to the balcony."

Sidney stayed silent for a few seconds.

("That...just raised more questions.")

"Okay, well then how did I get here?"

At this Fluttershy looked herself behind her mane again, her voice barely above a nervous whisper.

"Um, well you see about that...I really don't know."

Sidney leaned in a little.

"I'm sorry could you say that again?"

"EEP!...I said, I really don't know."

He sat straight up again.

"...You don't know?" His voice coming out deadpan.

Still behind her mane Fluttershy nodded solemnly.

Fluttershy waited behind her wall of pink for Sidney to do something. When nothing happened she peeked around her hair. He was just sitting there, his mouth pulled taught in the ever so slightest of a frown, eyes closed. Before she could venture asking him if he would be alright he very suddenly stood up, elating an eep from the pegasus, grabbed a pillow, walked over to and out the balcony doors. Fluttershy just watched in confusion from the bed as he closed the doors behind him.

*Click*

*Poomf"

"FUCKING HORSE ASS BITCHES 'NOTHER UNIVERSE CRAP!!! HOW THE SHIT ON A STICK DO THEY NOT KNOW HOW I ENDED UP HERE WHEN IT'S THEIR FUCKING FAULTS THAT I'M IN THIS BACKWARDS ASS MYTHICAL FUCKNESS?!?!"

With a grunt he threw the pillow from his face to the ground and began to stomp on it, twisting his heel into it and jumping on it. Then he kicked it up in the air so he could grab it with his left hand, holding it up as he punched it with his right. Feathers floated in the afternoons light as they were forcefully dislodged from their container. When at last he showed the mangled pillow mercy he let it drop to the ground, with him following suit.

He slouched himself against the door frame, laying his arms on his crossed legs. Tears were at the edges of his eyes.

"What am I supposed to do now?"

His voice was hoarse. Emotions were at an complete war within him, confusion, anger, sadness all taking great leaps and bounds in the fight. What little comfort he had managed to build before had crumbled under the mere idea that he could be stuck here. Having always been taught to look on the bright side he had just let it sate him that these creatures seemed friendly, the small grace not being enough to help him through this revelation.

He was broken from his thoughts by the door opening. Looking over he saw Fluttershy looking at him with worry and fear. Still running high on emotion instead of taking pause like he would normally when someone looked at him like this, he just tried not to glare, to little success.

"A-are y-y-you alright?"

It was clear that something greater than her fear was pushing her to check on his well being, his episode having renewed her previous fears.

"No, not like it really matters though."

With a shaky hoof she got a little closer.

"What d-do you mean?"

Sneering Sidney looked away to the waterfall he could see from their perch.

"I mean it doesn't matter how I feel. I'm stuck here if I like or not."

Getting a little bolder, Fluttershy went and stood right next to him.

"That's not necessarily true. I might not know how you got here, but my friend Twilight is looking into the matter as we talk."

"Meaning she doesn't know either, right?"

Noticing the liquid threatening to spill from his eyes Fluttershy felt her heat shift. Now any and all fear left her as she could plainly see the hurt behind the anger. She went to try and place a comforting hoof on his shoulder, but he just flinched his arm away. Putting her hoof back down she instead decided to sit down.

"Right now she doesn't, but she will. She's a very smart pony."

"And that's obviously why I'm here huh? Because from what little I can remember there was quite a bit of broken equipment laying everywhere around the nearly burnt man. I'm sure that really could have only been the work of a true genius!"

Now it was Fluttershy's turn to get a bit mad.

"Now that's no way to talk about others. I understand that this is all rather distressing, but-"

"DISTRESSING?!"

Fluttershy flinched her head back when Sidney stood up to make his proclamation.

"I'm in another world with talking ponies that have wings, horns, or both and apparently was nearly killed during the trip, AND no one knows how it even happened! I don't even know if it would be worse if this was real or me going crazy! That's more than just distressing, it's down right insane, MADDING!"

He turned away, placing both his hands on the railing and wrenching his eyes closed which forced his tears to finally fall. He could feel primal instincts wanting him to take some kind of action, ANY action, but he simply didn't know what to do. Fluttershy stood up, not moving from where she now stood.

"We ARE trying to help. I know this is hard, but I can promise, as I know my friends would too, that we are going to help you get back home."

Fluttershy flapped her wings to help reach up to his shoulders and quickly wrapped him in a hug. He jolted but did not resist, at least physically. His anger told him to shove her away, to yell at her some more. His confusion was fueled by the the unfamiliar feeling of her fore legs. His sadness was fed by more thoughts of possibly never seeing his home, his friends, or his family again. But in his cross fire of emotions a new one came forth.

It was a feeling that he hadn't felt in a long time. The warmth of anothers concern. It wasn't that there no one who cared about him, but it had been a while since he had been with any of them. He could feel the tension leaving his body slowly, the simple contact helping to soothe his pain. It was quiet for a long time, with Fluttershy just hugging him from behind the whole time and him just holding onto the railing, eyes remaining closed until he spoke.

"...I'm sorry. As confusing and stressful this is, you haven't shown me the least bit of malice. I had no right to snap at you."

Letting go and landing next to him on the ground Fluttershy looked up with a big smile.

"It's alright. Like I said I know what it's like to lose your temper and do things that you really don't mean. If I have to be honest you reminded me of some of the bears I take care of when they get grumpy"

Sidney gave his first smile since getting here. The thought of this timid little pony losing her temper or dealing with bears seemed funny to him, but considering his current situation he wouldn't doubt it to be true either.

"Still, I'm sorry."

"Apology accepted."

Giving each other a quick smile Sidney turned to go back inside and start figuring out where to go from there when he noticed the mess he had made.

"I guess i should also say sorry about the pillow..."

Looking around at the feathers Fluttershy just shook her head.

"It fine, there's plenty more like them. I think Twilight will understand."

Sidney kneeled down and began collecting feathers in his hands.

"Well, I should at least clean this up."

Before anything else could happen the door to the bedroom opened. Looking up Sidney saw the purple pony along with the liz-SPIKE looking at him, eyes wide and pupils small. Their eyes shifted between the feathers on the ground, to the ones in his hand, to looking around the room for something, to his face. By the time her eyes had landed back on Sidney they had narrowed significantly. Her head had lowered, wings spread wide, and her horn was glowing with a twitching lavender power.

"What did you do to Fluttershy?!"