A New Life
Chapter 1: Quite The First Day
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Xavier shouted this at the top of his lungs, quickly starting to pace around from left to right. His hands still placed on both sides of his head. While Rainbow Dash was looking at him like he was some sort of mad-pony, while Pinkie Pie found it simply funny and adorable that was his first reaction.
"No way, No way I am in Ponyville, but again Rainbow Dash just did a rainboom. The towns are very similar to the actual show...."
Xavier muttered to himself.
Quiet enough so Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash couldn't hear. Course' knowing Pinkie Pie is she probably did hear it. Soon shortly stopping his pacing he started taking a deep breath in and out several times.
"Okay so I am in Ponyville, what now? some sort of party?" he asked with major annoyance in his voice.
Pinkie Pie simply just ignored the annoyance and stuck her face right against his, her muzzle touching his nose with that little squeak noise coming from their touch against his nose. Again something Xavier found humorous but rather uncomfortable at the same-time too.
"Ooo party? Oh thats right! You're new around here! Why that wont do one bit! Hehe, I sounded like Rarity for a minute there! Oh! Maybe I should Dye my mane purple like hers! Maybe put up a serious fashion attitude! Anyways! PARTY!"
And with that Pinkie Pie dashes off to Sugar Cube Corner leaving a cloud behind her shaped just like her before it evaporates into nothing.
Xavier just stood there with a confused expression on his face, slowly looking over to Rainbow Dash who just shrugs at him. Rainbow Dash was just as lost and confused as much as Xavier was.
"That's Pinkie Pie for you, always hosting the best parties for new arrivals to Ponyville. Also, you may want to cut down the craziness just a tad. You're starting to freak even me out."
The cyan pegasi takes off to the sky after those words of her's. While Xavier looks around with his head and eyes again, seeing how some ponies are keeping their distance from him. His shouting having startled them, or giving him odd looks like he was insane. They were completely ignoring about them not ever seeing his species before, just focusing on how crazy he sounded. Though they scattered when Xavier shot them a death like glare.
Muttering to himself he started to roam around Ponyville, figuring he might as well take some looks around while he was stuck here for however long.
"This isn't a dream, ah I am sure I will be out of here within a week. Surely someone is to notice I am missing, and if it's possible to get here. Then it's possible to get out of here."
He's then spun around like a tornado as three fillies dart past him with that loud familiar catch phrase. A phrase he hasn't heard himself quite yet, but that was about to change in a very quick matter. A phrase that many people were fans of in the dimension he comes from. Although it's a bit hard to hear as he's spinning around without control of his balance, he hear's it clearly enough to make out the words.
"Errand Running Cutie Mark Crusaders Unite!" they shouted.
the three cutie mark crusaders had agreed, no, more so begged to help Pinkie Pie get party supplies around Ponyville. even though Pinkie was more than capable enough of getting it done on her own.
They stopped in their tracks so they could high-hoof together. Though after their high-hoof they look over to Xavier. Noticing he's starting to stumble around after that spin stopped, his eyes rotating all sorts of ways. Even bumping into a few things, then he loses his balance, starting to lean backwards. He was about to fall over, but Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetiebell rush over and start working together to keep him from falling over.
"Jeez this guy is heavy!" Scootaloo exclaimed with some strain in her voice.
Scootaloo pushed her head against his left leg, while Applebloom was pushing against his right leg. Sweetiebell pulling at his left jean's ankle. And for whatever reason it worked like a charm.
The tall 6'2 human staring down at them once his dizziness was gone. Noticing their grinning up at him widely, expecting some sort of thank you from him. Instead he simply scoffs something under his breath and begins to take his leave, not even bothering to thank the young fillies for helping him keep his balance.
"OH YOU'RE WELCOME!"
Scootaloo shouted. Giving a bit of a glare at him as he walked away. Applebloom giving a confused look, while Sweetiebell just stared in surprise at the human just walking away.
"Ponies...I hate Ponies" Xavier muttered to himself.
During his walk he ends up tripping and falling over something, or more accurately another Pony. This time he wasn't paying attention to where he was walking. He had tripped over Fluttershy, who squeals out of being startled, dashing up into a tree and hiding in the leafs.
Xavier grunts a bit as he slowly gets up and looks at his arm, seeing he was a scratch on it, shrugging a little he starts to walk again. But stops when he feels a pony pulling on his arm, looking over he sees Fluttershy, who had spotted the scratch on his arm and flown out of the tree as quick as possible.
"Oh m-my I-I am s-so sorry for hurting you. Let me treat that wound for you" she spoke in her soft tone.
Xavier looked over, seeing the light yellow pegasi looking at his scratch, figuring he might as well accept SOME help, but when she starts to lightly kiss his wound and getting ready to put a band-aid on it. As she just assumed he was another animal, or more accurately a pet that can walk on two legs.
This got Xavier to look at her in disgust and tug his arm away as roughly and fast as possible.
"Blech! No thank you!" he scoffed.
This startled Fluttershy and forced her too land on the ground and hide behind a wing of her's. Starting to apologize several times to him. which made him just groan further in annoyance. Now he was getting angry, starting to hate this world even more with each pony he came across.
He starts to resume roaming around Ponyville again, eventually passing by Applejack's cart that was selling apples. Feeling his stomach growling he muttered in annoyance one last time.
"Cannot believe I have to socialize with yet another Pony...but those apples do look pretty darn good" he said to himself.
Walking over to the cart he's greeting with a smile and a tip of Applejack's hat. Something that he himself does in his dimension when he's greeting or saying farewell to someone. He felt like this was something he could relate too, which actually started to make him warm up a little to her. But he still despises her entirely.
"Why howdy there partner, something I can do for ya?" Applejack asked as politely and friendly as possible.
"Uh sure, I will take about...three of your best apples" he grins.
But the grin was something that gave Applejack a disturbed look and made her let out a disturbed sound as well.
Xavier's grin was not really much of a grin at all, it was a wide, fake, creepy grin. Something that you'd see some sort of clown do, except just creepier. Which when Applejack gave him that face, his grin quickly vanished.
"Right that'll be Fifteen bits, each apple is five bits" she replied pointing at the sign.
Xavier smirked, looking towards the sign, noticing that it did in fact say five per apple, but bits? Was she referring to dollar bills, or was she referring to fifteen quarters. He had no clue, so instead he pulls out fifteen dollars, one being a ten dollar bill, while the other one was a five dollar bill.
"Um, are ya'll paying me in grass?".
Applejack had a very unimpressed look on her face, assuming he was trying to rip her off with what she called grass. This simply got Xavier to stare not too amused himself at her. And before he can respond he's interrupted by a familiar voice, a voice he just hates more than anything in the world.
"Now Darling! Dont you notice a new arrival when you see one?" Rarity spoke up in that fancy voice of her's. Which was exactly what Xavier hated, fancy voices. And their whole high society appearance.
"Now Rarity, of course I can tell whenever there's a new arrival in Ponyville. Clearly this fella' is it. Still gotta run a business here"
she responded in a honest tone as usual. while giving a light roll of her eyes.
This got the white furred mare to reach into one of those fancy pouches of her's to pull out fifteen bits exactly and looking to Xavier with a smile of her's. She was feeling mighty generous today, in fact she was always generous, well as long as it didn't involve business or anything to pay for the bills and all that.
Xavier slowly reaching forward before quickly grabbing the fifteen bits she offered, he stared at her confused like as if he was expecting her to ask for a favor in return. And he hated returning favors, well most of the time he hated it.
"It's on the house darling, plus it seems from where you come from you pay in grass. How primitive really" she responds in a jokeful tone. Although she was serious about it being on the house.
This simply got Xavier to shake his head in annoyance, and for the first time in Ponyville he speaks up with a thank you. Snatching the apples that were payed for him. He walks away, pulling out an apple and very slowly starting to bite into it, finding the taste much more enjoyable than the apples he usually gets. Which just throws him way off guard.
As he nears Sugar Cube Corner, A lavender mare spots him from a table she's sitting at with a small dragon standing on his seat, looking at Xavier as well.
"Ah boy, don't tell me you want me to take a letter when its our day off" Spike replied with annoyance. But Twilight Sparkle wasn't paying attention to Spike's words.
"Spike, take a letter. I have to write to Celestia about this new arrival, he looks a lot like one of those people from that dimension I went to a while back. But his colors are all wrong" she spoke up while keeping an eye on Xavier.
This got Spike to groan as he started to write the letter exactly as Twilight wanted it to be written, along with adding in the letter that Twilight was way too focused on sending letters to Celestia even as a princess herself.
Xavier's day proceeded to go smoothly except for when he actually arrives at his party which escalates to him just finding it plainly annoying, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and the Cutie Mark Crusaders all being there.
Once the party ends, Xavier is invited to stay over at Twilight's place, mostly because Twilight was curious and wanted to run further studies on him. Which although Xavier refused, Twilight Sparkle gave him a good reason to stay the night there. As it was either her place or sleep out on the hard street and wake up with some major pain in his body.
That simply made Xavier even more annoyed, he was on the verge of snapping now. He was becoming annoyed more and more today as it just went on and on. But he ultimately agreed to stay the night just this once, falling asleep quickly in the guest bed once he arrived. He mutters to himself one final time before drifting off to the sweet embrace of the night.
"I cannot wait to get out of this god forsaken place, but I have to admit...It was Quite The First Day, interesting to say the least."
As he slept through the night, Princess Luna herself was conversating with her sister Princess Celestia. About Xavier, after all it was mostly Celestia's plan after seeing all the depression and hate he had towards Ponies without even giving them a chance. And so Luna spoke up towards her sister in a concerned tone
"Dost' thou' truly believe this Xavier has the potential to learn friendship and true happiness?"
Celestia was only able to smile lightly at her sister's concern, a smile she masked to hide her concern herself, She and Luna have encountered many cases of this before where someone hates ponies for whatever reason. Such as Tirek, yet they have never encountered a human having such a strong hatred towards ponies.
Still she replied in a calm tone.
"Everyone has the potential to learn friendship dear sister, though this Xavier, is proving so far that this will be a difficult task for Twilight and her friends. He has a hatred towards ponies I have never seen before. Despite never encountering one himself."
Luna just sighed at her sister's words. She knew her sister was right on this, yet she didn't like Celestia being right most of the time. Was part of the sister jealousy, or well just being sisters in general. Groaning a little in annoyance, she sighed and responded in a concerned tone once again.
"We hopeth that thou' is right. The very safety of our subjects is at stake" replied the shorter princess. Which made Celestia just sigh in response towards her sister.
"Have faith Luna, I have a feeling there is more to Xavier than meets the eye."
Celestia had again been right with her instinct on knowing there was more to Xavier than meets the eye, but she had no clue just how right she was on this matter, a matter that would soon come to light when given time.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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