A New Life

The walk through the forest was a good long two to three hour walk due to how long and big this forest was, it was almost larger than the everfree forest, well at least it was easy to navigate through compared to the everfree from what he heard from Twilight during the long walk until eventually Xavier and the rest of the group soon came out the other side of the forest they were travelling through.

Luckily for them they came out the other side without incident, well putting major incidents aside and getting a whole new meaning of the word incident when Pinkie Pie was rambling and talking non-stop through the whole walk.

In fact Pinkie was still talking, she had been given plenty of hints to be quiet but she just didn't care she loved to ramble about strange things or make the conversation, a lot longer than it should be. Or, in Xavier's own words if you're thinking about just Xavier himself would rather prefer to replace quiet with the words, shut up.

The tall 6'2, average yet muscular built human scratched away at his trimmed dark blonde hair, then started to scratch his goatee which was the same color as his hair but just a tad darker, started to groan in a mix of pain. His pain however was not one of sore legs in fact far from sore legs, he worked out in the countryside after all seven hours a day sometimes longer than seven hours. No, his groan of pain was because Pinkie Pie kept talking so much that even TWILIGHT herself was getting annoyed.

"Oh! And then there was that one time where I ended up putting whip cream all over another pony's face while he was sleeping that by the time he woke up I was putting a lot and a lot of cherries on the whip cream! His face was priceless! Though I couldn't really see his face because there were so many cherries and whip cream on his face, but I imagine if I could see his face he was giving me a really annoyed face like this!"

Pinkie Pie proceeded to stretch out her face to the best portrayal or what she thought was a portrayal of the pony's face by biting her lips tightly, even widening her eyes and shrinking her pupils somehow shrinking her pupils that was a mystery to every-pony in the group. Pinkie then furrowed her brow to look as angry as possible, or maybe the face she remembered was serious. The pink pony just couldn't decide on a expression so she went with the serious expression, Pinkie slowly began to proceed in standing up on her back legs while her left and right fore-hoof are crossed across her chest.

Then she sits down with a loud thud coming from her flank as she impacts the ground and sits there, which when she sits down it causes every-pony in the group to get lifted off the ground by a couple inches which looked a lot like a hop at a distance. Nope, it was Pinkie Pie defying the laws of physics again with her earth pony strength and Pinkie being well, Pinkie

This startled every-pony in the group including Xavier and he did not appreciate being startled by anyone or in this case any-pony for that important matter, Xavier's blood was boiling red hot from Pinkie's antics. Though when no-pony actually bothers to tell her to stop she just keeps going at it like as if she was some sort of five year old kid, Xavier finally raised a finger, proceeded to take a deep breath but before a single word could come out of that mouth of his, Pinkie fell asleep right there on the spot.

This was not exactly the kind of thing or result he was hoping for in terms of telling Pinkie to stop but for him it works, for the others they knew Pinkie would just be at it again sometime soon. If it wasn't going to be later that night or tomorrow, chances are it would sure as heck happen the next day after tomorrow, but even if it didn't happen then? Well the list of when she'd do it just goes on for miles on paper.

"My Goodness, I thought today was going to be another one of those Pinkie days if I ever meet a stallion in my life that likes to conversations about fashion just as much as I do, but with Pinkie's amount of how much she talks? Well I would never want that I'm sure he would annoy me long before he fascinates me" Rarity spoke.

"Whoa Rarity, I didn't think Pinkie's rambling annoys you that much too sometimes I mean you almost never show it when were together. You're usually just, what's the word a civil head?"  Rainbow Dash said with only moderate surprise and more of a joke-full matter to get under Rarity's fur.

Rarity gives a soft yet amused tiny laugh at Rainbow Dash's comment, but the little joke of civil head was by far one of Rainbow Dash's worst nicknames she's come up with compared to her egghead joke she does on Twilight all the time. Setting down her saddlebags she starts digging through both of them for her mane tonic.

Then she proceeds to speak up in a civilized matter well at least at the start she was before nearing the end.

"That's because Rainbow my dear, a true lady does not let the emotions she's feeling at the time whether she is feeling annoyance or disgust towards some sort of well...thing become shown in society, an elegant mare must always remain calm and civil about-Egad! I cannot believe that I forgot my make-up! quickly does anyone have a fainting chair?!" she exclaimed.

"Um....fainting what?" Xavier asked.

Applejack simply rolled her eyes at this as her expression turned to one of annoyance as yet she herself was setting up her tent with the help of Fluttershy next to her, her back was turned to the group so it wasn't possible to see her expression unless if in front of her or at a certain angle from one of her sides.

Though Pinkie woke up in a matter of seconds when she hears the word fainting chair, she quickly stood up on all four of her legs only to stretch out her right hind leg and zip off, leaving yet another cloud shaped perfectly like her. The pink mare coming back within a matter of mere seconds with Rarity's faint chair, she placed the chair right behind Rarity as she fell back just in time for Pinkie to put it there. This baffled Xavier as now he began to point fingers back and forth in the direction of the chair and where Pinkie dashed off to.

"How did you, when did you, how could you, how is that...I give up" said Xavier, swinging his arms upward as a way of adding to the whole giving up on trying to understand Pinkie.

"Did you bring a tent Vivi?" Pinkie asked having literally just giving Xavier a nickname that she came up with right on the spot.

"Vivi? Don't ever call me Vivi please just don't and no I didn't bring a tent I only came here with the clothes on my back. So if any-pony here is wondering how I am going to wash my clothes, don't you dare EVEN think about spying on me cleaning them" he spoke up.

The six mares looked to eachother, including the cutie mark crusaders looking at one another. While Spike's expression turned to one of surprise and then turned to disgust, sticking his tongue out while lifting up his left arm only to point his hand and index finger towards his mouth as a sign of yuck, though Spike's expression changes to that of a nervous grin as Twilight spots this and gives Spike a glare.

"What? you were all thinking the same thing as me it was kind of disgusting him talking about cleaning his clothes and not to mention telling us not to watch him clean them" Spike responded with a tone that was leaning towards annoyance but managing to make it just sound a tad insulting.

"Oh Spike, I'm sure he was referring to just us mare's anyways" Twilight said with a roll of her eyes while also smirking to herself as a blush was escaping her, the whole topic about this was starting to make her blush, just like Rainbow Dash she found Xavier cute more than good-looking.

Xavier just shakes his head slowly though that head of his is gripped by Pinkie and put into a friendly little headlock, where his head is held to the right side of her chest. Xavier's expression was a mix of confusion along with trying to process what is going on right now, then he's picked up in her grip and shaked around like rag-doll from pure excitement from an earlier topic about himself not bringing a tent. The shake just making him a complete blur of tan skin until Pinkie stops shaking him out of her own excitement.

"You can sleep in my tent with my Xavier! Oh! We can stay up and talk about all sorts of things! oh! maybe about baking really delicious cupcakes!" exclaimed Pinkie, very quickly stopping with shaking him around and grinning widely at him.

"Sleeping with Pinkie Pie?!" Twilight and Rainbow Dash shout this together at the same exact time, then the two mares look to one another in surprise. Did they just really say this at the same exact time as the other?

Xavier wrestled out of Pinkie's grip with a bit of trouble at first, yet the more he pulled and turned in her grip Pinkie took that as a sign to let him go and so she let's go of him, causing the male to land on his back due to tugging backwards so much and once he impacts against the ground he lands with a sharp oof. His eyes once more spinning all over the place due to how dizzy he is.

"Can we just focus on getting our tents setup and start up a campfire before it gets too dark out?" Applejack asks in a serious tone, she wanted to get this work done rather than just goof around all evening.

"I have to agree with AJ it's getting really dark out really quickly" Fluttershy spoke up.

"Oh we can go gather firewood!" exclaimed Applebloom.

"Yeah we can start a fire and keep warm from the cold" said Sweetiebell

"Yeah and have smores too!" exclaimed Scootaloo all excited as she puts down her saddlebags and pulls out marshmallows, graham crackers and of course some chocolate bars all made by equestrian standards which worked very similar to human standards the only difference is the snacks are much sweeter than Xavier's world does.

Xavier had just shaken off his dizziness right when the idea of smores is involved, sitting straight up he proceeds to look towards the mane six and spike who are all looking to each-other with some grins and nods towards each-other, all of them agreeing that it's a wonderful idea. Twilight walking over to Xavier to help him up with her magic, while Rainbow flew over to hover by his right side both mares looking to him expecting an answer from him about the smores idea as they wanted him to be involved in the group and actually build up a friendship with them. They were showing this kind of interest due to some hostility he showed yesterday towards them, in fact today he was a little hostile still but not as much as he was on day one of their meeting.

"I suppose that does sound like a good idea, I suppose I could try some smores with you all" replied Xavier towards the cutie mark crusaders. The three fillies giving a happy gasp and looking to one another they rush off into the forest to pick up fallen wood pieces on the dirt trail.

Later that night with the tents all set up and the campfire being freshly just started the mane 6, spike, the cutie mark crusaders and Xavier all sit around the campfire in a circle having shared quite a few stories with each-other both true stories about their pasts and fantasy made up stories. Although for the pegasi and earth ponies it was a little difficult having a conversation when their holding their marshmallow on their stick, at least at the start is was difficult until they find a different way to hold it.

Xavier was remaining quiet at the campfire until Twilight decides to actually include him into the conversation. She had expected Xavier to join in on the conversation on his own that wasn't the case apparently which actually made her a tad disappointed.

"So what about you Xavier? Got any family back wherever you come from? I believe we never asked" asked Twilight with a soft smile and tone coming from her.

"Hm? Oh sorry I was spacing out, yeah I got a family back home or well I used too..." he responded in a bit of a sad tone.

"Oh my whatever happened to them darling? Some sort of tragedy?" asked Rarity as her tone went from surprised to concerned within a matter of seconds in her sentence.

"Nah it's just, they left me because of...well that's complicated let's just say its cause of a pony and now she wont even let me near my son" Xavier lied, though some of it was true which he knew all too well already. And it was a topic he wasn't all too keen on sharing with them until he knew he was able to return to his home world. But what was there to return to? He wondered this to himself after he responded to them about his family, was it work? Or was it because he just wanted to go back into his depression without anyone pestering him.

"Well if we ever go to your world I'm gonna kick that pony's flank! With a bit of a hoof-kwondo!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash as she stood up on her hind legs and proceeded to punch the air and accidentally step all over AJ.

"Now hold your horses Rainbow! Rainbow!" repeated Applejack as she eventually had enough and tripped Rainbow on purpose out of sheer annoyance and discomfort of being stepped on by the cyan pegasi.

"Hey! What was that for?!" shouted Rainbow Dash.

"Ya'll were stepping all over me!" exclaimed Applejack.

Xavier looked to Twilight in confusion as the two of them started to argue about stepping all over her, Rainbow Dash simply defending herself with the whole Applejack should've moved and in turn she got the response about how she should watch of where she's stepping. Twilight just shrugging towards Xavier as a way of her having no clue why they do this so much. The argument quickly turns into one of a humorous conversation after a good five minutes of arguing, though to Xavier and Twilight it felt like the arguing was lasting forever.

After the arguing was done every-pony starts retiring to their tents except Xavier, he just sleeps outside against a tree resting his head against the bark of a tree he's laying against.

Again Xavier was having nightmares of his mistake he made with his family about his obsessive controllive nature that he starts to talk in his sleep but luckily none of it was about him apologizing. It was just him consisting of begging them of not leaving he was talking so loudly that Twilight was the first and only one to hear it at this current time of night, staring down at Spike as she assumed it was him though she quickly notices it's not Spike.

Standing up very slowly she proceeds to walk towards the small opening of the tent and moving the right drape with her right fore-hoof she stuck her head out only to gasp quietly when she see's Xavier talking and turning in his sleep. She quietly moves over to the tossing and turning Xavier, his legs were kicking and his arms swinging around every so often which saddened Twilight to the point she stood up on her hind legs and shook him until he woke up.

"What! What do you-Oh Twilight it's just you" replied Xavier, lifting up his hands he wipes away the sweat on his forehead.

"You were tossing and turning a lot Xavier not to mention talking in your sleep, is everything alright?" she asked, those violet eyes of her's staring at his green eyes.

"No, everything isn't alright I just...really miss my family Twilight that's why I want to return to my world, see if I can convince her to let me at least visit my son every once in a while" he lied, or at least he wanted to lie in fact he didn't know what he wanted still even after just admitting he is still missing his family greatly.

"We'll get you home someday Xavier I promise you that, but you don't have to go through this alone we're here for you as your friends" replied Twilight as she let go of him to put her fore-hoofs on the ground again.

Xavier was very, very surprised at this in fact surprised and shocked wouldn't do justice for what he was feeling, if anything he was stunned. Here he has been treating Twilight and friends like total crap yet she was offering him friendship just like that? This world continued to amaze him but it also began to disgust him for a reason he still hasn't come to terms with yet.

Giving a slow nod towards Twilight he actually gave her a smile, letting her be the first one to actually see him smile.

"What's this a smile? An actual genuine smile? You're full of surprises Xavier, sure I've seen other of your species but they were really different, if anything they were like Equestrians just as a....hairless diamond dog or something" Twilight shuddered a bit as the diamond dog incident was one she was not very fond of even though she did learn a valuable lesson by the end of it.

"Hey! Us humans can smile if we want too! Some of us just don't like to smile!" responded Xavier with a bit of an amused look on his face.

"So that's what you're species is called, human? It's nice actually, are you going to be alright out here if I go back to the tent? Or would you like me to stay out here with you?" asked Twilight. Though upon realizing what she just said she starts to blush embarrassed at this.

"Actually, I suppose I could use some company out here...not a word of this to anyone though, er, any-pony I mean. Or so help me" he responds which gets Twilight to laugh.

Twilight slowly layed her head on his legs and proceeds to fall asleep right then and there on the spot, while Xavier stares down at Twilight one last time before his eyes shut to fall asleep into the night's embrace once more much like he did on the first night in Equestria except something was different about this as well. That joyful feeling he felt earlier that day was returning again, going to sleep actually happy where his dreams become peaceful once again.

And in his dream as the night becomes more and more later he finds himself flying in the night sky with Twilight Sparkle, the starry night and full moon adding more of the peaceful atmosphere to it. It's near the end of his dream is where he and Twilight meet eye to eye in a locked gaze holding each-other and slowly, ever so slowly moving towards a kiss.

Yet his dream is interrupted with a loud cannon going off which startles him awake. Twilight was already up herself eating breakfast while Pinkie Pie was giggling like crazy with all that confetti being over Xavier's body.

"Wakey! Wakey sleepy vivi!" Pinkie pie once more exclaimed down towards Xavier who begins to slowly wake up the view of that cannon and to the view of a beautiful early morning where the sun has just passed sunrise but the morning is still fresh.

"Yeah good morning to you too Pinkie Pie" he said in a sarcastic tone, and for once his tone was different towards her his tone was no longer filled with one of annoyance...

TO BE CONTINUED