Author's Note

Hello everyone, sorry for taking so long to update , I just have trouble concentrating on any one thought for to long, and it takes a while to decide what advice to take when all your friends keep giving good ideas to use. Though enough excuses, I only want people to feel the positive vibe I'm sending out to make you all happy, and once again sorry for the quality, I don't have anyone to use as an editor.

Hope for return

Chapter 3

The warn sun beat down on the Crystal empire as four carriages were pulled through the air by armored pegasi, the carriages were pulled towards the crystal castle off in the distance. In one carriage was the two rulers of the Crystal empire and Theo, Gleaning shield wondered why Cadence had been so adamant about him being the one to ride with them, but she wouldn't say. In the next carriage over sat Nate, Paddie, and Larry, all talking over what to do in this new world. In the second to last carriage was Wesley, James, Jacob Y, and Jacob C, all watching intently as Wesley tried to solve a Rubik's sphere and was very close to solving the puzzle. In the last carriage in the back was both TJ and Jennifer, doing something all their friends were used to at that point, but not the guards pulling the carriage who had light blushes as they heard the sounds of the two humans making out in the carriage.

In the royal carriage Theo was asked questions about himself, even though he thought they would ask more questions pertaining to his whole group, "First question, what is your name, age, and rank?" Gleaming shield asked, going through the normal military routine.

"Umm, my name is Theo, I'm 18 and a half years old, and my rank is civilian, my friends all hold the same rank," Theo replied, trying to remember what his other friends (not in the group) in ROTC had told him about military questioning.

"Second question, what is your purpose in our kingdom?" Gleaming asked, looking at him intently.

"I don't know, if you wanted an answer to that question then ask my damn friends, because while I don't know where the hell I am, they seem to know," Theo said, somewhat growling as he had never been one to tolerate dumbass questions like that one.

"Fair enough, alright the next question was written by my wife, so question three*sigh*," said Gleaming as she looked over to cadence, who just smiled and nodded her head. looking back to the confused and annoyed human she finished her question, "question three, are you currently in a relationship?" she asked while feeling incredibly stupid for it.

Theo just seemed both shocked and weirded out at the same time, but decided to answer honestly, "No I'm not in a relationship, mainly because if I'm going to be in a serious one, I want it to be with the person I'm sure I'll marry," Theo answered, feeling embarrassed, annoyed, and pissed at the same time for being asked a question like that, but was more confused with why Cadence was smiling wider at him all of a sudden.

In the second carriage Nate and Paddie were busy explaining to Larry all they knew about equestria and the show it was from "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". "So what you're telling me is that we are in a T.V. show meant for little girls, but is watched mostly by adult males?" Larry asked, receiving a nod from both other members, "ok then, well our first priority should be finding a way home and a temporary place to stay until then, and if there is no way home then we decide if we stick together and establish a leadership," Larry explained as Nate a Paddie listened.

"Well there is a mirror connected to another human world, but not ours, though it could mean there's a way to find our world," Nate said as he thought about the mirror, he then stopped to think about if he even wanted to leave the world of all his dreams, hopes, and most importantly, all his desires.

Paddie looked thoughtful for a few seconds and then went back to his seemingly angry expression, seeing as he had finally wore off of the hype that comes with a brony ending up in equestria. "well if it's like any fanfiction then there will be no way home in our circumstance, considering the fact that us being here means that the multi-verse is real, also meaning that there is an infinite amount of universes to search through in order to find our home, so we should just stay here and not even try," Paddie explained, though he was also trying to make it so they could stay without trying to leave.

"Well we should at least try to find a way home, we all owe our other friends and family that much," Larry said, trying to get them back on track.

"Larry's right, and while I want to stay hard enough it hurts, I am the last male of my family to continue my lineage, so I am honor bound to at the very least try and get home," Nate said, almost scared of both not getting home, and having to leave equestria. Paddie just frowned and nodded his head, understanding his friends honor. The carriage then went silent as each member began to contemplate a way to get home.

The third carriage was all fun and games, Wesley had solved his Rubik's sphere and was now passing it around and teaching everyone how to solve it. "Ha, I knew I could get it!" Yelled Jacob Y as he held the now solved sphere in his hand, everyone else seemed impressed that he had gotten the hang of solving the complex brain teaser when he could barely solve a 3x3 Rubik's cube. This was all that went on in the third carriage the whole ride as none of them cared about talking about the situation at hand.

Less was to be said about the fourth carriage as all that could be heard was the sound of TJ's and Jennifer's make out session, Jennifer had decided to tease TJ by touching all over his wings, causing them to spring out and cover most of the inside of the carriage as the kisses deepened and caused moans to slightly leave the mouths of both humans. needless to say, the guards pulling the carriage were both embarrassed, and turned on at the same time.

Finally arriving at the castle everyone got out of the carriages and began to follow Cadence and Gleaming inside. All the humans were amazed by the seemingly endless hallways made of glistening, and smooth crystals. The group was led to a large throne room where a lavender carpet with a white line on either side led to a large, purple and blue crystal throne, with a yellow diamond shaped crystal. Windows as tall as the taller humans lined the walls, showing the bright afternoon sky. Cadence walked up and sat on the throne while Gleaming stood beside here, after to first few minutes the first one to brake the silence was Nate, "Soooo, you said something about a few of us having magic?" he asked curiously.

Cadence smiled of answered his question, "Yes, there seems to be un-tapped magic in, yourself, TJ, Jennifer, and Wesley, though there is a different type of magical signature coming from Paddie,". The answer left many questions and thoughts of 'why didn't I get magic' 'what can my magic do' 'HELL YEAH MAGIC' from some of the humans, while the humans talked Cadence noticed the doors to the throne room open and noticed Celestia, Luna, Twilight Sparkle, and the rest of the elements of harmony enter the room.

All the humans were drawn from their thought by two squee's and Cadence meeting another alicorn halfway in the room and doing some strange dance and song, "Sunshine, sunshine, lady bugs awake, clap your hooves and do a little shake," the song ended with Cadence and the other alicorn shaking their asses together and laughing. The alicorn with cadence was purple in fur color with a navy blue mane and tail that had an indigo strip and violet strip going down it, she stood 5 foot 2 inches and had both a horn and wings, she wore a sky blue button up blouse with an indigo skirt that showed a violet star overlapping a white stare with three smaller stars around it.

After the looking at the purple alicorn the humans noticed the two larger ones waiting to speak, the smaller alicorn was a dark blue in fur color with a ethereal royal blue mane and tail that seemed to sparkle like the night sky, she stood 5 foot 9 inches and had both a horn and wings, she wore a long flowing dark blue dress that showed a crescent moon with black surrounding. The larger alicorn was an alabaster white in fur color with a green, blue, and magenta colored ethereal mane and tail, she stood very tall at 6 foot and had both a horn and wings, she wore an elegant flowing white dress with a sun on her lower right and left side. The white alicorn walked forward with a smile and introduced them, "Hello, I am princess Celestia, co ruler of equestria and princess of the sun," she pointed to the blue alicorn, "this is my younger sister princess Luna, co ruler of equestria and princess of the moon," she ended by pointing to the purple alicorn, "and finally this is my old student princess twilight sparkle, princess of friendship and element of magic, and her friends rainbow dash, Fluttershy, applejack, pinkie pie, rarity, and her assistant spike,".

Rainbow Dash was light blue in fur color with a rainbow mane and tail, she stood 5 foot 1 inch and had only wing, she wore and extremely tight sports bra and pair of shorts with a cloud shooting a red, yellow, and blue bolt of lightning. Fluttershy was a butter yellow in fur color with a light pink mane and tail, she stood 5 foot and had only wings, she wore a loose green sweater with blue jeans that had three yellow butterflies with pink wings on either side of her flank.

Applejack was orange in fur color with a blond mane and tail, she stood 5 foot 2 inches and had no extra parts, she wore a white tank top with a red plaid shirt and short jean shorts with three apples. Pinkie was pink in fur color with a darker pink and really curly mane and tail, she stood 5 foot 1 inches and had no extra parts, she wore a light pink t-shirt with a horizontally striped blue and white skirt and three balloons in an alternating pattern of blue/yellow and yellow/blue in the center of her chest.

Rarity was white in fur color with an stylish curled purple mane and tail, she stood 5 foot and had only a horn, she wore a light blue blouse with a black skirt with three blue diamonds. Spike was purple in scale color with light green under belly and emerald green spines, he stood 4 foot 7 inches, he wore a purple jacket with a green under shirt and blue jeans.

Before another word could be said there was a disruptive 'Pomf' coming from the spreading of Nate's wings and him blushing, all people in the room in the room looked at him as he just sat there awkwardly and coughed into his hand. "Hello, my name's Nate, these are my friends TJ, Jennifer, Wesley, Jacob Y, Theo, James, Jacob C, Paddie, and Larry. We are humans who have no idea how we got here and are looking for a way home," Nate explained as he tried to get his wings under control. As Nate worked Celestia seemed to contemplate something to herself before coming to whatever conclusion she made.

"Do you humans have a leader, or would you like to elect one quickly for me to discuss with?" Celestia asked. All the humans looked at each other before huddling up together to talk.

"I say it should be me," Larry said, being one of the more level headed of the group he would make a great leader.

"Sorry Larry but I think I should be the leader," Nate said surprising everyone. "It should be me because I have more knowledge of this world and how it works, I'm also less likely to flirt with any girls do to my lack of current caring, and me and TJ are probably some sort of human alicorn mix which would make us royalty in the ponies eyes," Nate said as an explanation to their questioning eyes.

"Hey, if we're both royalty then we should be co-leaders," TJ replied to Nate's statement. Everyone gave an approving nod, even Larry after realizing he had no idea about what where he was, and that what he did know came from Nate and Paddie.

"Okay we have made our decision, me and TJ are co-leading our group and will talk to Celestia and Luna," Nate announced to everyone. Both Luna and Celestia nodded in approval and motioned for them to follow. once out side the door and down the hall Nate asked, "so, what do you know on a way for us to get home?"

Both Luna and Celestia shared a sad look before Luna turned to him and answered his question, "We are sorry Nate, but there is no way to send thee home, the number of universes out there is to infinite for even us and our sister to find thine home, even if we could it would take thousands of years to focus in on the exact universe thou are from,". by the end of it TJ seemed worried and Nate seemed neutral about the situation.

"Thank you Princess, I respect and appreciate your honesty and shall make sure that we deliver the sad news to our group," Nate said, keeping his voice emotionless. both princesses worried that he was mad at them for not being able to help, but they knew there was nothing to do to help them anyway.

When they got back into the throne room Nate and TJ led the group away from the ponies to discuss their fate. "So, are we going home at all, or are we stuck?" Larry asked, dreading the answer to come.

"Sorry guys, we won't be leaving any time soon, it seems there are to many universes to find ours without waiting thousands of years," TJ said. The reaction to the news varied on the person, some were happy, some were sad, and some were absolutely neutral.

"Well then we have who will lead so I say we just go live in ponyville, maybe even send some of into the everfree to try and colonize it," Nate suggested. Everyone nodded in approval and so they went. to start their new lives in equestria, and to start the adventure of a life time.