I was just a normal boy when it all started, I went to school, had a girlfriend, and a loving family. Then it all changed when my grandfather pasted to me his prized top hat.

Normal when you receive a top hat it is in bad shape from yeas of use, not this one. sure it showed sines of rust on the brim, but it looked like a blue top hat made of metal.
Oh, if only that was true.
The next morning I find myself in another world where girls dive tanks on a huge ship, with each ship fighting each other.
After some deliberation, I decided to join their school and become a tanker too, only I happened upon an old train. Only; it was not just an old train, not that I knew at the time.
Even after I volunteered to haul all their equipment back to the ship, even when the bridge i was on collapsed and I plummeted into an old mine. Only when I left the mine did I realize how special the train, my hat, my grandfather were. How special I was. How I would have to fill his shoes in this new world... and how lost I was.

*Pleas note if you want to skip the intro of how he came to Equestria to when he arrives skip to
chapter 5*
*the crossover is for the beginning few chapters and some of the themes and ideas used in my work*