I bolted upright with a sharp gasp. I winced as pain shot through my back, forcing me to lay back down. Have you ever had that feeling when you wake up, that you just want to roll over and die? Because that's exactly how I'm feeling right now. Laying in the mud. I don't know how long I've been here, but I do know one thing... 'Fuck. Next time I see that old bitch, shes catching these hands!'

Gathering my thoughts, it was time to get going. Half way to my feet, "Nope, Nope, Nope... Laying back down." More pain making itself present. 'What am I going to do now? I can't move.' Just as I thought it couldn't get worse, a huge wind blew though the trees and forced the realisation that laying in the rain is a bad idea. "And fuck you too ." I bit my bottom lip as I got to my feet. "Well that's convenient." About 15 meters from me was a small cave. Limping my way over, I did a quick check on what hurts. "My legs... m-my sh-sh-shoulders, m-my back...my e-e-everything." I spoke through chattering teeth. Upon entering the cave a wicked odour invaded my nose, halting my advance. I'm pretty sure it singed all of my nose hairs. Following the smell was a loud, low growl... And another one... And another one. Somethings were in that cave and I really didn't want to find out what. But, with my luck, I did find out what they were...ish... Three silhouettes were stalking towards me "Wolves? Ah fuck!" And I was gone. Ignoring the pain, I bolted for my life. Unfortunately, they gave chase.

I could hear them behind me. "Go away! You're not supposed to be in Dunshore!" I shouted as I ran. being the idiot I am, I glanced back... Man, I wish I didn't. The three wolves were made of wood. My fear was rising to an all-time high. Dream! Dream! Please be a dream!. Being busy looking back, I didn't see what I was running towards. One step, two step, trip. Roots grabbed at my feet as I tumbled and rolled into a small clearing. My head hit the dirt, leaving an echoing thud in my brain, but there were three wolves ready for a meal, and that was higher on my things to be concerned about list than some headache.

Picking myself off the ground, I saw a branch had come with me. I picked it up and whirled around to face off my soon-to-be death. The wolves were already there and snarling with their glowing green eyes staring through my soul. Two of them slowly made their way around to my sides while the other stayed in front of me. The one on my left jumped at me, latching it's jaw around my ankle and thrashing about, tugging me off balance. I let out a cry of pain before bringing the branch down on it's head. It yelped and pulled back, releasing my torn up ankle. There was no time to rest as I found myself swinging the branch at the wolf leaping at my right. A big sweep caused the branch to introduce itself to the wolf's face. Unfortunately movies are still not to be trusted and instead of flinging the wolf off to the side, it just crashed into me with claws instead of teeth. I hit the ground hard with a new gash on my chest. The last wolf sees it's opportunity and make a grab for my left hand. The pain is unreal as it viciously tears at my arm. In a desperate effort, I grab the wolf's jaw with my hand still being munched on, and swing my body over the wolf's, wrapping my other arm underneath it so it can't escape my attack. It released my hand and snapped at my face. 'Eat this fuck face!' With a jerk of my body, I hauled the wolf up and over backwards, Suplexing the fuck with a loud crunch. I steadily got to my feet and stared down the other two wolves. I was dizzy and hurting... a lot.

"Come on!" I shouted at them, beckoning them to try finish me off. The wolves shared a glance at each other before turning tail and running off. A sigh escaped my lips before I turned around, examining the body that suffered The Suplex. "Oh shit." I breathed. The wolf's head had exploded, leaving the body in a puddle of green goo and splinters. 'Dream. It has to be a dream.'

All of a sudden my vision spun at an alarming rate. Confusion set in as the ground seemed to be getting closer and closer. 'Wait a seco...'

Wham

3rd Person POV

"Is...is it over?" A small, timid voice that could be heard by all in the silence.

One member of the audience carefully walked over to the wet, Bleeding man. Analysing the bundle of limbs in front of her, she answered the question.

"Yes, it's over... But this stallion's in pretty bad shape." The six of them crowded around Alex looking him over. One of them bending down, grabbing Alex's side and rolling him over. All of them stepped back in shock as they saw his face.

"Poor thing hasn't any fur."

"D'ya think he lost it in a fire?"

"Ooh, what if he's an alien that crash landed!"

"Come on, Pinkie. An alien?"

"It doesn't matter, we need to get him to Ponyville hospital." With that being said there was a bright purple flash and they all vanished.

Alex POV

'The second time passing out in one day. This can't be good for my brain.' I thought as I opened my eyes, only so they could meet the full force of the bastard sun. "Eeeh" Slamming them shut and throwing my head to the side to avoid blindness "Let's try this again." This time my eyes opened to see my shoulder heavily bandaged and a few pieces of medical equipment beside me. My curiosity peaked and I glanced around the room. It was a very white and clean room. To my left there was a bedside table with a vase filled with flowers. Slowly going right there was the window that the sun was glaring through, and a door in the corner. In front of the bed I was occupying, was a couple chairs (nothing special, just a stereotypical hospital chair). There was another door in the far right corner. The wall to my right had a couple more chairs, then beside my bed was hospital things I couldn't name. You know the beepy thing.

Lost in thought I went to scratch my face only to find my left hand all wrapped up. The memories of what happened were foggy, but I some what remembered fighting wolves. Questions started brewing in my head, like; am I still dreaming? Where am I? Did I really fight wolves? I looked at my chest to see my hoodie and white shirt missing, replaced by some bandages.

My attention was drawn back to the window, or more so outside. Something was off. I don't remember the sky looking so real. It's almost like I've gone back to before we screwed the atmosphere and lived in upside down fish bowls.

I pulled the things from my arm to move closer to the window. Just as my feet hit the floor, my train of thought was broken by the call of nature. I looked at the door on my right, and the one on my left.

'Well one of these has to be a toilet.' I decided to try the door on my left. My walking was restrained to limping thanks to my ankle being munched on, you know, the usual. I reached out and opened the door "bingo!"

After finishing my business, I was at the window staring towards the seemingly endless scenery trying to place why it looked so different, but it had to be the same dome over Dunshore. I didn't get that far into the woods... 'Unless I'm not in Dunshore.' That old Hag must've drugged and kidnapped me... 'What did she say to me? Something about... Argh I can't remember, couldn't have been that important.'

Over my thinking, I didn't hear the door behind me open. "Oh, you're awake. Good." A female and intelligent sounding voice broke the silence that I was beginning got enjoy. I turned around to talk to who ever had come in, expecting a nurse or doctor. When my gaze fell upon who was there, I completely froze, a look of shock adorned my face. About 5 meters in front of me was a purple woman, alien thing...

So, how should I act in a situation like this? Stayed calm and see what it/she wanted with me and maybe make it out of here unharmed right? That's what I was thinking at the time... And what I tried to do. Six other aliens, all with crazy colours, entered the room following the purple one. There was an orange one, then a pink one, then a blue one, then a white one, a yellow one, and finally another white one.

"WHAT! THE FUUU!" Arms flailing around, I screamed out (scaring the shit out of the group) and rapidly hobbled over to the side of my bed. Why? I have no idea. It was all part of the 'stay calm and reason with them' plan.

The purple one came to their senses first "Please calm down, you don't want to re-injure yourself."

She took a couple of steps forward with her hands gesturing for me to calm down. Being a genuinely smart man with an infinite pool of wisdom, I did what anyone would. I scramble for the middle of the room, then diverted my course straight for the window, all the while screaming "NUH UH. NO ALIENS GONNA EAT ME TODAY!" And jumped. Now unlike doors, movies can be trusted on this one.

For some reason the gods favoured me. I was floating in mid air, three storeys above the ground. I noted everything had a purple hue to it as I started drifting back through the window. They were all staring at me as I was suspended in front of them like a piñata.

I don't understand. How can they look so much like humans, yet look so weird at the same time? Even their clothing was like what humans wear. Standing the furthest to the left was the orange one, who looked like the definition of 'cowgirl' with her Hat, tied plaid shirt and worn jeans that hugged her nice, curvaceous... 'Woah, slow down there turbo. You don't even know for sure they're female... Aside from their... features'. Next to her was the pink one, and that's an understatement. Pink mane, pinke fur, pink polka dots and pink bows on her white sundress. I was actually a little impressed even with so much pink, she somehow pulled it off. moving on, the most noticeable thing about the blue one was her hair. It was a streaked rainbow colour that fell down just below her shoulders. She was wearing black sweatpants and a black tank top that had a yellow lightning bolt over her left Breast, not that I was staring or anything. The first white one was wearing a baggy cream sweater that was tucked in to a high waisted black pleated skirt. 'Woah, why is it so hard to look away' I thought as my eyes took in the sheer beauty of this creature. Was it the legs? or maybe it was her magnificently styled purple hair that has... A horn sticking out of it... Sure, why not? I couldn't get a good look at the yellow one because she was hiding behind the white one. The other white one must have been the nurse, judging by the fact that she was wearing scrubs, but what do I know? I mean I'm seeing seven multi-coloured people.

"I did not think that through very well." I was able to take control of myself now that the initial surprise had passed.

"Ya think." The blue one put in her two cents.

"I'm going to put you down now, try not jump out the window, please." The purple one stated as I noticed a small glow around her horn fade with everything going back to its normal colour and myself dropping to the floor. After a short silence of everyone waiting to see if I would do anything, I decided I needed some answers.

"Okay. I have so many questions right now, the first being what the fuck?" They all looked at each other then back at me.

"We have questions as well. Why don't we start with introductions? My name's Twilight Sparkle." The purple one said pointing to herself. She then looked to her right at the orange one.

"Ah'm Applejack, nice meetin' yah." 'These names.'

"Likewise, Applejack." I couldn't help but laugh on the inside at her name as I reached out to shake her hand. All thoughts were cut off from her vice-like grip. It was also a little unsettling to find out they have fur. "That's quite the shake you've got there." She replied with a shy smile and a nod as she averted her gaze to the next alien.

I took a step back and looked at..."HI, I'm Pinkie Pie"... The pink one. "You're new here because I haven't seen you before and I've seen everypony in Ponyville so I want to be the first one to welcome you *GASP*" and then she was gone. I was a little stunned by the mass of words that flooded from her mouth, but I was even more so by the fact that she just disappeared after gasping really loudly and jumping into the air all cartoon-ish.

I just stood there blinking, as my brain started dying. "Trust me, darling. It's better, and healthier, to just let it go." I looked over at the white one and she just gave me a reassuring smile. Her voice was very proper, from what I could tell it suited her. "My name is Rarity, by the way."

"Uh... right." 'Man, these names are weird. What's next rainbow rush?' I half expectantly turned to the rainbow coloured hair wielder.

Said rainbow coloured hair wielder struck a superhero pose, puffed out her chest and... "The name's Rainbow Dash"... 'Fucking, close enough'. She shook my hand with some gusto, but still wasn't as impressive as Applejack's.

And that leaves one... Wait no two. The yellow one was still hiding behind... Er... Rarity. Everyone was looking at her, waiting for her intro. Rarity stepped to the side so the she was in full view. Once she noticed her cover had betrayed her, she let out the cutest little 'Eep' and hid behind behind her light pink locks.

"I...I'm Fluttershy". '*Sigh* Fuckin what?'

"Sorry, what?" I don't know what I was supposed to hear, but all I heard was a whole lotta nothing.

"Fluttershy." She replied, a little more audibly.

"Nice to meet you, Fluttershy."

Now, that leaves one. I looked over to the 'nurse' and she seemed a bit surprised that the attention was tuned to her. "Oh, I'm just a nurse here." 'Knew it'.

"It's like a counselling circle, we all say our names and addiction. You know, the whole 'I'm Mark and I'm an alcoholic' thing." Everyone was looking at me with 'what is this guy going on about' looks. It didn't matter, I got my point across

"Um, okay. My name is Redheart. I've been keeping an eye on you after the doctors patched you up."

"There you go, that wasn't so hard now was it?" She just rolled her eyes and smiled.

"So, is your name... Mark, was it?" Twilight Sparkle asked. I looked at her quizzically before realising.

"Oh, no, sorry that was just an example." I started before standing up as straight as I could, placing one fist on my hip, my other, mangled, fist over my chest. It was quite a dramatic pose if you ask me "My name is... Pause for dramatic effect... Alex Regent." As I said the last part I dropped the pose and returned to my relaxed demeanour. "You can just call me Alex though." They were all trying to hold in their laughter expect for one, and now I knew Pinkie Pie was back. Turning towards Twilight Sparkle. 'He he, These names, I can't get over them.' "So, about these questions."

"Well seeing as we both have questions why don't we go in turns." Redheart left the room, probably to tell someone I was up and about... and maybe about the broken window.

"Sounds good to me." There was a short silence. I think they were expecting me to go first, but I was raised with manners. "Ladies first" After saying that, they all seemed a little surprised and looked between each other, I'm guessing to see who would go first.

"Uh... Right... Well... Um... The doctor said that, although very similar, you're not a pony" I gave her a small nod and she continued "Then, what are you?"

"I'm a human" The bluntness of my answer did nothing more compared to running in circles. "So, what are youse?"

"We're ponies. Myself and Rarity are unicorns, Rainbow and Fluttershy are pegasi, and Applejack and Pinkie are Earth Ponies" Right, at least I know I'm either still dreaming or dead. Being surrounded by 'ponies' that look like humans, and not only are they bipedal ponies, they're also unicorns and pegasi.

A Few Hours Later

The questions went on for a while in the back and forth fashion. I ended up finding out that this is very much not a dream, I'm in a place called Equestria on a planet called Equis, I'm currently in Ponyville hospital, I was attacked by 'Timberwolves' in a forest called the Everfree, magic exists, Pegasi can do heaps of stuff with clouds, and a couple of other things, and earth ponies can... farm really well, I guess. The seven of us had actually hit it off pretty well, they were really nice. Oh and Rainbow Dash's hair... Mane is natural.

It was now my turn and I only had one more question. "Okay, I think this is my last one and it's for Rainbow Dash again." she perked up a bit at the mention of her name. "Do you know what skittles are?"

"Uh... No, why?

"Damn... Don't worry about it"

"Come on, tell me what skittles are?"

"They're just uh... Well were I'm from, they're a brand of candy. They're a bit smaller than buttons and are different colours of the rainbow. I thought it'd be a funny nickname." Applejack started snickering, much to Rainbow dash's dismay. She started blushing and shot Applejack a dirty look. "Don't worry about it though."

A lot of the questions I answered were from Twilight and about how I lived. I tried to answer as best I could while avoiding talking about my personal life, although, I think they picked up on it but didn't say anything. The less people that know about what I do, the better. Think of what I use to do, brought out the why. 'Oh shit!'

"Actually I've got one more." Taking on a more serious tone, seemed to convey that it was pretty important. "Do you know of any way for me to get back to my world?" I asked, rather desperately. They all looked to Twilight. She must be most likely to have the answer.

"Um... At the moment, there are too many things we don't know... I'm sorry, Alex." Twilight said, piercing my heart with her words.

"But we can find a way right?" Desperation soaked my words. Twilight gave me a sad smile.

"I'm sure we can find a way." There was little hope in her words, but hope is hope, and I'm gonna need to hang on to every bit I can get my grubby mitts on.

Nurse Redheart re-entered the room again with some news "Excuse me, Alex... I was just talking with one of the doctors, and he said you should be free to go after you pass the physical analysis test."

"Good. The sooner I get outta here, the sooner I can find a way to get back to my br... uh, world" She rose an eyebrow at my eagerness to leave, but replaced it with a smile, understanding my want to make it home.

"Right. Well if you follow me, you can do the test now. Or you can wait until later."

As quick as lightning I was over by the door, pulling it open and waiting for her to lead the way.

She turned to the others in the room "We shouldn't be too long. If you all could please wait at reception." The seven of them walked through the door while I was still holding it open, each one of them giving me look of gratitude and a smile.

Twilight's POV

We left Alex's hospital room and headed back to the hospital foyer. On the way we were all talking about our new acquaintance. "He seems like a nice stallion, if you ask me."

"Even if he did try to jump out of a three storey window, he made a good impression." Rarity replied. She and Fluttershy were the only two listening to me. Pinkie and Applejack were busy harassing Rainbow about Alex's nickname for her.

"Ya shoulda seen your face when he called yah 'Skittles' Ha... Priceless"

"Shut up! Applejack. It's not like it was anything dirty or anything." Rainbow looked a little steamed that Applejack was finding it so funny.

"Yeah, he said it was just a type of candy from his world... Even though you went brighter than this balloon." And of course, a red balloon is pulled out of Pinkie's mane. Rainbow had nothing to say and kept walking.

Back to my conversation with Rarity and Fluttershy. "There's so many things I want to know about him."

"Hmm, like how he keeps himself in such good shape." Rarity quietly mentioned while staring off to her thoughts.

"I was thinking more along the lines of his life, what he's seen, how he lived. But every time I asked, he avoided it and talked about his race in general."

"Maybe he has problems or wounds he would rather not surface by talking about his personal life." Fluttershy did have a point, I can't press it too much in case it hurts him.

We reached the reception waiting area when a thought came to mind. I had to tell princess Celestia about Alex. "I'll be back is a second, I need to get Spike."

"what for, Twilight?" Pinkie asked.

"I need him to send a letter to Princess Celestia. She might even know a way to send him home." I charged my horn and teleported to the library, finding Spike placing book onto the shelves. Another charge and we were back in the hospital. Spike was still standing as if he were placing the book.

"Ah! what the." He turned around to us and put two and two together. "Celestia damn it Twilight, warn a drake before teleporting him across town." I could help the small giggle at his displeasure.

"Sorry, Spike. I need you to send a letter to the princess."

Alex's POV

The test was pretty easy, it was just moving around the room and some reaction tests. The doctor said I've got good reflexes which is pretty sweet. Anyway, me and nurse Redheart are just walking into the foyer when I saw some sort of big lizard dude. It was looked to be about 18 or 19 years old, and most likely a 'he'. He was wearing a tight, black shirt and some green board shorts with a black '09' on the side, over his purple and green scales... He also had a pair of very sharp claws... How does he even use his hands with those things?

"Hey Alex, did you pass the test?" It was rainbow that asked. I had joined with the group by this point. Everyone has drawn their attention to the conversation.

"Yeah, I did. It actually wasn't that hard. I just had to walk around a room, do some push-ups, jumps, and catch the end of a falling stick." Just as I finished telling them about the test, there was a bunch of sparkling dust the appeared out of nowhere, then with a pop it turned into a scroll-looking thing. Twilight caught it in her magic... I'm still trying to wrap my head around that... She then proceeded to unroll and read it. "what's that?"

After a couple of seconds, Twilight finished reading and answered. "This is a letter from princess Celestia, about you."

"How does she know about me?"

"I told her." 'Of course you did'.

"So, what about me? Good things I hope."

"It says here that until Celestia and Luna return from their visit to the Gryphon kingdom, you will have to stay with one of us." 'Did she say gryphon... Kingdom? Surely that's just the name of a place, gryphons don't exist... Says the guy who's standing with a group of technicolored, bipedal ponies that talk.' "So we will need to organise who you can stay with." At least I'm not going to be homeless. "There is a spare room in the library you could use."

"There's ah place at the farm, if yah wan' it."

"I've got plenty of spare rooms, but unless you can walk on clouds, that's out of the question."

"Sweetie Belle is using my spare room currently, but you can sleep on the couch. If you wish."

"The bakery doesn't have any extra room... But you can stay in my room" *wink*

"Uh... I think I'll pass on that one." The whole time the lizard guy, Spike, was looking me over. He was a little smaller than me, but still taller than the rest. He was probably sitting at 5"11, Applejack was at 5"10, Rarity was at 5"9, Twilight was at 5"8 along with Skittles, then Pinkie and Fluttershy were at 5"7.

"So this is?" Spike asked Twilight, gesturing to me.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Spike. This is Alex, he's from another world. Alex this is Spike, my number one assistant." We both greeted each other with a firm hand shake. I was very wary of his claws as we did.

"From another world? That's so cool." He seemed pretty enthusiastic to meet an alien.

"I don't want to sound rude or anything, but what are you? some kind of gecko?"

"No way! I'm a dragon, you never seen one before?" A dragon... A Fucking Dragon!

My hands shot to sides of my face "No. Way! You're a dragon? Holy shit, I'm talking to a real-life dragon. Woah!"

"I'll take that as a no."

"You have no idea what this is like for me right now. It's not just that I've never seen one before. Where I come from they don't exist, they're just myths... And the coolest things ever." As I said that last part, Rainbow crossed her arms and pouted.

"Something tells me we're going to get along just fine."

"I really hope so."

Author's Note

And that's the end of the chapter... I was going to go further, but work was really hectic and I wanted to get it out ASAP.

Hope you enjoyed.

[18 DEC 2020]
Reviewed the chapter and changed a few things. Should be better now... I hope.
Also this is going to be happening for the next chapters as well. I figure it was a good way to fix the 'broken' parts, clean up dirty messes of dead ends and get myself immersed back into the story to continue and finish it. So, slowly as each chapter gets it's (re-write), you can see how far away I will be from new chapters. YAY!!