Once in the dark...

Slowly it grew colder as the intense pain Kyle felt in his abdomen finally drifted to nothing and his senses blurred. He could still just barely hear Twilights voice screaming his name as she laid her head down on his chest, her tears staining his shirt. Finally, darkness faded everything to nothing for what felt like but a moment, then a bright light and a feeling of warmth that he still can't find the words to explain overtook him, but you know what, let's actually start from my beginning here. Let's go back a little while, to when he was still just as confused as you are right now.

He laid upon his mother's couch remembering the day he had just had and trying to not scream. He pulled the small blanket up around him and whimpered to himself, "why does she continue to tell me that I'm useless. Why, the one day that I thought that she might be proud of me, did she actually punch me." The bruise on his face throbbed a bit as the memory of her punching him in the car after his graduation returned. In the partial darkness of the living room, brightened by not but the static of the tv, he sighed and sat up. He looked around and his eyes came to the safe that had recently broken. his mind began to teeter as his depression brought him to the very edge. He stood up, walked slowly to the safe and quietly opened it. In the safe was a few pieces of expensive jewelry and his mothers small 9mm pistol, fully loaded. He grabbed the gun and wandered slowly back to the couch, leaving the safe completely open. He sat there with the gun in his hands simply looking at it for a while wondering just what he wanted to do. After nearly half an hour of staring at the gun and listening to the sound of static, he chambered a round and slowly brought the gun to his mouth. Closing his eyes, he took a deep breath through his nose and jumped off the edge his depression had taken him to. There was no pain, demons, angels, gods or monsters. There was simply darkness.

He awoke as he felt the sun on his back. He quickly noticed that he was laying on dirt and grass. Opening his eyes confusion set in as he stood up and found himself in a forest of some sort. "Maybe last night was just a dream and I ended up sleep walking." Kyle said to himself quietly, trying to make sense of things. "Yeah, that's what happened, because I didn't feel anything at the end." He took a deep breath and looked around a bit. "Now I just have to find out where the hell I am," he said once again to himself. He stretched, loosening his muscles up and began walking to the west opposite the rising sun.

Surprisingly, it only took a few minutes for him to hear voices. "Hello," a feminine voice said. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to frighten your birds. I'm just here to check up on the music and it's sounding beautiful," she continued. He walked towards the voice, expecting some sort of answer, however for a short while there was only silence. "I'm Twilight Sparkle," she said. Huh weird name, he thought. After a short pause she continued once more, "what's your name?" He heard a small squeak as a response. "Didn't quite get that." she said. He heard another squeak as he exited the forest and got caught on branch, tearing his shirt.

"Ah, hell! I liked this shirt," he said looking at the tear. Suddenly he heard them scream and he looked up and instead of people he saw multi colored, humanoid, horses and a purple lizard creature. He laughed once and passed out.

Once more he started to wake up, but this time felt like he was on a bed. He sat up with his eyes closed and stretched with a yawn. "Now that was a strange dream," He said as he opened his eyes once more seeing the humanoid equines. "Or not," he continued as his confusion grew.

"Hello, I'm Twilight Sparkle," she said. Twilight looked to be about 5'5", had a purple coat, dark purple eyes, a long indigo mane and tail with a dark pink stripe in it and she wore a light blue button up shirt with a dark purple skirt embellished with some sort of pink star marking.

"And I'm Fluttershy," she also said. Fluttershy was about 5'2", with a yellow coat, light blue-green eyes, a very long light pink mane and tail, and she wore a white tank top with a green skirt embellished with butterflies. However, that wasn't what really got to him.

"You.... you have a horn.... and.... and you have... wings..." Confusion grew and grew until he convinced himself that he was dreaming and smacked himself as hard as he could. The pain throbbed where he hit and proved him wrong.

"Why did you hit yourself!?" Fluttershy screamed as she rushed him. "Twilight, can you get some ice for me please." She said as she cuddled his head close to her chest, which he now noticed was a bit on the big side, possibly double-d.

"No problem Fluttershy." Twilight said as she left the room quickly.

"You need to be nicer to yourself. I mean, please," Fluttershy continued as she rocked back and forth.

"This isn't a dream is it?" He asked no one in particular. Just as Twilight walked in with the pack of ice.

"No, it isn't," She answered as she brought the ice to Fluttershy. Fluttershy took the ice and stood up pressing the ice against the cheek he hit. "What and who are you?" Twilight asked him.

"M... my name's Kyle," he answered as he took the ice from Fluttershy and held it close. "I'm... human. Jeez... this is so... so confusing," he continued. "Where am I?" he finally asked.

"You're in my cottage, on the outskirts of Ponyville," Fluttershy answered him.

"Pony... Ponyville? Ok, so is this a small island or something?" he quizzed.

"No, this is a town in Equestria," Twilight answered, confused by his question. "Why?" she asked him.

"I'm not even on Earth am I?" He questioned even further.

"Is that where you're from, Earth?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yes, I'm from the planet Earth, America to be a little more specific," Kyle answered.

"You're from another world!? How did you get here?" Twilight quizzed, her expression mirroring his confusion.

"That's just it... I don't know. The last thing I remember was taking my own life, but I think that was a dream. Although I'm not so sure anymore," He answered looking down as the pain from his cheek dissipated. Both Twilight and Fluttershy gasped at his statement.

"How... how could you even think that?" Twilight asked as tears leaked down her cheeks and Fluttershy blubbered quietly.

He looked up and moved the ice pack to the bruise on the other side of his face, "well it's not like anyone would care," he answered.

"Wh... what ab... about your fa... family or yo.... your friends?" Fluttershy asked as she sniveled.

"I didn't have any friends and...." he took a breath as he moved the ice away from the bruise, "you see this bruise, my mom did this to me. Being called useless, disgusting or many other insults was a daily occurrence and being hit was at least once a week. I'm an only child and I've never met my father, he left before I was born," He continued and their tears increased as they looked at him with concern. He moved the ice pack back and said somewhat quietly, "please, I can't deal with pity. It makes me feel even more worthless."

Suddenly they both gave him a group hug and said, "we'll care." Their tears staining his ripped green shirt. Twilight stated, "no parent should beat their child and no one should have to deal with abuse, physical or mental. It's just... wrong." Then, for the first time in years, Kyle bawled.

After around ten minutes of them all crying together, he finally hugged them back. "I don't know why I told you both these things... I... I never told anyone..." Kyle stated as his tears began to dry up. "It's weird you aren't even human and... I feel as if I can trust you... I feel as if you really mean that you care... even though we just met," he continued. "I guess I just get along better with humanoid equines than I do with people. Thank you," he said with a bit of a sad laugh. The close contact allowed him to realize that Twilight was a C-cup.

They pulled away from him and Fluttershy got tissues from her nightstand. She handed them out to everyone as Twilight stated, "we're ponies. She's a pegasus and I'm a unicorn." Then, they cleaned up their faces.

"So... um what's going to happen now?" he asked.

"Well, for now I'll take you back to where I'm staying and we'll send a letter to Princess Celestia. After that, I have to do somethings," Twilight said. "That is if you're ok to walk," She continued.

"Yeah, I'll be fine," he answered and stood up. He stood at 5'8", had shoulder length black hair, had blue eyes, wore a blank green t-shirt with black jeans and plain white socks. "Where are my shoes?" he asked, then he saw them near the end of the bed. "Never mind," he continued as he slipped on his black shoes.

"I think I'll go with, just to make sure you're ok. If that's fine with you?" Fluttershy stated.

Kyle looked to Twilight, then she answered, "yes that's fine." They walked out of the room and then Kyle noticed that their was a lot of animals in this house, even a large bear. The only reason he didn't panic was that they were all sleeping. He saw that some of them were injured and guessed that she was some kind of vet or caretaker. They left the house and he followed them to the town. After a decent walk they finally stopped at the Golden Oaks Library. "We're here," Twilight said as Kyle stared at the building.

"You live in a tree. A house made out of a tree, a literal tree-house," he stated. "I feel like I shouldn't be that surprised, but I am," he continued with a shake of his head. The mares giggled a bit as Twilight opened the door and let them in, following shortly behind as she shut the door once more.

"Ok, where are the lights," Twilight said to herself as she began to look around.

Suddenly the lights flashed on and their was a big scream of "Surprise!!" from all of the ponies there. Once again Kyle let out one laugh and passed out.