My New Life In Equestria: Year 1.

April 4, 1002.
A Rock And A Hard Place Gym.

Joseph pointed to Hotshot.

"You know Dash?" He asked still wondering why he had called her sweetie. Dash meanwhile was not sure how to feel right now.

"Damn it!" She screamed internally. She looked back at Hotshot with the bearest of restrained fury. Hotshot however just smirked.

"Oh yeah." His tongue oozed confidence.

"We go way back her and I." He stated as he stared into her magenta eyes. Dash began to visibly squirm now which didn't go unnoticed by Joseph.

"She's very uncomfortable around him." Thinking fast he cleared his throat.

"Well, It was nice meeting you again." He gave Rainbow a pat on the whither's which snapped her out of her anger induced haze.

"But me and Dash have some work out's too finish." It had the desired effect and then some. Hotshot did a double take, Dash let out a sigh and quickly nodded her head in agreement. The door to the gym opened once more and in stepped Silver Tongue and Swift Wing. Seeing Hotshot starring at Dash, Silver moved in.

"Hey Hotshot buddy what are you doing here?" He asked glaring at the stallion like one would a small child. Hotshot spun around and instantly regretted making this decision.

"O-oh h-hey their guys." He chuckled awkwardly as Silver gave Joseph a nod. He accepted it and he and Dash went off to the other side of the gym.

Later on in the showers.

Joseph was at a loss.

"I don't think I can help her with this." He sighed. As he and Dash got there various workout's done he could see that the sheer sight of Hotshot had infuriated her. She even kept her usual talk's they had while working out short today.

"So how's the little guy doing?" Dash asked as she sat under a shower head letting it wash down her back. Joseph was so preoccupied with his thought's that it took a nudge from a wet hoof to register that Dash had asked him a question.

"Huh? What?" He asked causing Dash to chuckle and grin.

"Finally." She said sitting back down as Joseph joined her on the bench in the showers.

"I was asking you how Aion was doing?" Her question got Joseph to nod.

"Ohh right." He thought about it.

"Ever since Celestia and Luna took him back to Canterlot he's been pretty busy." He said as he took a bar of soap and a towel and began to wash his chest off.

"Thank god I'm part Native American." Dash nodded as she listened still trying to get her mind off of the yellow blunder. Finally, she sighed as she turned the water off and went to go grab a towel. Joseph pulled on his trouser's and grabbed a towel.

"Here." He said scooping up Dash causing her to let out an "eep!" and give him a look of shock.

"What are you doing?" She asked not entirely sure f what to do as Joseph smirked.

"Here goes nothing." He thought as he began to rub off her coat.

"One, I'm drying you off." He said rubbing her side's as he rubbed the towel up and down her body. Dash was heavily blushing right now.

"Oh, but it feel's so good." She laid there sprawled out across Joseph's lap as he continued to rub little circle's around her getting her nice and dry.

"Second, I was wondering if there was any way of helping you out with Hotshot." He was being blunt now not really knowing how to broach the subject to her. She visibly shuddered as she thought back to seeing him earlier. Finally, she sighed and let herself be taken back into a blissful state by Joseph's impromptu massage.

"It's not all that important." She said. Joseph sat there thinking.

"Yes, it is." He staid catching Dash off guard.

"What-" Joseph held up a hand.

"It was important enough to cause you to be extremely uncomfortable around him." He stated as he now worked his way across her wing's, making sure to be extra careful as to not jostle her feather's or cause any undue embarrassment. She unfurled a wing and spoke again.

"You sure you want to hear this?" She asked causing Joseph to stop mid-wipe.

"Yes." He answered not sure of what he was going to get into. Rainbow just sighed.

"Well, It started in high school." She recounted her first meeting with Hotshot.

Back in the main gym.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Silver hissed as he dragged Hotshot outside. Hotshot struggled against Silver's magical grip but once he was released he rounded on Silver, his eye's blazing red.

"Who the hell are you to tell me?" He shouted getting the attention of a few passersby. He saw then and scowled scarring the prying eye's off of him. Silver stood there his eye's boring into Hotshot with a fury.

"You do know this is only going to cause trouble for you right?" He asked as Hotshot stood his ground. Hotshot just stood there not budging an inch. Silver snorted.

"You know what fine. You want to go to jail and have the royal sister's fry your ass fine." He began to trot off.

"Don't come crying to me about it." He stated walking back into the gym. Hotshot took a deep breath to calm himself down.

"Now to find out who's with my mare." He trotted back into the gym as well.

"That stupid monkey better watch himself." He scanned the various machine's not seeing them at all.

"Must be in the shower's." His face didn't know whether to twist into a smirk or a scowl.

"Oh, he better keep his hooves to himself." He said trotting over to the showers.

A little while later Joseph was livid as Dash finished her story.

"So let me get this straight." He said as he got through with his clothes and proceeded to grab his glasses.

"He has the nerve to stand you up at the prom." He got his duffle bag and slung it over his shoulder as Dash joined him at the entrance.

"All the while he's seeing somepony else and once that's all done he come's crawling back trying to act like it never happened." He was paraphrasing of course but that was the jist of the story. Dash nodded as she checked her own saddlebags to see if she had everything.

"Yup." She said as she got through rummaging through her bag.

"That was the first and only time I dated a stallion." She said with some degree of sadness in her voice. Joseph gave her a pat on the head.

"Well, Dash he was an idiot." He stated causing Dash to blush. Joseph laughed.

"I mean it. I've never been on a date before. Hell, no girl would give me the time of day." He stated with some malice edging into his voice. But then he gave her a smirk.

"It's a shame I wasn't born here as a pony." He said as they made there way out the showers. Dash smirked.

"Why?" She asked starting to feel like her old self.

"You think you'd be able to keep up with me?" Dash asked causing Joseph to chuckle.

"You'd leave me in the dust but I would give it my best shot." He staited as they reached the door leading out. Only to both jump back as it swung open and the focus of there anger strode in like he owned the building.

"Well well, what do we have here?" Hotshot asked as his eyes went from blue to orange in a split second. Dash didn't back down this time but Joseph listening to his instinct's put himself between Dash and Hotshot which caused him to huckle.

"Oh, what is the monkey going to throw a banana at me?" He teased as he trotted closer to Joseph. Joseph just glared him with all the anger he could muster even snarling at Hotshot. That got him to pause for a second and Joseph took full advantage of that.

"What the hell are you?" Hotshot asked leaving himself open to Joseph's righteous wrath. Reacting faster than Hotshot thought possible Joseph kicked out his foreleg's from under him sending him stumbling to the ground. Retracking his leg and moving up to the stumbling pegasus Joseph brought a fist down upon his head driving him even further to the ground.

"Gah what the hell?" Hotshot screamed as he laid there trying to curl himself into a ball. Joseph stopped his assault as soon as he heard Hotshot's voice. He then bent down until he was eye level with Hotshot. Hotshot looked at him with trepidation.

"Get this through your thick skull buddy." He pointed to Dash who hadn't moved.

"You and her are done." He raised a fist to Hotshot's face.

"Got it?" He said as Hotshot began to rapidly nod his head in understanding.

"Y-y-ye-ah sure what ever you say!" He said as he scrambled to his hooves and still a little disoriented from his beating he limped out the door and into the gym. As Joseph got up and walked over to Dash she gave him a look of pure bewilderment.

"Did he- and you just- how? What?" She stammered as Joseph gave her a flick on the snout causing her to flinch and regain her scene's.

"I took a little bit of Ti-Kwon-Do as a kid and then just scraped together whatever else I could learn." He said as he pushed his glasses back up to the bridge of his nose and grabbed his bag from the floor. Dash stood there a moment admiring her one and only human friend.

"Remind me to never make you angry," She stated causing Joseph to chuckle.

"I just got lucky there Dash." He stated as they went to the counter, paid for there time and left.

"If that had been a fair fight I would be a stain on the floor right now." He said rubbing the back of his neck.

"In fact, the only way I could even remotely even the odd's was if I had a sword." He stated causing Dash to give him a look of admiration.

"Wow, dude you were a soldier?" She asked causing Joseph to burst out laughing.

"What?" She asked as Joseph got his laughter under control.

"No Dash I am not a soldier by any mean's." He said which in turn lead to Dash giving him a confused look.

"Ah and thus I remember where it is that I am." He stated thinking of how to explain this.

"Ok let's see. Back in my world, we don't use swords shields and armor anymore. At least not like here." He then began to explain how his world evolved without magic and how one of those advancements lead to the death of most forms of combat that had been around for the last few thousand years.

"Wow. If we had those gun's we'd be in trouble." Dash said shuddering at the thought of not being able to see the pony that killed you all because they could do so from the safety of having a mile of room between you and them. Joseph just sighed.

"Don't worry Dash. I can guarantee you that I won't tell any of you how to make these weapons. There far too dangerous for my race and I won't be the one to introduce your realm to them." He stated giving Dash some small relief. She then went back to the original topic.

"So back to you and your martial art's?" Joseph snickered and went into detail of his time training with the S.C.A.