My New Life In Equestria: Year 1.

April 29, 1002.
Sweet Apple Acre's.

2 months. Joseph was ecstatic. He had officially been in Equestria for 2 whole month's. Pinkie even threw a party to mark the milestone. The whole gang showed up and even princess Cadance came with her husband and even their daughter.

Flurry Heart was adorable as she bombarded Joseph with questions about all sort's of things. He answered them as best as he could but then he got roped into a game of hide and seek with the C.M.C. Dash gave him a helping hand with some of her magic briefly allowing him to walk on clouds. He stayed up there for the better part of an hour watching the C.M.C. search every place they could find. Again with Dash's assistance he was able to get down relatively unnoticed and proceded to prank the trio at every turn. They got him back with a bucket full of tree sap. All in all, it was a fun time to be there in ponyville.

Now going on his third month there Joseph was excited. Summer was upon them and that meant ice cream and beach time. He had just found a job at Sugar Cube Corner and was now saving up for a trip to to the beach with the girls. To say that he was really looking forward to this was an understatement. Once he'd gotten past his nudity taboo he went on ahead and asked Rarity if she could whip him up a pair of swimming trunks for the trip to which she happily accepted on the condition that if anypony asked he'd tell them where he got them.

Now he was hauling apples over at sweet apple acre's helping the Apple family get ready for the summer harvest. Joseph took a minute to catch his breath and looked around at the Apple family hard at work. Applejack was bucking the tree's while Applebloom was catching the apples that fell. Big Mac then took the barrels full of apples and hauled them to the barn doors. Once there Joseph was to take the barrels and haul them into the barn where Granny Smith then sorted the good from the rotten. It was reaching 5 o clock and Mac was hauling up the last of the barrels for the day.

"One more batch and we're done." He shouted hauling the last of the barrels up to the big double doors. Joseph gave the stallion a smirk as he grabbed a barrel and hauled it into the barn.

"Looks like all that time at the gym's paying off." Applejack said as she and Applebloom trotted up to the barn. Joseph chuckled as he hauled out yet another barrel.

"Why Applejack if I didn't know any better I'd say you were flirting with me." He laughed as Applejack snorted and chuckled.

"First rule of courting sonny." Granny Smith came hobbling out the old barn a grin on her muzzle.

"It ain't a compliment it's the truth." She winked at Joseph causing him to blush fiercely and nearly lose his grip on his barrel. He caught it and continued into the barn as the whole Apple family laughed at that one. When he came out Applejack gave him a solid grin.

"Granny's right there Joseph" She giggled as he went to go grab his lunch bag and other article's of clothing he had discarded. He still kept his pant's on. Nudity taboo or no he wasn't going to walk around in the buff in front of little girl's. Even if said girls were of age and they all giggled like mad whenever he blushed or dd something funny.

"I just don't get you ponies sometime's." He shook his head as AJ gave him a slap on the shoulder which unlike last time didn't nearly send him careening into the dirt.

"Don't take it too personally Joe." She used his nickname. He knew she meant well. Whenever she used his nickname she was referring to him as a member of the family. In a way it made him feel like he actually belonged here.

"Beside's I ain't going to try and put the moves on yeah." She chortled as they walked down the path that lead to ponyville proper. Joseph let out a meager laugh of his own.

"Yeah I thought not." He then sighed as the two crossed the fields to the south of town following the winding trail.

"Speaking of the moves," AJ spoke up once more.

"How have thing's been going between my favorite alien sibling and a certain sky blue mare?" AJ smirked as Joseph flushed and shook his head.

"Nothing AJ." He stated causing Applejack to scoff.

"Really?" She raised an eyebrow. He just shrugged his shoulder's.

"I really doubt Rainbow would ever see me that way." He said thinking about his friend.

"Don't think she'd even give me a second thought." He sighed really not wanting to talk about this but knowing that his sister could be as stubborn as the best of them.

"Look AJ I really appreciate what you and the girl's." He said thinking of all the other time's the girls tried to set him up with a mare. Only twice so far but the memories were still embedded in his brain. Not pleasant was a good way of sugar coating it.

"I sense an ass coming along here?" AJ said causing Joseph to laugh out loud casing a few passing ponies to look his way. He got his laughter under control and continued.

"But I just don't think that right now is the time for me to be looking for anyone special right now." He answered causing AJ to roll her eye's and sigh.

"Ok sugar cube but don't go taking to much time to find that special someponie," she stated giving Joseph a nudge in the ribs to which he tussled her main. The two laughed as they continued to walk into town, unaware of a set of prying eye's watching from the shadow's. In a flash of magic, the pony was gone.

Meanwhile in the cloud district of Ponyville.

"Why?" Hotshot asked himself as he flew along the airway to his small one pony home. He landed on his front porch opened his front door, made a beeline for his bed and flopped down upon it and instantly began to sob causing his cloud pillow to soak up his tear's and become dark.

"It just isn't fair!" He hit his pillow causing a discharge of lightning to arch from his pillow to his metal nightstand next to his bed.

"What does that furless ape have that I don't?" He screamed as he reared around and kicked his pillow sending another bolt at his bedside desk. Growling with a primal fury he seized his pillow in his hooves. Imagining it to be the source of his anger and pain he began to pummel it. Soon little wisps of steam began to billow off of it as Hotshot struck it again and again. Soon it was billowing gout's of steam as his hooves were literally engulfed in flame at this point, his eye's long ago turning a deep shade of orange.

With all of his rage spent and down one less pillow to boot, Hotshot let his magic die down, as his eyes went back to there normal sky blue and his hooves no longer shot out gouts of fire.

"You know you can be so much more than this." The voice started Hotshot so bad that he flared his wing's in fright. Whirling around he was startled to see a unicorn in his house.

"Who the hell and what the fuck do you want?" Snarled at his intruder. The pony merely chuckled.

"What I want dear Hotshot is to show you what might have been." The figure's horn lit up and Hotshot's eyes went wide with shock.

"What it this?" He asked as he stepped forward looking at something that should be impossible. It was an image suspended in the air of him and,

"Dash." He said reaching a hoof out to touch the image only to have it pass right through. He snarled as he looked to the unicorn.

"What kind sheep trick is this?" He screamed. The unicorn just chuckled.

"This is no trick. This is what might have been, has been, and could still be." He said sauntering over to Hotshot and whispering into his ear.

"If you can sieze it." He let his words sink in as he slowly began to fade away. Hotshot looked panicked.

"What's that supposed to mean?" He screamed at the fading apparition who simply cast a small spell as he faded from this world.

"GRRAAHH!" Hotshot clutched his head as a dozen images began to flood his head. He screamed as he was bombarded with an overload of new emotion's and feeling's he never knew. Slowly the flood began to trickle down into a soft drip. All the while one memory stuck out amongst the torrent.

"Dash." He wept once more, this time tears of joy. He had been with her once and according to these new memory's there relationship had swelled and overflowed with love and passion.

"If you can size it, then it shall be your's." The voice called out to him. He made up his mind. Wiping the blood from his nose and going to the shower to make himself more presentable he made a vow then and there.

"This will be my reality!" He trotted into his bathroom and slammed the door.