Author's Note

Here's chapter 3 hope you like it and if you don't please tell me why. I didn't know if Equstria had electricity or not since in a few episodes they have electronics like holiday lights and stage lights even a hydro-electric plant as well as in the episode "It isn't the mane thing" you hear a light switch being flipped so I assume they do but i couldn't confirm so I'm going to go with that they do or I can just use the supreme answer to all my question"Magic".

Edit 1 April 11,2018 rewrote some paragraphs after rereading found they were pretty sloppy still have more to do but it's 3 a.m so i'll fix that later today hopefully.

A New Life

Nick had no idea where he was running to but that didn't stop him,he ran until he collapsed on the ground panting, his legs felt like lead and his lungs were on fire. He slowly crawled to a nearby tree using it to get himself up and there he stood leaning against the tree for for support. "How could this happen to me? This had to be some kind of sick, cruel joke right? Why!?" Nick internally shouted to himself, slamming his fist into the tree. "Why!?Why!?Why!?" his internal struggle raging on, each of his questions were responded with the resounding thud of his fist against the tree. Taking his wieght off the tree and looking at it with rage.

Where were his answers, what was he supposed to do!? The tree gave no response to his unsaid questions, he wanted answers, no he demanded answers and he was going to get them. He slammed his fist into the tree still no answers, he punch again and again one blow after another. His assault on the tree raged on as if this tree contained the anwsers to all of his questions, but no answers came. His barrage soon end with him panting heavily, as he leaned on the tree once again to try and catch his breath, tears welling up in his eyes. "What am I supposed? I don't know what to do. Pops what should I do now?" He softly cried, lost on what to do, he was so used to having his grandfather there to give him advice and point him in the right direction if he ever felt lost or was stuck trying to solve a problem but now faced with the most difficult situation of his life, he was all alone.

He tried to imagine what advice he would give him in this situation. "Nico, life is like boxing, no? Each day is like a new opponent, some days are like sparring, simple easy, where others feel like your being punched into a corner with no way out, but either way do you know what you have to do?" Nick shook his head, "You keep your fists up and keep fighting, and if there is no way to win then you go down swinging," He could perfectly picture his grandfather speaking to him with a large smile on his face.

"Alright Pops I'll keep fighting," Nick said to himself.

"Fightin' what?" said a familiar voice scaring the shit out of Nick, he turned to see who was speaking to him, look down to find Applebloom. "Sorry, ah didn't mean to sneak up on you like that, it's just that it was getting late and we got worried about where you may have gone off to so Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and ah went out lookin' for ya. Are you doin' alright now?"

"Ya I think so, knowing I may never see my home again is just a lot to process all at once, "

"Ah bet if you give Twilight some time she'll find a spell that can get you home," she said in an attempt to comfort him.

"You really think so?" he asked, recieving a series of nods from her as his answer. "Alright I'll take your word for it, let's go find your friends then get back so everyone stops worrying," stepping towards Applebloom to begin heading back he noticed she was starring at his hands, curious as to why, he looked down to see he'd cut up his knuckles pretty good. "That's what I get for thinking a tree was a good replacement for a punching bag," he'd need to bandage them later but he'd be fine. "I'm fine," he told Applebloom as she looked up at him with a bit of worry in her eyes.

Walking back to the castle the ran into Sweetie belle and Scootaloo, making sure to keep his hands in his pockets to keep them from worrying. Once they returned they saw Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow dash and Spike waiting for them right outside the castle, along with a pony he hadn't met earlier who was a light pink unicorn whose mane and tail were a few shades of purple with an aquamarine stripe running through it. Approaching the group he smiled sheepishly "Sorry about running off like."

"With everything that you just learned it's more then understandable that you would need a little time to yourself to sort things out, dear," said Rarity.

"ah'd reckon if any of us were in your position we woulda done the same thing," stated Applejack.

"Twilight, you said something about being able to possibly finding a spell to get me home before," Nick recalled from their earlier conversation.

"Yes, it's possible that given enough time Starlight and I could come up with a spell that would work," she confirmed pointing a hoof over to the pink pony with the purple mane, "and until we have a spell that works you are more then welcome stay here in the castle with Starlight, Spike and I,"

"I don't want to intrude in your home like that Twilight,"

"Well I insist, we have plenty of rooms in the castle and besides where else are you going to go?" she asked, she had a point he didn't have anywhere else to stay and as weird as it would be to stay in that castle, it was preferable then sleeping outdoors especially sinse he had no idea how long it would take to come up with a spell that would work, he nodded his head in acceptance having been beaten by logic. "Alright with that all settled, why we all have dinner here at the castle,"

With general acceptance of the idea the group proceeded inside with Nick and Starlight taking the rear of the pack, as the walked she would occasionally glance up to look at him with great interest."I don't think we've been properly intoduced I'm Starlight Glimmer," introducing herself with a friendly smile extending a forehoof towards him.

"Nice to meet you Starlight, I'm Nick," returning the gesture by gentle shaking her raised hoof.

"Twilight and the girls told me what happened and I promise Twilight and I will come up with a spell to get you home as soon as possible," exclaimed Starlight it made Nick feel bad that all these ponies were going out of the way to help him and he'd hardly done anything to deserve it, giving her a smile he nodded his head in thanks. They walked a short while before reaching what he assumed was the main dining, it contained an immense table that could seat twenty comfortably, everyone was taking a seat on the far side near a set of doors on either side of the table, that most likely lead to the kitchen. Spike stood to the side of the table as everyone found a seat, once seated Spike spoke up.

"Does hayburgers and fries sound good to everyone?" Spike asked with the girls giving him their approval.

"Did you you say 'hay' burgers?" Nick asked making sure he heard had correctly.

"Ya, do you not like hayburgers?"

"Humans can't eat hay, we can't digest it," stated Nick.

"Oh, it hadn't occurred to me that humans have different dietary needs. What do humans normally eat? Twilight asked

"Well humans can eat most fruits, vegetables, along with grains, dairy and meat," as he finished speaking he noticed everyone was starring at him apprehensivly. It took him a moment before it dawned on him, ponies don't eat meat and he was in a room with creatures that thought they could potentially be on the menu. "We don't need to eat meat often just occasionally some human go their whole live without it they just find vegatables rich in protien to make up for it,"

"Would a salad instead be alright everypony?" Twilight asked breaking the tension in the air, recieving nods of approval all around and with that Spike was off to go prepare the food.

"So uh Nick tell us a little about yourself seeing as how you'll be spending some time with us here in Ponyville," asked Starlight.

"Uh what would you like to know?"

"Well what did you do for a living?"

"I worked part time in a restuarant as a busboy, as well as a part time author, but mainly I box for a living,"

"Your in the package delivery business well that's uh neat," she said giving a fake smile.

"Starlight I think he means hoofboxing, as in competitive fighting," Rainbow clarified.

"That explains why you took down those timber wolves so easily, you gotta show me your moves some time," Scootaloo asked excitedly slightly bouncing in her seat.

"Oh I'd like to see that too, then maybe we can go a round or two," Rainbow Dash chimed in seaming eager to see what he could do.

"I don't see a reason why I couldn't show you a few moves, just tell me when you have some free time I'm sure we can hang out,"

"What about tomorrow? There's no school since it's saturday and you don't have any have any wonderbolt or weather duties right Dash?" she asked with pleading eyes.

"I've got some paperwork to turn in for the light rain scheduled next week but besides that I'm free," said Rainbow.

"Oh oh you think Sweetie Belle and ah could come along, then we could show him all around ponyville and introduce him to everypony," Applebloom chimed in, Nick wasn't to sure that meeting 'everypony' was a good idea based on how the other ponies were looking at him but if he was going to be here a while it would be for the best, at least just so they knew he wasn't a threat anyways.

A moment latter Spike walked in pushing a cart loaded with everyones food, walking around the table passing out plates and silverware before setting down a plate for himself which had a salad with gems in it, which he promptly took a bit out of, leaving Nick bewildered. "He's eating the most expensive salad I've ever seen," he thought as he reached down to grab his fork which had a strange strap on it, he was about to ask what it was for but saw that all the ponies without horns were straping them to their hooves with his unasked question answered he picked up his fork and began eating, silence falling over the room with everyones mouth's full.

Rarity daintily dabbed he mouth with a napkin before speaking. "Nick darling I couldn't help but notice your ensemble it's practical yet it suits you quite nicely, it gets me thinking about some new designs for a line at my boutique. Who designed it if you don't mind my asking?" she asked politely.

Nick looked down at his cloths he knew his jeans were levi's but he had just picked up his shirt at some clothing store, so he didn't know how to exactly answer that question. "I don't exactly know who designed my cloths," another issue dawned on him as he spoke, he only had one extra set of cloths and then his boxing shorts, he didn't mind doing laundry before but with how often he'd had have to do it now just to have a clean set of cloth to wear he knew he would grow to hate the chore.

"What's wrong dear?" concern in Rarity's voice.

"Oh uh just a small problem you reminded me of depending on how long my stay here will be,"

"Well perhaps we can help,"

"Well unless you know a store that sells human clothes, I'll just have to deal with what it," he answered trying to dismiss her concerns.

"Why you worried about clothes for?" Applejack asked curiously. looking around he noticed that the only ponies wearing any form of clothing were Applebloom with her bow and Applejack with her hat, of course they didn't see his problem.

"Well uh in human society it's seen as inappropriate to uh go outside without clothes and where I'm from it's actually illegal, because of that it's become a social norms so having only two sets of clothes means I'll have to do quite a bit of laundry," he explained.

"You humans sure are strange. Wearing clothes all the time ah couldn't do it," Applejack stated.

"I wished ponies would dress up more often, but your issue with clothing is easily solvable. Once you girls have finished showing him around town stop by my boutique and we'll get some measurements so I can design you a few outfits. Oh this is so exciting I don't often get to design for non-ponies," rarity cheered, clapping her hooves together happily.

"I don't have any way of paying you for them,"

"After what you did for the girls I would never ask payment from you, especially knowing you situation,"

"Well girls I better get going if I want to finish that paperwork to turn in tomorrow," Rainbow Dash said before letting out a large yawn.

"Ah think we should be getting home as well," said Applejack as she checked that Applebloom was ready to go.

"It is getting late, come Sweetie Belle, we need to get home to sketch a few rough drafts of the designs before I forget them," said Rarity as she got up to leave.

Scootaloo stood from her seat before turning to those who remained. "Thanks for the food guys, and thanks again for saving us back there Nick,"

"Anytime Scootaloo but try not to make a habit of it okay," he joked.

"I won't I promise, see ya tomorrow," with that she was off, leave just Twilight, Spike, Starlight and Nick.

"Starlight I'm going to prepare a letter for Starswirl, could you show Nick where he'll be staying while he's here?" Twilight asked, recieving a nod as her confirmation from Starlight as Nick picked up his bag and followed her out of the room. Walking up the main stair case then down the west wing corridor she led him for a few minutes before stopping and entering a door on the left.

"Here we are, the bathroom is three doors down on the right and if you need anything my room is right across the hall," she told him pointing a hoof at her door.

"Thank you Starlight I'll keep that in mind,"

"Well I'm going to go so you can get settled in, sleep tight," with that said she left to her own room. Nick stepped forward into the room shutting the door behind him throwing his bag on the bed, looking around the room was rather large containing a dresser with a night stand on the right of the full-sized bed it was a little short for his hieght but he could make it work if he scrunched up a bit. He sat down next to his bag looking over his hands feeling glad no one noticed the cuts.

"I better cover these up," he thought as he dug through his bag for his gauze roll, once found he got to work tending to his hands before reaching into his pocket for his phone. Turning it on and going through his photos, recalling why each photo was taken. "It's only day one and I'm already getting homesick, I really hope this doesn't take to long," turning it off he set it down on the bedside table, with any luck tomorrow would might be pretty fun.