Having had seen his life flash before his eyes twice in the last two days Nick assumed that his mind had instead decided to just stretch out this moment in time to spice it up, not having none of that, he closed his eyes and waited for the cannonballs to come hurling into him, suddenly he felt something only it wasn't the crushing wieght of an iron ball no this was the light and small and it tickled his nose. He slowly opened eyes to his see what was tickling his face, he was greeted with the sight of multitude of various colored confetti in air. Before he could register what was going on Nick felt a wieght on his shoulder, turning his head to the right he was eye to eye with the pink pony from the bakery, her hooves on her his shoulder as she hung on to him.

"Welcome to Ponyville!" Pinkie shouted right into his face with the biggest grin on her face that he had ever seen, he starred back at her bewildered as to what was happening.

"I told you taking him to go see Pinkie was the best way for him to meet everypony," he heard Scootaloo say as he gentle pried the pink mare off of him, setting her on the ground. Nick cautiously looked around at the ponies around him nervously smiling before waving a hand at the group of ponies in front of him. "This way we won't have to keep repeating the same thing over and over agains to everypony all over town,"

"Follow us Nick we're goona introduce ya tah everypony," Applebloom said leading the way while Sweetie Belle used her magic to pull him along by the hem of his shirt, he soon found himself surrounded in a sea of waist high ponies all of who were either staring at him with various looks, asking him questions or introducing themselves as he was dragged through the crowd. He barely had time to reply back before another pony would speak, it was a lot to take in at the time but it was great finding out how friendly everyone was although a few still were nervous of him and would shy away as he approached.

Eventually the girls had introduced him to everyone willing to speak to him and he found himself at one of the various tables scattered around the room sitting with Twilight, Starlight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and their sisters along with Pinkie Pie, Spike and a light yellow pegasus with a long pink mane and tail whose name was Fluttershy and just like her name would have you think she was quite timid and quiet spoken, they were currently trading questions back and forth in an attempt to get to know each other.

"So there are three types of ponies earth, pegasi, unicorn, and a special type called alicorns which is a combonation of the three of which there are only five. Earth ponies have an innate magic that allows them to grow plants as well as having large amounts of strength, pegasi can fly and control the weather, and unicorn can use magic and cast spells, am I missing anything so far?" Nick asked trying to comprehend the answer to his latest question.

"Not so far," said Twilight.

"Not only do alicorn possess the abilities the three other races but they're all princesses, Celestia is the princess of the sun, her sister Luna rules over the moon and they both can literally control their respective symbol. Then there is your sister in law Cadance who is the princess of love and rules the crystal empire with your brother Shining Armor and their daughter Flurry Heart is also an alicorn and she's the princess of?"

"She not the princess of anything yet she's only just turned eight a few months ago,"

"Makes sense that might be a little to much responsability for a kid, and lastly there is you and you're the princess of friendship but why are the royalty all princesses except for your brother who's a prince?"

"It's most likely do to the ratio of mares to stallions being four to one,"

"Four to one really? That must make finding a husband pretty difficult...that is if you're not interested in other wo..mares,"

"It's why we have herds although it can still be a bit difficult to join a herd,"

"what do you mean by herd?"

"A group of ponies consisting of a stallion and three to four mares. Do you not have herds where you're from or is just called something different?"

"No we don't its actually frowned upon by most people to be in a romantic relationship with more than one person at a time, but then again or male to female ratio is about even fifty-fifty where I'm from. Well this conversation is getting weird. Mind if we switch topics, was there anything you guys wanted to know about where I'm from?"

"You briefly mentioned something called the internet what is that exactly?"

"You have the wrong guy when it comes to explaining what the world wide web is but I'll try," Fluttershy seemed to perk up at the word web for some reason.

"You must have rather large spiders if you have a web all across your world," she said barely above a whisper.

"The internet isn't an actual web it's just another way to describe it, the internet is like the worlds largest library, you can find anything you'd ever want to know about in the blink of an eye, although I mainly used it to watch silly videos and talk to my friends. That reminds me I was wondering if I could get a picture of all of you for when I get back, because no one's gonna believe what happened to me once I do," the girls took a quick look between each nodding in agreement.

"Spike could you go get the camara I'm pretty sure I put it in my study?"

"That alright I have my own," as he pulled out his phone and began switching it on the girls starred in wonder at the little device, he stood up and backed away from the table "Alright I have it all set up, now give me a big smile," and with a flash it was over, quickly saving it in his phone.

"Oh I do hope my mane looked alright. The last thing I want is for you to go around showing ponies a picture of me with a disheveled mane," Rarity said as she fixed her already perfect mane.

"Rarity the last thing anypony he shows that to is going tah notice is what yer mane looks like," Applejack ribbed.

"You all looked perfect thanks for the picture, I still can't believe this is happening though. I should still be freaking out about all this but uh I think I took to many hits to the head in my life which is probably why my brain isn't working properly but It did get me thinking, how are you guys taking this so easily?" Nick questioned.

"Oh that's because we have seen way stranger things around ponyville, like the time we defeated Nightmare Moon, then stopped Discord from turning the world into complete chaos or when we stopped Tirek from taking all the magic in equestria or when we rescued a pony named Stygian from the Shadow," Pinkie Pie emphasized 'shadow' by waving her hooves around, "and then we saved equestria the storm king. So we've seen a bunch of wierd stuff, it's great to finally have it be somepony nice for a change,"

As their conversation continued on a few ponies would come up to ask Nick a few questions about where he's from, or if he had any hobbies. Questions one would ask to try to get to know someone, that is until a mint green unicorn with an equally mint green and white mane approached him.

"Hi I'm Lyra, Lyra heartstrings I was wondering are you really a human?" She asked.

"Uuuh yeah," he replied. She let out a squeal of joy and started to dance about excitedly at his response, Nick was thoroughly confused by this reaction. How was he being human of any reason to be excited about he had no idea.

"Cou..could I perhaps take a look at your hands?"

"You want to look at my hands?" she nodded her head excitedly, he turned and gave a questioning look to the girls and spike who just gave him a shrug, "Sure I don't see why not," he slowly stretched his arms down to her palms faced up, she enveloped his hands in her magic and began careful inspecting them before running her hooves across his palm.

"Wow they're so smooth and soft," those weren't the word I would have used but that's one way to describe them nick thought to himself as she continued to feel his hands. "So what all do you use your hands for?" she asked as she covered her face with one of his hand cause him to giggle at her goofy antics, pulling his hand off her face he began scratching behind one of her ears causing her to hum happily.

"Well I use them for pretty much everything I do which is why I have to wash them so often. Why the interest in my hands if you don't mind my asking?"

"Please don't get her started?" asked a voice to nick's right. He looked over spotting a beige earth pony with a blue mane that had a pink streak running down the center.

"But Bonny, it's a human a real live human, he has hands and everything," lyra whinned.

"I know your excited but we have to get going I still have candies to prepare for tomorrow and you have rehearsal in the morning. I'm sure he'll still be here tomorrow," bonny said turning her head towards Nick.

"Unless Twilight and Starlight figure out a way to get me home in the next twenty-four hours most I'll most likely still be here, I'm sure we can hang out for a while if you'd like,"

"Are you for real?" he gave her a quick nod she got up and trotted over to bonny "Come on bonny the sooner we get home the sooner tomorrow comes," bonny rolled her eyes and followed after her friend, Nick wasn't sure what was so exciting about him it was probably the whole he's an alien thing, he was pretty sure the whole novelty of it would fall off quickly, at least he had a way to distract himself while he waited for them to find him a way home.

The party started to wind down after that, ponies would approach and say goodbye to Twilight and the girls while giving Nick a final welcome to Ponyville before heading home for the night until the only ones left were Spike, the girls and himself, each pitching in to clean up after the party before going back to their homes. Nick followed Starlight back through the castle so he wouldn't get lost again, as amazing as the architecture was he didn't feel like admiring it all night long in a futile attempt to navigate the castle.

Once back in the room he was given, he sat on the edge of his bed trying to think over everything that happened in the last fifty plus hours, he'd been transported to a new world/universe, fought off wolves, meet magic multicolored ponies, been told that he could potentially never go home again, had a panic attack which was literally one of top ten worst experiences of his life, was then given hope again that he may see his home again, and the magic talking pastel ponies threw him a welcome party. Man did he have a weird story to tell when he got home.

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The days went by quickly after that, his outting with lyra was fun even though she asked a lot of questions some a little more personal then he was comfortable with along with her slightly invading his personal space a bit much but from his observasion of the ponies he learned that was just how they were, the rest of his days were mainly spent in the castle helping where he could be it with any question he had to answer that would help with the spell, reading or he even helped Spike clean up the castle since he was staying there he may as well help out in some way, he was extremly grateful for the clothes that rarity had made for him for his time here and was suprised by not only how quickly she had made clothes for somone who wasn't a ponies but be how well made they were. But he still couldn't keep his mind off home it had been eight days and it seemed like Twilight and Starlight weren't any closer to finding him a way home.

He couldn't get mad with him if he had asked anyone back home to find a way to transport him to a different universe they would just laugh at him and call him crazy, at least here he had a chance and so he sat at the steps of the castle looking through the pictures on his phone of his family and friends in attempt to stave of his homesickness but only succeeding in making it worse and to top it off his phone was sitting at eight percent, he really hope that equestrian electricity was like what he had back home.

"Are those your friends?" asked a kind voice from behind him, looking over his shoulder he spotted Starlight curiously looking at the picture on his phone. It was a picture of him and his buddies back at the gym when he finally went pro, he was in the middle holding up his boxing license while his friend were beside him congratulating him with his grandfather in the back smiling proundly that was about two years ago man did time fly.

"Yeah, it was taken when I got my boxing license. My friends said that was the day I officially became a member of our gym, that there is Joe our gyms resident heavyweight slugger," he said pointing to a tall, bulky man with short spiky blond hair. "He doesn't box to fancy but if he does land a punch you were in for a world of hurt, and Trevon here could dance circles around any one in the ring, he got into boxing two years before I did and since he was about my age at the time we spent most our time together," he informed her pointing to a lithe figured guy with his hair braided in cornrows.

"Who's the older one in the back?"

"That there is my grandfather, he was the one who got me into boxing at a young age and is responsible for teaching me almost everything I know about the sport. I owe him more then I could ever repay for what he's taught me,"

"You miss them a lot don't you?" Nick gave her a small nod as his answer, turning of his phone he stood dusting off his pants before turning to face her.

"So I'm going to guess there was a reason you came looking for me?"

"That is correct, Twilight and I may have found a solution to getting you home," once he heard this Nick felt a rush of pure joy course through his body and before he knew it had wrapped his arms around starlight, nearly lifting her off the ground with his embrace.

"Hey..Nick..I..can't brea.." he quickly let her go and apolagized, taking a step back as he calmed down from hearing such good news, he waited for her tocatch her breathe before he spoke.

"So how soon till I get to go back?"

"Well you see we were trying to figure out how to locate your world and we came up with a solution all we would need is for you to think about a familar location from your home and we would use that as a locater, which is easy enough as long as the memory has strong emotional ties to you. The problem is with how much power a spell of that scale would take we would have to craft a catalyst to store enough magic to preform such a spell,"

"And how long would it take to make a 'catalyst' and store enough power to cast this spell?" he asked nervously.

"Umm sixteen to eighteen..."

"Days?"

"Months," Starlight said sheepishly.

Nick began running his hands through his hair as he took in this information, he wouldn't be able to get home for almost a year and a half at the least. What would his family and friends think they were porbably already worried as hell with him gone for this long, if was gone for another sixteen month and they would think he died or he'd run away without a word.

"Okay...yep..alright, so what am I supposed to do for the next year and a half?" he asked her trying to avoid having another panic attack.

"You could try taking it a day at a time and before you know it you'll be back home," she advised looking up into his panicing eyes.

"Hey, would you like to go for a walk around town with me? I think a walk would help calm me down and I would prefer to have someone nearby to stop me from having a complete mental breakdown in the middle of town," she gave a nod of her head as an answer and the two set off on their walk to help him come to terms with his current predicament.

Author's Note

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