"Ouch... owww... fuck, did someone get the license plate on the truck that hit me?" Alex growled as he awoke. His head hurt tremendously! It felt like his brain wanted to jump out from every possible side. Wincing in pain, he began scanning his surroundings.

He was in some sort of cellar; there were shelves with bottles filled with unknown liquids on them, a few stacks of hay and a table with two chairs and some poker cards on them. Then he noticed that he could neither move his arms nor that he could get up from the chair he sat on; obviously he had been bound to keep him there.

Alex first thought about how he was gonna get out of the cellar; he could try screaming and calling for help... but out there were the people that had bound him in here in the first place. He tried breaking the ropes he was bound with, but all he did accomplish was getting himself some bleeding scrapes.

"Dammit, what to do, what to do?"

Outside of the cellar there seemed to be kind of a commotion between Twilight, Applejack and the red stallion that had knocked him out. "No Twi, ya can't have that thing, it was found on mah ground and so Ah have ownership and responsibility for it!" Applejack fired accompanied by a supportive "Eeyup".

"Applejack, you don't even know what that thing is, neither where it came from, nor what danger it could bring. It is obvious that I should take care of it and study it thoroughly; what if it could be a danger to all of Equestria?!" Twilight retorted, to which Applejack only laughed.

"Oh yeah, a being that is knocked out with one punch will destroy us all! Sure Twi, sure."

"Could I get a say in that too please!!?!" Alex shouted as loud as he could from the chair; the outside became eerily silent until Applejack spoke up.

"Did the thing jus-" Suddenly the doors flew open and the purple furred mare ran in.

"You can talk?!?" her eyes were as wide as dinner plates as she stared at him. The other two followed her slowly, Applejack with a look of curiosity and disbelief, the red stallion with a look of distrust and slight fear.

"Of course I can, what the heck did you think?!?" Alex shouted, making all of them take a step back.

"How could we have known?! At least Ah have never seen something like ya, neither has my brother or Twi here!"

The red stallion nodded, supporting her.

Twilight stepped forward again and coughed to clear her throat. "Creature, you will show some respect at us; I am Princess Twilight Sparkle, and neither I nor my friends will be disgraced by a being like you!" She tried to sound imposing, which did not really work.

"Oh, and what will you do if I do keep my voice loud?" Alex smirked playfully, not expecting any kind of harm yet. Twilight smirked back.

"Then I will have Big mac hit you, but somewhere where you won't pass out, understood?" The red stallion walked up, but slowly; it was clear by the twitching of his eyes and facial muscles that he was no fan of torture, especially if he was used to enforce it.

"Twi, do ya really think goin that far will be necessary?" Applejack spoke up calmly; she also didn't look interested in torturing someone. "How about Ah do the questionin' and you just wait, kay?" Twilight sighed but nodded and sat down on one of the chairs. "Now, what are ya? Ah mean you clearly can talk, but Ah have never seen anything like ya before."

Alex sighed. "Oh boy, this is gonna be a long day. First of all I am a human and..."

With that he spent the next two hours in a game of questions and answers: where he came from, what he was in depth, if he wanted to harm anyone and all that stuff, to which he answers as honestly as he could.

"Okay, now for a few more. uh, personal questions: what is yer name?" She asked, taking her hat off and letting her ponytail fall over her shoulder.

"My name is Alex Terris," He answered honestly. "Anything else?"

"Well... how old are ya, what are your strengths, are you in the age of your race that allows you to have sex and did you have a partner on your home world?"

Alex just stared at her before shaking his head and answering. "22, my strengths are probably my sarcasm, my ability to drink everyone under the table and that I have a good work ethic. For the third and fourth question I wanna ask, why do you care about that, and why the heck should I tell you?"

Twilight looked at Applejack with a mix of disgust and interest. "You don't plan on using him for what I think you will, right? Don't forget that he needs to be with me for a while, I need to make sure that he's not a danger and that he knows his place."

Applejack looked back at her and frowned. "Oh yeah, Twi, do you think we are so incompetent that we can't keep such a creature under wraps? Also, your style of making sure someone knows their place usually leads to them being a broken pony, like Spike for example. A month ago he was a jovial guy, being friendly and all but now he fears us ponies all the time, so please don't be mad if Ah tell you to buck off and let me handle this. He was found on mah farm so he is mah responsibility!"

Twilight looked quite baffled by that retort as she growled slightly, but in the end nodded. "Fine then, but I will visit from time to time to make sure he behaves accordingly. I will also have to inform the Princesses, they would want to know about this after all." She added as she stood up and looked at Alex, her glare cold as ice. "If you hurt my friends in any kind of way I will make your life a living hell." With that she turned and left the cellar, the other two letting out a small sigh.

Then Applejack turned to Alex, looking much calmer now. "If Ah free ya now, will ya please not try to run or attack us? It won't be good for you."

Alex nodded in return. "Yeah, don't worry, I wont try to hurt anyone or run, especially since I have a good chance to run into Twilight again."

Applejack nodded and got behind him and freed him from the ropes. "Sorry for the hit Big Mac gave ya by the way, we just thought you were a threat. " Big Mac still looked scared, like Alex would jump him right this instant.

"Also, sorry but ya will have to keep up a little act if ya want to live safely here, without any of the town ponies treating ya worse than they do to Spike at the moment, which is bad enough as it is. That's why Ah asked you those personal questions." She trotted in front of him and looked at Alex with earnest eyes.

Alex tilted his head to the side. "What do you mean? Why would my sexual age and me having a partner before be of any benefit here? By the way, what's going on here?"

The blonde maned mare gave a chuckle. "Ah guess you do deserve a real explanation, but please don't expect scholarship stuff from me, Ah only know what Ah know kay?" He nodded and listened. "Good, ya see our country Equestria, is build on the values of friendship, kindness, equality and tolerance... at least among ourselves. We also have a sorta peace with most other nations, but it's very clear that's only possible because our princesses are godlike beings in terms of power. In any case, since we also don't have many visitors in our neck of tha woods we became xenopha- oh whats the word Ah am searchin for? It's one of those fancy-shmancy words which in short means that you fear and don't like people from outside that are different than you. But over tha years our kind became more and more hostile and aggressive towards folk who are different from us, and now we really can't stand em, most of us at least. The things Ah saw ponies do to some poor changelings or dragons... love and tolerance my flank. Top that off with how screwed the birth ratios from fillies and colts are and yah have a matriarchy on steroids."

She chuckled as she continued. "Ah mean, ya saw how Twilight acted, how she treats the little guy for example, if he messes up, she gives him something to cry about. It is really not easy to look at."

Alex nodded, however a very clear question formed in his head. "Then why do you act so differently, I mean you are part of this community and country, why don't you just act like them?"

Applejack smiled in a friendly manner. "That, sugarcube, is because Ah am a merchant and so are most of mah family, we travel a lot and to many places even outside of Equestria, so we learned that things are not in the slightest how ponykind see em, at least with most races; some really are bad, but those are rare."

Alex thought over everything he just heard, pondering it all in his head, about what it meant for him. Basically he was now a rare kind of a second class citizen to most of these candy colored equines. Plus at least one of them would not hesitate to use violence against him. The cards were badly stacked against him; but there were also others that were treated the same, that was just wrong.

But what could he do about it?

Applejack spoke up, gaining his interest back from his thoughts. "Now as for why the sexual age and all that... ya won't like that but... Ah will claim ya as my property, or rather property of the Apple Family, to keep ya safe. Ya will work with and for us, but don't worry, we won't harm ya. Now please answer the question so Ah can tell you clearly why I wanted to know."

Alex sighed before answering while blushing. "Y-y-yes; I'm 22, for a human that means I am more than able to have... intercourse and no... I never had anyone where I came from. I was always too fed up with work and problem to ever develop any kinds of feelings or even get to know anyone. Why?"

"Well... to get the town to like and fully accept ya, Ah fear you will have to learn pony customs and all that, plus some of the looks ya will earn probably... ya will be uncomfortable with, Ah mean you are like a more naked version of a minotaur, so ya will get some looks. And ponies will... expect me to exploit that... sadly... but it will make them like ya and... well... Ah'm sorry sugarcube."

Alex stared at her with the utmost disbelief and a new kind of fear he never knew he could feel. "You are saying that you are going to sell my body for... that?! No, you... I... how..."

"Ah know, ah know, it is horrible, Ah admit to that, but it has to be! Also, you'll get all the bits Ah would have made off of ya, that's fair enough, also, maybe soon after ponies will call for ya to get freed or choose who ya want to be with at least, then you maybe could have ya own herd and....." she was trying to save the situation as she felt like he was about to break down.

"Stop it, stop... just stop... I don't know... what to think anymore, I-I am still a... I have never been with anyone and you want to throw me at someone random??!" He was shaking in his boots as he imagined it, his mind screaming at him to abort the situation at all costs.

"N-no sugarcube, Ah would never give you to anyone that would be bad for ya, Ah would never do that, also Ah think too that you should need some days to think everything through, so Ah will give ya some time. " She gave him a soft but extremely nervous smile.

"O-o-okay... I will think about it, first I just want to work here and... also get some sleep, just please, I need some rest after all of that. This was quite the day." Alex looked dead tired, slouched in the chair.

She nodded and pointed at one of the hay stacks, on it was a pillow and blanket draped on it. "Ah had Big Mac have this prepared when he brought ya down here, go get some good rest and if yer too cold, just ask Big Mac or me to give ya some more blankets, alright?" The red stallion nodded at the mentioning of his name.

Alex nodded and got over to the stack and layed down on it as the two left the cellar. "Have a good rest sugarcube, see ya tomorrow." Spoke the country mare as she closed the door behind her. Slowly but surely the blonde haired man's eyes shut and he was swept away by sleep, for now away from all the new problems he would have to face.

Author's Note

Welp, thats chapter two, and the more i write the more horrible i think i become, please for the love of Luna, i need a proof reader or how it is called, anyone up for grabs?

Have a nice day everyone!!