Author's Note

This is my first story to see the light of day ever, so right now I'm just testing the waters per say. If you guys want more let know in the comments.

Dimentional Obital Drop Psyker

“Are you sure you don’t want to wear the cosplay that we picked for you?” my brother Sam asked holding a complete set of Warhammer 40k Commissar clothing including chain sword and bolt pistol.

“Nah, I’m fine.” I said shaking my head. “Someone needs to drive you and your girlfriend home when you get loaded up on alcohol and souvenirs, plus neither of you have a car yet.” commenting with a sly smirk.

“Hey, at least I have a girlfriend who likes 40k just as much as I do, so chill, also Sarah and I are just a grand away from getting a minivan anyway. Anyway we’re getting off topic, are you really going to just wear a FFDP(Five-Finger-Death-Punch) t-shirt, blue jeans, and your work boots?” he asks, a little peeved.

“Yes, I don't have to wear a cosplay to go to Wizard World. All I’m going to be doing is buying a couple of souvenirs and I don't have to dress up to do that.” I respond holding the bridge of my nose.

“But where’s the fun in that?”

“I’m just not feeling it this con bro. Tell you what, I’ll let you pick my cosplay for the next Wiz World, deal?” I say offering a hand.

“Deal.” Sam shakes reluctantly.

“Come on get ready and let's head to the car, Sarah is probably wondering why we’re taking so long, and we both know how she is when she gets annoyed.” I say as a shiver goes down my spine.

“Agreed.” my brother responds quickly.

Sam and Sarah decided to cosplay as Eldar this year. Sam is a Harlequin Troupe Master wielding a powerblade and shuriken pistol, and Sarah is a Eldar Warlock of the Craftworld Ulthwe wielding a singing spear and a fusion pistol. I still don’t know how both of them and their weapons were able to fit in my car. As we go down the highway into Portland I can already see the two lovebirds in the back seats getting nervous.

“Antonio?”

“Yes Sarah?”

“Do you think other people will like our costumes?” just for her voice I can tell she’s nervous.

“I don’t see why they wouldn’t, you both put a lot of time, effort, and research into both of your costumes. For what I can tell, both of them are very accurate to the lore of the 40k, but I can’t say there would be a couple of assholes that will nitpick and heavily critec your work once you’re on the show floor.” I respond trying to lift her spirits. “Also stick together, you two are a couple after all.” I comment as I pull up to the front entrance.

“And Sarah.”

“Yeah?”

“Make sure Sam doesn’t buy anything too big that can’t fit in my car, please?” staring holes into my brother remembering last year.

“Fuck off!” Sam responds.

“Oh Sam one more thing.”

“Ugh, what now ‘mother’.” I can feel the eye roll behind that mask of his.

“Here, have my spare car key just in case something happens.” I threw the key through the open window.

“Got it, anything else?”

“Just text me when you’re ready to leave, later.” Closing the car window and driving off, I now need to find a parking spot.

One Hour Later…..

Fuck that was annoying, note for next year, get here earlier. As I walk into the entrance lobby of the convention center I text Sam the location of the car. Now the time I have been waiting for, time to browse the stalls and see what they have in stock this year. After a while of browsing and buying, I notice a stall in the corner. No one seems to see it even if someone passes right by it. I shrug my shoulders and decide to see what this mysterious stall has to offer. Walking to the front I see that no one is there at the moment, so I just look around to see that this mysterious stall has just about everything a nerd could think of. Ioun stones, engraved swords, the Infinity Gauntlet, Frostmourne, Eldar power swords, a Staff of Power, and even a human sized version of the Emperor's sword, just name a few. All I can do at this moment is stare with my mouth hanging open.

“You’re going to catch flies if your mouth stays open like that.”

“AH, jeez dude, don’t sneak up on someone like. I wouldn’t be surprised if you give them a heart attack.” I say wheezing and clenching my chest.

“Terrible sorry dear customer, but from the look on your face earlier I can assume that my wears interest you?”

After catching my breath I finally got a good look at the stall owner. The Merchant from Resident Evil 4, he is an exact look alike to the Merchant. I look at him funny for a moment but I answer his question.

“Yes, your items interest me greatly and I do intend to buy something, but before I do I have to ask, is there a special deal that is going on too like the other stalls?” I ask as I think of something to buy.

“There is a special deal that I can offer, dear customer. If you buy an item of more than $500 then you get a spin at my roulette wheel for extra goodies.” walking over to a wheel with numbers and colors.

“Ok I can do that.” I reply with a nod. I scan the stall with a more focused look than before, and then I spot a curtain staff in the back, the staff of Malcador the Sigillite. “Is the staff of Malcador in the back for sale?” I ask, hoping it was.

“Ah yes Malcador’s staff, it is for sale with a tag of $750, what say you?”

“Sold.” I respond with a fist full of bills. The Merchant chuckles a little and continues,

“Excellent, now come with me so you can spin the wheel.” I walk with him to the wheel and I now see it has a range of 1-100 on it.

“So just spin it?”

“Just spin it.”

I shrug and give the wheel a good spin. It eventually slows down and lands on 72, “So what now?” I ask. The Merchant holds up a finger, pulls a small booklet from his cloak, reads through it and then pulls out a hand held spinner with 1-8.

“Now spin this.” handing me the spinner.

I shug again, flicking the spinner and it lands on 8. “So what does this mean?” I ask, wondering what the extra spinner was for.

He hands me my new staff and states, “Now I get to send you off.” As he snaps his fingers, I no longer feel the ground below my feet.

I look down, see a hole of nothing but darkness, look back at and say with a defeated look, “Fuck.” Then nothing but blackness.

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Ok let's do a mental check-list of everything that happened so far so I can calm the fuck down. I went to Wiz World with my brother and his girlfriend, check, I went around the stalls and bought some goodies, check, I then found a stall in the corner of the convention center, check, bought Malcador the Sigillite's staff from the Merchant from Resident Evil 4, check, then a hole in the ground opened up and I got sucked into a void of blackness, check. Now that I calmed down a bit, let's try to figure out how I'm going to get out of here.

*BONK*

"Ow." I groan out while holding my forehead. Why is there metal in the void? I start feeling around at arm's length. “Ok, so I’m in some sort of metal box and I can feel some buttons on the side panels. Lets see if one of these is a lights switch.” After a while of feeling around and clicking random buttons, I hear the hum of a motor moving something. In front of me, of what I can now see as thick glass, a gaia planet with a moon and a sun that is way too close to the planet. To top off the amazing view and giddiness of being in space, the stars are so crystal clear from where I am. "Wow, this moment will be hard to top if I survive my current situation."

*Old Spice Jingle plays*

"............Wait what, I still have my phone?" Sure enough, in my pockets is my phone, earbuds, and wallet. “So I got one new text from…...the Merchant…...in space. Nopenopenopenope, logic won’t work in this situation, might as well just roll with it. Now let’s see what this guy has to say.”

Dear Loyal Customer,

Thank you for your recent purchase of one staff of Malcador the Sigillite at my stall. For your purchase you got to spin my roulette wheel of a random prize. The prize you have received is a Level 8 Regenerative Healing Factor, simply put, you can never die no matter how much your body is destroyed. You have also received the psyker level Alpha plus for buying the staff, you’ll have about 6 months worth of time to train yourself before arriving at your destination. So I suggest you start now so you don’t kill the entire planet by accident with your new psyker powers. You are currently in an ODST Drop-pod from the Halo universe that has been outfitted to survive the emptiness of space and orbital reentry, among other things. That is all for now, I’ll text you again when you land. Have Fun!

“Well this is going to definitely cause some problems in future.” I said with a sigh. “Either way I need to train, plus I have 6 months to kill to get at least some understanding of my psyker powers. Wait where am I going to train myself?”

*Old Spice Jingle plays*

“I’m getting the feeling the Merchant is going to explain what I need to do.” I said while looking at the new text.

Top right panel, press the big green button, to get out press the big red button.

I raise my eyebrow at this but I still look for the button he mentions. “......Now I feel silly.” How did I miss a green button with the words ‘Training Room’ on it. I facepalm myself, and I push the button. Then in less than 10 seconds, I feel like my insides did several somersaults, pop into a very white dimensional plain, fall onto my hands and knees and lose all the contents in my stomach. *cough* *cough* *cough* “uuuggghhh” *spits* “Ffffuuuucccckkkk, is teleportation going to feel like that every time I do it?” I say while rolling on my back. “Damn I feel like shit……...and it’s gone. Guess this healing factor of mine works really well.” Getting back onto my feet, I start looking around and see a bed, a fridge, an outhouse,a nightstand with a digital clock on it, and a calendar. Everywhere else I looked was just flat and white, and went in every direction as far as the eye can see. “Well at least I got every basic necessity.” I then notice a small card on the nightstand. “Time in this dimension is sped up, 1 day in real space is 10 days in here. By the time you reach your destination, 5 years will have passed in this dimension. Sincerely, The Merchant.” I read aloud. “That’s good to know, now on to my training. Since I have no idea how to use psyker powers, there will be a lot of trial-and-error on my part.…….TIME FOR THE PAIN TRAIN!!!

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6 Months Later (Real Space)

With a loud pop I reappear back into the drop-pod and see I’m just about to enter the atmosphere of this gaia planet. “5 years of an absolute nightmarish pain-filled hell, but it was worth it.” In those 5 years, I exploded 15 times, disintegrated myself 32 times, blew up one/both of my arms 52+ times, ripped my entire body apart atom by atom at least 10 times, and to top it all off, I melted my brain from the inside 82 times just by trying to activate my powers. I got my psyker powers under control and found out what unique form it took, blue flames. I can throw fireballs, create a constant stream of flames from my hands, absorb the flames I throw out(don’t know if I can do that with other flames, will try later), create a wall of flames, teleport short distances, can cover myself in flames, give myself a pair of wings made of flames, and I have a passive ability that can block/destroy any ranged attacks(think Garaa’s sand from Naruto). There is probably more that I can do but I need to figure out how to do them. Also as a reward for going through 5 years of hellish training, the Merchant sent me some Imperial psyker robes, and a semi-automatic 10-round mag bolter pistol with a regenerative ammo enchantment.

It appears to be night time as the pod starts to shake violently upon entering the atmosphere and the outer plates heats up like a furnace. I have to hold onto both handlebars on both sides of the pod just to keep myself from being thrown around like a rag doll. “If someone didn’t hear upon reentry, they definitely see me now!” I scream at the top of my lungs. Didn’t take before the pod hit the ground with a loud thud, a second later 4 green lights appeared around the hatch door. After activating the explosive bolts, the hatch goes flying off with a loud bang. “Finally, now where the fuck am I?” I ask no-one while looking around the impact site. “......Dark spooky forest…..nice, well might as grab what I can and start walking in a random direction.” Heading back to the pod I grab Malca- my staff, a basic medkit, and a combat knife. As soon as I grab my staff, flames begin to come out of the top of the staff like the pictures I’ve seen online. “I wonder if I can turn the flames off?” *wooshp-* “Hmmm, guess I have to ‘will’ the flames to be on or off with my psyker powers.” *Ba-woosh* With the flames back on lighting the way I begin walking deeper into the forest.

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6 Hours Later

“WHAT KIND OF FOREST DID I GET DROPPED IN???!!!” I scream after fighting the last of these wolves made out of timber. “Ugh, first it was a manticore, then a pint sized version of a cockatrise, now a pack of wolves that I’m going out on a limb and guess they’re called timberwolves.” I pinch the bridge of my nose trying to gather my thoughts. “So I’m in a world where mythical beasts are real.” I point on look up to the moon “and the moon hasn’t…..moved….at…..all?” As the moon is lowering behind the treeline in a fluid motion, the sun is rising up to replace the moon in an equally fluid motion. I just stood there for what felt like hours before I moved again. Turning on my heels, I start walking again while looking down on the ground trying to comprehend what I just saw. “.......What kind of loopy land did I just land on, haven’t been here a day and shit” pointing to the sun “like that is happening!” “ARRG!!” In a fit of rage I turn around and walk face first into what felt like a rock. “ow” Backing up and looking at what I walked into I realised it wasn’t just any rock it was a statue of what looks like an ancient human holding a spear and shield in a defensive position. “Woah, so there are humans here or I should say ‘was’ judging by how weathered this statue is.” Just behind the statue I notice a clearing behind some trees and shrubs. Walking into the clearing I see something I didn’t expect to see on this planet, an Aztec temple. The big difference between this one and the one in Mexico is that this one is about 3 times as big and in a quarry that is several hundred feet deep. The top of the temple just passes the top of the quarry. Looking around the top of the quarry, I spot a stone path that serpentines down to the base of the temple. About half way down the path I notice a flight of stairs going up to a massive stone door with 4 stone pillars in front. Upon getting to the top of the stairs I see that the door, pillars, and the stone floor have carvings on them, the carvings themselves I don’t recognize from Earth. As I walk to the center of the floor circle carvings the ground starts to rumble and I can hear ancient machines begin to move. Upon hearing the sound of stone moving against each other, I turned my head to see a small circle in the floor open up and a stone pedestal with a half ball made of some sort of crystal on top. Curious, I decided to inspect the half ball made of crystal, only to find that there is a small hole at the top. Unsure what to do next so I looked around at the carvings for a clue. After about 30 minutes of searching, I think I found a clue on one of the stone pillars. The carving depicts a bipedal creature, I’m guessing a human, putting one of its hands on the half crystal ball with the stone doors open. Confident in my theory I decided to test it out, the moment I place my hand on the crystal a spike shoots up through the palm of my hand. “*Sigh* goddamnit that hurts.” Before I could do anything, the pedestal and circle carvings on the ground began to glow. Once the glowing stopped the circle carving separated in three parts and began to rotate around me quickly until they each stopped with a stony click. Then the massive stone door started to rumble and open inwards. Once the doors came to a booming stop, the spike in my hand retracted and the pedestal went back into the ground. “Again ow, and was blood really necessary to open a door?”

All that was in front of me was pitch black darkness when the doors opened. “Well curiosity kills the cat…...unless that cat was immortal, plus who wouldn’t want to explore an ancient temple. Heh, my brother and Sarah would pay in blood to be in my place right now, those crazy bastards volunteered for an expedition that was going to map out the Catacombs of Paris even further…...as a honeymoon trip. I miss those two, hope they’re doing ok without me. Welp, no time like the present, time to explore!” As I walk through the front entrance, the doors begin to close on me. Once closed they sealed themselves shut and I’m left in the darkness for a few seconds before I heard a whooshing sound somewhere further inside the temple. Slowly I see bowls hanging from the walls igniting themselves with flames illuminating my path, a hallway that was easily 30 ft wide and 10 ft tall. With the lights on, I saw two giant statues that were easily 30 ft tall depicting soldiers with spear and shield standing guard facing each other. As I passed them I got a gut feeling that the statues were somehow watching me, when I got a certain distance away from them the feeling subsited. Before I was able to enter the hallway the fire bowls lit up from, the sight of a piece of the wall pulled itself in and slid to the side. “Hmmm, I get the feeling that I’m wanted to go that way.” Stepping into the secret hallway the piece of the wall closes behind me, as torches along the wall ignite themselves lighting my path. But that wasn’t the only thing that I saw when the lights came on, mural painting of the ancient humans that lived here. The painting depicted things like farming, war, the government, celebrations, hunting parties, slaying beasts, and exploration. Out of all the murals on the walls, four that were very specific caught my eye. One looked like the humans getting into spaceships to leave this planet. The second one showed the, I’m guessing, leaders of the zebras, dragons, and minotaurs, bowing their heads to the human king. The third mural really unnerves me, a human army fighting the symbol of Malice the Chaos God of Anarchy. The fourth and final one, showed a human and an anthropomorphic horse with a unicorn horn and wings teaming up to cast the symbol of Malice back into the warp, or at least I think it's the warp.

*BA-BOOM*

“That doesn’t sound good, I should get out of here before whatever made that explosion finds me.” So I ran down the rest of the hallway to an open area that looked like it was untouched by time. There was a very thick tall tree in the middle of the area surrounded by grass, flowers, and even a stream was passing through the middle of the tree’s roots.

*KA-BOOM*

“Well that ruined the moment and the explosion sounded closer this time, maybe I should get out of here.” Looking for an exit I step up towards the tree and surprisingly a hole forms from the tree and a ring is revealed floating at its center. “Da fuck….” Taking a closer look at the ring shows me that it's very detailed in design with its mixture of green and blue stones. “This ring reminds me of a dimensional storage ring from one of those webtoon comics involving martial arts.” When I put the ring a flood of info went into my brain all at once.

Gold Coins: 8,683,738,930
Gold Bars: 23,536
Weapons v
Clothing v
Textiles v
Books v
Scrolls v

*KRACK-BOOM*

Before the list of items could finish, the stone door that led to the massive hallway exploded sending debris and smoke everywhere. Thinking quickly, I put my staff into the ring, used the smoke as cover and quickly went behind the tree and climbed into its branches to hide. As the smoke began to clear I could make out several figures walking out of the smoke. ‘Anthropomorphic horses…..what the actual fuck.’ The presumed leader of this group walked out of the smoke looking like a Indiana Jones villian ripoff, about 6’ tall, light green eyes, wearing tan archaeology clothing, a red ascot tie with white polka dots, light brown fur, a black mane with gray streaks, and 5 o’clock shadow.

Speaking in a very distinctive Spanish accent, “Spread out and search this place, I want that treasure found now! And bring her to me!”

As this ripoff’s goons scatter I hear struggling coming from the hole, “Let go of me!” Definitely a female’s voice. “Hey what where you’re touching, you dick!”

*Thwump*

“EEEEEEEEEEEE!” I instinctively pull my legs together and grimace at the pain that goon is feeling right now, ‘That’s got hurt.’

“*Sigh* Daring Do would you please refrain from hurting my stallions, I do need them.”

This mare, Daring Do, also looked like an Indy ripoff with her green explorer clothing. Her fur was golden and had black to light-grey color palette for a mane color, violet eyes, a pair of what looked like C-cup tits, and she had wings. ‘Must be a pegasus then.’

“Well he wouldn’t be in pain right now if he kept his hands to himself. Either way, I would let you get away with this Caballeron!” Daring Do said glaring at Caballeron.

“That’s Dr.Caballeron to you Daring, anyway I should be thanking you. Thanks to your notes that I borrowed-”

“Stole, you stole my notes.”

“*Eyeroll* Thanks to you I was able to find the Last Temple of King Alexander of the Humans before he took his people to the stars.”

“You’re expecting treasure here aren’t you.”

“Correct”, Dr.Caballeron states with a smug grin.

“Boss!” One of the goons can up.

“What?”

“We searched the whole room and all of the wall for a secret entrance but didn’t find anything indicaticating another room.”

“*Facepalm* So this temple was a waste of time?”

“It would appear so boss.”

“Great *sigh*, wait idea, we have extra rope right?”

“Yeah I think so, I can go check if you want.”

Dr.Caballeron nods and the goon goes off.

“What are you planning, Dr.Caballeron?” Daring Do asks with a raised eyebrow

“A plan that involves getting rid of the biggest thorn in my side.” Caballeron responds with a chuckle.

Daring Do’s ear flatten and her pupils become pin pricks.

“BOSS WE GOT EXTRA!!” The goon yells.

“EXCELLENT, BRING IT HERE!!” Dr.Caballeron yells back.

The goon comes running back with easily a 100 ft spool of rope.

“Good now, EVERYPONY GATHER UP!” Dr.Caballeron yells. ‘Everypony? Really?’

Once all of his goons are together he begins, “Today gentlecolt we get rid of the biggest thorn in our sides, Daring Do.”

“YEAH!” “FINALLY!” “ABOUT TIME!” They reply.

“Now take that spool of rope and tie her to that tree trunk tightly and then we’ll leave her to the elements.”

“NO, YOU WON’T GET AWAY WITH THIS!” Daring Do screams, all the while trying to fight Caballeron’s goons off.

“I already have.” Dr.Caballeron says with a cheshire grin. “And gag her, I don’t want to hear her screams when I leave.”

“YOU BASTARD, I'LL- MMMM!” Daring tried to yell before getting gaged.

“Ah silence, let's get out of here. I believe Ahuizotl has a job for us when we get back.” Caballeron said to his men, ur stalions? Fuck this is going to be confusing.

While I watched Caballeron and his goons leave I could hear Daring Do’s muffled yelling and trying to escape her bindings. After an hour of waiting to make sure Dr.Caballeron was gone, Daring stopped moving from either exhaustion or she gave up. ‘Guess it's time for me to come down and formally meet the locals.’ I thought.

Dropping off my branch and landing with a thud, Daring’s head snaps up to look at me. She first looks at me up and down with a puzzled look then the realization of what I am hits her hard, her eyes widen and I can hear her muffled giggling of excitement.

“Heh, you’re pretty excited for someone in your current position. Here let me get that gag for you.” I said kneeling down and undoing her gag.

“Blah *spits*, thanks.” I nod “Before I ask any major question, were you in that tree the whole time I was with Dr.Caballeron?”

“Yeah, I know his type and I don’t have patients for people like him. So I kept myself hidden and waited until I knew he was a good distance away from this temple.” I explain.

“I get that but you’re still an asshole for not helping me.” Daring said glaring holes into my head.

“Fair enough, so what are these questions that you want to ask me?” I ask while cutting her bindings with my combat knife.

“So are you human?” She asks while I help her up, she rubs her wrists and gets out a pencil and notepad.

“Yes, yes I am.”

“Why didn’t you leave with King Alexander when he took your people to the stars?”

“Because I’m not from this world.”

She pauses writing and looks up, “What do you mean?”

“Hmmm how do I explain this, ever heard of the multiverse theory?”

“Ahhh no, I don’t think so.”

“Ok the theory is like this, there are an infinite amount of universes out there and that are being created. One example is that you could have been in Dr.Caballeron’s place and him in yours. Another example is that a character in a fantasy book in this universe could be real life in another universe.” I explain the best I could.

“So you’re from a different universe?”

"Yup, same human species, different universe."

"Are the humans from your universe as technologically advanced."

"If King Alexander took the whole human race to the star with him, then no. The best my people have done is get two men safely to the moon and back again."

"Ok next question, how did you get here to Equis?"

"Uuuhhh, I'd rather not get into it, but did you see something enter the atmosphere last night?"

"The loud boom and fire streak in the sky was you?!" Daring shouted with a shocked look on her face.

"Yup."

"How did you survive that fall, you should have been burnt to a crisp."

"I came in a metal pod that protected me. Now I have a question to ask."

"Shoot."

"Why are you writing our conversation down?"

"So I tell Princess Celestia and Princess Luna of this great discovery, a human being hasn't been seen in over 5,000 years. You my friend are a pretty big deal."

"Great just what I want, unneeded attention. Let's continue this conversation on the way to wherever you need to go, I'll provide a ride."

"How are yo-"

Daring's words died in her mouth when I pulled my staff out of the storage ring. I close my eyes, breath in, ignite my staff in my blue flames and slam the bottom end of it on the ground sending blue waves of energy covering the temple. Once I had control of every piece of temple I began moving things around starting with the roof. What was once a thick stone roof is now a large opening letting the sun light in, next on my list was the murals, I started to move stone bricks to reveal the secret hallway then I made the hallway roof taller so I can pull the murals and the walls out in one piece. Before I did anything else I reinforced the mural walls with my flames so I didn’t have to be gentle with them as I put them in my ring, I chuckled a little when I heard Daring gasp in horror when she saw me covering the murals in flames. With that done, I can finally make our transport out of the little garden area that we’re standing on. Focusing only on the garden I began to pull it all from the ground, turned the river into a pond for the tree, and kept it all in one piece permanently with my flames.

“Woah, what are you doing? Daring asks while taking flight.

“Since I can’t fly, I need some mode of transportation.” I respond, still focusing.

“But did it have to be a fly garden?”

“No but a flying garden is a lot cooler than anything that I could think of.”

I opened my eyes to begin, I slowly lifted the garden out of the ground, once it was a good distance off the ground I sped up and out of the temple. Daring didn’t have too much trouble keeping up with me before she landed next to me.

“Did you know when you use your magic your eyes are pure white with blue flames coming out of the outer corner of your eyes?

“No I did not, that’s pretty cool, it’s not magic but we’ll call it magic because I’m lazy and don’t want to explain it.” I respond. “Also can you give me directions, I have no idea where to go.”

“Yeah sure, see that castle on the side of that mountain over there?”

“I see it but how is that poss- wait no, magic, it’s always magic.” I groan out.

“Head there, right next to the castle is the city of Canterlot.”

“Got it.” I start increasing the flight speed of the garden to head in that direction, but not too fast, I still want to take in the new and unfamiliar land.

We’re almost out of the forest when Daring asks, while getting out her notepad and pencil, “So while we wait, can I ask some general questions?”

“Go ahead.”

“How tall are you, your hair and eye color, sex, age, three likes and dislikes, sexual preferance, and are you sexualy active?” She fires off.

“I’m 6’ 3”, brown hair and eyes, male, 23, I like strawberries, astronomy, and wolfs; I dislike spinach, people who are egotistical, and being the center of attention; I’m straight, I’ve tried a dick up my butt and I don’t like it at all; virgin.” I list off to her.

“Ok got it, wait, you’re a virgin at 23?” Staring at me shocked.

“Yeah, is that uncommon?” I answer with an eyebrow raised.

“Extremely, colts become stallions legally at 16 since the gender ratio is ten females to every one male. What is it in your world?”

“I’d say about 50-50. So in other words this world is in short supply of males.”

“Pretty much.”

“Lovely.” I groan. As I look to my right and I notice three pegasi coming our way fast. “Hey three pegasi coming in fast to your right, friends of yours?”

“Friends? No, but I think I know how they are. I’ll talk to them, and also slow down a bit so they don’t think you’re trying to make a break for it.”

I nod and she takes off toward the pegasi, I slow down to a walking speed but I’m ready to accelerate at a moment's notice. After a few minutes of them talking, all four pegasi started to fly over to me. Once the three unknowns got close enough I could immediately tell there were two mares and one stallion just by the skin tight suit they were wearing, I know the suits are meant to keep them streamline but damn does it leave nothing to the imagination, all three are toned as fuck.

Daring comes up to explain our situation, "So here's the deal, the Wonderbolts are going to escort us to Canterlot and get the princesses for us so you don't have to get off our flying garden. Before we move on let's do some introductions, we can start with…..in all honesty I completely forgot to ask you for your name, so we'll start with you."

Patting Daring on the shoulder, "Nah it's fine, with what you went through I totally get it." Turning to our three guests, "Before I start I want to put a couple of things out there." They nod. "One, hot damn your suits leave nothing to the imagination. Two, you my stallion friend is one lucky son of a bitch to be able to work with two smoking ladies, I envy you I really do."

"Damn right you should be, if these two weren't always so serious we would be in a relationship by now." The stallion replies with a smug ass grin, right before getting punched in the stomach by the mare with the white mane and lime green fur and slapped in the back of his head by the mare with the orange-gold mane and yellow fur. "Ugh." He groans out.

"Ow, anyway onto introductions, my name is Antonio and I'm a human, one Ms.Daring Do found me in an ancient human temple that was in that huge forest back there, what is the forest called?" Turning to Daring.

"The Everfree Forest."

“Thank you, so let’s move on to you three.” I say jestering to the three Wonderbolts.

“Right, I’m Captain Spitfire of the Wonderbolts to my left is my second in command First Lieutenant Soarin Skies and Second Lieutenant Fleetfoot. It’s a pleasure to meet you Antonio the Human.” As Spitfire talks all three salute me.

Daring Do also chimes in looking at the Captain, “Since about to pass by Ponyville, the small town just on the edge of the Everfree,” Daring points out for me, “we are more or less likely going to run into Rainbow Dash. What are we going to do about her?”

“Another friend of yours?” I ask with a raised eyebrow.

“Yeah and a major fan of my work, you're inevitably going to meet her because of what she and her friends do. I’ll let the princesses explain that part to you.”

Spitfire nods, "Yeah you'll meet her soon, as a heads up, she can be really cocky at times but is loyal to her friends like no other. And we'll deal with Rainbow when we see her on our way to Canterlot." Jestering to her team.

As I was about to start moving again, I noticed a rainbow streak come out of Ponyville and start to head toward us, “Speaking of rainbows, is that her now?” Pointing at the rainbow streak.

Spitfire looks over her shoulder to see her, “*sigh* Yeah, that’s her, I’ll deal with her since I’m her CO, you guys hang back.” We all nod.

She takes off toward Rainbow leaving a trail of smoke behind her.

“*whistle* Do all you Wonderbolts leave a smoke trail behind when you fly?” I ask the two remaining Wonderbolts.

“Depends, any pegasus can leave a streak of their mane color if they go fast enough. We Wonderbolts leave smoke behind because we are both the air force for Equestria and famous aerial performers.” Soarin explains.

“Cool, hey, looks like Spitfire is coming back.” I point out, in the distance I can see a Rainbow flying off back to Ponyville and Spitfire heading back.

“So Rainbow and her friends will be meeting up with us at Canterlot.” Spitfire explains.

“Great, so lets start moving again.” I put more power into the garden to pick up speed, and we finally got moving again.

Once we got out of Everfree air space Daring Do slapped me on my back, “May I be the first one to welcome you to my home, Equestria.”

“Heh, thanks Daring, I can already feel the chaos that my presence will bring.” I responded with a smile.

It didn’t take long before we were upon Canterlot air space and intercepted by several white female pegasi in golden armor that all look identical.

While Spitfire chatted with one of the pegasi I tapped Daring on the arm, “Sooo….” jestering to our armored guests.

“Royal guard and their armor is enchanted to make them all look the same.”

“Ah.” Turning my attention back to the guards.

A few minutes passed and then the guards flew back to the castle and Splitfire flew back to us.

“What’s the low down Captain?” I ask.

“The princesses want to come to you face-to-face on your floating garden. I personally think Princess Celestia is using this chance to get out of Day Court, can’t say I blame her.” She tells me with a little chuckle.

“Got it, I’ll set something up for them, and Daring I’ll give you the two wall murals from the temple when I get a chance.”

“Thanks, I’ve been itching to study them when you pulled them from the wall.” She shakes my hand and glides to the castle most likely going to give the princesses her notes on me.

I nod, “And Wonderbolts,” They turn to face me “I hope we meet again soon, and thanks for the escort.”

“It's been a real pleasure.” They all shake my hand, salute, and rocket off towards the castle.

With my new friends…..friends?.....yeah friends, gone, I look around for a good place to place my garden. I came to the conclusion to put my garden near one of the outer towers but still a couple hundred feet away from the tower itself. Once there I looked through the storage ring to see if there was anything I could use to make the empty area of the garden nicer. To my surprise there was a small round wooden table with three chairs, a complete tea set, a bag of assorted tea leaves, milk, cream, sugar, and some tea cookies. I guess spending four years as an exchange student in the UK really paid off right now, I got everything set up and ready for the princesses including a hot pot of my personal tea leaf blend in under eight minutes, and just in time too cause I could hear the sound of large wings flapping.

It didn’t take long before I saw two unicorn-pegasus hybrids coming my way, once they landed I could feel an aura of royalty surrounding them. Guessing who-was-who was easy, Princess Celestia was on my right with her spotless white fur, golden crown and her flowing aurora borealis mane; Princess Luna was on my left with her dark blue fur, black gold crown and star night sky mane. Princess Celestia was easily 8 foot, not including her horn, her dress looked like something that Aphrodite would wear, it hugged her sides showing her hourglass figure, didn't show a lot of her cleavage but just enough to enhance her beauty and the size of watermelon breasts, the sides of her dress were open up to her thighs revealing a lot of leg, on both of her legs were tattoos in the shape of a sun, and covered an ass that you can bounce a quarter off of. Princess Luna on the other hand went for the tomboy princess look with a dark blue dress jacket and pants with silver outlines and black shin high boots. She was much shorter than Princess Celestia but still taller than me by a few inches, maybe 6’ 8” without her horn. But like Celestia her body was nothing to snuff at, it looked tightly built with muscle for combat, with coconut size breasts that turned her tomboy look very feminine. With my arms crossed and me leaning back in my chair as I stared at the two princesses and they stared back analyzing me by the slight shift in their eyes. The tense air around the garden was so thick that you could cut it with a knife, so I decided to cut first.

With a flick of my finger I pulled the two chairs in front of me out, “Please sit, there is much to talk about.”

“Indeed there is, human.” Princess Luna says with a suspicious tone. Then walks up to the table and I flick my finger again to pull in the chair for her. She nods her thanks, I nod back.

“Luna, can you please be more respectful to our guest.” Princess Celestia says as she walks up and I pull the chair in for her too. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome princess, now would either you like some tea? It’s my own personal mixture to help calm the nerves, Captain Spitfire told me that you just came out of Day Court, Princess Celestia. Do note that I have no idea what Day Court is, but I do know court in general is very tiring and nerve-racking.”

“Yes I would like some, thank you.” I levitate a cup of tea with a saucer over to her and she puts five spoonfuls of sugar in her tea. “This is an exquisite blend you made….um…”

“Antonio your majesty, and you Princess Luna?”

“Raw tea will do, human.” I nod and levitate her cup to her.

“Luna, please!”

“No sister I will not, we both know that humans are beings that are more chaotic than Discord so the stories go, and can easily end these peaceful times that you fought so hard to achieve!

“But they can also help reinforce the peace between Equestria and the other nations.” Celestia counters.

“Maybe so sister, but we both know so little about the human race in general. What we do know are based off of legends and old stories from around the world, and the location of the records that were left behind by mother were lost during the Great Chaos War. So I’m suspicious of this human until further notice. That reminds me, human, how did you know who we were before we could introduce ourselves?” As Luna turns to me with a raised eyebrow.

“Well it was quite simple really.” They both looked at me with a questioning look.

“How so?” Celestia asks.

“In Latin, it's the root language of most languages where I come from, Luna means the moon and is another name for the goddess of the moon, Artemis. Now Celestia is a female given name, which is a variant of Celeste, which means ‘heavenly’ or ‘of the sky’ in Latin.” I explain.

“Oh.” They both said.

“That and Captain Spitfire told me your names, plus the combination of your names and fur colors gave away who-was-who.” I responded with a joking tone.

After a minute of tea enjoying silence, Luna broke it with a question, “So what are you human? When our mother told us tales of your species she always said that humans can’t use magic at all and solely rely on their technology and ingenuity to survive.”

Setting down my tea cup, I answered her question, “Your mother is correct when she said we can’t use magic, but I am not from this world. I come from a different universe or dimension if you will. Even then, humans from my world don’t have magic because it never existed in the first place. I was given my powers thanks to a very powerful being that I met by chance, he sent me for reasons I do not know. Now I have a question for you two, what species are you?”

“We are Alicorns.” Celestia answers. “Our race is a mix of all three pony races, unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies. We are ageless, stronger, have more magic, and have more powerful wings than the three races. There are only five Alicorns on Equis at this moment, one of which is still a newborn filly.”

“I see, I’m assuming that there are other races on Equis than just you and your ponies.”

“You would be correct, human.” Luna answers this time. “There are many races on Equis but the major ones are, the zebras of Zebrica, the minotaurs of the Iron Horn Kingdom, the griffons of Griffenstone, the diamond dogs and their underground settlements, the dragons of the Dragonlands, and the crystal ponies of the Crystal Empire. The zebras, griffons, minotaurs, and dragons all see the human race as some sort of warrior god race. We have asked them why they believe this in the past, but they have all stonewalled us for some reason.”

“Do be careful around them, they may be our trusted allies but they hold their secrets very close to their chest to protect from wandering eyes. That scares us a bit since we have on idea what those secrets hold.” Warned Celestia.

"Understood, I'll be careful around them if I ever meet them. But let's get off these heavy subjects, do you two want to talk about something lighter, like, what is Day Court?"

"Very well human, sister, this one is your's." Luna says rolling her eyes.

"Very well, there are two types of courts that me and my sister look over, Day Court and Night Court. I govern the Day Court and Luna governs the Night Court, court in general is a time when anypony in Equestria can come to us with concerns, grievances, requests, or suggestions." Celestia explains for me.

"Interesting, I have a question for you Celestia, why do you have a tattoo of a sun on your thigh?"

Celestia looked at me for a second before giggling into her hand, Luna joined her with some laughter of her own. I just shake my head and sigh at their response to my question, so I decided to drink some more tea while I wait for both princesses to get the laughing session out of their systems.

After some good long sips of tea I ask with an unamused look, "Are you two done yet? It was just a simple question, not the funniest joke ever told."

"Terribly sorry about Antonio." Celestia said while her giggle bug slowly dies. "I've never had anypony call my cutie mark a tattoo."

"So that's what those marks are called. Can I also assume that these cutie marks do more than look nice?"

"Aaaahhhh, that was a good laugh." Princess Luna finally stopped laughing to catch her breath. "And yes you would be correct human, there is more to a cutie mark than just looks. A cutie mark represents one's talent/destiny at something, my cutie mark is a moon and because of that I raise and lower the moon. My sister's cutie mark is a sun as you pointed out, she raises and lowers the sun."

I just blankly look at Princess Luna for a second before rubbing the bridge of my nose while trying to digest, “So simply put the pony race requires a cutie mark to find out what their destiny in life is?” I received a nod from Luna and Celestia. “That is a very weird and forgein concept to me”. I say shaking my head and chuckling a little.

“Do humans not get cutie marks?” Celestia asks.

“No we do not Princess, for us humans it’s a lot of trial and error to find out what we’re good at. Sometimes it’s a requirement for a job, other times it’s a temporary skill that we have to learn for a crappy job.”

Celestia tilts her head to the side slightly with a questioning look, “Why would a human learn a skill they don’t want to for a job they don’t want to be at?”

“To survive.” I answer. “Sometimes there is no other job opening at the time and that crappy job is the only way to earn an income to pay the bills and put food on the table. One can not keep a roof over their head if they do not pay the bills, and one will starve if they do not have the money to buy food with.”

"Wow, that sounds like a very unforgiving way to live." Luna comments.

"It is but we humans make the best out of the hand we're dealt. Now let's get off of this heavy subject and pick up the mood a bit, shall we?" Both princesses agree with a nod.

After a while of small ideal chit-chat I notice a royal guard flying toward us, "We have a visitor princess." Pointing to the female guard.

Both princesses turn around as the guard lands and kneels before Celestia, "Princess, the nobles are getting restless by your absence."

"*sigh*, Very well, tell them that I'll return to them shortly." Celestia tells the guard, while rubbing her eyes. The guard nods and flies off back to the castle. "Terribly sorry that I have to cut this short l, Antonio." Turning back to me.

"Nah, it's fine Celestia. You and your sister have a country to run, there are requirements that must be kept to keep everyone happy." I tell her.

Celestia nods, "Thank you for understanding Antonio. Since you don't have a place to stay for now, would you like to stay in the castle?"

"Sure why not, tho, I don't think your sister likes that idea by the face that she's making." Pointing to Luna who has her muzzle scrunched up in a look of distrust.

"I don't mind you being in the castle, it's just I don't trust you.” Said Luna turning away with a huff.

"Then what can I do to make you trust me?" I ask.

"I would feel better if two of my night guards that I pick follow you around while you're in the castle and Canterlot."

"That's cool, whatever works for you princess. I'll be out of your hair….mane….whatever, I'll be gone once I get a basic understanding of this world. Most likely will set up shop in the Everfree Forest."

Both princesses look at me with puzzled looks, "What why?!" Celestia slamming her hands into the table. "It's one of the most dangerous places on Equis, why would you want to live there?!" She yelled in a worried tone.

"Simple, it feels like home. Equestria feels too unnatural to me, the clouds don't move on their own, the land itself is too vibrant with color, and the sun hasn't moved since it rose this morning." They continued to look at me with a face of confusion. "*Sigh* Look, I appreciate that you are concerned for my well being, but it's unnecessary. I can handle myself just fine when it comes to dangerous situations. Now come on, you" Pointing to Celestia "have Day Court to do, and you" Pointing to Luna "have a pair of guards to assign to me."

Me getting up snaps them out of their confused state and gets up as well. Once up I store everything back into my ring.

"Thank you for the tea Antonio, it was lovely. Now let us be off." Said Celestia with a smile.

I nod, "I'll meet up with you two on the ground. I don't have wings, so I'll teleport to you once you're in front of the castle."

They both nod and fly off to the castle. Once gone, I place my hand on the garden and enchant it once more with a different effect. 'Hee, that should keep any unwanted guests off my garden.' Happy with my work, I walk to the edge and spot the princesses patiently waiting for me to come down. "Well, let's not keep the pretty ladies waiting." I say to myself.

Flaring a bit of power into my staff, I disappear from my floating garden and reappear in front of the princesses. They didn't even move a muscle, let alone blink, the guards on the other hand freaked the fuck out and began to rushed me with their spears.

"HALT INTRUDER!" Yelled a female guard. "YOU WILL NOT STEP CLOSER TO PRINCESS CELESTIA!"

I make a visible eye roll which doesn't sit well with the guards as they respond with one step forward with spear tips near my neck. "Your little ponies are quite protective of you, Princess Celestia."

Celestia giggles, "Yes they are, sometimes a little too protective, nevertheless" Turning to her guards. "Ok my little ponies, you all can stand down, he is a guest here at the castle." Turning back to me. "And thank you Antonio for not hurting them."

"Not a problem Princess, they're just doing their job. Not like they could hurt me permanently anyway."

I can feel the hateful glares that I'm getting these mares, then a female guard steps forward with more decorative pieces of armor on. 'Hmmm, must be their CO.' "Is that a challenge 'honorable guest'?" She asked with disdain in her voice.

"Only if you want it to be, miss…"

"Captain Crystal Clear of the Solar Guard, and yes I do want it to be a challenge. I will not let me and my girls be insulted by some nobody who just walt's into Canterlot saying that the Solar Guard can't take down a target." Getting up in my face and poking my chest.

I look at her straight into her eyes and smirk for a second, 'Let's cause some discors.' I pull back my hood, which gets a lot of gasps from the gathering crowd, and the Captain's eyes widen as she realizes what I am. Before anyone could do anything, I grab the sides of the Captain's face and pull her for a large wet kiss. I hold her there for a couple of seconds before letting go with a loud lip smack. The moment I let the Captain go she fell to her knees still in a state of shock.

“Congratulations Captain, you are the first mare in this era to kiss a human. Also, come find me with the when and where of this challenge you want, ta ta.” I said patting her on the shoulder, then gave her a two finger salute as I walked off towards the princesses.

“Was all that really necessary, Antonio?” Celestia asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Hmmm, not really, but it was entertaining to be a part of.” I respond with a shit eating grin.

Both princesses just shake their head with a chuck as we walk toward the castle. As we reach the giant front doors of the castle I look over my shoulder to see the Captain’s Solar Guards trying to shake her out of her state of shock. ‘I think I’m going to enjoy my stay here in this world.’ I think as I walk into the castle.