A new life in a new land

A new life in a new land

My name is Andrew Misawa ,I am just an average guy, I am a 22 year old guy, came into the work force during the worse economic depression since the stock market crash of 1929. I went to college and earned a degree in criminal justice, I tired to become a police officer, but do to the bad economy, it became a one out of seven hundred chance of getting hired, so instead I work in retail at Mallmart, it wasn’t so bad, it was a job at least. I would work from 12pm-9pm,  most of the time I would get the 12-9 shift, I worked in the frozen/dairy areas, going into the main freezer, and getting carts ,working the pallets and stock  the doors, I also help the customers with their questions for things.That’s what I did everyday, finally a year went by of doing that, and I earned some vacation time, I saved enough money to go somewhere I have always wanted, a trip to Japan.

     I was so happy, I was finally to get to go to Japan, I got my tickets for the flight, I packed my bags, laptop, I had plans to go Kyoto to toei studio park, to where many of Japan’s samurai films had been made, as well as a trip some ww2 museums and see the zero fighters on display, like the one in the Yasukuni museum. So the day came, I got up at five in the morning and got dressed and arrived at the airport after a half hour drive with my stuff, suitcases, checked them in at the baggage check in, and then went through security, it felt weird going through one of those new body scanners, that they have no put in at every major airport. But then I had to wait once I got through, it would be two hours before the flight, there would be one stop over in Hawaii where I would switch planes to the flight that will go to Japan, so I went on my laptop and started playing il-2 1946 on my laptop. Finally I heard the announcement “United flight 2478 from Miami to Honolulu now boarding at gate C-8.” I got my things and went to the gate and boarded the plane and took my seat.

       The plane started to taxi with the captain coming on the plane’s PA system.” good morning this your captain speaking we will be departing Miami today, and  flying to Tokyo with one stop over  in Honolulu, the flight will be about 17 hours , we hope you enjoy your flight and thank you for flying United.” eventually we  got the take off clearance and the plane started to speed down the runway, I always loved that feeling, as it reached over 150 mph and lifted off the ground from Miami, little did I know, that would be the last time I ever saw South Florida, as the plane climbed into the clouds and the world shrank, I settled and relaxed, enjoying the view from the clouds, I always loved it, since I was a kid whenever I traveled on a plane, a few hours passed and I was playing the IJN fighter pilot campaign on IL-2, after a good number of hours I saw the pacific ocean as we left the coast of California, and they served us a nice meal. I noticed the sun setting, it was beautiful over the clouds and ocean, as I started to drift into a nice long sleep.

    I was suddenly jostled awake, by rapid shaking as the whole plane was shaking, I could here people panicking, , the “please fasten your seatbelt sign” went on and suddenly I felt the plane rapidly descending, people at this point were screaming, my heart started pounding as I felt the decent getting faster and faster, then I saw the ocean, speeding into view, I knew this plane is going down, I felt this was it, I am going to die. They say when your about to die, your life flashes before your eyes, for me, there was nothing, all I could do was stare out that airplane window as the water got closer and closer, just before the impact and my impending death, I closed my eyes, and then nothing, was I dead, I must be, though I’m dead, how can I still perceive my own existence, I’m an atheist, I don’t believe in life after death, but yet, here I am, I must have just died, the plane I was on, slammed into the ocean, I must be dead. Yet I am able to still think and feel, I opened my eyes, and too my surprise, I am laying on grass, I see a beautiful blue sky above me, is this a real heaven, no it couldn’t be, I can feel the grass, I get up and look around at these new surroundings. I start walking around and hear singing? I started to walk around to find the source of the sound, and what I saw surprised me, it looks like a little baby horse, but its head is shaped different and the eyes are huge, its so adorable, it was light yellow, with a pink mane, that looked much the hair style of a beautiful girl, and this creature also has wings, I guess then that would a Pegasus like that of ancient Greek mythology, but how can this be real, where am I?

I approached the little Pegasus who was singing to herself, wait a

Pegasus who can sing?? Well maybe this is some kind of crazy dream. I then

walked up to her and said,”hello.”  she yelped and curled into a ball. All I

could do was go “dawwwwwwwwwwww” I didn’t know my voice could go that high

I then said,” I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you.”  She then looked

at with her big teal colored eyes and said.

   ”oh..it..okay..I frighten easily…”.

Then I said,” you are the most adorable thing I have ever seen” ,

“um..you think I’m cute.” she said. I then said,” yes” and put her down.

I asked her, “so what is your name?” She looked away from me, and said very timidly,” uh..fl..flutter  shy…” I looked at her and said,” aww..that’s such a sweet name.”

      “Flu..ttershy” came another voice, I looked to see a small purple unicorn

about the same size as flutter shy, she stopped and stared at me, and

asked..

”um flutter shy, what is that creature next to you” Fluttershy then

said,

” oh hi Twilight, this is um..” she looked at me and asked what my

name was, so I said,” Andrew Misawa, I’m a human.” Twilight then looked

confused, and said,” Human, but humans are supposed to be just myths,

but you found one Fluttershy, this is amazing! I am definitely writing a letter to the princess about this.” I was confused, Princess?

Twilight then asked me to come with her to her library where she could try to learn about me, so I followed her into this little town, the buildings looked a lot like English cottages from the 1600-1700s period.

      We soon approached a treehouse , it was a large tree with a door on it, I could see a telescope up on the top of it as we walked in.

Twilight then said,” Spi-i…ke”

I watched as a small purple dragon, who must have been about 2 feet tall came down he had green scales and eyes. And then he said,” Hey twilight back already….” then he saw me.

“uh..Twilight..who’s that”

Twilight then says,” This is Andrew, he is a human , he is an amazing discovery, since humans were believed to be just myths.

Great, I’m a scientific discovery, then as twilight was talking with spike my stomach growled very loudly which stopped Twilight in her speech of me, being such an amazing find. She and Spike looked at me in surprise, then I said,” sorry, I guess I am hungry, its been a while since I have eaten anything.”

      Twilight then said,’’ its okay, spike can you prepare a lunch for us, I am hungry too,’’ Spike then said,” Okay Twilight it will be about 10 minutes.”

Then Twilight asked me to sit down at a small table she had where there was a large unicorn bust made of wood sitting in the center the table. I sat down, but the chair was a little small so it felt strange sitting on it. Twilight then asked me some questions.

“So where do you come from and live.’’

I answered,” I come from a planet we just call earth, and l live in a country called the United States of America, in the state of Florida in a city called Pembroke Pines,’’

“Wow, so you come from a completely different world.”

“Yes” I said,” I must say, this world is must nicer then the world I came from.”

Twilight then asked,” what do you mean?”

I looked at the little unicorn and then said,” my world is ravaged by war , and our species is divided by things like national origin, religion, ethnic differences.” Also our world has 7 billion humans and our planet can barely sustain all of them and women are still having three and four kids per family. Before I came here I was on a plane for a vacation to the nation of Japan, but something went wrong and the plane went down, I was about to die in a plane crash and then I closed my eyes and somehow ended up here.

Twilight had a shocked look on her face, so I asked her, “what wrong Twilight ?”

She snapped out of it and said,” that does sound like terrible place, also, whats a plane ?”

“it’s a machine, that can fly through the air using jet engines that suck in air, compress it, ignite it and blow it out the back creating thrust.”

She then seemed amazed,” if your species can do that, then humans must be far more intelligent then we thought, ponies always thought humans were supposed to be like monkey’s just picking fruit and living in trees.”

I seemed surprised, they thought humans were like monkeys. I then said,” we haven’t lived like that for two hundred thousand years, we are a very technological species. We have motorized carriages called cars, cities with buildings that are as high as two hundred stories tall.  Computers that allow us to communicate with others across the planet and the internet which holds more information then billions of libraries.”

“that’s impossible, you know how books is one library?” said Twilight.

I chuckled and said,” the information is not in the form of books, its digital data stored inside the computer as binary code. Which is a code made of the numbers zero and one, like say it would read an apple as 00100111101001 or something like that.”

At this moment Spike came out with three plates, one with a daisy and grass sandwich, one with a sandwich with sliced apples in it and letus and the third plate had gem stones on it. Then I saw something I couldn’t believe, the sandwich started to the lift into the air in some kind of magenta purplish aura as twilight took a bite out of it, I couldn’t look away from it or her, then she looked at me, and swallowed with an audible gulp and said,” uh what wrong?”

I said,” n-nothing, but how are you doing that ?” I pointed to the sandwich.

Then she said,’’ I’m just lifting it with my magic, you have never seen magic before ?’’

I said,’’ no, there is no creature in my world that can do that, how does it work ?”

She then explained,’’ magic comes from within, everypony has some form of magic energy within them, but only unicorns can  consciously use it, its channeled through the horn and you use it to control what you want, but most unicorns can only use it depending on what their special talent is. But for me, my special talent is magic itself, so I can use nearly every spell I learn.”

“So that’s how you are levitating the sandwich” I then said.

“Exactly’’ responded Twilight. Then she continued eating her sandwich, I picked mine up and started eating. It tasted really good, I also watched Twilight eat, it was cute how she took small bites and swallowed with a little bulge going down her neck, after eating I thanked spike for the food.”

Then there was a knocking at the door, and Twilight asked,” who could that be” She walked over to the door and opened it with her magic, at the door was a light green purple unicorn bouncing up and down smiling.

Twilight seemed surprised,”  Lyra what are you doing here ?”

Lyra then said,” I have to see him, I was out talking with BonBon and then I saw him with you, I couldn’t believe it, I saw you walking with a real Human, I tried to tell BonBon but she wouldn’t turn around, saying I was crazy to believe Humans are real, but they are, you found one!”  She ran over to me as fast as she could and jumped into the air towards me.