A New Life and a New Home.

*Beep*beep*beep*beep*

"Good morning Miles."

"Morning Pinkie. You sleep well?"

"Sure did. I just finished my morning work out and made you breakfast."

"Where's Fluttershy?"

"Right beside you."

"Morning Pinkie. Morning Miles."

"Morning. When did you get to bed? And why this bed when there is another room with two beds in it."

"We did go to that room but I got cold and you produce a lot of body heat."

"So it isn't because we're dating and you wanted to cuddle then?"

"That too. But you were asleep so we couldn't do much cuddling."

"What about Pinkie? You could have cuddled with her."

"She was asleep. And we cuddled all last night and you missed out."

"Thats a very nice thought but I still missed out considering I was asleep."

"Well we can cuddle when you get back from school. Now get dressed and go downstairs and eat breakfast."

"I'm going for a shower first."

"Hurry up."

A quick was and dry and Miles was dressed and heading downstairs for breakfast. "Here you go. I made eggs and toast, apple juice and some bran cereal."

"Wow this looks great. Thanks."

"Hurry up and eat. The chariot will be here soon."

"Wait. I promised to become vegetarian for you all but are eggs ok? I know they aren't meat but they come from a chicken."

"No, eggs are fine."

"Yay. I miss bacon. Bacon was the best food ever,"

"It must be hard changing your entire diet so quickly."

"I'll live. Maybe."

"What do you mean maybe?"

"Well changing diets has a huge impact on my body. It could make me healthier or my body can decide to be a bitch and end up getting really ill."

"Well just wait and see what happens. I don't want any animals to be harmed but I would rather have you than some pigs or fish. Don't get me wrong, I care for them and love them but in nature animals eat other animals and I would much rather you eat a pig every now and then instead of you dying."

"Hopefully I won't need to eat any of them."

*knock* *knock* *knock*

"The chariot is here early. It is only quarter to eight."

"I'm coming in." A voice from the other side of the door shouted.

A bright purple flash appeared and disappeared instantly leaving Twilight in the front room. "How did you know if I was wearing clothes. I could have been naked."

"It isn't anything I haven't seen before."

"True. So how can I help you."

"Well actually it is how I can help you. I cancelled the chariot."

"What?! Why?"

"You don't need it. I'm going to let you get there yourself and it will make getting around easier."

"If I'm late I will blame it on you."

"Fine. Now stay still because this could hurt."

"How much?"

"A lot."

"Hurry up with it then. I would rather not be on the floor screaming in pain when I should be in school."

Miles stood in the middle of the room as Twilight's horn began to pulse. Slowly Miles was lifted into the air and was soon lowered again. "That was quick." Miles admired his new wings.

"Well it is hard work doing that spell but it doesn't take long. It is only temporary and should last you until just after eight." Twilight panted.

"Ooo. nice wings. They make you look sexy."

"Oh I agree."

"Thanks. But I don't need wings to look sexy. Its just how I am."

"Come on guys. Be serious now. He needs to get to school. It starts at eight but the headmistress would like you to meet you at five minutes to eight and she will have your class schedule."

"How do I fly?"

"Just do what feels natural. Your brain knows there is new parts of your body and is getting used to them. just try to hover for a minute."

"Here goes nothing." Miles concentrated on his new wings and started hovering half a foot off the ground.

"There we go. Do you think you could fly to school?"

"I can give it a go. I will have to go now to make sure I'm on time though."

"Ok then. Try not to overdo it. And the college is in the opposite direction of the sun in the morning. So just fly away from the sun and you will see the school soon."

"Right. One last check of the stuff I need. quills and ink, check. Books, check. Kukri, check. Thats everything. If you lot want to go out, my money is upstairs under the bed. I am using my work bag as a school bag so you won't be able to take that with you. If you want you can go shopping for whatever. Now though, I must be off."

"Give us a kiss before you go."

*mwah* *mwah*

"You want a kiss Twilight?"

"No thanks."

"Suit yourself."

With a quick wave Miles was off and flying like a pro. "Other way Miles!" Twilight yelled.

"Got it!"

Flying through the Miles decided to take his time seeing how he could see a large building in the distance and had five minutes left until he needed to be there.

"Hello Miles. Having some fun are we?"

"Discord? Where are you?"

"I'm living in your head. I discovered that I can funnel my power through you. This way I won't be detected by Celestia and the others and all they will think is that you are able to dispose of magic."

"Dispose of magic?"

"Like bodily waste. It is in your body but it gets expelled."

"Oh. Discord can you do me a favor?"

"Sure."

"Don't be an arse.  Feel free to stay in my head but don't create anything and don't do anything. I just want to make some friends before they figure out I'm weird."

"Fine. Also, I went routing through your memories and I must say they aren't very pleasant."

"Nope. Thats why you found them right at the back in the repressed memories section."

"True. But I found something called an Xbox 360. Are these common on your world?"

"Yeah. Most people have one."

"Can I create one? I'm asking as a formality of course. Whatever you say won't make a difference."

"Do you mean in reality or like an imaginary one that you can use when inside my head"?

"Inside your head."

"Sure."

"Oh goody, I even found some titles of games that I want to try. I can summon copies from your world but it will hurt you a bit as I will have to channel powerful magic through you."

"Do it when we get home. Who knows, you might even learn something if you pay attention today."

"Ok but just this once. I might as well see if anything interesting happens."

"Thank you. Now I must ask. Is it you that is making me fly?"

"Yes. If I stop now you will crash and die."

"Well I will have to practice at some point. If I don't Twilight could get suspicious something might be up. Hell, she might be suspicious that I can fly now."

"True. But  lets just do what we need to do for now and that is get through school without too much fuss."

"Alright then. Lets go. And keep quiet unless an emergency pops up."

"I will make no such promise. I will keep an eye on the diamond for you though. You need to learn what you can if you are going to be living here."

"Aw Discord. You care about me? Thats so sweet."

"I will rip your nuts off if you say that again. But I am going to be with you constantly so I need to know what you know. Now get there early and make a good impression to the headmistress so we don't get crappy treatment."

"Fine. One more thing. Can you put some pens in my bag. I don't want to use a quill."

"Done."

"Thanks."

As Miles neared the school he could see some of the students already in classes through multiple windows. Making a descent Miles could see the headmistress waiting outside with Celestia and another pony who he didn't recognize. Landing in front of the school his wings disappeared as he walked up the path to the trio.

"Good morning." Miles greeted the three whilst bowed on one knee in respect to Celestia

"Good morning Miles. I have told you that you need not bow in my presence."

"I am aware of that but now I am here on business not pleasure."

"I'm glad to see your respect hasn't changed considering the.... unpleasant...experience you had with Cadence."

"No mam. Cadence may disagree with me being here but that doesn't mean my loyalty and respect has to alter."

"I'm glad to hear that. Now, on to business. MRS. Ruth is the headmistress of Royal Heart Academy." Celestia pointed to a grey unicorn with light black main.

"Nice to meet you." Miles bowed his head.

"It is nice to meet you too. I hope you enjoy your time here."

"And this is MRS. Sunbloom, your teacher." Celestia pointed at a sunset orange mare with a crimson red mane.

"Nice to meet you too ma'am."

"Oh I am glad to have you in my class. You are so polite and respectful."

"Thank you ma'am."

"Now that we are acquainted shall we head inside and meet your new class?" MRS. Ruth handed over the schedule

"Err yeah. I'd love to."

"Is something wrong? You seemed hesitant."

"It is just I'm coming to a new school, I don't know anyone here and I'm the only male. And the only human. Its a little bit daunting to say the least."

"Well don't you worry about that. The students here are friendly and are excited to meet you."

"They know about me?"

"Sort of. They know they are getting a new classmate. They don't know it is you or that you are a boy."

"Oh. Well that will be a surprise for them. Do they know why I'm at this school and not any other school?"

"I think they have a few thoughts about it. They have noticed there are no more guards with the diamond since you started."

"Why are there no guards?"

"There is an outpost next door but since you are here they have been put on lookout duty." Celestia answered instead.

"So they watch the grounds from afar?"

"Yes exactly. Now lets go and see your class."

Following the three mares into the building the teachers were all lined up outside the classrooms bowing to Celestia throughout the winding halls. "Here we are. Classroom 3-B. Wait here and I will call you in." MRS. Ruth patted his arm.

As MRS. Ruth, MRS. Sunbloom and Celestia entered the room Miles waited out of sight of the open door waiting to be called. From the other room he could here his teacher talking. Peaking around the corner he could see the class was set out with ten desks with two ponies at each except for one in the middle that only had one.

"Good morning everypony. Today our new class member is joining today and I hope you will be kind, caring and accepting as coming to a new school is hard on everypony."

"Yes miss." A monotone collective of voices sounded.

"Thats good to hear. Now introducing our new student, Miles."

Entering the room Miles put on a fake smile to mask the nervousness and anxiety he was feeling. Looking over the class he could see confusion across all the students.

One of the students put their hoof in the air to ask a question.

"Yes Snowflower?" MRS. Sunbloom asked.

"I don't want to seem rude or disrespectful but he is a boy and this is a girls school. You are a boy aren't you?"

"Yes Miles is a boy but he is here because he has a job to do. Also with him coming here I am able to keep an eye on him as I am here often on business." Celestia answered. "Are there any other questions?"

"Just one your majesty." A yellow pegasus with a lime green mane sitting on her own spoke up. "What species are you? If you don't mind me asking that is."

"Erm, I'll answer this one your majesty. Good question but in a few minutes Miles will explain a little about himself and some about his kind so it will be answered shortly." MRS. Sunbloom smiled at him.

"I am? I mean I am." Miles made the class giggle resulting in a faint red blush on his cheeks.

"There is one thing we need to do before class can start and we can begin though." Celestia called in a pair of guards suited up in gold armour carrying a medium sized box,

"Anything you need your majesty."

"As this is your job Miles you will need to stand at attention whilst we go through the contract." Celestia ordered.

"Yes your majesty." Miles stood at attention just like a soldier back on Earth.

"As the guardian of the Diamond of peace you are hereby entrusted with a sword of the strongest steel." As Celestia spoke one of the guards pulled out the sword and sheath form the box and placed it leaning against his leg.

"This weapon shall be for the protection of the defenseless and the innocent."

"Your kukri and your sword shall be your weapons in the fight against those who would do wrong and those who would harm the citizens of Equestria and beyond. You will not use these for personal gain nor shall you harm those who cannot defend themselves or those who have done no wrong. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes your majesty."

"If you should break these rule you shall be subject to severe punishment. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes your majesty."

"And as a gesture of good will, a weapon from your world." As Celestia finished the guards opened the box and removed a desert eagle with four extra magazines and a holster.

"After you left yesterday we went back and examined this weapon. This is the only one we looked at I promise you. This seemed like something you could use as long as you are careful."

"Thank you your majesty."

"The contract is done and I must be off. I shall leave you with MRS, Ruth and Sunbloom. I will see you soon Miles."

"Good-bye your majesty."

As Celestia and the guards left the room the attention was brought back to Miles who was fastening the holster to his leg.

"What is that if I may ask?" MRS, Ruth questioned. "Is it safe for the students?"

"It's called a gun. And it is safe as long as I'm careful."

"And what is a kukri? It sounds dangerous."

Wordlessly Miles pulled the blade out of the sheath and  showed it to the class.

"Your kind make these sort of things?"

"Yes but we rely on guns mostly. Our advancements in warfare are astonishing. It even scares me the power we have."

"Would you mind talking a little about it in your presentation?"

"Sure. Do you want me to start now?"

"If you wish."

Miles put the kukri back in the sheath on his waist and put the spare ammo in his bag. Placing his bag and sword at the empty seat under the desk he walked back to the front of the room.

"Well. To start off My name is Miles and as you may have guessed I am a male and I am not from around here. And no before you ask I'm not a shaved monkey." Miles joked making the class giggle. "I come from a planet called Earth. Earth is divided into continents and each continent is divided into countries and they are divided into towns, cities and villages. The town I am from is called Barnsley and it is a fairly small town but at one time it was a big coal mining town after starting off as a trading town. I am the sort of person that tries to avoid violence if possible but often has to fight but not through choice but I'm not going into that sob story."

Miles could see a hoof stuck in the air. "Yes, what can I do for you?"

"What does a gun do?"

"Good question. I was just getting on to that. Warfare on my planet has evolved over the millions of years humans have lived. It has gone from throwing stick and stones right up to making machines that do the fighting for us and using guns and bombs. A gun is a weapon that uses certain chemical compounds to make a small explosion inside a metal casing forcing a chunk of metal known as a bullet out of the opening in one end. These bullets can travel many times the speed of sound and are extremely deadly." Miles cleared his throat and continued.

"We have things known as grenades that when you pull out a pin it waits a few seconds and then explodes sending metal all over the place and through flesh and if you are unlucky enough you will have a limb ripped off or even death. However, there are some weapons that are known as WMD or weapons of mass destruction. I don't want to talk about these until I know there are none in Equestria. If guns and blades are getting here I know a WMD could too. Any more questions?"

"Does your kind use magic? Or fly?"

"Yes and no. We don't have magic and we don't fly but we do have machines that we ride on that fly. We have very advanced science that lets us do the stuff you all do with magic."

"What do humans eat?"

"I really hoped I wouldn't get asked this. We eat meat and vegetation. As my kind are omnivores  we don't have to eat meat to survive so don't worry I won't eat you." This gained a collective sigh of relief.

"What do you do? Not your kind, just you."

"I didn't really do much before coming here. I didn't have a family and lived in an orphanage most of my life but I don't want to go into that. But since I have been here which is around two week or so. I lose track of time in the hospital. I work here as a guard for the diamond, I live in a friends house and I have two marefriends. Thats about it. I'm not very interesting."

"You have two?"

"Yes I have two. It confused the hell out of me at first of how it would work but we sorted it out."

"That is enough questions for now. We don't want to make him feel uncomfortable and we need to start lessons now. Thank you for telling us about you and your world. It is really interesting." MRS. Sunbloom interrupted the presentation.

"Ok then. Feel free to ask me anything at break or lunch or whenever you see me. I don't bite." Miles took his seat.

Miles sat next to the yellow pegasus with lime green hair from before. Her cutie-mark was three arrows waving around each other above some clouds.

"Hi, I'm Swift." She grinned.

"Ok class. To start the day off we are going to be doing Equestrian history."

One uninteresting lesson later it was time for maths and then for science. Miles was fond of science and took interest in this.

"Right just add the green chemical slowly into the orange....."

*BOOM*

"Holy smokes! Are you ok Miles? What happened?"

"Science happened. And I may be missing my eyebrows."

"Hehe. Get cleaned up and try again. This is meant to make foam not an explosion. How did you even do that?"

"I think I may have added 50mg of Hydrogen peroxide instead of 5mg."

"Try again and remember, 5mg not 50mg."

One more attempt later Miles had a fountain of foam erupting from the containers.

"Cork that container up. It isn't meant to be making that much. What did you do?"

"I did as you said but this happened instead of like everybody else's. I don't now what........Discord." Miles grumbled the last part of the sentence looking at the rest of the room seeing a small group of bubbles at the edge of the containers.

"Beg your pardon? I didn't catch the last bit."

"Its nothing."

"Ahahahaha. You like it? I thought it was fun. And the best bit, you can't yell at me because we're in school." Discord taunted,

"Grrrr."

"Alright class. Clean up your foam and equipment and put it back in the store cupboard. Well done everypony, Miles, you need to work on it a little. After you clean up you can go for lunch break. Be back here for half one. That gives you just over an hour which gives you chance to catch up on any work that needs completing."

Checking his IPod Miles saw it was 12:20. "Do we have to stay in school or can we go out for lunch?"

"You can go out but make sure you're back on time."

Searching through his bag he forgot he left his money at home and couldn't get lunch.

"Damn."

"You forgot your money?" Swift stood at his side.

"Yeah. It doesn't matter, I'm not that hungry anyway."

"Don't be silly. I have more than I can spend on myself so let me treat you to a sandwich."

"Its ok. Thank you anyway."

"Come on. You're new here and haven't made any friends so let me be your first, plus, you seem kind of cool."

"Fine. But i'm getting lunch for us tomorrow."

"Deal. Now lets go. We're the last ones here."

One short trip into the market place Miles and Swift made their way into a small restaurant filled with the other students from their class and a few other classes.

"What would you like to order?" A slender grey pony with a black mustache approached the table. "Wait. You're Miles. The savior of the princesses aren't you? Swift, you're friends with Miles?"

"Please, it was nothing to be excited about. I did a good deed and that  is it. And how do you know Swift?"

"She is a regular here. We often have a few minutes idle chit chat whilst she has her lunch."

"Yep. Shaun here is an old friend on my brother too."

"Shaun? At least there are some normal names here." Miles thought to himself.

"What would you two like to order? I assume you will be having the usual hay and petal sandwich Swift?"

"Yes please. What will you be having Miles?"

"I don't know. Nothing on the menu is edible for humans. It is all hey and flower based. I don't have the organs to digest this. I'll just have a cup of tea please."

"Very well. I am sorry that we could not serve you any food that you could eat,"

"Don't worry about it. Its not like a meat eater is here often,"

"You're a meat eater?"

"Don't worry Shaun. Hes safe."

"I shall have your orders shortly."

As Shaun walked off the rest of the customers stared at Miles and Swift for a few moments and slowly went back to their own conversations.

"Sucks you can't eat anything. But at least everyone didn't run away screaming."

"Yeah. But then again I might not be going hungry after all. I'll be back in a few minutes."

Miles rose from the table and made his way down the road up to a familiar orange cow-pony and her cart full of apples and apple products.

"Howdy Miles. What can ah do for ya? And aren't ya'll meant to be in school?"

"I'm on my lunch break but I don't have any money."

"That sucks. Tell you what, I know what you are going to ask and its ok with me."

"What do you think I was going to ask?"

"Since you don't have any money could you get an apple or two from my stall and pay me back later."

"You know me too well. and what are you doing here anyway? I thought you worked back in Ponyville."

"I thought since I'm here I might as well get some supplies over and make some money for the farm. I got them brought by train last night."

"Smart. So how much would I owe you for an apple and an apple pie for me and my friend to share?"

"One bit for the apple and five for the pie. And I know you'll pay me back so don't fret about it. And yer friend over there is pretty. Are you sure she is just a friend?"

"She is just a friend and I promise I will pay you back later."

"Well ok then. See you later."

"See you later. You're the best."

Making his way back to Swift he place the pie in the middle of the table for the two to share as the sandwich and tea arrived. "I thought you didn't have any money."

"My friend works the stall and I promised to pay them back later today. Now shut up and enjoy the damn pie I bought for us."

"Yeah yeah whatever. So what are you doing today anyway?" Swift took a bite out of the sandwich.

"Meeting Pinkie and Fluttershy for the afternoon. We haven't spent any alone time together at all. Why?"

"Just wondering. Do you want to hang out sometime?"

"Sure. We can do tomorrow night after school if you want."

"Sounds great. What do you want to do?"

"We could go to a disco or we could go to a park and just chill."

"Hello Miles." Came a cheery voice from behind him.

"Oh. Hello MRS. Ruth and MRS. Sunbloom. What brings you round here in school hours?"

"We are just checking up on you to make sure you are ok."

"Are you sure? Your expression doesn't say the same message." Miles could see the panic on the two teachers from a mile away.

"Well. There is a group of timber wolves on school grounds and we thought you were the best option."

"Can't the guards handle it?"

"Normally yes but the ones that were able to get there quick are injured. You are the closest guard we could get. The others are busy either in the nearby forest making sure no more get out and making sure the students are ok or are taking care of the injured."

"Fine. Teleport us there. Sorry but lunch we'll have lunch together another time."

Teleporting into the main grounds the forest was only a few yards from the edge of school grounds. "Why do you have a school next to the forest? And why are other students in there?"

"We have classes that go in there to study wildlife and some like to go for a walk or eat their lunch in the quiet woods."

"Fine. Where are they?"

"Over there. They are waiting in the treeline to make a strike at any who go nearby."

"I'll go over and sort it out and you really need to get a fence to keep them away."

As Miles approached the tree line he could make out the glowing green eyes of the wolves in the shade and bushes. "Be careful Miles!" Shouted swift.

"I will be." Miles turned to shout turning his back on the wolves waiting for such an opportunity.

As Miles turned back around one of the wolves leaped out of the bushes circling him.

"They are made of wood. How bad can they really be?"

Taking the chance to attack the wolf jumped and bit into Miles's left arm.

"Oh holy shit that hurts!"

The wolf released its grip knowing its target was injured. Miles looked at his arm and saw deep wounds bleeding badly and with nothing to bandage them up with he had to hurry up. Seeing the target weakened another two wolves jumped out of the dark and joined in circling him cutting any escape routes. Drawing his sword he held it in front of him knowing to keep his chest and throat protected as they were prime targets for another attack.

"Come on then. I have been attacked by worse than the likes of you."

Not being able to keep and eye on all three wolves at the same time meant leaving his back exposed which was what the wolves wanted. Taking the chance the wolf jumped at Miles' back only for Miles to swing round with his sword slicing through the middle of its head.

"Yeah! You like that?" Discord chanted in Miles head,

Dropping to the floor the wolf disassembled into a pile of motionless sticks on the ground, "One down two to go."

With one wolf gone Miles could watch the other two without fear of being attacked from behind. Miles lifted the sword and slammed it down on the second wolf smashing it into more sticks.

"Must have been an older one. It didn't have time to react." Discord speculated.

"Maybe."

With one last wolf left Miles sheathed his sword and walked slowly to the wolf trying hard to keep balance with a large loss of blood making him feel dizzy. Seeing the fate of the other wolves the final one turned to retreat only to be held back by its tail.

"Now I got you. You're the one that took a chunk out of me. An eye for an eye bitch."

The wolf let out a loud yelp as Miles began to rip sticks out of its body and throw them aside. Stick by stick the wolf became weaker and so did Miles as more blood was lost. Pulling a final stick out of its neck the head of the wolf rolled onto the floor and stopped at the side of Miles' foot. Miles stood motionless next to the bodies as he heard the footsteps of the other ponies behind him. He wanted to turn around but was unable to move his legs as he struggled to keep balance.

"Miles are you ok?!"

"Celestia?" Miles turned round slowly to see Celestia checking his wound trying not to look too worried. Looking over her shoulder he could see that the rest school was either looking out of the windows or was in outside area watching what had happened.

"Miles. You need to get bandaged up. You have lost a lot of blood."

"I'm fine I promise."

"Are you sure?..."

*Thud*