Strange Happening

Chapters

What In The??
The Next Day
Getting Her Settled (Kinda)
Dinner And...Well Nothing Really
The Storm
Twilight: The Curious Pony Part 1
Twilight: The Curious Pony Part 2
Work
Saturday
Leaving
Meeting Some Ponyfolk
Meeting The Tomboy And The Priss
Royalty Visits
Officially Meeting The Yellow One
Meeting Some More Ponyfolk
Family Night
Going Home

What In The??

I was walking down to the shooting area at my house. It's near the woods and a ways away from the house and any neighbors. I'll be shooting into a hill any way. I work weekends at one of the Pizza Huts near Indianapolis (and for obvious reason I am not going to disclose the location) and this weekend was a stressful one, so I decided to go shooting. Today was Monday and it was a bit humid because its been raining for pretty much the whole weekend and a little bit today but now it was just hot and humid, but regardless I grabbed my Mosin and headed back. I set up a few bottles of tap water and empty cans to shoot and walked back to the shooting table and got everything ready to go.

"Set up targets? Check. Bottle of drinking water? Check. I obviously have the ammo so check. And lastly no animals to get in the way?" I looked around, behind the little barn next to the shooting table and back up to the house. "Check. Ok let's see if still I suck at this." I steadied my aim and fired. "Miss.." again. "Rain shower!." Wash. "Shit, miss." Rinse. "Hit." Repeat. "Last round make it count." I steadied my aim again and concentrated on hitting this target and fired. "That's a hit. Welp three out of five ain't bad, but I can do better. Let's see....thirty-five rounds and six targets left." I loaded the rifle up and shot again. "Four targets left." Again. "Three more." Last time. "All targets down. Hmm....could've gone better, why am I the sniper if the Zombie Apocalypse ever comes? Although I'm grabbin' an AK when I get the chance." I sighed. "I really need to stop talking to myself. Well anyway twenty rounds left and no target.....wait a minute....there's one from last time! You thought you could hide from me huh? Let's see if I can take you down with one shot." I loaded one and fired. "Well that's a big no...might as well make it an even fifteen." I loaded four more and fired at the old bottle. Hitting it with the third round so I shot the dead tree that the bottle was sitting on.

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With all the rounds gone and the cans holier the before (LOL) I started to clean up the spent cartridges and the targets. After a few minutes of double checking the ground the sun started going down, I was pretty much done cleaning up, all I had to do now is go back up to the house and throw everything in the trash can. There was a shift in the energy of the woods. This has happened when I first came down here, but this time it was a strong, more noticeable change. The air felt thicker and there was also an odd smell coming from them. I looked into the now almost pitch dark woods to see if I have somehow angered the "thing" that lives in there. These woods are haunted by what I think is a Native American protection spirit but I'm really not sure, the reason I think that is because one of the dogs dug up a mound in the middle of the woods and brought back a human femur bone. Ever since then weird things have been appearing in there at night. That was about maybe seven years ago, and no I'm not bullshitting you. Anyway, after a few seconds of not seeing anything I decided to try and talk to it.

"So...what have I done now?" Nothing but usual sounds of nature. "You know it's getting late and I missed dinner so I'm hungry.....Um....so yeah....bye."

"You can stay..." It said and a echo-y whisper-y voice. It speaks to me telepathically. Yes I am going crazy.

"So you were listening." I said in a half surprised, half sarcastic tone. "No I can't. I'm hungry and it's late, I should get going." I picked up the trash and started to walk away from the woods.

"Wait...we have visitor.

"What do you mean?"

"Follow the trail and be careful not to trip."

"Ok you're giving me a headache." I reluctantly walked the path into the woods, it was so dark I could barely tell where the path was. Luckily I had my phone. "I don't like this, too dark, can barely see two feet in front of me, weird super-natural being in dark woods, watching me. Yeah not one bit." I walked just a little further into a spot that there was still some light. "Ok nothing yet. I'll go a few feet further and then fuck this." I did just that. I thought I saw something on the ground from where I came from but passed it off as a log. "Alright he was just messing with me. Screw this, goodby-" I tripped on it despite trying not to.

"Ugh would it hurt ya to be more careful?! Are ya blind or somthin'?!" Ok maybe not a log, but why is a person here?

"Uh...sorry it's dark but would you tell me what the hell you're doing in my woods?!" I said pointing my rifle where the voice was coming from. No it's not loaded but the last thing I want to deal with is some sketchy seeming person so I reached for the ammo but stopped remembering that I was out. 'Great' I thought.

"Yer woods?!"

"Yeah my woods! Now kindly get the fuck out! Just in case you haven't noticed I have a rifle pointed at your head! Now leave!" I live in the country so the accent didn't seem to out of place seeing how there are some people that sound like that around here.

"Um... what's a rifle?"

I rolled my eyes. "How the hell do you not know what a rifle is?! You not from around here or somethin'?"

"From the sound of it no. Ah...may be a bit lost actually."

"Oh..." I calmed down a little bit and slung the rifle back over my shoulder. "Then I guess you don't know how things work out here huh? I just thought with the accent and all you were from around here. Sorry about that uh..." I thought about how the mystery person sounded. Now settled down I could better tell it is a girl or a woman. "...ma'am. Let's get you out of these woods and see about getting you home."

"No harm done and this is awfully nice of ya."

"Maybe too nice..." I muttered to myself. I waited a bit until she finally got moving. "Good to go?"

"Yep but I think I hurt my leg somehow."

"Perfect..." I said under my breath.

"What was that?"

Oh shit. "N..nothing. Come on, follow me."

"Ok."

We walked down the trail, out of the woods and up the driveway toward the house. It was dark now and it was a new moon so I couldn't see well but it wasn't as dark as the woods and I had the light from my phone. We were half way to the house when the dogs barked. I glanced over in her direction. "Oh yeah, you're not afraid of dogs are you?"

"Nope. Have one myself."

"Good cause we have five, and one comes up to my waist. But he usually just barks."

"Ok?" I figured she shrugged. I didn't look directly at her because I was trying to not step in a puddle or something else.

My dog Dakota and my sister's dog Jade came running out to greet us. I petted them and they ran back inside. "Strange. They didn't seem to notice you. Oh well." I shrugged and opened the door and turned on the light. "I think they all went to bed so try to be quiet. Can you call someone to pick you up?"

"I...I d...don't have a phone."

I noticed her stammering. "You cold?"

"No....just not from around here..."

"I know that already," I looked over at her. "But I don't...see...why.....what the fuck are you?"

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I'll admit, I freaked out a little bit and if she was also she was doing a lot better than me at keeping her composure. She had finally seen what I was and I have finally seen what she was. After a while it was like my brain went on auto-pilot while I flipped shit. I watched myself grab a piece of paper and a pen and write to my mom that I was going to sleep out in the picnic area of the woods and that I came up here to grab my sleeping bag and get some food. After I was finished with the note I calmed down and went up to my room, set my rifle and the ammo pouches down and grabbed my sleeping bag. It was a good plan. That way her presence would avoid (well kinda avoid) any surprises. It would be better for them to see her when I'm awake to explain. I grabbed my revolver and what ever ammo was left just in case she tried anything though. With sleeping bag in hand and revolver at my side I went back to her and asked if she wanted to go camping and to grab some food to take back.When she saw the sleeping bag I guess she felt she had no choice. I couldn't help but notice how well she was doing with the situation.

We walked all the way back to the woods but went to the picnic area instead of where I found her which is what she thought I almost bet you. I walked over to the little shelter we built and flicked on the lights. Yeah it has lights and was a milestone for us to get it electricity. I threw some small sticks and pieces of a cut up branch in the fire pit, grabbed some lighter fluid and lit it. It took awhile bit once I got the fire going good enough where I didn't have to watch over it I went over to the what looked like a miniature pony but orange and talks and has two identical ass tattoos.

"So...um....I guess we should start with names?"

"I suppose so."

"Right...um....I'm Zane and you?"

"Applejack."

I stayed silent for a little bit. "Huh, I see." It's a good thing I brought back some food. I like Apple jacks cereal.

"Eeyup. What are you exactly? We don't have any of you from where ah'm from."

"A....human. We don't have any of you here either."

She remained silent for a little while and I went to throw more wood on the fire. 'She must be scared if you're the only human she's seen but she's a fuckin' talking pony for Christ's sake! What else can she do?' I thought. 'Better try to act friendly so she doesn't run off.'

"Hey um...Applejack, you can come over here if you're cold and warm up I wont hurt ya."

"Why don't ah believe you?"

"Wow. Fair enough I guess, maybe not but you know what ever. And if you were wanting an answer. It's because your scared."

"I ain't scared of nopony!"

"Well I'm not a pony, that may very well be the problem. Be honest with yourself, if your scared I understand. If not, cool."

I never took my eyes of the fire the whole conversation and she went back to being silent.

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After what seemed like an hour she finally came by the fire but stayed away from me, which was well enough I guess. I tried to talk to her again but it was short lived so I was just standing here thinking of things to say.

"So uh...your a pony, right?"

"Eeyup."

"....."

"Are ponies....um....nevermind."

She sighed. "Yes ponies are the common species where ah'm from. Is that an issue?"

"No no not an issue, um where is that exactly?"

"Equestria, the finest country there is!" She said enthusiastically

"I see. So you must be either from another world or from an alternate dimension."

"Say what now?"

"There is no country on this world named 'Equestria' and there are no talking ponies on this world so there is no way you from here."

"So what yer sayin' is.....ah'm....alone?" Her ears went flat and I began to see tears form but she blinked them away.

"Um....sorry but yeah....um....seems that way.....but you have me!" I said and smiled in an attempt to cheer her up.

She looked at me and shook her head. "Yeah....lot o'good that'll do me."

Ouch. "Fine be that way. I don't care. Here I am trying to be fucking nice to a god damned alien pony and she's a being a bitch! what ever! I'm out, good luck taking care of the fire with those hooves. Oh yeah and these woods....are haunted so....good luck with that!" She just sat there staring at the fire and I left and went back up to the house. I thought I heard her crying but I just walked faster to get away from the noise.

I entered the house and started towards my room when I felt a pang of guilt hit me. 'She's here all alone and you just left her in the woods by herself? WTF is wrong with you man!' I sighed and turned around but stopped by the fridge and grabbed a few apples for her and a baggie of cherries for me. I looked toward the woods to see that the lights were still on but I couldn't see anything else. I walked down and made it to the picnic area gate and opened it. I was closing the gate when suddenly something hit in the back. I went flying a foot or two and stumbled for balance, I turned around and saw Applejack.

"Serves you right fer leaving a sad, scared pony out here to fend fer herself!"

The pain was agonizing I could hardly remain standing. "My back.....I think you broke my fucking back...." I walked over to where I set my sleeping bag up and laid down on my stomach. "Applejack there are some apples on the ground there, can you bring me one?" she didn't say anything and if she nodded I couldn't see her. I was staring at the fire and then an apple dropped in front of me. "You know I brought these down for you....only three." I threw the apple into the creek. "Well two now and these cherries," I held up the baggie. "are mine."

"That's not fair! Why you rotten no good!!"

"And paralyzing me when I came back for you, with food, IS!!!"

"Well no but y'all shouldn't have left!"

"Your right I shouldn't have. Hence why I fucking came back!"

She was silent for awhile. We were both watching the fire and then she broke the silence. "Um...let me help ya with that sugar-cube." She said with something similar to guilt with a touch of sadness.

"What are you- OUCH! YOU FFFFixed it. I offer thanks but that is all."

"The apples?"

I popped my back, stood up and looked over at her. "Yeah they're yours."

"Thanks." She was silent for a few minutes. "Ah'm sorry about that sugar-cube ah lost my head there."

"You don't say." I dead panned, sitting down on one of the chair we have by the fire pit.

"Uh....yeah mighty sorry."

"Nice hat by the way."

She just looked at me unsure if I was being sarcastic or not. I just smiled while looking at the fire.

The Next Day

"You alright? You haven't eaten any of your apples." It's been an hour since I threw one the apples in the creek and I have since then apologized to her, but she hasn't eaten anything. I understand the sandwiches because they have meat in them but some of the other things I brought back with me better suited her diet.

"Ah'm not hungry..."

"Yeah sure ya aren't. Come on I'm the only one here you might as well tell me, right?" I smiled looking over at her.

"Ah just.....didn't expect you to eat....meat." Is she turning green?

"Well I ate half of the cherries so what if I brought a few turkey and ham sandwiches down with me?"

"What about the apples? Why haven't you eaten those?"

"Believe it or not they make me sick." She looked confused. "Like, every time I eat one I feel nauseous after a few minutes. I like the taste of them and all its just, apparently they don't like me." I paused for a moment. "Unless they're covered in dark chocolate, white chocolate, caramel and pieces of peanuts. Then they're fine with me you know," Prepare for a shitty joke folks. "They're so sweet." I waited for a response from her.

She laughed a bit. "That was bad." She laughed again. "Good try though."

"Hey bad joke or not it worked! Good thing to because I was going to feel like an idiot if it didn't."

"I 'spose yer right. It did cheer me up a bit."

"Good good now eat comrade, I don't want you starving to death."

She grabbed an apple off of the table, brought back and sat next to me. She began eating said apple.

"Sooo....potentially awkward question. Um....Why did you have two ass tattoos that look a-like?"

"Huh? You mean my cutie marks?"

Ok sister what ever you want to call them. "Sure."

"They show what my special talent is."

"And....apples?"

"Bucking apples actually."

Did she just say....no certainly not. "Bucking apples?"

"Yep."

Um....no fuckin' clue what that means here!! "Care to tell me what the fuck that is?"

"Oh sorry. All it is really is ah go up to a tree and buck it." She said matter-of-fact-ly

"So....bucking is?"

She looked at me like I was the stupidest thing she's ever seen. "Kicking. I basically kick apple trees." She took another bite of the apple. "And my apples are a heck of a lot better then these."

"It wouldn't surprise me if they were. So what do you do for a living?"

"Buck apples. Ah'm an apple farmer."

"So you have an orchard and everything?"

"Sure do! And its big! We have an actual farm and everything to, just because ah buck apple doesn't mean ah don't have other chore to do."

"I see. Sounds interesting."

"Naw not really just yer run-of-the-mill farm chores. You know, feed the pigs, bale hay, put up the baled hay, and so on. It's hard work, but you get used to it."

"I hear ya there."

"So what about you?"

"I work at a Pizza Hut."

"A Pizza....Hut?"

"What you don't have pizzas in your world?"

"We do but not Pizza Hut what is it?"

"It's a restaurant the sells Pizza." I shrugged. "That's it."

"And what do you do?"

I sighed. As much as I don't like talking about work at least we were having a nice conversation and aren't yelling at each other. "Well, I was hired on as a cook but I mainly wash dishes because I haven't been trained."

"Ah see. Do you like it there."

I laughed. "No. I fucking hate it there! I've only been working there for six weeks and I already want to quit. It sucks working there...."

"Then why are you still working there?"

"Money I guess. Not that I get paid that much and my boss lost one my paychecks, so that's floatin' around some where." I sighed again and check the clock on my phone. "But anyway it's getting late and I'm sure your tired so let's hit the hay." I looked around and saw that there was no good place for her to sleep. "Uh....you can sleep with me if you want. You know like in a non....sexual way....uh nevermind."

She blushed slightly. "I know whatcha meant!" She sound annoyed. "Why'd you have ta make it all weird."

"Sorry."

I threw a little more wood on the fire so it wouldn't go out until after we fell asleep. after that I laid on my sleeping back and rolled over to face the fire. To my surprise she walked over and laid down with me. She was facing the fire as well and said only one thing before she lowered her head and fell asleep and that was. "You know for warmth and all..." I just shrugged concentrated on sleep.

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"Um.....sugar cube....you awake."

I mumbled. "Five minutes please."

"Uh sugar cube? Wake up."

"Shh I'm trying to sleep."

"Zane. Would you mind paying attention to where your hand is?"

"Wha?" I said waking up a bit. I did the idiotic thing and felt around and recoiled my hand when I felt one of her hind legs. "Oh fuck!! Sorry about that....I...I.was asleep." I sat up.

"Its fine just try not to let it happen again."

"Will do....um.." I looked over at the fire pit and saw that there were still coals going. I also looked up at the sky it was still dark out. "Applejack....why did you wake me up this early?"

"What do ya mean?"

I checked my phone and it was two hours after I fell asleep. "It's six in the morning...."

"Well I wasn't going to have you feelling me up in yer sleep! I didn't say you had to stay awake, I just said you had to stop touching me."

"Right. Well good night. You should probably get some more sleep to."

"Ah am just don't.....do that again."

"I know I know I hear ya."

I laid back down and went back to sleep.

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It was a dreamless sleep which happens to me a lot, but it was a restful sleep at least I woke up and look at my phone to see what time it was. It was one O'clock in the afternoon. I noticed that applejack wasn't laying down anymore. I sat up and looked around and called for her and she came out from the woods.

"What were you doing?" I thought for a bit and shook my head. "Uh never mind. So you do some exploring while you were in there?"

She walked over. "Yeah a little, not much to explore though."

"Well it is a nice walk right?"

"Yeah. A heck of a lot better than the Everfree forest."

"The what know?"

"The Everfree forest. It's a creepy forest that has a bunch of dangerous creatures in it."

"I see. Sounds interesting."

She raised an eye brow. "If you say so..."

"So ready to meet every one else?"

"Ah'm not so sure anymore."

"I understand. Hey, do you have any family of your own?" She looked at the ground and let a tear slip down her face. "Sorry. It...was on my mind and um...."

She looked up. "It's ok sugar cube, it's not your fault." She pause and then said with sadness in her voice. "Ah just miss 'em ya know?"

"Well it help to talk about them?"

"Ah don't know...worth a shot. Ah have a pretty big family though."

"Well just tell me who you live with."

"Well there's Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, and Applebloom."

Surprise, surprise they're all named after apples... "Can you tell me a little bit about them? Might make you feel better or not."

"Granny is my grandmother and one of the founder of my town. She may be a bit out there sometimes but she means well. She's caring and one of the kindest ponies you'll meet. Then there's Big Mac. He doesn't talk much but hes kind and has the biggest heart of all of Ponyville. Hes also my big brother. And then Applebloom my little sister shes still a filly and a hoof full sometimes but that's mainly because she so excitable. Ah miss 'em Zane I really do."

"I understand Applejack I know what it's like to miss family like that." I put my hand on her shoulder to try to reassure her that I did in fact understand. I'll tell you one thing, shes damn good at holding back tears.

"What about you, sugar cube?"

"My grandparents, my parents and my younger sister."

"You want to tell me about them?"

"Hmm....not really, I mean they're alright and all but nothing special I guess."

"Ah see, well ah feel a bit better."

"Good, I'm glad. You must be hungry."

"A little bit."

"Well the cherries are gone but there is an apple left from last night."

"Uh ah don't think ah'll be eating it..."

"Why not?"

She dropped it in front of me and there were bugs all crawling on it. "Uh....yeah. You eat hay?"

"Yeah why?"

"Follow me, I'll take you to the barn." I walked over to the gate and opened it. "You coming?" She nodded her head and followed me.

We walked the short distance to the barn. I show her the hay and said she could have as much as she wanted as long as she didn't eat all of it. She took a flake of hay and that was all she wanted to take, I just shrugged and said ok and left it at that.

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"You full?"

"No, but that's all ah'm comfortable with taking, seeing how you have these other animals. Why are they in stables?" She tried talking to them and needless to say they didn't talk back and she was confused.

"Well...um...they're not....like you...uh they can't talk back... Like I said.....different world."

"Ah see."

"Yeah it must be weird huh?"

"That may be over simplifying it a bit but yeah it is."

"Yeah I could only imagine...." I looked up at the house. "Oh hey someones coming."

"What?!"

"Yeah I think its my mom.....yeah it's my mom."

"Ah...ah got to hide!"

"Um shes probably already seen you but go for it."

She hid in the shop that's in the barn and my mom came riding in on the golf cart.

"Hey Z whats up?" My mom said.

"Nothing really. About to come to the house to eat."

"Oh alright. I was just checking on you."

"Welp I'm fine. Oh yeah I just remembered." I pointed over towards the shop.

"What?" She looked in to the shop and saw Applejack. "Where'd you find it!?"

"Out in the woods last night after I was done shooting. And it's a she."

"Is she hurt? And why is she wearing a cowboy hat?"

"I found her like that, I really don't know. I brought her here so she could eat some hay."

"And did she?"

"Yeah but she said shes still hungry. Didn't you Applejack?!"

"She said? And her names Applejack?"

She walked over beside me. "Uh yeah howdy ma'am. Ah don't mean to impose but do y'all have a salad I could have?"

"A talking pony...." She sat down on the golf cart. "And you found her in the woods?

"Yep I did. I was as surprised as you are right now when I found her."

"What do you mean?"

"Well at first I thought..." I was cut of by both mine and Applejack's stomach growling. "Perhaps we should get some food first huh?"

Applejack nodded in agreement. "Ah reckon that's a good idea."

I walked over to the golf cart and sat down. "Hop on if you're hungry and don't say your not. I heard you."

She blushed as she jump on and sat in the middle of the seat.

This should be....different.

Getting Her Settled (Kinda)

"Grandpa and grandma are gone and so is dad, so its just you, me and your sister till they get back." My mom said on the way up to the house.

"Is that why you came down? And you forgot to mention some one..."

"Oh right sorry. Yep. So Applejack how did you get here?"

"Ah don't rightly know ma'am. Ah was out bucking trees and the next thing ah know, ah'm waking up in yer woods."

"Bucking trees?"

"She's an apple farmer." I said.

"I see. And that's your job?"

"Yes ma'am."

"She has a farm and everything to."

"Sure do!"

"Huh. A talking pony with her own farm."

"Yeah I know right?"

Our conversion ended there and we arrived at the house. We got off of the golf cart and went into the house. I noticed Applejack taking a good look around at everything as she made her way into the living room. The dogs ran up to both my mom and I, wagging their tails and the normal dog stuff. Dakota saw Applejack and went up to her and sniffed her while Jade went to go get a shoe (We have no idea why she does it). Dakota led Applejack pet him and went to lay down somewhere and Jade went somewhere else after I got the shoe away from her and put it away.

Applejack spoke suddenly. "Wow. Yer house is huge!"

I chuckled. "Maybe by pony standards. It's just a normal two story house for humans."

"Well still, it is pretty big. So uh, where will ah be stayin'?"

"Hmm....What do you think ma? Up in my room or in Cat's (my sister's nickname)?"

"Well she already shares her room with her cats and there's not much room anywhere else" She paused in thought. "Yeah I suppose that will work."

"Alright. Follow me Applejack, let me show you where you'll be staying." She nodded and followed me upstairs and through the make shift door I have set up. My room use to be a craft room so yeah. "It might bet a little cramped but we'll make it work."

"Ah'm sure this will be just fine. Ah'm not sleeping on the floor am ah?"

"Nah you'll be sleeping on the pull out bed, just let me move somethings around and show you." I then move everything I had sitting on it off and the pulled out the bed. "There, that's where you're going to sleep."

"Why thank you sugar cube."

"No problem. Now let's go get some food."

"Oh thank Celestia Ah am hungry!"

Celestia?

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I made my self a PB&J sandwich and because my signature sandwich has meat in it and I didn't want to bother her again. She wanted a salad with some apples and I was happy to make her that, I even had her try some ranch dressing and she asked if I could put it on her salad. Why not have a conversation while eating, right?

"So Applejack, What or who is Celestia?"

"She's our Princess. Her and her sister Luna are the leaders of Equestria."

"Is she like a Goddess or something?"

"Sun Goddess. She raises and lowers it every day and night."

"And Luna?"

"She's a moon goddess. Same thing as Celestia just with the moon."

"Interesting. And there kind rulers?"

"Sure as sugar are! Well Celestia is, not to sure about Luna she hasn't really been in the public eye to much."

"I see. Maybe she's just shy? I don't know."

"Well she's intimating with being in control of the night and all."

"I can understand that. The night time has scary things, I should know."

"The woods?"

"Yep."

"Ah see."

We spent the rest of the time just eating. And when we were done I turned on some video games. I started playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies, Applejack didn't look to thrilled. I would have chose something different and less violent but I don't have any games like that. I apologized to Applejack about the game but kept playing anyways, she just shook her head.

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"Urgh! This is worst vodka I ever taste!"

"Alright let's try not to die." I had just gotten Juggernog, and I am playing on Der Riese. "Ok so powers on, got red drink....so now I just need to play the Box." I went over to it, bought it and it opened and give me "A Specter....wonderful. This does not go well" And it didn't.

"Zombies! We gotta move!" I manage to take a few of the down. "FUCK! They're between me and my vodka!" I manage to take down a few more and then I got surrounded and went down.

"Well shit, that could have gone better."

"Ah don't get the point in that game."

"Just something to do for fun, I mean there's multi-player but I die alot on there and then there's the campaign mode but I already beat that."

"Don'tcha have anything less violent?"

"No those are all in a box somewhere in storage."

"So is this all ya do?"

"Well it's playing video games, player computer games or cutting trees out in the woods."

"Why don't we do that instead of this then? It's better than sittin' around all day."

"Sure I don't care, got nothing else to do until Friday so....alright." I put my shoes on and we went outside and started walking.

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We were about half way down and Applejack and I were having a conversation more or less about the video game I just played.

"So what were those things?"

"Zombies, you heard the guy say it a few times..."

"Yeah ah know but what are zombies?"

"Living dead people, reanimated corpses." She had a weird look on her face couldn't tell what it meant. "How it would happen really depends on the scenario, like Resident Evil type would be caused by a corporation trying to invent some sort of virus and succeeding but it somehow going to hell quick. Uh...a Left 4 Dead type would be caused by some unknown virus or flu that no one knows where it came from. And then the Nazi Zombies type where it was a mad scientist doing experiment on people. That's just to name a few."

"So they were once but now dead but living again?"

"And killing the living, yep."

"Ah see...."

"Yeah I don't see anything like that happening anytime soon so it's a 'whatever' thing you know?"

"And what were those things you had in your hands?"

"What do you mean?"

"They were like the small metal thing you had last night."

"Oh you mean guns!"

"Guns?"

"Yeah don't even get me started, I love guns! Though I don't hunt but still I love 'em."

"So what do they do?"

"Well that depends on who you talk to." I had a look of slight disgust on my face. "To some they're for killing, for others they're for protecting, but for me and many others they're for sport."

"Ah see."

"Do you know? because you mighty confused." I said slightly mocking her accent.

"Well ah don't know. There's nothing like them in Equestria."

"Probably for the better actually. Do you have wars Applejack?"

"Equestria hasn't had one in a thousand years, disagreements maybe but those have always been solved peacefully."

"Alright well imagine having one of those disagreements but with guns involved." It seems she was having difficulty. "Let me help you out here. Say you have pony A doing something pony B didn't like which I'm sure happens, right?" She nodded yes. "Alright let's say it's about money or something and pony B has a gun." She seems to be following so far. "So pony A has pony B's money and pony B is mad about it because I don't know, whatever reason. So in frustration and anger pony B point's the gun at pony A and demands the money but pony A says he doesn't have it. This goes on for about probably about another minute or two and pony B finally gets pissed and shoots pony A. Now whether or not something like that would happen in Equestria, I don't know but you get the point right?"

"Ah think so?"

"Now just imagine two or more countries with guns, having disagreements." I paused. We were at the gate to the pasture you had to go through to get to the woods. I opened the gate and let her through, closed it and continued. "One country gets tired of it and fires the first shot. Then you got war, you understand?"

"Yeah Ah think so." This time it looked like she did.

"Good, well we're here. What are you going to do?"

"Well Ah reckon ah can buck down the smaller trees."

"Sounds good to me. Look for the the trees with white dots on them those are the ones that need to go."

"Alright."

I had brought my iPod down with me and selected one of my favorite songs by The Gorillaz and went to work.

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It's been about an hour and a half since we started working on the trees. I had the music playing through the speaker on my iPod so we both could hear it. She had asked who the band was when I was still playing The Gorillaz, needless to say I had to explain that they weren't actually gorillas playing music, and that our worlds aren't that different and she seemed to agree for the most part. She did say something about it sounding similar to a pony named DJ-Pon3's music, I shrugged and continued to chop and cut.

We were almost done after about another hour of woods work (as I tend to call it) and all we needed to do now was haul the small trees and chopped bits to the 'Wood Work Station' so we can finish with it tomorrow. I checked my phone and it was almost dinner time, so I told Applejack that we needed to hurry up or we'll miss dinner.

"Hey uh sugar cube ah would love to hurry but ah don't have any way to haul these over there."

"Hold on I think I know where some rope is."

I walked over to the barn and sure enough there was rope hanging in the shop. I returned to Applejack with the rope and proceeded to think about how I was going do this. After about fifteen minutes I finally thought of something.

"Alright Applejack Here's I'm going to do. I'm going to tie this loosely around your neck and then tie the opposite side of the rope to all the trees you kicked down. That way you'll be able to haul them over, sound good?"

"Worth a shot."

"Ok." I went over to her and tie the rope around her neck closer to her shoulders then the middle of her neck and then tied together the trees. "Alright your good to go." She stared moving and the the trees started to go side ways. "Hmm....I'm gonna need more rope. Hold on." I went back to the barn and got two ropes of different length and then walked back. "Ok that's try this again."

"What are those for?"

I held up the longer one. "I'm going to tie this one past where this rope is," I held up the shorter rope. "And I'll tie this one more towards you. If I tie them tight enough it might work." I proceeded to tie the ropes in their places being sure to tie them as tight as I can so they would actually stabilize the trees. "Alright I'm still not sure this will work but that's give a shot." She started moving again and for the most part the trees stayed straight. Seeing it pretty much working I went ahead and started hauling the chopped bits over, helping her when she needed it. When she got the trees over to the 'Wood Work Station' I still had another load to deliver. When that was done we started to make our way back up to the house, looking up the drive I could see my dad and grandpa were home.

"Hmm....how do you feel about meeting a few new people?"

"If their like yer mother ah wouldn't mind much."

"Good because you're going to."

"That's fine with me ah suppose."

"Ok then."

I wonder how this will turn out?

Dinner And...Well Nothing Really

We arrived at the house but I noticed Applejack wasn't coming with me.

"Whats wrong?"

"Ah'm just nervous..."

"Well so am I because I don't know how they'll react but you'll meet them eventually so why not now, ya know?

"Ah guess yer right but ah don't know.."

"Oh come on you trust me right?"

"Ah don't know why but yes, ah do."

"Good," I smiled. "Now come on it'll be ok"

I walked back into the house and this time I made sure Applejack was behind me. We walked in to the living room where my dad was talking to my mom. He looked at me and said hi but did a double take when he saw Applejack.

"Well your mother said something about a visitor but I didn't expect this!" He said looking at me and back at Applejack.

"Uh well yeah um....Dad meet Applejack, Applejack meet my dad."

"Howdy Sir." She said nervously.

"And she talks to, huh imagine that." He said sitting back in the chair. "So son how did happen upon this..." He paused in thought. "...Pony?"

"Well when I was done shooting last night I went into the woods and tripped over her. At first I thought some one was trying to break in or something but after she explained her self I brought her up here so she could use my phone to call someone to pick her up. I was quite shocked when I saw that she was a pony."

"And she's staying here?"

"Yeah she came from another world and has no way of getting back so....I hope that's ok."

"Hmm....I don't know."

"Sir ah would really appreciate it if ah could. Ah have no where else to stay or go and ah am from another world and my friends probably don't even know ah'm gone. Please Sir can ah stay here until ah can get home?"

"Where will you be staying?"

"In my room, I have that pull out couch bed deal she could sleep there."

"Hmm....alright she can stay."

"Thank you dad."

"Thank ya kindly Sir." Her and I fist/hoof bumped.

"So mom whats for dinner?"

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Dinner was good, we had seasoned pork chops with steamed peas. Well....the humans did, Applejack had another salad along some apples and some other fruit. I offer to give her the rest of my cherries but she said no. After dinner we did what one would normally do, video games, television, that sort of thing. I was playing MW3 with my dad and my sister was talking with Applejack, about what I don't really know but oh well. My dad and I were playing the Spec Ops on the new Chaos Mode and actually doing pretty good considering neither of us are good at video games. We could only survive until around three-and-a-half minutes but if you've played it you'd understand why that is. We started playing at six and now it was nine, so my dad had to stop and start getting ready to go to sleep. I went ahead and started playing multi-player, frankly getting my ass kicked. I yell when I play any type of multi-player and that prompted Applejack to look over the banister and practically yell at me.

"Zane would ya calm down?! If it upsets ya so dang much you should just stop playing the that darn thing!"

I left the lobby and looked up at her. "Yeah your probably right, I'm starting to get a headache anyway." I shut the console down and turned off the T.V. and went upstairs.

"Y'all better now?"

I scratched the back of my head. "Yeah still have a headache," I shrugged. "It'll past though. You going to bed?"

"Not just yet. Ah don't what ah'm going to do but ah'm not tired."

"Me neither. I'm probably going to play some computer games before I go to bed but I am going to change so unless you want to watch me you should probably wait out here." She went back into my sister's room. I shrugged. "Ok then."

It was now eleven-thirty and I started playing Minecraft. I was playing a mod that added a bunch of explosives and was blowing up random forests and villages until I got bored and switched over to Team Fortress 2. That lasted until two in the morning and I went bed. Applejack went to bed three hours before me. I just lied there and stared at the ceiling until I fell asleep.

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I was in a car, speeding down a street. I wasn't the one driving, I was in the back of the car and I couldn't see who was. All of a sudden the car crashed and I went flying into the front of the car and broke my neck and then I woke up. I looked at my watch and it was nine in the morning. "Screw this." I thought and went back to sleep.

I was now in a dark room and I could hear muffled voices. And that was pretty much it, oh I left at the creepy smiling thing floating around the room circling me while I'll was rocking back and forth in the middle in the room. I woke up again and it was noon and I dozed off again.

This time it was just a blank screen, nothing going on. I woke up again and it was one thirty, I sat up and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and looked over to where Applejack's bed was and she wasn't there which didn't surprise me. I got out of bed and went down stairs. I saw my mom and asked her where Applejack was.

"She went down to the barn to help your grandpa."

"Oh ok."

"You should go down there and see if they need help."

"I will just let me get food." I went out into the garage in opened the freezer and grabbed a couple of hot pockets. They were ham and cheese flavored. I put them in the microwave and got a mountain dew out of the pantry. I sat at the table and waited for my food to get done. I heard the door open and my grandpa and Applejack walked in. My grandpa was the first to speak.

"You're awake!"

"Yeah. What were you guys doing down there."

"We were just moving some stuff around. Nothing major."

"Oh ok." The microwave beeped and I went over an got my food. "You sleep good Applejack?"

"Ah did and yerself?"

"Kinda."

"You sure? You were moving around an awful lot."

"Well I had a couple of weird dreams but that's it." I took a bite of my hot pocket and took a drink of my mountain dew.

"Ah see. Well as long as you're alright."

She was silent and I finished my hot pockets and went back upstairs and started my routine of watching Yotube videos for a few hours.

The Storm

I've been on Youtube for about two hours now and Applejack was bored. She didn't say anything but I could tell because the energy in the room changed awhile ago I just ignored it until it got to me.

I looked over at her. "Alright fine, what do you want to do?"

"Ah don't know just not sit around all day it's starting to get to me."

I tried to think but couldn't come up with anything. So I just shrugged and went back to my computer.

After a few minutes I finally gave her a proper response. "Well I would suggest that we play a video game but with your hooves you wouldn't be able to hold the controller." I paused the video and faced her again. "I am sorry Applejack but there's not much to do around here." I went over to my bed and sat down on it, looking at her and waiting for her to respond to me. When there wasn't one I shook my head and went downstairs to get a drink.

"Hey Applejack!" I yelled through the house.

She came out of my room and stood at the top of the stairs. "Yeah?"

"Want something to drink?"

"Uh sure."

"Too bad." My mom glared at me and Applejack started back towards my room. "Chill out guys I'm just joking. Whatcha want?"

Applejack came downstairs and sat at the table. "Water would be fine Ah suppose unless you have apple juice?" I checked the fridge and shook me head. "Alright then. Water please." I silently got a cup out of the cabinet and grabbed a bottled water of of the fridge and poured her a cup of water. "Thank ya sugar cube."

"You should feel honored I was saving that for later."

"Were ya now?"

"Well actually no....I wasn't. To be honest I forgot it was in there otherwise I would be drinking it instead this." I sat by her.

"What is that stuff anyway?"

"Mountain Dew. It's like a lemon-lime drink or something like that. One of my favorites. Want some?"

"Uh...no thanks sugar cube. I'll just stick to the water."

"Alright then." I looked out the window and saw that it was raining a bit. I didn't think anything of it and just spaced out for awhile.

It's been awhile since Applejack and I have sat down at the table now. I was playing Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on campaign mode and she was watching me play. I told her the this was different from Zombies because you actually had an objective instead of just running around killing shit until you eventually die. She said she'd give it a fair shot and that she was skeptical but that was an hour ago. Whether she actually agreed with me or just couldn't find anything better to do, she was still here.

After about an hour or so my dad came home and mentioned to my mom and I that it was supposed to storm later. Sense this is Indiana we didn't really give a shit. I shrugged and my mom actually responded and then they started talking about the normal stuff. You know? The 'how was your day?' kinda stuff? And I just continued playing until dinner was ready, which was about another hour or so. My dad and I managed to get a few games in though and Applejack was still watching. I looked back and she was asleep. "Or maybe not ."

"Maybe not what?" My dad asked.

"I thought she was watching us play but nope. She's asleep."

My mom finished making dinner and we stopped and went over and got our plates. After I sat my plate down I went over and woke Applejack up.

"I was tryin' to nap here!"

"Oh I'm sorry I thought you liked eating. My apologies go back to sleep and miss dinner."

Her stomach growled. "Nah that's alright, Ah needed to wake up anyway."

I silently chuckled and went over to the counter to help her fix her plate. "Alright we have some more 'pony friendly' food tonight: We got Caesar salad and pasta that has no meat in it. Do you eat pasta?"

"Not normally. Usually only the fancier ponies eat pasta but If yer asking if it's safe fer me to eat, then yes."

"Alright how much do you want?"

"A hoof-ful of both if ya don't mind."

"Alright go sit down, I'll bring it to you." I piled on the food and brought the plate over to her. "I hope you don't mind but I put ranch on the salad."

"Not at all sugar cube."

I looked at her for a second taking a drink of my flavored water (because I've already reach my M.D. limit for today) and finally said something. "Ya know I've been wondering why do you call me that?"

"Oh Ah don't know I call all my friends that."

I was kinda surprised to say the least. She considers me a friend already? Wow. "Huh." Was all I managed to say.

"What?"

"Well we've only known eachother a full two days and you consider me a friend already. It just threw me off guard I guess."

"Is there any reason Ah shouldn't?"

I thought for a little bit. "No not really."

"Alright then."

"Yeah."

We were silent for the remainder of dinner and I went back to the video games after I was done eating.

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I've been playing for about two hours and changed over to Skyrim about forty-five minutes ago. It was raining pretty hard now and thundering a bit but nothing to bad yet. I was in the middle of a quest when the power went out.

"Aw shit!"

Applejack looked a bit startled. "What happened?"

I sighed. "I 'Fus-Ro-Dah'd' to hard," She looked confused. "The power went out so no more video games for awhile."

"Is that all? Shoot Ah thought something bad happened."

"Uh well...maybe something bad did happen just not around here." I shrugged. "Congrats Applejack you get to be apart of the tradition of standing out on the porch while it's storming."

"Don't ya think that's um..." She paused in thought.

"Stupid? Probably. Considering one time there were tornado conditions and what did you do? Sit on the porch. Now come on."

She shook her head. "Alrighty then." I opened the door for her and we went onto the front porch, I sat in one of the chairs and she just sat down on the floor.

I had my iPod with me and put on the song that I usually play during a storm. I had the volume low enough the I could hear the rain and thunder over the music. I closed my eyes and just let the sense of hearing take over. I hardly had heightened hearing due to the hearing loss thanks to my dumb-ass. Word of advice kids: Never shoot a gun without hearing protection it's been over a year and my ears are still ringing! Anyway, after the song was over I opened my eyes and in those few minutes the storm had gotten worse.

I sat there watching the storm when in between lightning flashes I notice a much dimmer flash come from the woods. I stared at where the flash came from for awhile until I saw something purple emerge from the tree line.

"Y'all see that?" I pointed in the direction of the purple thing.

"I think so. Is that the 'thing' in the woods you always talk about?" My mom teased.

I rolled my eyes. "No. He wears a black hooded cloak and is slightly spectral with his face obscured by darkness." She looked shock by the description and didn't say anything else. "You see it Applejack? Over there, purple thing came from a flash. See it?"

She squinted in the direction of the purple creature. "Twilight?"

"Twilight?"

"Yeah Ah reckon she's the reason Ah'm here but Ah can't tell if that's her or not."

I looked up at the sky and the clouds were almost black. "Well as much as I don't want to, I'll go check it out."

"Ah'm going to!"

"Nope"

"And why not?"

"Because there are dead trees that might fall down and I don't want you getting hurt."

"Ah appreciate it but she my friend and Ah'm going with you!"

I looked at my dad. "What do you think?"

"I don't think any of you should go but it looks like she's going anyway so you might as well go and keep her safe."

I sighed. "Alright Applejack dress and we can leave." She nodded and I went inside and upstairs to my room and stared to get dressed.

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I went back outside and tapped Applejack on the head causing her to look up at me. "I'm set let's go."

"Right."

"You should probably leave your hat here so you don't lose it in the wind."

She tapped her chin in thought. "Hmm....nah."

"Ok then lets go before it gets any darker." She shook her head and we stepped out into the cold rain and headed down to the woods.

It started hailing about a quarter of the way down and I started running to take shelter in the barn but I noticed Applejack wasn't with me. I called out to see where she was. And I got no answer.

"Applejack!?"

"Where are ya I can't see in this rain!"

"Oh for the love of!" I ran towards her voice and found her trying to hide under her hat. I picked her up and felt a couple fingers go....somewhere....just my luck.

"What in the!!"

"Sorry sorry sorry sorry." I said as I ran into the barn and sat her down.

She was blushing (understandably so) and shook her head. "You should really be more bucking careful where you put yer bucking hands!!"

Meanwhile I was puking in a corner and then after that I went over to a puddle and tried to wash my hands off and my mouth out to get rid of the taste of puke and made the mistake of scratching my nose. "Aw Fuck!! Goddammit! Son of a....ugh." I went back to the corner and started puking again. Then I went over to the same puddle and did the same thing except for scratching my nose. "Fucking apples...."

It stopped hailing as bad and we headed out. I didn't say anything to her I just tapped her on the shoulder and started running towards the woods when I looked behind me she was following so I guess she understood. I opened the gates and left them opened for Applejack and just continued towards the woods. I had reached the woods and began searching not really paying attention to where Applejack was. I saw Twilight (I think that's Applejack said her name was) and carefully but quickly approached her.

"Twilight?" She turned around and her eyes went wide. "Come with me I'll get you to shelter." And in response she lowered her head and shot something at me. "Fuck..." I caught the glowing ball of what the hell ever this is did a 360 from the force of this thing and shot up into the air. "Whoa betcha I can't do that again." She took the bet and shot at me again from her.....horn?!?! I held up my hands to catch this one but apparently I'm only capable of epic feats only once. The ball hit my hands and exploded, sending my flying into a tree about ten feet back. I did manage however to say, or rather yell very loudly a certain cuss word that starts with an "F". I didn't pass out but everything was blurry and Applejack ran over to me.

"Sugar cube?!" I didn't respond. "Oh no. Zane!! Are you okay!?!?"

"Kill, destroy, maim, ravage, harm." I looked up and pointed at the cause of my being like this. "That one!"

She looked at what I was pointing at and saw her friend looking at me still in her battle stance but with her head lifted. "Twilight?!"

"Applejack?! Get away from that thing!! He could hurt you!"

She looked at me and back at her friend. "How can he hurt me when he's out cold?!"

"What?" She looked at me. "Oh...I guess you're right." She started to walk over to us.

I slowing raised my head. "I'm not knocked out. I just can't move." I said in a calm, very aggravated voice. "Now if you ladies will be so kind as to get my the hell off of the ground and to shelter. I would be so happy and probably wont hurt her." I gritted my teeth.

"Come on Twi, help me out here."

"What!? Did you not hear him?!?!"

"Yeah Ah did, that him being him. Ya gonna help me or not?!"

"Hurry the hell up! If you haven't noticed it's storming and I am soaked. GET. ME. OUTA. HERE!!!" They picked me up and carried me over to the picnic shelter and sat me down on the table. "Thank you. Now would you mind telling me why you attacked me?"

"Yeah Twi why did ya?"

"I panicked! I saw a strange creature coming toward me and freaked out!"

"Tell me Twilight would a potentially hostile creature offer to take you to shelter in a storm?" I asked.

"Well in the Everfree maybe. And I can see that's not where we are..." she kinda trailed off a bit.

"Yeah yeah yeah we'll get to that later."

"...But what I'm really curious about is how did you deflect my spell? That was amazing. How did you do that?"

"No idea. But you're a fucking unicorn." I looked over at Applejack. "I don't think you told me about unicorns."

"So you didn't use a spell to deflect me spell?"

"No it just kinda happened. Is there a spell you can use to I don't know make me able to move again?"

"Oh right, sorry." She said as she cast another spell to cure my state of paralysis.

"Thanks. Now do you have a healing spell? I think you broke a rib or something."

"Yeah. Just continue laying down and I'll cast it." And she did. Most of the pain was gone now and I felt like I had more energy.

I didn't say anything and just concentrated on keeping warm. Needless to say I don't like Twilight to much right now.

I'll make her sleep in the barn.

Twilight: The Curious Pony Part 1

We were now in the barn taking shelter from the storm and Applejack and I were having a discussion about the sleeping arrangements to better accommodate Twilight.

"Y'all are not making her stay here!"

"Why not? She sure as hell isn't gonna stay in my bed! Or your's, or anywhere in the house!" I turned to Twilight and pointed. "Your ass is staying down here!" She shrunk a little and sat down on her....what are they called? Haunches? Well anyway she sat down and looked at the ground. Applejack didn't sit to kindly to that.

"Zane, look. Ah know yer mad at Twi but she's soaked and she'll get sick if she stays out here." She tried to reason but saw it was having little effect on me. "And Ah don't want to report to the princess that Twilight, her personal student, friend and a very important pony, died of some weird sickness from being out in the cold soaking wet fer too long."

"What's your princess gonna do? Come to my and punish me?" I laughed. "That's not going to happen."

"Let me put this way sugar cube: The princess is much more powerful than Twilight. So Celestia would have no trouble making it here."

I sighed and cooled down a bit. "Well if Twilight was able to paralyze me like that then there's no telling what the 'All Mighty Celestia' could do." I looked at my phone and it was almost ten. "Shit we better get back up there so they don't worry too much. I'm sure they heard me yell when our 'friend' here attacked me."

"So I don't have to stay in the barn?"

"As long as you keep your mouth shut, then no. So no talking on the way up." I stood there looking her over to see if she was hurt or not. "Maybe a few bruises right?"

"Huh?" Twilight said looking a little concerned.

"Nothing just thinking out loud. Are you hurt?"

"Uh..." She looked herself over. "I seem to be okay. My head kind of hurts from the amount of magic I had to use, but other then that I'm alright."

"So you can walk?"

"Yeah I think so."

"Alright then let's get going. Follow me." I said as I began to walk back towards the house. The rain has let up some but it was still raining pretty hard. I looked back and saw the other two weren't following me. "Don't make come back there and pick you up." Applejack blushed a little and Twilight spoke.

"Shouldn't we wait until it stops raining?" My only response was rolling my eyes, walking over to the purple mare and picking her up. She let out a small "Eep" when I did so.

"I warned you. Now let's get you back so we can dry you off."

She nodded slowly, still not to sure about being carried and we all started towards the house.

We were almost up to the house and I'm starting to regret the decision to walk back but it was getting pretty late. If I wasn't soaked before, I am now. We were coming up on the house now and my dad was walking towards us. He asked if I was alright and what happened.

"Yeah I'm fine. I just scared this one here," I showed him Twilight. "and she attacked me. It's all good now."

"Alright as long as your sure."

"Yep. Just need to get them dried off and they'll be set."

"Ok, son." And he went back inside and we followed him.

I set Twilight down and told her and Applejack to stay there and got some towels so they could dry off.

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"Well that was fun, wasn't it?" I asked both Applejack and Twilight. Twilight had already introduced her self and both ponies were dry now.

"Well I don't know about 'fun' but it sure was....something."

"Ah agree with Twilight, Ah don't want to do that again."

"I was really being sarcastic guys but ok." They didn't say anything. Applejack went up to our room and Twilight looked like she was studying pretty much everything. I asked her if she wanted me to get her anything but she declined, saying she would do fine on her own. I just shrugged and went up to my room.

Everyone else started to go to bed so I told Twilight she had to stop studying and come up here so we can figure out where she will be sleeping. Applejack said that she could sleep with her and I told her that it might back a bit cramped but she said that's fine. I looked at Twilight and she agreed.

It was ten-thirty now and I was waiting for my sister to get out of the shower. I resulted to playing Minecraft in the mean time. Twilight and Applejack were talking about something but I wasn't paying any attention and continued to play my game. I heard the bathroom door open and that reminded me to ask.

I turned to the girls. "Hey are any of you going to shower?"

Twilight shook her head. "I took one earlier before I teleported here but thanks."

Applejack looked a little more unsure. "Well uh....Ah might need one. Couldn't hurt Ah suppose."

"Alright then. Hey Applejack?"

"Yeah?"

"Wanna join me?" She blushed slightly and shook her head. I just laughed. "I knew you would do that. I'll be out in a bit."

The both said ok and then I went to take my shower.

After about twenty-five minutes I emerged from the bathroom and entered my room where Twilight was examining my PS3 and Applejack was waiting patiently for her turn in the shower. She saw me coming back into the room and got up to take her turn in the shower. She went into the bathroom and after a few minutes came back out.

"Hey uh sugar cube could ya help me?"

"Should have just joined me in the shower. I'm kiddin' hold on I'll be right there." I went over to the bathroom and asked her what she needed help with. She said she needed help with the water and needed to know what shampoo she could use. I told her she could use some of mine but when she smelled it she declined. So I knocked on my sister's door and asked her where her shampoo was. She asked me why and I told her. She said it was in the back of the tub and I told Applejack. I turned on the water and adjusted it to a comfortable temperature and left. Applejack thanked me and closed the door and I went back to my room and sat at my computer.

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"So video games are?"

"Ok you put a disc in the console and it shows up on the T.V. I don't really know much about it and no you can't take it a part."

"Ok? And how do you play?"

"Well that all depends on the game you play but you play using the controller and that sends signals to the console and that allows you to control the character your playing as."

"I see. Interesting. You humans are much more technologically advanced then I thought!"

"Yeah maybe too advanced..."

"What do you mean?"

I shook my head "Nevermind."

"Ok?" She moved over to my rifle. "And what is this?"

"It's my rifle."

"And that is?"

"A weapon. Or at least it was, well maybe not sure if it was actually used in World War Two. But anyway, yeah a weapon."

"Fascinating. We only have swords in Equestria. What does it do?"

"It shoots a projectile at long range."

"Hmm...magic can do that..."

"I know."

She laughed nervously. "Uh....yeah, so what does it shoot."

"A 7.62x54R round." I handed her one of the rounds. "And that's what it looks like." She grabbed it with her magic and examined it and started to take it apart. "What are you doing!?"

She jumped a little bit and dropped the taken apart round on the floor. "I'm sorry! I was just trying to figure out how it works!"

"Now there's powder on my fucking floor. Dammit." I sighed. "You should have told me before just going and doing it. I could have gotten a paper towel for you."

"You're not mad?"

I looked at her. "I am now since there's powder on my floor but other then that, no." She looked relieved and the bathroom doorknob jiggled and after a minute stopped. I chuckled and walked over to the door and knock on it. "Need help?"

"Yeah Ah do." I opened the door. "Thank ya kindly."

"No problem." She walked back into my room and I went to get a paper towel for Twilight and walked but to my room afterwards. "Here ya go Twilight. Now let's see how it works." She nodded and used her magic to lift the powder off of my floor and with the bullet and the casing.

She but everything on the paper towel. "Hmm...well if I was to make an educated guess. I would say that the powder was the propellant but what causes the propellant to project the bullet?" She looked at me for the answer.

"The firing pin of the gun hits the primer and that causes a spark which ignites the powder and due to the build up of gasses the bullet is propelled forward. All of this happens as soon as the trigger is pulled."

"Interesting."

"Yep. Are you done now it's getting kinda late."

She looked for a clock but couldn't find one. I showed her my watch and she agreed that is was getting late. She hopped onto her and Applejack's bed and laid down. I closed my computer, crawled into me bed and did the same but instead of trying to go to sleep I played on my iPod for awhile.

And so the cycle starts anew.

Twilight: The Curious Pony Part 2

"Zane, wake up." I grumbled "Come on wake up." I felt someone shaking me and grumbled again. I then felt pressure on my mattress like someone was now sitting on it.

I woke up a little. "What?"

"Come on Zane wake up."

I look over at my watch. "Twilight it's seven O'clock in the morning. It is not time for me to wake up. Go back to sleep."

She moved closer and whispered. "I know but I need.....help..."

"Bathroom?"

"Y-yes..."

I sighed. "Fine." I got up, walked into the bathroom and looked around. "What did you need help with 'cause I'm not seeing anything that you need help with." She said nothing and pointed at the toilet. "You clog it or something?" She blushed a bit and nodded. "I thought it was indestructible since it dealt with my brother after he ate a bad taco wow." She blushed even more and I went over and tried flushing to try to loosen everything up and it flushed. I look at Twilight with an 'Are you fucking kidding me" look. "Use the damn handle next time. That's what flushes it, ok?" Now she was really embarrassed and just went back to my room. I followed her, climbed back into my bed and fell back to sleep.

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I woke up and it was about three in the afternoon. "Fuck." I climbed out of bed went into the bathroom and combed my hair. After that I went down to the kitchen and got something to sate my hunger until dinner time. I noticed that Twilight and Applejack weren't anywhere to be seen so I looked out of one of the front windows facing the barn and saw them walking up from the barn. I went back into the kitchen and sat down at the table to finish my pre-dinner snack (no not mayonnaise) and wait for them two to walk in.

I threw my plate away and was walking into the living room when the front door opened and Applejack and Twilight walked in. Applejack spoke first.

"Hey! He's finally awake! About time." She said playfully. "I was just showing Twi around the woods. Ya know, when it isn't dark and all stormy out."

I sat down and looked at them. "Okay."

"She tried to look at your uh what ever that is by yer bed but Ah figured you'd probably get mad."

"You figured right."

"Since your awake now do you think I could look at it?"

"Sure Twilight. Give me a few minutes so I can wake up more and I take it apart."

"Or I could just use magic."

I rubbed my eyes."No I'm using tools. That's the way to do it not magic."

"Oh....okay." She looked a little disappointed.

"No offence or nothing but yeah I don't really trust your magic. You understand right?"

"I guess..."

I sighed. "You can use your magic to take a look at the parts but not not take it apart, alright?" She brightened up a bit. "And I'll let you use magic to bring it down here. If you want to that is."

"Sure no problem!" She practically ran up the stairs.

I looked at Applejack. "Strange friend you got there."

She smiled awkwardly. "Yeah....she gets like this when there's something she hasn't already studied."

"I see so she might be like that until you guys leave then. That is, if you do or can."

"That's definitely a possibility." She nodded her head.

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My rifle was now on the table and I was taking it apart. I firstly took the bolt out and set it on the table and then I separated the stock from the barrel. And that's pretty much it because I didn't want to take the bolt apart. "Okay done."

"That's it?"

"Yep now it's apart. Only three pieces to keep track of. Well minus the screws anyway."

"I see." She levitated the stock over to her. "This is obviously the part of the rifle that the user holds." She put it back down on the table and levitated the barrel over. "And this is where the bullets are projected from but what is that?"

"That's the magazine. It holds the rounds until they're put into the chamber."

"And the chamber must be above the magazine then. But how do they get into the chamber?"

"The bolt." I slid the bolt back into place. "Now imagine that there's a round in the magazine but nothing in the chamber, okay?" She nodded. "Alright. I pull the bolt back and if there was a spent round in the chamber it would be ejected and then I slide to bolt forward it puts the next round into the ready position." I explained and demonstrate.

"Interesting and pretty simple."

"Yeah nothing like good old Russian engineering huh?"

"Russian?"

"People from the country Russia are called Russians."

"You have other countries?"

"Doesn't your world."

"Yes but only four. There's our country, Equestria, then there's the Griffon Kingdom, the Dragon kingdom and then the Zebra Dominion. Now tell me about the countries of your world."

I looked at Applejack. She was just shaking her head like there was nothing she could do. "Well um....there's a lot and most of them have speak their own language."

"That's all you can tell me?"

"Yeah sorry. Not much I can tell you about someplace I've never been to."

"That makes sense." She picked up the bolt and started examining it but not asking questions.

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"So What do humans eat?"

It was close to dinner and I was getting hungry and the mention of food only made it worse. "We're omnivores. Well some of us. There are those who eat nothing but vegetables and there are those both meant and veggies."

"D-Did you say meat??"

I rolled my eyes. "Yes I said meat. Problem?"

"No, no problem." She started looking around nervously. "You haven't uh...been making A.J. eat meant have you?"

"No I haven't for the time she's been here my mom has been making food that she can eat. I meant it's kinda common sense that meat isn't good for her."

"Good, that's good. You had me worried for a second there."

I shook my head. "Don't know why, but okay."

About ten minutes went by and my mom got home from the grocery store and picking my sister up from school. I was helping put stuff away. "I was wondering where you were."

"Well was about three when I left."

"Yeah around the right time huh?"

"Yep. So how are you two doing today?" She addressed the ponies.

"Doing fine ma'am, Thank ya."

"Just great thank you." She said with a smile. "Zane has been teaching me about some of the things around here."

"Been trying to teach." I corrected.

"Oh yeah? Like what?" My mom asked.

"Well last night, he told me a little bit how game consoles work and he taught me a little bit about his rifle. And earlier we took it apart and he explained everything in detail!"

"I see. I wish he was more like you when he was younger." My mom teased.

"What do you mean?"

"Eager to learn about new things."

"Oh I see."

"How about you Applejack? What did you do?"

"Well Ah showed Twilight here around the place. The woods sure are pretty when it's not rainin' and dark."

"Sounds like you two had a pretty good day to me."

"Eeyup."

" Certainly did."

"Same here so far." I said coming back in from the garage.

"And when did you get up?" My mom asked

"About three."

"I see."

"Hey I said 'good day' not 'long day'."

"I guess you're right."

I wonder what's for dinner I'm hungry.

Work

Dinner was good. We had tacos and so did the two ponies but their tacos didn't have any meat on them. When we were done with dinner, I turned on the Xbox and started playing Skyrim. Applejack shook her head but sat down to watch and so did Twilight but I figure that's because she wanted to see an active example of how video games work. What I found funny was the look on her face when she saw the violence of it. She asked me if it is always this violent and I told about The Suffering and after the to her this didn't seem that bad.

It was around nine now and everyone was starting to go to bed as per usual. I decided to stop playing early and went upstairs to do....well I don't know yet. Twilight and Applejack are already up here, they came up about forty-five minutes ago. They were in bed but not asleep just talking about....when they're going back. I entered my room and the immediately stopped talking.

"Oh no, continue talking. I could here you from outside the room."

Twilight cleared her throat. "Yes, sorry Zane. Does your world have any phoenixes?"

"No why?"

She looked disappointed. "I need phoenix tears." She sighed. "They're an ingredient of the spell i used to get here."

"I see. Well we don't have any birds that are capable of producing tears. At least not that I'm aware of."

"How about crocodile tears?"

"Our crocodiles don't actually cry..."

She sighed "Then I'll try to find substitutes. I already have the maple and oak leaves and imbued them with magic."

"So magic leaves and tears? How does this work exactly?"

"When the leaves are imbued with magic they both have different magical properties. An example would be if you added sugar to something bitter, it give the bitter substance more of a sweet taste."

"So adding magic the leaves makes them....?"

"Um...think of the maple leaf a sweet substance and the oak leaf a bitter substance."

"Ok?"

"Adding magic to the maple leaf give it a slight bitter flavor and with the oak leaf a slight sweet flavor but not so much as to completely reverse it."

"I'm not following Twilight."

"Ugh nevermind."

Applejack shook her head. "Yeah Ah don't understand it neither. So sugar cube, you doing alright?"

"Yeah. I didn't Twilight would be looking to leave already. I mean this is her first day staying here and you've been here only about a week."

"Well she did come here to find me, not take a vacation."

"Yeah I know. I'm not so selfish as to force you guys to stay here. You have family and friends to back to and it's not my place to prevent you from going back. Hell I would try to help you, but I have a tendency to screw things up."

"Ah'm sure she'd appreciate the thought sugar cube. It's gettin' a bit late, why don't we hit the hay?" She suggested to all of us.

I responded but shutting my computer and Twilight was a step ahead of her and was already in bed.

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I woke up and noticed me mom practically yelling at me. I looked at the time and what day it was. "Shit! It's Friday I'm gonna be late!"

The ponies looked at me with confused faces and Twilight spoke. "Late for what?"

"Work! I work weekends and it's Friday! Shit." I started getting undressed and dressed in front them. The blushed and looked away. Well Applejack did Twilight however wanted to learn human anatomy. Good thing I didn't need to change underwear due to my shower last night. Who knows what questions Twilight would have. I got dressed and looked at the time. It was three and I need to be at my ride's house at three-thirty. I'm cutting it close because it's a twenty minute drive.

I got my keys and opened my computer. I looked at Twilight. "You can use my computer for any research, ok? If you have any questions just ask my mom Alright?" She nodded. "Good see ya later." They both said bye and I ran down the stairs, grabbed my sunglasses and left the house.

I sped down the roads and got to my ride's house in fifteen minutes. I parked in front of his house and went in.

"Sorry Jay. My lazy ass needs to learn to get out of bed on time."

"Yeah you do. I was going to leave without you."

"Well I don't expect you to stick around and be late to work for me."

"Good because I wasn't."

I finished getting ready and we left around four.

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Back at my house. 4:30 PM

"So Twi, what do you think we should do?"

"Well I'm going to do some research on what would be good substitutes for the tears I need."

"Hmm...Ah guess I can help around the house. Ah don't know."

"Oh! That give me an idea!" Applejack raised an eyebrow. "I can look around and see if there's anything here that would do."

"Ah can help ya look. Uh what all do you need to do fer the spell?"

"Once I get the ingredients, I need to grind up the leaves and put them into the substitute tears. Then I'll need to mix them all up into a fine paste and then the magical properties of each ingredients will be mixed together and when it mixes with my own magic the spell will be ready to be activated."

"Ah see. Well better get lookin'."

"Right!" Twilight said with a nod of her head.

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Pizza Hut. 5:30 PM

I had just clocked in and tried to find something to do. There was four people on the make table so I checked the dish room.

"Fuck my life..." I sighed. There was no one in the dish room so guess what I'm doing for the next eight hours. "I fucking hate this shit." I thought to myself and started working on the dishes.

One of the cooks working on the cut table came back. "Hey can you come get the dishes please?" It really was a question.

I nodded my head and got the oven mitts so I can get the hot pans. "Like I don't have enough fucking dishes to do." I thought to myself. He went back up front and I muttered to myself. "I hope it slows later."

The dishes were now practically stacked up to the ceiling. "Son of a bitch...."

Jay came back to the dish room "Hey Ricky just called in sick so you might be on your own."

"Fuck! Great....You see this shit man?"

"Yep better get to work." He said as he started to wash his hands.

"Your an ass, you know that?"

"Yep and I'm a dick. I thought you were used to it?" He said in a almost unreadable tone but I could tell he was at least somewhat joking.

"I am. I'd just like some help is all."

"I would help you, but look at this." He finished washing his hands and motioned for me to follow him.

I followed him and looked at the screen. The cooks were ten tickets behind. I whistled. "Damn, I'll let you get back to work then." He nodded and I walked back to the dish room and started doing dishes again.

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Back at my house. 6:15 PM

Applejack was still helping Twilight look for a good substitute and they both were having little luck. Twilight levitated something over to her, briefly looked at it, shook her head and put it back.

"Um Twilight how much longer do ya think this is going to go on fer?"

"I don't know but it doesn't seem that there's anything that will be useful."

"Hmm....Ah'm sorry Twi but Ah can't think of anything."

"It's ok Applejack. I'll just have to do some research. I might have to use Zane's computer, there are barely any books here."

"Well he did say ya can. Ah'll just find somethin' to do Ah guess."

"You can help me make dinner. I didn't realize how late it was." My mom said as she was walking down the stairs.

"Ah'll be happy to ma'am."

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Pizza Hut. 7:50 PM

"I'm hungry. I really wish they would let you have a free personal pan or something. This sucks."

"Hey we have a cancelled pizza here!"

"Well then get it off the screen!"

"It's already made!"

Please don't throw it out. Please don't throw it out.

"Well then toss it and be done! Don't get hung up by it!"

Fucking inconsiderate bastards...

"No save it! I'm sure some people would appreciate it!"

"Alright then!" The pizza was set down on the prep table. A few people walked over to it and grabbed a piece. I made sure I got in there before it was thrown away.

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Back at my house. 8:30 PM

"Excuse me, do you know when Zane is coming back?" Twilight asked my mom.

"He comes back Monday."

"I see. He said I could use his computer but since he was running late he couldn't show me how to use it. I was wondering if you could help me?"

"Of course! Come with me."

"Thank you." They went upstairs and into my room.

"Ok what do you need help with?"

"I need to know if there something similar to the ingredients I need for the spell."

"Ok I think you need something to type with."

"No need I can use my magic to type. Is the anything like a typewriter?"

"Yes. Just press a key to type. Here, I'll get you started." She opened up Yahoo. "Alright just type something in the search bar and press enter and that's all."

"Thank you."

"No problem."

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Pizza Hut. 11:45 PM

"I'm glad it slowed down but now there's barely anything to do. Floors have been swept and mopped and the dishes are surprisingly done."

The manager in charge came up to me. "Hey you and Jay can leave. It's pretty slow right now and we don't need ya, so go ahead and clock out."

"Ok." Wow got lucky.

Jay came up to me on the way to the computer. "Hey you clock out yet?"

"Doing that right now."

"Well hurry up. I want to get out of the damn place."

"Same here." I clocked out and looked at the schedule. We both have Sunday off. I got changed into a normal shirt and entered the car. "Hey dude we both have Sunday off."

"Do we?"

"Yeah man. I checked the schedule before I came out here."

"Sweet."

"Hell yeah."

And now to go to his place and play some video games.

Saturday

"Dude wake up! We're going to be late!"

"Shit, really?"

"Yes really. It's already three O'clock."

I sat up and rubbed my eyes. "Fuck I had a weird dream." I grabbed my jeans and went into the bathroom to change.

"Did you know?"

"Yeah it was fuck up. I got into a fight with someone one and well you've heard enough about those kinda dreams to know what happened."

"Yeah, now hurry up I have to piss."

"I'm just changing my pants." I opened the door. "See only took a minute. Now go take your precious piss." I exited the bathroom and went into the kitchen. "Hey do you have any thing to eat!?"

"You can have that chicken yakisoba! Not the spicy one the regular one!"

"Alright!" I grabbed both of the yakisoba and hid the spicy kind.

Jay walked into the kitchen and my food was almost done. He checked the pantry. "Where's the spicy chicken one?"

"Oh...shit. Damn dude I wasn't paying attention."

"What the fuck man..."

"Naw man, I'm just kidding it behind the cereal."

He said nothing and shook his head. Today's going to be a fun day...

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Back at my house. 3:30 PM

"Hey Applejack, what do you think Zane is up to?"

"Probably at work? Ah don't know he never said when he had to be at the um....Pizza Hut."

"Hmm....oh well I'm sure he's fine. Anyway, I think I finally found at least one substitute for the spell."

"That's mighty good news Twi. What about the other one?"

"Um...well still nothing on that but I do have a few leads. I just hope they go somewhere."

"So do Ah. My family must miss me."

"And I'm sure Spike misses me to."

"Well Ah'm going to see if Ah can find anything to do."

"Ok. I'm going to get back to researching." Twilight heard my mom walking by. "Hey, do you have any peroxide?"

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Pizza Hut. 4:30 PM. Just arrived at work.

"Aw shit....look at the parking lot....fuck." I said as I saw the packed parking lot in front of us.

"God damn it! I was hoping for a slow day."

"So was I buddy but at least we have tomorrow of right?"

"Yeah but still. This sucks."

"Yes it does."

We walked in and it was in chaos. People yelling at each other, one cook on the make table, and no dish washer. Which was one of the reasons people were yelling at each other. Since we were here early we didn't have to work so I'm hoping it will slow down in the next hour and a half.

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Back at my house. 6:00 PM

"Hmm.....maybe but I'm still not sure. Perhaps I should try looking somewhere else?" She moved the mouse and clicked on something else. "That might just work, hmm.....I think I'll try to that." She wrote down the name and closed my computer, satisfied.

"Have ya finally got it Twi?"

"I think so. Now all I need is this." She showed it to Applejack.

"Uh Twi? Ah don't get how salt water would do the trick."

"I'm....not sure myself, but it has nearly the same chemical properties as crocodile tears. And I'm still not sure how this 'peroxide' is going to help either, but ninety-five percent sure it will work."

"And the other five percent?" Applejack asked raising an eyebrow.

"The spell fails and we're stuck here until we can try again."

"And that's all?" Twilight shook her head. "Yer sure?"

"Yes A.J. I'm sure."

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Pizza Hut. 7:45 PM

"Shit man they just keep coming! I am your here today Ricky, I wouldn't be able to keep up."

"Hey don't sweat it. Let's just not to fall to far behind, ok?"

"Gotcha. I wouldn't want to do that."

"Me neither." He said as he put another tray of dishes in the dish washer after I pulled the freshly clean dishes out and started putting them away.

"I can't believe how busy it is today." I thought to myself.

The cook from cut table came back. "Hey can you get the dishes please?"

"Hey I got this." Said Ricky as tried to find the oven mitt.

I just tried to stay got up until he was done getting the hot pans.

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Back at my house. 8:30 PM

"There we're all set."

"But don'tcha think we should wait till Zane gets back sugar cube? Ah mean he did take care of us while we were here. Sure him and Ah had a um....rocky and all but still. And not mention despite him being upset with ya he still let you stay in his room, instead of the barn. So what do you say?"

"Ugh fine I just wanna get home..."

"So do Ah Twilight. Ya have to remember Ah've been here longer than you."

"I know. I just thought that, that's all the more reason to get back to Equestria."

"Ah miss our home to Twilight....maybe more then you think."

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Pizza Hut. 9:15 PM

"Fuck this day! Sheesh that sucked!" I was on break and sitting outside. "Hmm....I think I'll try to give my mom a call." I thought grabbing my phone. I found her number and called.

"Hey Z.

"Yeah, hey mom

"I thought you were working?"

"I'm on break, how are the guests doing?"

"Oh they're doing fine. Twilight has been doing research on something."

"I see, has she used my computer at all?"

"A little bit yes. She seems to be done though."

"Cool can you put her on?"

"Yeah one sec." A minute went by. "You're on speaker phone. I'm going leave the room to give you privacy."

"Ok thanks mom."

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Back at my house. 9:18 PM

"Um....H-hello?"

"Hey Twilight. How are you? My mom said you've been doing research?"

"Yes I have. I think I have suitable substitutes for the tears."

"That's good to hear. So you two leaving soon then?"

"Uh..." Twilight looked at Applejack, who was shaking her head.

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Pizza Hut. 9:25 PM

"Hello? you guys there? I mean it's ok if you two leave before I get back."

"No, It isn't. Twi may have the proper ingredients fer the spell but we're staying till you get back."

I smiled a bit. "Ok glad to hear it. So what have you guys been up to?"

"Not much just helping out 'round the house and trying to help Twilight with her spell."

"As for me, I have mainly been doing research."

"Nerd!" I chuckled. "Naw I'm just playing but you are a bit of an egghead."

"I am not an egghead! I am well read."

Applejack chuckled. "I have a have a surprise for you when you get back sugar cube."

"Huh?" Twilight and I both said at the same time.

"I think yer going to like it. Welp gotta go get a shower. Bye!"

I scratched the back of my head. "Twilight? Do you......?"

"No. No idea...."

"Hmm..... He-" The alarm I set so I wouldn't be late clocking back in went off. "Oh nevermind I have to go see ya tomorrow."

"Goodbye."

I wonder what she meant?

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Back at my house. 9:35 PM

"Hey Applejack?"

"Yeah?" Applejack answered entering the bathroom.

"What kind of surprise?"

"Uh...nothing special, just something Ah thought of last minute."

"Are you lying to me Applejack?" Twilight dead-panned.

"No, no. Ah just uh....need a shower. Be out in a bit!" She almost slammed the door behind her

"I wonder what she's up to."

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Pizza Hut. End of shift. 2:00 AM

"I am so fucking glad we have the day of tomorrow! God damn today sucked. How was it up on the make table?"

"Not to bad. At one point we were twenty orders behind but I stopped caring after people started leaving."

"Oh so that's what all the yelling and shit was."

"Yeah. I bet the dish room sucked."

"Dude you have no idea. It's like one of the other stores gave us their dishes or something."

"It honestly would surprise me. I know I said we would play Zombies when we got back but I just want to crash. You cool want that?"

"Yeah man, There's no way we can get past round eighteen like this."

He did the "Challenge Considered" pose and then shook his head. "We could get higher than that but fuck it i'm to tired."

"Same here. Let's get the fuck out, man."

forty-five minutes later we got to his house and passed out.

Leaving

I awoke to the sound of the TV and Jay talking to his mom. I sat up and looked at the TV to see what was on. It was some sort of "Repo man" show.

"Hey Zane you awake yet?"

"Yeah. Hey what time is it?" I said rubbing my eyes.

"Almost four."

"Damn, slept in a bit huh?"

"You did, I woke up an hour ago."

"You eat?"

"Yeah but my mom is making dinner in a bit, so you might just want to get a snack instead of eating something bigger than that."

"So, a small bowl of cereal?"

"Something yeah."

"Alright." I walked into the kitchen and poured myself a bowl of cereal and went back into the living room and watched whatever was on TV.

It was now four-thirty and we were now watching America's Dumbest Criminals. His mom (yes he lives with his parents as well) was making dinner and we decided to play some MW3 after it the show was over. He eventually changed his mind and decided since the show was almost over anyway we would just play now. We played some Spec Ops Survival mode until dinner was ready.

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Back at my house. 5:15 PM

"Hey Twi? When do you think Zane's goin' to get back?"

"I don't know. He said he has today off, so I think he would be coming back today."

"Ah hope so. We really need to leave soon, can't keep Ponyville waitin' ya know?"

"Yeah I feel the same way. Hey what was your surprise?"

"Ah'm not tellin'. You'll have to wait until he get's home."

"Really? Can't you at least give me a hint?"

"Well....Ah suppose Ah can tell ya, just keep quiet ok? Come here."

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Jay's Place. 6:00 PM

"Dinner was good. Thank you." I told Jay's mom.

"Thanks."

I turned my head to Jay. "So what now?"

"You up for some Zombies?"

"Sure."

We went into his room and started up the Xbox and started playing. He chose Moon as a warm up map.

We've been playing for about an two hours now and changed to Der Reise. We were on wave eighteen. I went down and all hell pretty much broke loose for Jay. We didn't go any further than that. He started a new match and we started playing again this time for an hour and a half.

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Back At My House. 9:30 PM

"Ah thought he would be back tonight."

"There's still time Applejack."

"Ya think so?"

"Yeah! It's only..." She looked at the clock. "...Oh, I guess it is pretty late."

"Yes it is, that's why Ah'm worried."

"Don't be silly Applejack. He's fine, I'm sure of sure of it.

"Okay Twi."

"You just want him back so you can give him his surprise. Am I right?"

"I-I um...maybe...but that's not-"

"I knew it! Now relax, everything will work out."

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Jay's Place. 10:25 PM

We died on round twenty-three and I checked my phone to see what time it was. "Crap I need to get going man." I started pack all of my stuff.

"I was hoping we could play another round, but ok."

"Nah sorry but I need to head out." Everything was packed and I was set to go. "See ya later."

"See ya."

I walked out of the house and entered my car and started it. I looked at my iPod to select the band I would be listening to on my way home. "How about Seether. Hmm...I think their newest album will do." I selected it and put my iPod on the passenger seat and then shifted my car into drive. I looked at my gas gauge to determine if I needed to get gas, and thankfully I didn't.

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Back At My House.

It was ten-fifty when I pulled into the driveway and opened the front gate. I got into my parking spot, got out of my car, grabbed my stuff, and headed inside. I was greeted by the usual barking of the dogs and I tried to get them to quiet down and it kinda worked. I went upstairs into my room and was greeted by a glowing horn pointed at my face.

"U-uh Twi? I-it's just me, power down the magic please."

"Oh sorry. Do your dogs always do that?"

"Yep." I set my stuff down and sat down on my bed. "Where's Applejack?"

"Bathroom. How was work?"

"Oh my god Twilight you wouldn't freaking believe how busy it was yesterday." I shook my head. "That sucked. How about you guy's weekend?"

"Well Applejack showed me around the woods but other then that, I mostly did research."

"Any luck on finding any substitutes?"

"Actually I was able to find some. Hopefully they work."

"Yeah hopefully." The bathroom door opened and Applejack walked into the room. "Hey Applejack. What's up?"

"Yer back! I thought you were going to miss us leaving."

"No, I just suck at watching time. How was your weekend?"

"Well Ah mainly did stuff around the house, but Ah also helped Twilight with her research. What about yer's?"

"Busy and sucked. Slightly stressful to."

"Well Ah'm sorry to hear that sugar cube."

"Eh it happens. You guys tired?" The nodded their heads. "Ok just let me do something real quick." I opened my computer and opened the browser and checked the history. "Ok good. nothing but science websites and shit." I closed my computer and started to get changed when I noticed both of the ponies looking at me funny. I pulled my pants back up and went into the bathroom to change. That look in Applejack's eye was kinda concerning.

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I was changed into my sleep clothes and was laying down on my bed. I was playing on my iPod and felt like I could fall asleep at any minute. All of a sudden I felt something jump on my bed and then Twilight's horn started to glow. Applejack was on my bed.

"Uh...what are you doing?"

"Ah told ya, you were going to get a surprise." That's an interesting tone of voice.

"But..." I was cut off by something quite unexpected. "D-d-did you really just?...But you're a pony...."

"And is that a problem?"

"F-f-for humans, yes. Why did you kiss me?"

"Oh Ah'm sorry sugar cube Ah didn't know." Did she sound....disappointed?

"No i-it's ok. It was certainly a surprise though."

"Well Ah was planning on some other things but.... uh never mind. Ah-Ah'll just go to bed now." Oh god no! Really?!

"You didn't answer my question though."

"What question?"

"Why did you kiss me?"

"To thank ya, that's all."

"And the 'other things'."

"Ah rather not get into that. I forgot myself again sugar cube, Ah'm sorry."

"You know what concerns me even more is that was uh....was Twilight going to watch?" Twilight jumped and the glow of her horn suddenly went away.

"Sorry Zane, I may have let my thirst for knowledge go a little too far."

"Ya think?" I dead-panned.

"How about we all just go to sleep before anything else happens.

"Y-yeah good idea."

We all laid back down and went to sleep. Well Twilight did anyway.

A few minutes after the previous conversation, Applejack broke the silence.

"Um...Zane you awake?"

"Yeah. What do you want?"

"Ah just wanted to apologize fer what happened earlier..."

"Again?"

"Y-yeah again..."

"You know, I was actually thinking about that. I mean, you can talk and that rule or what ever it is only applies to earth ponies and you're not an earth pony.......well you are....but you're not from this world."

"Yer point?"

U-um..." I scratched the back of my head. "...I guess what i'm trying to get at is: I don't think there would be any problems with two sentient beings doing....um.....stuff..."

"You sure about that sugar cube? Ah don't want to cause any problems."

"Well I'm not entirely sure. No, but looking at it from a logical stand point. It was your idea in the first place. So since I'm not forcing anything on you..." She cut me off.

"Ah get it, Ah get it. Now shut up and kiss me."

"You got to come over here first." She was more than happy to oblige.

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And romantic/lustful things happened.

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I woke up in the actual morning, to find Apple jack still in my bed. She was curled up next to me, her face facing mine. I stroked her mane and that woke her up a little bit. She slowly opened her eyes, smiled and kissed me. I smiled and kissed her back and then reached for my watch and checked the time. It was eight-thirty, I set my watch down and turned back over to Applejack.

"I think we have some more to sleep." She didn't say anything, she just buried her face into my chest and I went back to sleep.

I woke up again to find that it was noon and that Applejack wasn't on the bed. I sat up and looked around. Twilight wasn't here either, and neither was the ingredients for the spell. I mentally kicked myself for both sleeping in and the night before. She does have to leave after all. I went downstairs and decided to make one of my signature sandwiches. It had cheddar and provolone cheese, three slices of turkey and two slices of ham, two slices of dill pickle and ranch dressing. And to finish it, I put it in the microwave for a minute so the cheese could melt. When it was done, I grabbed a mountain dew, the plate and sat down in the living room to watch TV.

I was about half way done with my sandwich when the door opened. I didn't think anything of it and continued to eat and watch the television. What caught my attention was that Twilight walked in. I just stared at her in surprise, she saw me staring and looked herself over.

"Do I have something on my face?"

"No....I just thought you left. I'm kinda surprised to see you actually."

"Why would we leave without you seeing us off?"

"Oh I don't know. So what are you up to?"

"Testing out the spell to see if the ingredients work."

"Any luck?"

"It appears my theories are correct. The only real problem is getting the portions right."

"I see. At least you can go home though, right?"

"Yes." She looked at my sandwich. "That looks good."

"Really? It has meat in it."

"Oh....well if you took the meat out of it, I would try it."

I got up and headed into the kitchen. "White bread or wheat bread?"

"You're really going to make me one?"

"Yeah of course! Now white or wheat?

"Wheat please."

"Ok. So you just want the cheese, pickles and ranch then?"

"Yes just no meat." She nodded.

"Gotcha. While I'm making this, can you go and ask A.J. what she wants, if anything."

"Sure."

"Thanks."

I left the bread and everything else out and put Twilight's sandwich in the microwave. Applejack and Twilight came in after a few minutes.

"You took a little longer then I thought."

"Yeah sorry we were discussing something."

"So Applejack, you hungry?"

"Just a little. Twilight said you were making sandwiches?"

"Yeah, you want one?"

"Sure. Ah don't much care what you put on it, just no meat please."

"Gotcha."

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We finished eating about thirty minutes ago. They both thought the food was good and thanked me for making it. Applejack and I were sitting on the front porch, watching Twilight experiment with the measurements of the ingredients. I couldn't help but admire how smart this little purple mare is. The human race would learn a lot from her but I bet if the government found out about her they would take her to some facility to "study" her. Such a fate I would not wish on any peaceful species, but this is coming from someone who thinks animal life is more sacred then human life. I could spent an hour trying to discuss the philosophy but I'll spare you.

After about an hour of watching Twilight adjust measurements she finally got it. I just sat there and watched the magic happen. I was amazed to say the least, nothing in my life so far has been this awesome. The air was visibly swirling around, the mixture of ingredients lifted up, out of the bowl they were in and made a frame in the shape of an oval. Kinda like the portals in Portal 1 and 2. The mixture started to turn colors. First a section of turned purple, then another section turned pink, then another blue and then another orange, then yellow, and then one turned white. In a word it was weird. Twilight turned around and looked at both me and Applejack.

"I modified the spell. Instead of a trans-dimensional teleportation spell, I turned it into a gate way of sorts." I was speechless to say the least. I have always believed that other dimensions exist, and now I'm staring right into one. Twilight spoke again. "This is what took so long. I had the original spell done an hours ago. That's when I went inside and talked to you." She looked at me. "It was originally to say goodbye but before I could say that, I had an idea."

I finally found my voice. "So why a portal? Why not just...ya know...teleport?"

"That's what Applejack and I were discussing while you were making sandwiches."

"Ok?"

She chuckled. "I'll let you have the honor of asking Applejack."

"Right." She nodded her head. "Uh... Zane?" She scratched the back of her neck.

"Yeah?"

"W-would you like to come with us? Not to stay of course but just to visit our world for awhile?

I thought about it for a bit but then shook my head. "Why delay the inevitable? We will have to part ways anyway, right? So why drag it on?"

They both looked disappointed and slightly hurt. "Oh ok then.....Ah guess we should get going Twi..."

"Yeah I guess we should. Bye Zane, hopefully we will be able to see you again."

I looked down at the ground. "Yeah see ya."

"Bye sugar cube..."

"Bye..."

They both entered the portal and I turned around to go into the house but in the reflection of the window, I noticed that the portal was closing slowly. I shook my head and went into the house. Then a thought occurred to me. Why let it end like this? Why not grab hold of this opportunity to see a different dimension? I couldn't think any logical reason.

I ran upstairs into my room, quickly put my jeans and shoes on, yelled bye to my mom, pretty much burst through the front door slamming it closed behind me, sprinted to the portal and did a dolphin dive (because the portal was too small for me to walk through it) and landed about fifteen feet behind Twilight and Applejack. They were walking with their heads down and talking.

"Ah thought fer sure he would want to come..."

So did I A.J. But he has family and friends to."

"Ah guess...But why couldn't he just visit? Ah wasn't asking him to stay."

"I know Applejack. I know."

I looked behind me and the portal was closed. I looked ahead and they were about I don't know maybe twenty feet now. I slowly caught up and sneaked behind until I wanted them to know I was here. After about a minute of trailing behind them I poked Applejack on the flank. I must have startled her because she tried to kick me. I dodged it and simply sat down on the the path. They both turned around but with different expressions on their faces. Applejack's with an angry expression and Twilight's was more of a confused one which stayed even when it registered that It was really me sitting here.

Applejack walked up to me like she was sure she was hallucinating. She touched me, poked me, prodded me, and what ever else until she decided to simply ask."

"Is that really you?"

"Uh well." I looked around and checked myself over. "No."

"Yep it's you alright." She smiled and I got up and started walking with them.

I can't believe I just jumped into a portal! And into a different dimension no less!

Meeting Some Ponyfolk

We were walking towards Ponyville. Applejack said she wanted to take me to her farm first, I shrugged and said. "Whatever is cool with me." She seemed excited that I agreed and smiled. Twilight wanted to show me her library,as well as some of the books. I told her that I'm not much of a book person. That caused her to seem a little less excited, that was until I told she could show me anyway.

While walking through town, the other ponies roaming the town were staring at me. I felt a little uncomfortable, but I guess it partly my fault for bringing attention to myself. It's attention catching enough that I'm something they probably haven't seen before. But adding a jump every few steps seemed to do pretty good. I stopped as soon I notice all of the attention I was getting and started walking normally again.

We arrived at Applejack's farm after a lot of walking.

"Welcome to Sweet Apple Acres!" Applejack said excitedly.

"That's a lot of trees."

"Sure is. Yer lucky it's not Apple Buckin' Season. Ah would put you to work."

"Yeah I am lucky, huh?"

She nodded. "Come on, let's meet the family."

"Ok."

She lead me to the small farm house in the middle of the farm. She opened the door and invited me in. I entered and immediately notice an elderly green pony sitting in a rocking chair. I assumed it was Granny Smith and sat down on the couch and looked around the room. There were pictures a young Applejack and two other adult ponies on the wall. If Big Mac was her older brother, then its possible the stallion is him but the mare seemed to young to be Granny Smith.

"Hey A.J.?"

"Yeah sugar cube?" I pointed to the picture and she walked over to it. "Oh... Yer wantin' to know who these two ponies are, huh?" There was sadness in her voice.

"Um yes?"

"They were my parents" Tears started to form. "This hat is my Pa's. Ah wear it around in memory of him."

"No!"

"Huh?" She looked confused.

"No being sad, ok? You're home now and I'm here."

"Yeah yer right. Stay here Ah'm going to round up Big Mac and Applebloom."

"Ok."

Its been a few minutes since she left to get the others and Granny Smith hasn't woken from her nap yet. I would be sure she was dead if not for the gentle raising and falling of her chest. Since I am so uncomfortable around old people, I went and explored the house. First place I went to was the kitchen. I was surprised to see a fridge in there but shrugged it off and sat back down in the living room. It was just a minute or two after I sat down the Applejack returned with her siblings.

"Sorry Ah took so long sugar cube, but it seems Ah was gone longer than Ah thought."

"How long Equestrian time has it been?"

"Seems its been about a month and a half."

"Whoa." I noticed the two other ponies staring at me and awkwardly waved at them. "Um...hi."

The larger one just stared at me and the younger seemed a little more interested. "Howdy! Applejack told me you took care of her while she was with you."

"Yes little one, I have." I smiled at her. "I'm Zane by the way. You are?"

"Ah'm Applebloom! And this is Big Macintosh." She said jumping on her big brother. "He's my big brother, ain't that right Big Mac?"

"Eeyup." He said still staring at me.

Applejack went over to Granny Smith and shook her a bit and woke her up. "Granny, we have a guest."

"What? Who is it?"

"Its the fella that took care me while Ah was gone."

She took out a pair glasses, put them on and looked around the room a bit before seeing me. "Aha!! Yer the reason Applejack vanished!! How could you do such a thing to a poor little old lady!?"

"I-I um......but it wasn't me...." I looked at Applejack and the others.

Applejack spoke first. "Ah'm sorry sugar cube, Granny gets a little cranky when shes woken up from her nap."

I nodded my head and looked at Granny. "I'm very sorry for disturbing your nap ma'am. Should I leave?"

They all looked at the elderly mare. "A friend of Applejack's is a friend of mine, but don't you wake me up again!"

"Understood." Granny Smith sat back in the chair and fell asleep as soon as she got comfortable. "That was fun..."

"Awful sorry about that sugar cube."

"Don't worry about it. So Big Mac, Applebloom what's it like around here?"

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The two ponies (mostly Applebloom) told me about the farm life, which led to some stories, and then somehow lead to me trying an apple pie. And was it delicious! Applejack told the rest about how apples make me sick but I told her I didn't want to rude. It seems that I'm also going to stay at Applejack's house until I go back home. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

After a few more stories we left towards town. Applejack was taking me to the library, and from there Twilight was going to show me around the rest of the town, while Applejack was going to catch up on chores. It was silent on the way there. It was getting to Applejack, so she decided to strike up a conversation.

"Well sugar cube what do you think so far?"

"I think it seems peaceful enough. And its a pretty nice day."

"It is isn't it? Ah thought there was supposed to by a storm today, but Ah guess they postponed it."

"I guess. So where is the library?"

"Should be right up ahead."

"I just see a big tree."

"That would be it."

"Really? That tree is a spy? I mean library?"

"Y'all make no sense sometimes you know that?"

"Yeah I know. Sometimes I do it on purpose." I smiled as she shook her head.

We arrived at the library and Applejack knocked on the door. A small purple lizard like thing answered the door.

"AH!" Me and the purple thing yelled at the same time.

Twilight came from behind him. "Whats wrong Spike? Oh hi Applejack, Zane, what do you think of Equestria?"

"Well so far it's alright. But um...what is tha I-I mean he."

"Oh that's Spike he's a baby dragon."

"I see. Can we come inside?"

"Oh! Yes sorry, come in, come in."

"Thank you." Both Applejack and I said and entered.

We sat at the table in the middle of the room. Well I sat on the floor because the chairs were to small. You talked about where Twilight was going to take me and when she'll have the spell ready. She said the first place we should go is a place called Sugar-Cube Corner. That's an odd name for a bakery. She also warned me about Pinkie Pie. I don't really do well with the hyperactive types but hey there's cake there. Applejack left for her house a few minutes ago and we were getting ready to head for Sugar-Cube Corner.

"She can't be all that bad, right?"

She laughed nervously. "Well she can be a hoof-ful sometimes. But you'll be fine, she means well."

"Great."

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We have just arrived at the bakery, and I just noticed something about the building.

"It's made of gingerbread?"

"Yes." Confirmed Twilight.

"I see.... Well we going in?"

"Yeah we just ne-" She was interrupted by a pink flash running into her.

"Oh hi Twilight!"

"Hi Pinkie." She said with an annoyed tone.

"What brings you here? Oh wait! Don't tell."

Twilight sighed. "Pinkie..."

"Is it to order cupcakes?"

"No."

"Brownies?"

"No."

"Cherrychangas?"

"No!"

"Wait a minute." I spoke up. causing both mares to perk up and look at me. "Cherrychangas? What are those?"

Pinkie gasped loudly, startling me thanks to my Phonophobia. "Who's your friend?! What's your friend? What's his name?" She keeps talking at a thousand words per second!

"Uh Pinkie," She said cause the pink one to stop talking. "I think you're making him uncomfortable." Pinkie looked towards me and I was about five feet away from where I originally was. Twilight walked over to me. "She didn't actually scare did she?"

"No actually, she just got a bit loud. She always like this?"

"Only when she meets somepony new. She is, however always random."

"Randoms ok just not the overexcited loudness."

Pinkie walked over. "Aw I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." She reminds of someone. Hmm... "Hello?" This is bothering me. "Aw I really did scare him. I'm so-"

"G.I.R.!! That's who you remind me of!" I laughed at their confused looks. "It's a cartoon character from one of my favorite cartoons."

"So you're not scared?"

"Ha! No I'm not scared. You're a pink pony with balloons on your flank. Why would I be scared of you?"

"Yippee!! We need to have a welcome party for you!"

"Whoa whoa whoa, Pinkie. I don't like parties, I don't really do well at them. But what I do like is cake...and pie....and...brownies....I'm hungry again..."

"Well come on inside. I'll make you some!"

"Cherrychangas too?"

"You betcha."

"Cool." I turn to Twilight. "Looks like I'm going to like it here after all."

Meeting The Tomboy And The Priss

"You know Pinkie? Cherries are one of my favorite fruits, but I never thought about wrapping them up in tortillas and frying them. What kind of tortilla is this? Flour or corn?"

"Cinnamon tortilla." She said with a smile.

"How did you make it?"

"Instead of flour, I used cinnamon."

"But how-" I was interrupted by Twilight waving at me to stop questioning her. "Um...well it's very good. No matter how you made it's good."

"What about the brownies? Or the cake? Or the pie?" She asked without pause.

"They were awesome. Did you use all organic ingredients?"

"What other kind of ingredients would I use?"

'Oh that's right they don't have synthetic shit like we humans do.' Pinkie looked at Twilight with a weird look on her face. Twilight shrugged and looked at me.

"Uh...Zane? You alright?"

"Huh? Oh...yeah, yeah I'm fine. We don't always use organic stuff to make our baked goods, which makes them even more unhealthy."

"That doesn't seem very sensible..."

"Tell me about it."

We chatted a bit more before Pinkie had to go back to work and Twilight took me to see um...who'd she say it was? Hmm....I'm not sure. Oh yeah Rarity. Twilight led me to a fancier looking building. I just hoped that Rarity wouldn't be one of those fancy types. Twilight knocked on the door.

"Coming darling!"

'Dammit...

The door opened. "Oh! Why hello Twilight. Please come in! You've been gone for days darling! I was beginning to worry."

"Uh...yeah I might have accidentally send Applejack to another world, I was out looking for her."

"Oh my! Have you had any luck?"

"Yes she is back at her farm, but we did bring back someone."

"Don't you mean somepony"

"No, I would like to introduce to you the one that took care of Applejack and I while we were in his world."

"That's nice dear but um...where is he?"

"Huh?" She looked in my direction and I was hiding just beside the door and under the window. Twilight laughed nervously. "If you'll excuse me for a moment." She walked over to me. "What are you doing?"

"Hiding from the fancy one."

"What's wrong with her being a little fancier then the rest of us?"

"Is she shallow? Is she greedy? Amongst other things that's what's usually wrong with fancy types."

"Just give her a chance, please?"

"Fine."

She walked back in front of Rarity. "Ok! Let's try again shall we? Allow me to introduce the one that took care of Applejack and I." I sighed and walked over next to Twilight. "Rarity meet my human friend, Zane."

"Hi." I said.

"What did you say he was again?" Rarity asked Twilight.

"A human."

"I see. And you brought him back from his world?"

"Hey guys....I'm right here you know?"

"My apologies dear. P-please come in, both of you."

"No that's alright I-" I noticed Twilight glaring at me. "I mean...of course. Thank you." As we walked in, I looked around and couldn't help but groan at all of the fancy suits and dresses. I did have to admit that it was a nice place despite everything.

"Shall I make us some tea?"

"Yes thank you Rarity." Twilight replied.

"None for me thanks. I don't care for the stuff."

"Ok then. I shall be back momentarily."

Twilight nodded and then turned to me. "She not that bad, now is she?"

"I guess not. I'll be right back."

"Ok?"

I walked in the same direction that Rarity went, and found the kitchen. I saw Rarity filling the tea pot with water. I knocked on the wall.

"Yes? You need something darling?"

"A glass of milk, if you have it. I need something to regulate my blood sugar."

"You two went to Sugar-Cube Corner didn't you?"

"Yeah."

She chuckled. "I will bring it out with the tea."

"Thank you."

I walked back to Twilight. She raised an eyebrow. "You didn't do anything did you?"

"Well nothing bad. I just asked for a glass of milk."

"Ok, good."

We spent the rest of the time waiting for Rarity to come back with our beverages.

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We left Rarity's after we a nice chat. We talked a little bit about what it's like on earth and what I think of their world so far and things like that. I thanked her for the milk as Twilight and I walked out of the door. I asked Twilight where we were going now. She said we'll try to catch Rainbow Dash before it gets any later and then tomorrow we'll go to Fluttershy's and then she was going to look for ingredients for the spell before the Princesses got here to see me. I was slightly taken aback and asked why she didn't say anything about it earlier. She said she forgot...go figure.

Twilight took me to some kind of cloud house and said that this is where Rainbow lives. She called for Rainbow and got no response, so she tried again and the same thing happened. Third times the charm she thought as she tried one last time. A blue pony with a multicolored mane poked her head up ad looked down.

"Hey Twi!" She flew down. Finally, a pegasus. "Where the hay have you been? I've been looking for you since I found out you were missing!"

"Long story." She scratched the back of her neck.

"But anyway whats this thing?" She said as she looked me up and down.

"He is a human and he has a name."

"Did you find him in the Everfree or something?"

"Not quite."

"Um...Twilight?" I said, causing them both to look at me. "I think it's story time."

"Whoa you can talk?"

"Yes..." I looked at Twilight. "Twilight?"

"Um yeah. Here's what happened...."

Then she told Rainbow about everything that happened.

"So that's where you two went. How did you know that was where Applejack was sent?" Asked Rainbow.

"I tracked the spell and followed it."

"That was risky, you know?"

"Yeah but I had to bring back Applejack."

"It is kinda funny that she and him found you first."

"In an ironic way?" I asked.

"Yeah. But it was kinda uncool to use a spell on her Twilight, I'm surprised he didn't make you stay in the barn."

"He tried but Applejack didn't let him."

"Yeah, yeah I remember that part." Rainbow looked at me. "So what do you plan on now?"

"Probably go back to Sweet Apple Acres and go to sleep. Twilight said I have busy day tomorrow."

"Why's that?"

"Something about Princesses coming here to see me, I don't know."

"Whoa, that's awesome! You should probably get some rest though"

"Probably right my rainbow maned friend."

"Well," Twilight chimed in. "It's getting late I better get him back to Applejack's."

"Alright see you two around!" She said and then shortly after she flew back up to her house and probably went to sleep.

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We are on our way back to Sweet Apple Acres and talking about what I think about her friends that I have met. I told I thought that they were nice enough. We were maybe about half way there now (I think we are, to be honest I'm not sure) when I was tackled by a grey pegasus pony.

"Oh no! I'm so sorry! It was an accident!"

"Then get off of me."

"Oh sorry." She jumped off of me.

"Ditzy!?"

"Oh hey Twilight! Sorry about running into your friend here."

"How did you even do that?"

"I tried to do a barrel roll and I kinda spun out of control." She smiled sheepishly and turned to me. "Sorry about that again mister. I hope you're not hurt."

"Um...don't about it I'm fine, Ditzy was it? I'm fine Ditzy."

"Ok I hope so. We I have to go. Bye mister! Bye Twilight!

"Bye Ditzy."Twilight said. I just waved.

"Shes an interesting one isn't she?"

"You don't even know the half of it."

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We were coming up on the gate to Applejack's farm. I could see that Applejack was waiting for me. Twilight and I said our goodbyes and parted ways. As I was walking down the path, I looked up at the sky. The stars were out and it was a full moon, it was quite lovely. I walked up onto the porch and sat down next to Applejack.

"Yer late you know."

"Am I? I don't remember you giving me a curfew."

"Ah guess yer right. Well it ain't just yet, what do you think we could do?"

"Enjoy the beautiful night, sitting on the porch. Seems alright to me."

"Well alright then."

A few minutes have passed before I spoke up.

"Twilight is going to look for stuff for the spell tomorrow."

"Already? She sure is a proactive pony isn't she?"

"Seems like it, but that's not all. Royalty is visiting tomorrow."

"Really?"

"Yeah, Twilight said they wanted to meet me before I left."

"Wow You better get some rest."

I stood up. "Yeah I suppose you're right."

"Let me take you to your room."

"Ok."

She opened the door and led me upstairs, to 'my' room. "Here you are sugar cube. Hope you don't mind but you'll be sharing mine and Applbloom's room."

'Figures, don't it?' "No problem. Just no uh...funny stuff if you catch my meaning."

She blushed and nodded her head. "Here's your bed. Good night sugar cube."

"Good night."

Royalty Visits

"Zane, wake up sugar cube." I responded by rolling over and getting more comfortable. "Nope, none of that. Get outta bed you need to eat and get ready to meet the Princesses."

"Oh yeah." I rolled over onto my back and sat up. "Well the suns up, that's good. What time is it A.J.?"

"Around ten. Twilight stopped by and told me that they'll be here at noon."

"Plenty of time to eat."

"If'n you start now yes, y'all will have plenty of time fer breakfast. And maybe something else, If you catch my drift."

I rubbed my eye and opened them. "I doubt it but we'll see. Still no promises."

"Alrighty then. Well there's food waiting for you on the table in the kitchen."

"What kinda food?" I asked as I stood up and stretched my legs.

"You'll find out. Come you're wasting time." She started to walk out of the room.

"You're just saying that because you want another fuck'." I mumbled under my breath but she heard me anyway, and shushed me. "Well anyway," I scratched the back of my head. "Did Twilight say where I was supposed to meet the Princesses?"

"She said to meet at the Town Hall. It doesn't look like yer going to have enough time to meet Fluttershy by herself though, but she'll be there."

"So you all are going to be there too? Alright, cool."

"Why'd ya think we weren't?"

"No idea."

I entered the kitchen and sat down at the table. It looks like everyone else has already eaten, and are probably doing chores. I looked at the food in front of me and had a WTF moment. "Uh.....Not to sound ungrateful or anything but what is this?"

"Hmm?" She looked at my plate. "Hay bacon and collard greens."

'Goddammit.' "Never had hay bacon before." I took a bite. "Well....not bad."

"Ah tried to make bacon without using any meat. I hope its not to bad."

"No, no its fine but I had a bad experience with collard greens before. Don't worry though, I'll eat it."

"Ya don't have to sugar cube."

"Yeah I do, because I get a wee bit grumpy when I don't have breakfast....or any food after I wake up. You should know."

"Good point. Well sugar cube Ah'm going to go get some chores outta the way come get me when yer done eatin'." She brushed her tail under my chin.

I rolled my eyes, nodded and continued eating.

After a few minutes I was done eating and not feeling to well. I got up and rinsed my plate of and placed it in the sink. I walked into the living room, and got the feeling I was about to vomit. I quickly went outside, where I was greeted by Applebloom.

"Good mornin' Zane! How are- um....nevermind Ah'll get Applejack." I nodded and leaned on the wall to my left.

I tried not to think about, that usually helps. But not in this time. I turned around, placed a hand on the wall and vomited. It was like everything that I ate in the past few days was coming up. I couldn't help but laugh, no reason to but I just did. I'm weird like that. I spit the rest of it out and turned around ans saw Applejack and Applebloom running over.

"Zane! Y'all alright?!" They stopped in front of me. "Applebloom said you were looking a little green, what's wrong?"

"Your fffff-" I looked at Applebloom and stopped the word before it fully passed my lips. "Your cooking. That's what." I said while slightly glaring at Applejack. "Fuckin' hay bacon bullshit." I mumbled so Applebloom wouldn't hear.

"Are ya going to be ok?" Asked Applebloom.

I looked at Applebloom. "I should be fine." I looked back at Applejack. "I'm off to town. Stay here and do your chores."

"Why don't Ah come with you?"

"Because you have chores to do."

"But-"

"CHORES!! GO DO THEM! I'm going to get some food that WONT try to kill me." I stomped off towards the gate. I heard Big Mac try to say something but I waved him off and continued walking.

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I just arrived at Sugar-Cube Corner and entered. I heard a voice from the kitchen.

"I'm very sorry dear but we're not opened yet."

"Then why have your damn door unlocked!?"

A blue pony stuck her head out. "Oh your Pinkie's friend! C-come in, come in."

"No, no you made it quite clear that you're not opened yet." I remebered something which only fueled my frustration. "And I just realized I don't have any Equestrian money. Fuck! I just something to eat. AUGH!!" I kicked the door opened and stormed out and headed toward the library.

I knocked on the door and Twilight answered. "Oh, hi Zane. I wasn't expecting to see you until later."

"Yeah next to see you too. Now where's your kitchen?"

"Didn't Applejack make you breakfast?"

"Yeah and then I got sick. So I was wondering if you had anything the wont do the same."

"What did make you that made you sick?"

"Probably the hay bacon but it might have been the collard greens, but I had collard greens before and that's not what happened afterwards." I paused and my stomach growled. "Food please?"

"Oh right, this way." She led my to her kitchen. "Now what do you want to eat?"

"Anything just not eggs or anything with apple in unless it's pie. Please." In the end she just poured me a bowl of oat cereal. I asked for some sugar and levitated some over to me. I thanked her and put some in my bowl. It's not my favorite kind of cereal but I just hope that it doesn't have the same outcome as the first breakfast I had today.

I finished eating, thanked Twilight and left towards the Town Hall. I hoped that Applejack was there so I didn't have to walk all the way back to the farm. She was there talking to Rainbow. 'Good now I don't have to walk back.' I saw Rainbow this way and point, causing Applejack to look over here. She said something to Rainbow and walked over.

"Ya scared Applebloom!"

"Ok 1.) Don't yell at me. 2.) I'm sorry. Pair not being awake for long and puking and it usually looks like that. I know I made an ass out of myself but I'm sorry and I'll apologize to Applebloom later."

"Why not now? She's right over there at helping Big Mac with our apple cart."

"Ok." I walked over to the cart and was met by Big Mac glaring at me. Which was intimating despite him being a couple feet shorter than me. I just backed away a foot or two. He sighed and waved me over, so I cautiously walked over. "Hey Big Mac..." I scratched the beck of my neck. "...You mad at me?"

"Eeyup."

"Thought so. Is Applebloom nearby?"

"Eeyup. Shes hiding over there." He pointed at a stack of barrels.

I rubbed my eyes. "Thanks. I'm sorry for not listening to you earlier."

"Eeyup."

I walked over to where Big Mac pointed. "Hmm...? I wonder where a certain little filly went to?" I looked behind the barrels and saw a cowering Applebloom. 'Shit I scared her that much?' I kneeled down next to her. "Hello there I've been looking for you. What're you hanging out back here for?" She whimpered. 'damn I'm gonna cry if this shit keeps up.' "Listen Applebloom I know I scared you and I'm sorry, it just hasn't been a good day so far." She remained silent and I sighed. "Well just know that I didn't mean it. I hope you forgive me." I got up to walk back over to Applejack when I felt a tug on my pants. I looked down at Applebloom, who had a hold of my pant leg.

"Ya mean it?"

"Yes I do."

She sat on her haunches and held out her two forelegs. It took me a little bit to realize what she wanted and kneeled down and hugged her. "Ah forgive you." She broke the hug and ran to catch up to her big brother. I stood up and walked over to Applejack.

"How'd it go?" She asked.

"We hugged."

She chuckled. "Glad it went alright."

"So am I. What about you?"

"What about me?"

"You forgive me?"

"Why wouldn't Ah? You made right with us, so Ah don't see a reason for me not to."

"That's good. What time is it?"

She looked over at the clock tower. "Eleven-forty."

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It turned out to be one of those "hurry-up-and-wait" things. It was now twelve-thirty and neither of the Princesses were here yet. I was growing bored. Twilight pointed toward the sky. We all looked where she was pointing and saw a flying chariot. As it got closer I could see a larger looking ponies (or maybe a horses) on the chariot. They landed and I saw that they had both wings and horns. I scratched the back of my head trying to figure out what species of pony these were called. One was a dark blue with a cresant moon cutie mark the took up her whole flank, the other one was white with a sun cutie mark. All of the ponies around bowed and I followed suit, not wanting to anger the royalty in front of me. The white one spoke first.

"You may rise my little ponies." Even though I'm not a pony I risen with the rest of them. she walked over to Twilight, who was standing next to me. "Hello my faithful student. How are you doing today."

"I'm doing great Princess how was your trip?"

"Uneventful. But my sister and I had a nice chat. Would you like to talk to her while I talk to your friend here?" I know she means me. 'I don't like she said that. Maybe I'm just being nervous.

"Of course Princess." She walked over to the blue one.

The white one turned her head towards me. "Hello. I am Princess Celestia, it is very nice to meet you."

"Hello Princess. My name is Zane. It's nice to meet you too." I stuck out my hand but realized she can't shake me hand so I retracted it and bowed instead.

"Twilight Sparkle has told me about you."

"And what did she say?"

"She told me about how you took care of her in her time of need."

"Well don't take this the wrong way Princess, but after she attacked me, I wanted to stick her in the barn. She is lucky I am so nice...... Well she's lucky Applejack convinced me to let stay in the house..."

"Yes, she told me about that as well. She also told me what spell she used. You understand that she thought she was in the Everfree Forest, and that she thought you were attacking her?"

"Yeah she told me."

"I'm glad you two became friends."

"It was easy too once I cooled down, and stop being mad at her. You'd be proud of her Princess, she helped out around my house, same with Applejack."

"So they made a good impression?"

"Yes, my dad wasn't sure at first, but both of my parents warmed up to them nicely."

"That is good news."

Luna (I assumed) walked over to us. "Twilight Sparkle speaks fondly of you."

"Does she?"

"Does this surprise you?"

"Not really. You're Princess Luna right? you control the night?"

"I do, yes."

"And your sister controls the day?"

"That is correct."

"Well Princess Luna, last night was beautiful. And Princess Celestia, today is not far off, If i'm honest." They looked at each other and Celestia whispered something to Luna. "I didn't say anything wrong, did I?"

Celetia chuckled. "No, you didn't. Luna doesn't get complements like that often."

"I see. She should but then again I've always been more of a night person."

"Is that why you didn't complement me the same way?"

'Is that a loaded question?' "I enjoy nice days as well but I'm usually not awake to enjoy them."

"I see. Luna Do you want to speak with him? While I talk with Twilight and her friends?"

"Certainly sister. It is not often I get to speak with a different species that can speak." Celestia nodded and walked off and Luna looked back at me. "What art thou species?"

"I am a human. I come from a planet called Earth. Which seems too be in a different dimension of sorts." I paused in thought. "Or maybe a different universe? Hmm......what seems more likely?"

"Both are not unheard of. Do you mean to tell me that you understand how magic works?"

"Not at all. I know nothing about magic, but it would be interesting to know if i'm in/from a different dimension or universe, wouldn't it?"

"Indeed it would. Did you really like the night?"

"Yep. Especially when there's a full moon out."

"Those are my favorite nights as well! I wish all nights can be like that."

"Why can't they? I mean if you control the night, why not have the moon be full all the time?"

"I do not control the moon's phases. Only the rise and fall."

"I see. To me this is all very interesting, where I'm from everything happens on it's own. Nothing needs to maintain anything, it just kinda happens.

I spent an hour talking to thee Princesses before they had to leave. Luna seemed very interested in how much I liked nights. I think she might even be my friend now I'm not sure. Celestia seemed to find interest in it as well but not as much as Luna. Celestia voiced her concerns about me being here but Twilight and I told her it's being handled. And then we had cake and other baked goods.

It was nice.

Officially Meeting The Yellow One

I ate too many brownies and I was feeling sick again. But not as sick as earlier though. We were in the library, settling down from the party Pinkie threw a little while ago. Where I ate the brownies. I am currently drinking a glass of milk courtesy of Twilight, well Spike actually but that's only because Twilight told him to. I honestly don't know how he puts up with it. Twilight said she had most of the things she needs for the spell.

"Wow so soon?" I said.

"Well they are more readily available here in Equestria. The only reason it took so long when we were on Earth is because I had to find substitutes. Here I don't need to."

"I see. So.....when am I leaving?"

She was silent for a second. "Tomorrow. I thought that I would let you stay the rest of the day here."

"Little sooner than I would like but it's fine." I shrugged. "Gotta get back to my life at some point right?" She nodded. "So what do you all want to do?"

"Well you haven't properly met Fluttershy yet." Rarity mentioned.

I looked around and noticed that Fluttershy wasn't here or at least I thought. "Yeah you're right, where is she?"

"She hidin' behind me." Applejack said, pointed behind. "I'll try to get her to come out."

I scratched the back of my head. "Oook?" I looked at Rainbow Dash. "Is Fluttershy always like that?"

"Yeah pretty much. She's cool though, just takes awhile for her to get used to somepony."

"I see. I can understand that though. Not to long ago I was kinda like that, still am depending on my mood."

Twilight looked at me. "What do you mean?"

"I'm kinda outgoing when I'm in a good mood, Kinda a jerk when I'm in a really bad mood...like earlier. Something like that, but don't be mistaken if I don't talk much. I'm like that sometimes."

"So right now yer in a good mood?"

"Right now, yeah. Little yellow one might ruin it though. She's gonna make me feel bad."

"Oh I-I wouldn't want that." I looked at where the voice was coming from, and saw Fluttershy inching from behind Applejack.

"Oh so you can speak. I was joking about you making me feel bad, but now that you are out of hiding. How are you?"

"I'm um...fine thank you."

I smiled. "That's good hear. What do you do? Rainbow is a weather pony, Pinkie's a baker, Twi's the librarian, Rarity is a seamstress, and A.J. is a farmer. So you are.....?"

"A-a vet....I take care of animals. Do you um.....like animals?"

"Yes I do. I have five dogs and three cats." I didn't want to tell her about the other animals. That would be awkward. "Do you have any animals?"

"Oh yes! I have a bunch!" Bingo! "I have birds, and squirrels, and mice, and a bunch."

"And they're all your pets?"

"Well no....I do have a pet rabbit though. Do you like rabbits?"

No Idea. "They're alright I suppose. Do you have any cats?"

"Well I am currently taking, yes." She gasped like she had an idea. "Would you like to see my animals?"

I smiled at her again. "Sure."

She smiled and trotted toward the door. "Follow me....um if that's ok with you..."

"Perfectly fine. I'm right behind you." She went outside, and I started toward the door when I saw the looks on the other's faces. "Uh...one second Fluttershy." She nodded, turned to them. "Problem?"

"How did you do that?"

"Do what?"

"She's never warmed up to anypony that fast before! How'd you do it?"

"Oh that! Actually I'm surprised it worked, to be honest. But it's easy...well sometimes. All I did was find a common interest or like. It usually doesn't work that well on Earth, but I'm glad nonetheless. Sometimes I guess all you gotta do is be nice. Well I'm not gonna keep her waiting anymore. See y'all later." I left the library and went up to Fluttershy. "Following you." She nodded and started walking.

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I spent the majority just listening to Fluttershy talk about her animals and the various ways she takes care of them. She was taking an awful lot for some...pony with the word 'shy' in her name, but it's nice because I suck at small talk. She asked me if I knew anything about treating animals.

"No because I'm not a vet."

"Oh...I thought you were...."

"Why because my love for animals?"

"Y-yeah."

"Nope not a vet, but I do like them. Don't think I was lying to you, because I wasn't."

"Ok..."

I stopped, causing her to stop as well. "Look I'll turn around and go back to Applejack's. I don't want to bother you anymore."

She craned her neck and looked at me. "Oh no, it was just a simple understanding." She smiled and started walking. I said nothing and followed.

After awhile we reached her house well actually it was more of a cottage or something. She opened the door and I saw all sort of small critters scatter out from the door. They stopped when they saw me and tilted their heads. I kneeled down and a squirrel cautiously came to me and smelled my hand. Then it shook my finger.

I looked at Fluttershy "Um....did that squirrel just...?"

"Yes. That means he likes you."

"I see." I looked at the squirrel again. "It's um...nice to meet you to?" The squirrel nodded and ran back into the house. "That squirrel isn't like Earth squirrels, that's for sure."

Fluttershy motioned the animals to go back inside and started to walk inside. She turned around and welcomed me inside. I nodded and entered her home.

I looked around and saw bird houses hanging from the ceiling and various houses for the ground critters to stay in. I sat down on the couch. A small white rabbit bounced in from another room.

"That's my pet rabbit Angel. Say hi to our guest Angel." Fluttershy said and Angel gave me the most un-amused look it seemed he could muster and pointed to the door. "Now Angel! That's not very nice!"

I laughed. "Was I just told to leave?" Angel nodded his head. "Well that's too bad Angel 'cause I'm not leaving. Unless Fluttershy wants me to leave?"

"Oh, no I couldn't ask you to leave yet. You only just got here."

"See little bunny? Tough luck for you." He stomped out of the room. "What is his problem?"

"He gets like that sometimes. Sorry..."

"It's fine. Maybe he's hungry? I don't know..."

She perked up and looked at her wall clock. "Oh no! I can't believe I forgot. Thank you for reminding me." She went into the kitchen and started preparing Angel's food. 'Fucking rabbit has a bad attitude.' I thought. She came out of the kitchen holding a plate with her teeth, and placed it on a small table in front of Angel and went on to feed the other animals. I offered to help but she said it was fine.

Once she was done with feeding her animals she sat down on the chair next to the window.

"So....what did you think of the Princesses?"

"They were nicer then I thought they would be. I think I like Luna a bit more though, not sure."

"R-really? She's kinda....scary."

"A little more intimidating than Celestia yeah, but she's not that bad."

"I suppose you're right. What do you think about Equestria?"

"It's really nice from what I've seen. Twilight and Applejack are real nice and so are the others. But you seem to be nicer then them all." 'Wait am I really hitting on a pony? Shit I should leave now.'

"You....you really think so?"

"Of course!"

She blushed. "T-thank you. You're really nice too."

"I try to be. Well Fluttershy I think I need to get going."

"Why? I-if you don't mind me asking..."

"I want to do some exploring before I leave. Nothing against you or anything."

"Do you mind if I-I come with you?"

'Why do you want to come with me?' "Um I guess not. Maybe you could show me around?"

"Oh that would be wonderful."

"Shall we get going then?"

"Sure! Just let me check on my animal friends again before we leave."

"Ok."

What...did I just get myself into?

Meeting Some More Ponyfolk

"So where have you been to already?" Fluttershy asked.

"The library, Rarity's shop, Sweet Apple Acres, and Sugar-Cube Corner." I paused. "Oh and Rainbow's house."

"Oh my, it seems that you have been to most of the popular spots."

"Sounds like it. Anywhere else we can go? Like any other friends you would like to meet? Or are those other five it?" I said playfully.

"I-I have other friends..." She paused in thought. "Oh I know! You can meet Ditzy Doo or Zecora!"

"I already met Ditzy...but who's Zecora?"

"She's a zebra that lives in the Everfree forest."

"A zebra? There are zebras here!? And they talk?"

"Y-yes?" She answered, unsure about my reaction.

"Huh, a talking zebra? Cool."

"Do you want to meet her now?"

"Sure."

We walked out of her cottage, and to the opening of the Everfree forest.

I looked over at Fluttershy. "I-I can kinda see why Twilight wasn't so sure about me when she came to my world..."

"It is pr-pretty scary huh?"

"Yeah! And you said Zecora lives in here?!"

"Yes?"

"Is she crazy?!"

"We should be ok if we stay on the path. I-I hope."

"You hope? Uh-huh... Stick to the path you say?"

"Yes you should be.... What are you doing?"

I was looking on the ground, checking the bushes. "Huh? Oh, nothing just looking for a light tree branch or something." I found one and picked it up, and started swinging it around. "Yep. This should do nicely."

"What are you going to do with it?"

"Protection, just in case anything attacks us on the way there or back. Well...that and I always like to have a branch or something similar when I go on walks in a wooded area." I chuckled to myself. "I even earned the nickname 'Caveman' from it." She looked at me funny, finding the nickname weird or something. "I used to have longer hair! Anyway, lets get going."

"Ok, follow me."

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"I'm not sure I like this Fluttershy..." I said with a shaky voice, watching our surroundings like a hawk.

"It is a bit scary on your first trip but we'll be fine." She said with a smile.

"O-ok as long as you're sure."

We continued to walk the trail to Zecora's hut. Something feels off about about this place. Even though I've been told it works like everything on earth.... It doesn't seem natural.

"Only another minute or two."

"If you say so."

We've been walking for what felt like forever, but it really wasn't that long. We came upon odd shaped tree, and Fluttershy said that was her hut. I would have asked if all ponies live in trees if it wasn't for the fact that I know the most live in houses, and Zecora's a zebra, not a pony. Fluttershy knocked on the door, and after a few minutes the zebra answered.

"Ah Fluttershy I see. And who may I ask is in your company?"

"Hi Zecora. This is Zane." Fluttershy said, and I waved

"Hmm...an interesting name indeed. Come inside, I will help with what you may need."

"Well Twilight's got that covered." I said. "Nice to meet you Zecora."

"Nice to meet you as well, my unusual friend. Just so you know my rhyming has no end."

"Oh I see. It's cool, I just wanted to meet you before I went back to my world."

"A different world? If I may ask, was getting here an easy task?"

"Well it was for me. All I had to do was step through a portal. Twilight, however, had to do a bunch of research. You should ask her about it next time you see her."

We talked for an hour or so before I decided that I wanted to leave due to the rhyming hurting me head. I can only take so much you know. W e said our goodbyes and left, back in to the creepy forest we yet again stroll. I just hope that it will be uneventful like the first time around.

Much to my enjoyment, it was just as uneventful as the first time around, and we were heading back to Fluttershy's cottage.

"Anywhere else you would like to go?"

"Well it's still light out. Hmm...well I guess I could properly meet Ditzy. Huh, I don't know."

"We could do that."

"Do what?"

"We can go meet Ditzy."

"Ok sure."

And we headed for town.

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I really thought that she would live in a cloud house, like Rainbow Dash. But no she lives in a normal house. And a nice house at that. I knocked on the door, and a young unicorn filly answered the door. She looked at me and cocked her head, then looked at Fluttershy, and seemed more excited.

"Oh! Hello Fluttershy, are you here to see my mother?"

"Yes Dinky." She said with a smile. "Is she home?"

"Yep! Just a minute!" And she scurried off.

After a couple minutes the grey pegasus mare known as Ditzy trotted up to the door.

"Oh hello again mister! Hi Fluttershy!"

"Hello Ditzy." We both said at the same time.

"Did you guys need something from me?"

"No. I'm just meeting a couple more ponies before I go home tomorrow. And I thought it would be nice if we actually talked, instead of you crashing into more."

She gave a nervous chuckle. "Yeah sorry about that. I guess Rainbow Dash is the only pegasus that can do tricks."

"Eh that may not be true. I mean it may not be your talent, but if you practice enough you'll be able to get it. Like the time I was trying to learn a song on the bass guitar. It was really difficult but I got most of it after I practiced."

"What song?" Both Ditzy and Fluttershy asked.

"You wouldn't like it. It might be a little negative for you two, plus I don't have my iPod with me." The looked at me funny. "Anyway Ditzy, Could we come in?"

"Oh! I'm so sorry! Yes, yes please." She moved aside to let us in. I let Fluttershy enter first and followed her. "Make yourselves at home, I'll go get some drinks."

Both Fluttershy and I nodded. Ditzy smiled and left. I turned to Fluttershy. "I didn't know she had a daughter. That was a bit awkward." Just as I finished saying that, Dinky walked in. "Speak of thine devil. Hello little filly, What's your name?"

"D-Dinky."

"Hello Dinky, my name is Zane. It's nice to meet you." I smiled.

"You too mister." She trotted off.

"I was never good with the children...."

"I wouldn't worry about it." Ditzy walked in with the drinks. "She's shy around new ponies, it's not you."

"Well that's good to know. I was getting worried."

She chuckled a little. "It just takes time. You said you were leaving tomorrow? How did you like your visit?"

"It was lovely. I wish I had another day but oh well. I need to get back home sometime, right?" She nodded.

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We talked for a couple hours after trotted out of the room and I was now heading back to Sweet Apple Acres. I said good bye to Fluttershy when we came to the cross-road. She said she would come to see me off tomorrow. I thanked her and waved and continued walking towards the farm. It was still early enough in the day where I could help with chores, if they need any help that is.

By the time I got back to the farm it was around four. I found Big Mac and asked if he needed help with anything. He said "Nnope" and told me where Applejack was, so I could ask her. I nodded and left to find Applejack. Which wasn't hard because she was in the barn just like Big Mac said. She saw me walking up to the barn.

"Well howdy! Didn't expect you so soon. So how did it go with Fluttershy?"

"Pretty good. We went to Zecora's place and then Ditzy's. I'll admit the rhyming thing Zecora does is strange but she's nice. Ditzy's pretty cool too."

"Do you understand why Twi freaked out on you back in your world?"

"Yeah," I nodded my head rapidly. "Buck that place. It just ain't right."

"You're telling me! So why are you here early?"

"I wanted to see if you needed any help."

She chuckled. "Y'all should really know better then ask that question on a farm."

"Well I don't have anything else going on, so I'm free."

"Alrighty then. Follow me."

She led me to the orchard and told me I had to help her buck the trees.

I just know something is going to hurt by the time we're done.

Family Night

About half way through my foot started to hut. I had to kick the trees like I was kicking down a door. And it was starting to take it's toll. I eventually had to switch to my left foot, which was a little awkward to kick with. The dinner bell rang when we decided to call it a night, and as we were walking to the house Applejack noticed my limp.

"Aw y'all went and worked yourself to hard! Ya shoulda told ya needed help."

"Well you had more trees then I did so I didn't want to interrupt you."

"Ya know, Ah didn't think it but y'all can be stubborn."

"At times, but this is starting to bother me."

"From the looks of it, it was bothering you for awhile now."

"Yeah, it kinda has been. But enough of that, I'm kinda hungry."

"So am Ah. What do ya thinks fer dinner?"

"Hopefully something that wont make me sick." I laughed. "But seriously I don't know."

She didn't say anything and we walked the rest of the way in silence.

We were now entering the house. Big Mac and Applebloom were setting the table and then I remembered Applejack usually cooks. And she was asking me what I would like. I mentally facepalmed at the realization. Applebloom saw her sister and I enter the house and when she was done setting the table she walked up to us.

"How he do?" She asked Applejack.

"Better than Ah originally thought. We got maybe two times as much done in that short amount of time, we may even have a day off in the future because of it."

Applebloom's eyes widened. "Really?!"

"Well Apple bucking that is, but you'll have help with everything else."

"You're right!" She looked at me. "Thanks a bunch Zane!"

"Huh?" I wasn't really paying attention. I spaced out sometime during their conversation.

Applejack chuckled as she was starting to make dinner. "She was thanking you for helping me out today."

"Oh ok, You're welcome Applebloom." Applebloom smiled.

"Why don't you and everyone get to know each other a little better? You can go into the living room whilst Ah make dinner."

"Ok." Applebloom and I said, while Big Mac answered with his usual "Eeyup."

We entered the living room and sat down on the floor for no reason. Applebloom was the first one to speak.

"Is it true that you and Applejack got all cuddlely with each other?"

"I don't know what your talking about. Why would you ask that." I raised an eyebrow, trying not too send any signals that I was lying.

"Well Ah heard her saying something about 'some other things', before Ah went outside to do my chores."

I searched my mind for something to say. "She was talking about giving me a massage. I've been stressed lately."

Applebloom raised an eyebrow. "Ah didn't know she gave massages?"

"Well don't tell her this but she's not very good. It does help, but just a little bit."

"Why have ya been stressed?"

"My job." I rolled my eyes. "People like to over complicate things and we get busy pretty much all the time."

"What do ya do?" Big Mac asked.

"I work at a restaurant. I wash the dishes."

"Why did you apply as a dishwasher?"

"I didn't. I applied as a cook but I don't know. Enough boring me. What do you two do other then work on the farm?"

"I help run the apple cart in the market sometimes." Big Mac.

"And Ah have to go to school. But when all my chores are done, I go out and crusade for my cutie mark!"

"Crusade?"

"Yes sir. Me and my friends are the Cutie Mark Crusaders! We do different things to try to earn our cutie marks!"

"Sounds interesting. You have fun doing it?"

"Sure do!"

"That's good."

Applejack came in to tell us dinner was ready and to wake up Granny Smith. Applebloom, Big Mac and I sat down at he table and waited for the other two. Applejack had put the food on the plates before she came in. And I had no idea what was on the plates. I asked Applebloom and she said it was hay casserole. I'm not too sure about this.

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Fucking pony food.....making me sick.... It seems I can't eat any of the food here. Maybe it's a good thing I'm leaving soon. Don't get me wrong, I like it here. But if I cant eat the food here, well I'd think it's obvious. After throwing up again, it was family night, which I opted out of.

"B-but yer leaving tomorrow." Applejack said.

"I know I am. I just don't want to be around you guys right now."

"But why?"

"Because you keep trying to kill me!! I'm going to bed!"

Applejack's and Applebloom's ears flattened against their heads and Big Mac and Granny Smith glared at me. I ignored them and headed up to the room. I opened the door and sat down on the bed.

"I'm so freakin' hungry..." My stomach growled. "God damn it! I would fine if I didn't help Applejack."

I laid down after a few minutes and heard the door creak open.

"Why do ya have to be such a jerk sometimes?" It was Applejack.

"Why do you have to make food that tries to kill me?" I replied.

"Ah don't do it on purpose! Ah never cooked for a human before! And hay casserole is one of the family's favorites."

I sat up. ".....You're right, I'm sorry." My stomach growled again. "It's just hard to be in high spirits when everything I eat, other then junk food, makes me sick."

"We have some fruit y'all can eat."

"Other then apples?"

"Yes. The only condition is that ya to join in on family night."

"Fine, just show me the fruit." She chuckled and turned around and flicked her tail. "Goddammit! That's not what I meant."

She laughed. "Ah know. Go sit down in the livin' room and apologize to everypony. Ah'll go get you some fruit."

"Ok." I followed Applejack downstairs, and sat down on the couch next to Applebloom, who scooted away from me a little. Big Mac and Granny Smith looked at me with raised eyebrows. I sighed. "Listen everyone, I would like to apologize for earlier. I have no right to act like that in response to kindness. Applejack didn't know my stomach would react to that, and I shouldn't have expected her to know." I turned to Applebloom. "I'm sorry if I scared you again....I didn't mean it."

Granny Smith and Big Mac smiled. "That's what I wanted to hear, eh Big Macintosh?"

"Eeyup!"

I felt a tug on my shirt and looked at Applebloom. "Are ya gonna join family night?"

"Well I have to make up for being a jerk somehow right?" She smiled and hugged me, I hugged her back. "So what do you all do for family time?"

"Games." Applejack said coming out of the kitchen with my fruit. "Sometimes it's card games, other times it's board games." She placed the bowl of fruit in front of me. "There ya go partner, eat up!"

"Thank you A.J." There were some cherries in the bowl along with a plum and four strawberries. "Oh nice!"

Applejack chuckled. "Alright what is it this time? Card game or board game?"

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We decided to play board games and played for about an hour before it was "bed time". Applejack and I were in our room.

"So how did you enjoy family night?"

"It was alright. I'm surprised Equeastria has Battleship, er well it's the same Idea anyway."

"It seems we have a lot of of things in common with your world."

"Yeah it's kinda strange isn't it?"

"Mmhmm, that's fer sure." She looked at Applebloom's bed. "Ya know, Applebloom's asleep....anything could happen."

"I-I don't think we should. She was asking about us earlier, for all we know she could still be awake. And if she wasn't what if she woke up when we're in the middle of it?"

She gave an annoyed sigh. "Ah guess you're right. See ya in the morning."

"Good night."

Going Home

"Hello there! Long time no see." A deep menacing voice called from the darkness, that I have trapped in for what seems like hours.

"U-uh why am I here? Whats going on?"

"Aw and here I thought you would be glad to talk to me again... Oh well!" A wicked smiled shown through the darkness. "I know what you have been doing and I can't say I approve."

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh please! Your.....relations with....Applejack. While it might satisfy your more primal needs it's still wrong. She is a pony after all."

"Who are you to talk? You've made me do some pretty stupid things before."

"That I have, and I am not sorry. I just thought I would share my thoughts with you. After today...it will cease and you will be alone again."

I sighed. "Yeah.....you're right. I don't really want to go home but I have too."

"Indeed you do. I think I'll leave you alone for now and leave you to your dreams. It was nice talking to you."

"Yeah...it was 'nice' talking with you too." The voice laughed and suddenly I was laying in my bed back at home. "Okay, that was weird..."

"What was?" A voice asked from beside me. I looked over and saw Applejack laying there, staring at me with tired eyes.

"Did I wake you?"

"Yeah but Ah needed to get up anyway. Ya up for some mornin' 'fun'?"

"I thought we decided to cool it on that?"

"Ah never agreed to anything."

"Well still, I'm not up for it."

"Nonsense!" She kissed me.

I pushed her away. "Applejack I said no."

"Too bad. I ain't stoppin'." She shrugged my hands off and kissed me more forcefully. Sticking her tongue into my mouth. I went along with it for awhile until the sweet apple taste turned into something more akin to rotten apples.

My eyes opened and widened at the sudden awful taste, and I pushed her off of me. I noticed her coat turned from orange to green, her mane was white, her eyes are blacked out with glowing green irises and it looked like she has been stitched together. "What the fuck!?! Who the hell are you!?!?"

She frowned. "Y'all forgot my name already?"

"I never fucking knew your name!!" I looked around and noticed that I wasn't in my house anymore. "W-where the hell am I?"

"Forgettin' where you are is more understandable then forgettin' somepony's name."

"Well since I've been here for awhile, would you remind me of everything?"

She sighed. "Fine. My name is Rottenbunch and we're in Equinox. Ah know you don't like the way Ah taste but can we continue?"

I looked myself over and noticed. "These aren't my clothes!! What the hell is going on!?!"

"Sorry that might be my fault. Hang on I'll set everything right."

She raised an eyebrow. "Hold on this isn't Seth?"

"No. I may have screwed something up. Instead of taking us back, it seems I brought someone else here... Seth should be experiencing the same thing," I felt a stinging headache. "There, that should do it."

I woke up in cold sweat and shaking. I looked around and noticed that I was back in Applejack's and Applebloom's room. I shook my head. "What the hell was that about?" I look over at Applejack's bed and she was asleep. "Haven't had a dream that fucked up in awhile. God damn that was strange." I laid back down and went back to sleep.

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I sat up and stretched. I woke up only about a minute ago. Applejack and Applebloom are already awake and are out doing chores. Not really ready to wake up fully, I laid back down and tried to go to sleep. Which of course didn't work, it didn't help that the door opened and Applebloom jumped on my bed.

"Ah'm sorry about that but Applejack wanted me to make sure you're awake."

"Regretfully I am awake." I said groggily.

"Don't be like that. You have food waiting for you in the kitchen. Don't worry, there's no hay bacon."

"Okay, thanks."

"No problem! See ya downstairs!"

She left and I got out of bed. "Too early..."

I went down stairs and into the kitchen. Indeed there was no hay bacon, instead there was a sandwich. I went over and inspected the sandwich. Normal bread, lettuce, tomato. "Hmm...looks normal enough." I took a bite and found nothing strange about the sandwich, so I began to eat it.

Having nothing else to do I decided see what was going on around the farm. I walked outside and saw Applejack. I went over to her and asked if she could use any help.

"Thanks sugar cube, but since this is the day you go home, Ah want you to relax until you leave."

I sighed. "Alright, I guess I'll go hang around town."

"That could work. Ah have to get back to work, Ah'll see you later."

"Yeah see ya."

I walked out of the front gate and towards the town. I tried to think of where I could go to pass the time. I couldn't think of anything so I figured I would figure it out when I get there.

I decided to stop by the library, and then head to Sugar-Cube Corner to see what's going on there. I arrived at the library and knocked on the door. Spike answered. "Oh hey Zane. What's up?"

"Nothing much, where's Twilight?"

"Taking her morning shower."

I scratched the back of my head. "I guess it is still kinda early huh? Maybe I'll go back to the farm and take a nap."

"Um ok?"

"I don't know Spike, I'm just trying to think of things to do before I go home. Any ideas?"

He held his chin in thought. "Hmm....no I can't think of anything."

"Darn it. Oh well guess I'll go over and see if the bakery is opened. See ya later Spike."

"See ya."

I turned around and started towards Sugar-Cube Corner. If nothing else I can apologize for probably breaking the front door. I arrived at the bakery and knocked on the door instead of entering. The blue pony from yesterday answered.

"Hello dearie."

"Uh hi, sorry about yesterday. I get like that sometimes."

"Don't worry about it. I don't think we've been introduced. I'm Mrs. Cake and you are?"

"Zane. Nice to meet you Mrs. Cake." I looked at the door. "I didn't break your door did I?"

"No it's a very strong door. After enough...incidents we made sure to buy an extra strong one."

"That's right Pinkie lives here, right?"

"Why assume she was the cause?"

"Why not?" She made the "you've got a point" face and invited me in. "Well I do have some time to waste so sure. I still don't have any money."

"Not to worry dear. Come on in."

"Thank you."

I found a place to sit and Mrs. Cake and I chatted for awhile until the bakery opened.

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Free breakfast bagels. Why were they free, I have no idea. I left the bakery a little bit ago, and after wasting a bunch of time doing basically nothing. Now I was headed to Rarity's shop. Why? Because I have nothing else to do. About half way there I decided to instead of going to Rarity's I should head back to the library. So I switched directions and started heading to Twilight's.

I arrived at the library and, like last time, knocked on the door. Twilight answered the door this time.

"Hello Zane. I don't have the spell ready just yet. And I sent Spike out to get everypony, the spell should ready by the time he gets back."

"Straight to business I see. Well what do we do since then?"

"Well you could send a letter to the Princess."

"Uh hmm....maybe."

"Well we have enough time in case you do."

"Might as well I guess."

"Really!?" She asked excitedly. "I'll go get a quill and some paper." And she ran upstairs. She came back down levitating a quill, ink, and a scroll. "Here you go." She floated everything over to the table.

I sat down on the floor, so I could write comfortably. I looked at the quill, and realized I didn't think I knew how to use one. I grabbed it, dipped it in ink and started to write this:

Dear Celestia.

I apologize if my writing is that of a foal first learning to write, but I am not used to writing with a quill. I would like to thank you for letting me stay in this land, and not imprisoning me when you found out about my presence here. I would also like to say that, even though it is not my place to say but, I like the way you run this land. It's peaceful. I enjoy it, my world would learn a lot from you and this land, though I advise not purposely going there. Differences and all... Suffice to say; Not all humans are like me. I fear for that they might not be too friendly, though if Twilight or her friends would want to "secretly" visit me that would probably be fine. The only problem that I see with that is finding out the time differences and getting in sync. It was lovely meeting you and your sister Luna. I wish that I could stay here a little longer. I also found out that I can not eat anything with hay in it.

~Zane, The Human.

I looked at Twilight. "What do you think?"

She looked it over. "Well it's a little splotchy but I'm sure she will be able to read it."

"That's good. Because I'm not writing it again."

Just then the door opened and Spike and The five other girls walked in. "Hello girls." Twilight greeted. "I will start the spell in a little while. Use this time to say good byes."

"Okay." They all said, some more sad then others.

"It's ok everyone. We knew this was going to happen." They nodded their heads. "Well how are you all today?"

"Well Ah'd be a lot better if ya didn't have to go.

"E-even though you don't know each that well, I wish you could um...stay a little longer"

"Thank you guys." Applejack looked at the others. "No it's alright A.J. they don't have to say anything if they don't want to." I looked over at Pinkie, and it didn't look like she was doing so well. "No Pinkie, Pinkie no. Maybe you can visit me sometime. Cheer up, this may not be goodbye for good."

She smiled. "Thanks Zane."

"No problem. Anyone else have anything to say?" Silence. "No?" More silence. "Really? Alright then."

Twilight walked in with the ingredients. "Everyone ready?" We all nodded. "Okay, let's get started." Her horn started glowing and the ingredients floated up and were glowing as well. The air was swirling around and the portal appeared. The colors appeared and soon enough I could see the front of my house.

"Well," I looked at everyone. "I guess this is it huh?" I asked, they nodded. "I'm not really good with goodbyes so uh...see ya? Twilight, Applejack thank you for this opportunity. Everyone else....it was a pleasure meeting you." I turned around to and started to walk towards the portal. "Oh yeah." I turned around. "Pinkie Pie, your chimmy cherry changa recipe is safe with me." I turned back around and walked to the portal. I sighed. "Goodbye." I said, waved and walked through.

I walked up to the front door and turned around to see the portal close. I yawned and looked around. "Well that was interesting." I walked inside and upstairs. I peeked into my parent's room and saw my mom sitting at her computer. "Hey mom how long have I been gone?"

"Oh hey you're home!"

"Yeah how long was I gone?"

"A few hours. Where did you go?"

"Another world. For about three days."

"What!?"

And now comes the explaining.

This should be fun.

Author's Note: Well guys that concludes "my" adventure in Equestria and prior. It was different putting myself in a story and I don't think I'll be doing it again so....I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you later.