Relentless Boundaries

So I spent the next 2 hours explain to Applejack and her family what guns were, a little frustrating since I didn’t want to simply say ‘guns kill’. “So what is the purpose of those things again?” Applejack asked curiously “alright… I’ll be honest with you but the truth isn’t pretty” I told her and she nodded “usually isn’t” she mentioned. “Guns are meant to kill” I said bluntly and I suppose she didn’t believe me at first because she laughed “oh come on now don’t get all dark and depressing on me now” she laughed but I gave her a serious look and she stopped laughing “oh my Celestia, yer serious ain’t yah” she gasped and I nodded.

“Why would any-pony want tah make something so terrible” she gasped, apparently violence never existed in this world because they didn’t even want to pitchfork a guy who was trespassing and could potentially be murderous. “The world I live in… war is all they know” I told her “why?” she asked, I shrugged “must be something in our mind that makes us say Kill” I tried to explain but it was no use, these ponies were just too loving and caring to ever understand war. “That’s awful… so why would yah ever want tah go back?” she asked, “don’t know actually. I never had a home, or any close friends, minus Ricardo” I informed her, “Oh and Ricardo’s the one who was yer childhood friend right?” she asked “my only friend” I told her pitifully ‘why did I want to go back?’ I asked myself but quickly subdued the thought.

“Well ah’m yer friend ain’t ah, an muh sister and her friends would probably want tah be yer friends so why not just stay here?” she offered, “like right here, don’t know was never farmed before” I told her and she blushed “well ah never meant here but…” she trailed off and I gave her a nudge “hey don’t worry, I’m sure in the end things will work out right?” I asked, “don’t they always” she asked rhetorically, “no” I replied bluntly and her smile drooped “why not?” she asked and I looked at her and smiled “don’t worry this time it’ll work out I know it will” I told her and we left the chicken pen.

“So listen if yah want tah know more about ponies and Equestria then we should probably head down to the library, then we’ll go to Rarity’s and see if we can’t get some better cloths for you” she began but I cut her off “hey what’s wrong with my cloths” I asked, “oh sorry, it’s just that well yer gonna want tah fit in a little more” she told me and I looked at her more closely “what like goin around in the nude” I asked making reference to how she wasn’t wearing any cloths, she instantly blushed again and I rolled my eyes “okay so librarian, dresser guy and…” I trailed off “we might as well go to Pinkie’s she’s always wanting to meet new ponies… oh and Rarity is a mare” she informed me and I scrunched my nose and followed her towards a little town that she called Ponyville, god where the hell did all these ridiculous names come from?

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We walked through the town and several other ponies in the town started looking at me curiously and I heard murmuring amongst the crowd “yer lucky yah got me or yah wouldn’t see a single pony around” she chuckled, “and why’s that?” I asked. She chuckled “well even though we are all very kind and what not, we all are kind of shy around new and strange looking creatures” she informed me. “HEY” I exclaimed, “sorry it’s just what they see yah as” she explained and I shrugged.

“Well here it is, the Ponyville library… why don’t yah knock” she offered and I stepped forward and banged on the door, “it’s a public library, you don’t have to knock” I heard a flustered voice reply from inside “guess that means we can go inside” I chuckled and opened the door to see a purple unicorn buried in a pile of books “oh where is… where is it… SPIKE!” she hollered and a little purple dragon came racing down the stairs with some more books “you’d think that with all the times I could do that spell that I’d…” she trailed off and popped her head out of the pile of books and gasped at my appearance and fainted.

I walked over to her and the little dragon was trying furiously to wake her up “come on Twilight wake up” he yelled as he tried to smack her awake, “I think I she’s scarred of me” I retorted as I kneeled over and felt her pulse. “She’s not dead you know” the purple dragon retorted, “just checking, lately it seems I’m having some weird… things happening to me” I explained and stood up as the purple colored unicorn got up. I extended my hand and she accepted the offer and grabbed my hand with her hoof and somehow got a grip with my hand and lifted herself up.

She shook her head in confusion, or dizziness, and took another look at me and her jaw dropped wide open. “Hey name’s Ron… nice to meet you” I said politely, “ah know he’d be perfect talkin tah Rarity right?” Applejack laughed, making fun of my manners. “Hey, I’m just trying to make a good first impression, if you want next pony we meet I can hold them up at gunpoint” I joked, “huh?” the purple unicorn asked, obviously not understanding what I had just said and I was not spending another 3 hours explaining to a librarian what a gun was. “Trust me it’s impolite” I laughed, “so anyway my name is Ron” I offered my hand out to great her formally. She shook my hand with her hoof and I thought to myself ‘I hope she hasn’t stepped in shit lately… is there even such this as shit here I mean everything seems too perfect’. “Twilight Sparkle” she informed me and I nodded “nice to meet you” I said politely and she looked at me curiously “just what exactly are you?” she asked “uhm a human I guess” I informed her and shrugged “SPIKE...” she yelled and I saw the purple dragon beside her flinch at the volume of her voice “right here” he winched and she looked at me “get the book about humans” she ordered and he gave her a weird look “uhh Twilight… we don’t have a book about humans” he told her and she scoffed “fine mythical creatures” she ordered and he zipped away.

“Hey I ain’t no mythical creature” I exclaimed, insulted by her order. “Sorry, just around here you’d be a mythical creature” she explained and I rolled my eyes “coming from a unicorn it’s kind of ironic” I muttered, “what was that?” she asked as she searched through some books “just said that it’s funny coming from a unicorn” I repeated and she popped her head out of the pile of books. “Why?” she asked and I simply shrugged “just because” I told her and she continued her search for whatever it was.

“Twilight found it” the purple dragon informed her and tossed her the book which she caught in some magical barrier and began flipping through the pages. “Humans… humans… humans… why isn’t there a part about humans?” she yelled, apparently frustrated, and I leaned over beside her with a smug smirk on my face “maybe I’m not as mythical as you thing hmm?” I snickered and she threw me an irritated glare then gasped “SPIKE… you don’t think that last night...” she trailed off and the purple dragon gave her a confused look. “What?” he asked, “you know with the teleportation spell” she informed him, “but Twilight, you didn’t actually transport that apple anywhere” he said plainly, shrugging off the worry. “Yes but Spike I may have accidentally opened a portal to another realm or something and… Ron was your name right? Ron might have been transported here by accident” she gasped and I patted her on the shoulder “don’t suppose you could do that again could you?” I asked and she shook her head “sorry I didn’t exactly understand that spell and messed it up, so it’s unlikely that I could open another” she sighed depressingly.

“Why do yah want tah go back so bad anyway, no offence but from yer description of yer world, it doesn’t sound like yah’d have anything tah look forward tah” Applejack implied and I sighed again, she was right I really didn’t have anything to look forward to. “Uhm I guess… not much really” I sighed, “so why not stay here?” the purple dragon asked, “uhm I don’t rightly know… I never caught your name?” I asked him. “Oh it’s Spike” he informed me with a smile and I nodded “nice to meet Mr. Spike” I said politely and he leaned over to Twilight “maybe it’s just Rarity in disguise” he whispered and Twilight snickered.

Twilight sighed “Spike take a note” Twilight ordered and the little dragon known as Spike pulled out a quill with ink and a scroll

Dear Princess Celestia:

I regret to inform you that something strange has happened with a field trial of the object transportation spell. It would seem that I misunderstood the spell and somehow created a portal to another realm which in turn transported a human named Ron into Equestria, he is very polite and kind and isn’t a nuisance of any sort but I am unsure of what to do at this time and it would seem that Ron would like to go back to his home world, I eagerly await your response
Your faithful student:
Twilight Sparkle

Spike scribbled down the note and blew out a flame that ignited the scroll into ash, “all that work just to have it burnt to a crisp?” I asked, “no silly, when Spike burns a scroll it gets sent straight to the princess” Twilight informed me and I shrugged ‘express mail, must be nice’ I thought to myself. I twitted with my fingers and waited for some unicorn or something to bring a piece of mail to the front door but nothing happened.

“Hmm usually Celestia replies faster than that… she must be busy” Twilight concluded and I shrugged. I stretched my arms out and scratched my forehead with my index finger, “well I’m hungry, any takers?” I asked and Spike looked to Twilight with heart filled eyes and Twilight sighed. “Yes we can go to Sugar-cube corner” she sighed and Spike jumped in the air and let out a “Hurray” and Applejack leaned over “looks like yah made another friend”