Chapter 2 - An Unexpected Visitor

Who is he? I’ve never seen him around here before. Eeyup. Do you think he’s alright? Maybe he’s dead. No he’s alive, I checked. Shh! I think he’s waking up!

“Hey are you okay partner?” A voice said.

“Ugh…Where am I” I said. I was still fuzzy and I couldn’t focus on anything. All I could see was five figures looking down at me.

“You’re at Sweet Apple Acres in Equestria” said another voice.

“Yeah really funny Kirkland! Enough of the joking around.” I demanded

“Who’s Kirkland? I haven’t heard of anypony named that.” A gentle voice said. My eye sight was finally coming back and the figures started to look vaguely familiar.

“Okay tell me your name.” I pointed at the figure that was closest to me.

“The name’s Applejack. Are you sure you’re okay?” She asked. I could see clearly now, but I thought I was still seeing things! Standing above me was Applejack, Big McIntosh, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo! I was so shocked that I jumped away.

“W-w-w-wait a minute! I-I –if you are all real, then why am I still human!” I franticly stated.

“Um what’s a human? And besides you look like a Pegasus to me” said Sweetie Belle.

“Eeyup” chimed McIntosh

“By the way, why were you falling? It’s not like a grown Pegasus to just fall out of the sky” exclaimed Scootaloo.

“Wait did you say Pegasus?” I looked at my hands, only they weren’t hands, they were hooves! Panicking I ran into the bathroom to look in the mirror and sure enough Sweetie Belle was right. I was a violet colored Pegasus with a dark blue mane. Ironic considering that I had sided on the Unicorns during a debate with Kirkland on the matter of which was better. My jaw dropped not only had I become a pony but my cutie mark was a triforce symbol! I did the only logical thing I could think of for a moment like this. I screamed!

“Everything all right in there?” Asked Applejack. I knew I had to be dreaming and the only way to end a dream was to wake up. I started to splash water on my face hoping that it would wake me up, no luck. I then stomped on my own foot. I hurt but I still didn’t wake up. I finally realized that I wasn’t dreaming. This was the real world. I opened the door to the bathroom and headed back towards the group.

Applebloom looked at me very concerned. “Are you sure you’re all right. You don’t seem well mister um…uh…”

“Jared. My name’s Jared.” I said. I was finally beginning to calm down. I still didn’t know what happened to my friends but at least now my mind was back in my head.

“Jared? That’s a strange name for a pony.” Sweetie Belle stated. Applejack gave her a look and she immediately apologized. I didn’t think a thing of it. I had never thought that human names wouldn’t make sense in a world where your name is based off of objects.

“So Jared where do you live?” Applejack asked.

I was clueless. “I-I don’t live anywhere. Well I used to live in Minnesota but- “Whinnysota! We have relatives, who live there, don’t we Big McIntosh.” Applebloom said with excitement.

“Eeyup” chimed Big McIntosh.

“Well if you don’t have a place to stay, You can stay with us until we find you a proper home?” Applejack suggested.

“Really? Are you serious?” I was ecstatic! I get to spend the night with my favorite pony plus in the morning I’ll still be here! This could work out very well for me.

“However there is one condition. While you stay, you are going to help us on the farm or help me with any other work I’m doing” Applejack was always know for hard work but just the fact that I would be working with Applejack made me not care how hard the work would be.

“That sounds like a fair deal.” I said, “when do I start?”

“You’ll start tomorrow morning.” Applejack said “I have to harvest the south orchard and it’s always good to have more than one set of hooves apple bucking.”

“Oh you mean like when you tried to get all the apples out of the trees last applebuck season all by yourself, and you got overworked and needed help?” I exclaimed. Taken aback, Applejack looked a little embarrassed, astonished and a little confused.

“You know, for a pony we’ve never seen in Ponyville, you sure know a lot about me. How do you know so much about me?” She asked. I knew if I told her the truth the whole world could collapse in on itself, so instead I made something up.

“Well you see you’re pretty famous where I used to live.” I fibbed. Again she looked a little embarrassed but she didn’t ask anything else on the matter.

“Well we should all head to bed, there has been a lot of excitement today and we could all use the rest” She declared, “We’ll start work in the morning.” Applejack then directed me to where I would be staying. “I hope you don’t mind but you’ll sleeping in Applebloom’s room” Applejack explained.

“I don’t mind.” I replied. “I just need to get some sleep.”

“Well goodnight then.” Applejack closed the door and left. Well this has been one extremely eventful day, I thought to myself. I knew that in some way or another I was supposed to be here, just like Kirkland, Joe and Espen. But for now I needed to sleep. I had a big day ahead of me tomorrow.