All Alone.

He woke up in a hospital smelling of roses and alcohol, nothing new. What was new, however, was the white and pink polka-dotted hospital gown he was wearing. Such an ugly garment should be a crime against humanity.

Misanthropic thoughts aside, he took a moment to recollect himself and realized; no, he wasn't on earth, and no, Clinton's still gone. It took him a while, but somehow he remembered where he was. He also remembered the talking dog-horses, including the militant rainbow that punched him. Yeah, he did punch her friend, but that doesn't give her permission to punch him. If he had more of a backbone, he'd go have some stern words with her.

It looked like he'd have the opportunity, because just a minute after he awoke, she flew through the door.

The rainbow hovered in the doorway, eyes narrowed and staring intensely at him. Jack did the only thing he could think of. He ducked under the covers, because he was a child.

"You're lucky Twilight wants to do her weird studying on you. If not, a hospital would be too late for you." A girl's voice called out trying to sound masculine. Also rather condescending, Jack might add. "Hey, where'd you go?"

Is she that stupid?, he thought.

Apparently not.

It was like getting hit with a sledgehammer - shit happens - when Rainbow flew into Jack's rib-cage. She fell off the bed onto the floor laughing as Jack curled into the fetal position, the pain starting to fade away. It would seem most ponies were built tougher than him.

"You - You take hits like a filly!", she cried through her laughter.

I wonder how often you get assaulted in the hospital, Jack started to get off the bed, collapsing as soon as his feet hit the floor.

Rainbow didn't notice.

"But really, Twilight sent me to get you, seeing as you're some kind of new undiscovered creature that may or may not eat ponies. She'd come get you herself, but she's busy with preparing and all that.", she was talking mostly to the wall, as Jack was still on the floor. "I'm always willing to help out. I mean, how hard could it be? Any trouble and I could just knock you out again." Rather egotistical, though it was true. Rainbow did knock him out in one punch before. She could probably do it again.

The trip to Twilight's castle was pretty boring. Jack spent most of the ride in a bag, while it seemed Rainbow - who told him her real name was Rainbow Dash - was purposefully swinging him side to side. Every few minutes it seemed he collided with something hard that wouldn't budge or something soft that yelled angrily. It was pretty uncomfortable. Rainbow had tied Jack's legs to his chest to keep him from moving, and he was really starting to feel his muscles burn.

Finally though, she let him out, and he could see Twilight's castle. And wow, did she have some castle.

It's appearance was completely superficial. It looked like a strong gust of wind would be all it took to knock it over. The whole thing was supported by what looked to be fragile crystal tree, much to thin to support all the weight above it. At the very top was a large crystal star, no doubt useless and with no rooms in it. The left side had a large balcony hanging off it, while the right side had a block of rooms hanging off that side. The whole thing was unbalanced, and completely undefendable. All an enemy would have do to topple it would be to damage the fake-tree supporting it, then it would topple down.

Not to mention how ugly it was compared to the surrounding country. It completely stuck out, all purple and crystal-y.

Standing in front of the castle was the purple pony Jack punched however long ago. He didn't even know how long he was in the hospital.

He would've asked Rainbow on the way, but she stuffed him in a bag. It seemed though, that their last meeting wasn't too long ago. Twilight still had a bruise on her face, and a bandage wrapped around her horn. Looked like the punch Jack made ended up hitting her horn, too. But then again, last time he saw her she didn't have wings, or this castle. Her house was a tree when he hit her, so these new additions must've come along while he was out.

"You've been out for quite a while," Twilight started. Damn, that meant Jack would have to shave his beard, as he hadn't thought to check his face 'till now. "I've done some studying on you while you where out," creepy, "But I was hoping to study you while you were... responsive." Would Jack have to punch her again?

"Please, Twi-," his voice squeaked and died out. His throat was dry as a desert.

"Rainbow Dash, you did moisten his throat every 3 days like I asked you, right?"

"I, might've forgot?", Dash offered with a weak smile.

What the hell?

"You bastard," he barely choked out.

"Language please," Twilight started talking. "There's a lot I'd like to discuss with you, but seeing as you can't ,well, discuss, I'll just have to wait until you get your voice back. You can stay in my castle, but please, don't take or break anything." What, was he some kind of thug or something?

"Now as for you, Rainbow Dash," Twilight started talking. Again. "Princess Celestia has called us all to Canterlot for an important merting."

"What for?" Rainbow asked, as if an invitation from a monarch wasn't significant enough for her.

"She didn't say," Twilight said. "All she wrote was it's important and we need to head there now!" She stamped her hoof impatiently on the ground, a hint of frustration in her voice. He pointed at Jack, "I just wanted to make sure he was here at the castle where the guards could watch him before we left."

"Alright fine. Let's go!" Rainbow basically shouted. Then took off together, heading north.

They literally just Jack standing there in front of the castle, not even making sure he was inside. The guards standing on either side of the door were sleeping, leaning on their spears. Jack could just leave. So he did, taking off down the road towards the town he assumed was Ponyville, if his memory served him right. Now, he thought, Let's get down to business.

Jack's 'business' was getting lunch.

A rather difficult task, it was.

First off, he had no money. Secondly, he was an alien to the local population.

Most ponies he saw ran away or ducked into buildings. Ponies closed up shop as he walked by. Ponies screamed and feinted as he came within a few yards of them.

How did he know they were called ponies?

He didn't. He had no idea what these thing were actually called, but the town was called Ponyville, and seeing how Germantown exists...

He did manage to snag a sandwich off one poor lady, who stereotypically put her hoof to her forehead and fainted as Jack walked up to her. Having no idea what to do, he left her there. Someone would help her, eventually.

Taking one bite of the sandwich, he dry heaved, nearly throwing up. On the outside, the sandwich looked fine. On the inside, however, were dandelions. What wicked creature would put such diabolical weeds in their food? Jack did the obvious thing and took the flowers out, eating just the bread. It was mostly filling, though hunger gnawed at him a bit.

Getting his clothes back was next on his list. The hideous hospital gown he was wearing just wouldn't do.

The hospital was relatively easy to find, especially since all the townsfolk were avoiding him. It was a rather plain hospital, and rather large for such a small town. It had the same medieval wattle and daub construction as the rest of the village.

He was chased out by nurses as soon as he walked in. They were screaming things along the lines of, "What is he doing outside his room?", and, "You can't just walk out of here, get him!." Apparently Rainbow hadn't checked him out and just stuck him in the bag and left.

She sucked. He needed to tell her that sometime.

It wasn't hard losing the nurses. Just turn a few corners and hide behind a barrel. They past right by him.

After a while he came back onto the street to find it still empty. He just decided to walk around until some thing happened.

It did.

After about five minutes of aimless wandering, Jack passed an alley and noticed something wasn't right. Backing up to take a closer look, a pair of yellow eyes stared back at him.

"Come Mister Peterson, ve have much to discuss."

Shit.

His world turned to darkness once more.