> HumanZ
>  by ShadowWalking18
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> Awakening
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This is a minor project, though I always love comments so.....give comments :)






One year ago, an unknown space craft crash landed in Equestria. Within the craft were two hundred and fifty humans, with another four thousand, seven hundred and fifty more in cryosleep. These humans were refugees, escaping a war that destroyed not only their home planet, but every other planet that humans had colonized along with almost all of their population. With the help of the princesses, the humans have slowly but surely begun to become intergrated into Equestrian society, and have gained full citizenship in the Kingdom of Canterlot. Through a Homestay program, the humans awoken from cryosleep are intergrated into the society, and now one more begins to awake. This is his tale, and of the trials and challanges he faces.






Number 793: Reawakening in Process.

The voice of the Awakener said as the capsule began to thaw. Nerogas filled the champer, revitalizing the body within and reawakening the concious. From outside, several doctors watched, keeping track of vitals and other statistics of the body within. Another sat at a computer and brought up the files of the person within.

"Number 793, Jacob Durren. Age 24, height six foot eight. Eye color green, hair color black. Very few files on this guy. Might have been destroyed during the war, or lost from the crash." One of the doctors said as he looked through what data they did have.

"I wouldn't be surprised. We didn't really have time to take a full background check on everyone we took, it was just rampant chaos to get on the ship." Another doctor said as he shook his head, remembering the Evacuation.

"Well what do we have about him?" Another asked.

"Well, aside from what was already stated, nothing at all really. We do have a record that says he has minor psychonautic abilities, but that is all really." The doctor said with a shrug.

The other doctors sighed and facepalmed, it was always difficult with these unknowns.

"Well," One of the doctors said, "we will have to do what we always do with other unknowns."

One of the doctors nodded and typed somethings into the computer, "I'll get a tracer cell ready." 

All the other docs nodded, a tracer cell would help keep track of this mans actions as he was intergrated into Equestrian society. Though it was an invasion of privacy, it was necessry in order to avoid releasing any dangerous people to the outside world. It wouldn't do to have a sociopath out there, though so far they had not found any; still never hurt to becareful.

"His heart beat is increasing." One of the doctors called as he looked at a screen.

"Alright, lets get this finished and to the rejuvinator." Another doctor said.

All the personel got to work, within the pod, the man's concious began to stir. A single thought drifted through his mind.

'Damn I have to go to the bathroom.'





Once the Awakening sequence was done, the door to the pod was opened cables and other pieces of technology detatched from the occupants body. A large mechanical hand lowered and slowly and gently lifted the slowly stirring body out. 

The arm lifted the man over to single white latrine and held it near the facility. Slowly but surely the bodies functions began and the half concious man finally releived himself, before being moved on and placed on a table in another room. From a door several doctors entered and began moving equipment, and machines in.

A large machine was brought over and from the multitude of arms on it slowly lowered themselves over the mans body, before slowly sliding the tips of thousands of thin needle like apendeges into the mans skin at every angle, almost litterally covering his body.

"Alright, lets begin the rejuvination." A doctor said, and soon every doctor got to work.

Hours seemed to pass before the man finally regained full conciousness. He tried to open his eyes, but immediatly closed them.

"Where am I?" He asked.

"Ah mister Jacob. I am glad to see you are awake." One of the doctors said, as he continued the procedure.

"Who are you?" Jacob asked.

"I am doctor Howard, me and my team are rejuvinating your muscles; they cryosleep..."

"Yes, yes. I know what long term cryosleep does to ones muscles," Jacob said,  "I'm guessing since I am awake we landed finally?" 

Doctor Howard nodded, "You would be right. Though it was more of a crash then a proper landing." Howard chuckled, as did some of the other doctors.

"Where exactly are we?" Jacob asked, as he slowly opened his eyes, getting use to the light again.

"We do not know the exact solar system we are in. Though we can assume we are very very far from ours, due to the fact that it has been almost seven hundred years since we left, even when traveling at light speed." Doctor Howard said as he finished off a few more bits of muscle rejuvination.

"Seven hundred years," Jacob said in awe, "damn. What kind of planet is it?"

"Well you will learn all you need to know later, but it is alot like earth....if a few minor different details."

Jacob lifted an eyebrow, "What kind of details? The sky purple or something?"

Doctor Howard chuckled, "No....you'll find out. Okay I think that is everything. We'll do one more scan and if everything seems okay you can get up. I hope you know that the rejuvination process does not fully restore your original muscle strength before freezing, only makes them healthy once again."

"Yeah, I know. If I what my six pack abs again I have to get them the good old fashioned way again." Jacob said with a roll of his eyes.

Doctor Howard chuckled, "Yes. Now just hold still a moment.....okay everything seems okay. Try and stand up."

The needles slowly lifted from Jacob's body and he shivered a bit as he felt air blow against all the hundreds of little holes. He slowly lifted himself up and got off the table. He kept his hand on the table till he felt confident enough to stand without support.

Doctor Howard nodded, "Okay good, now take a few steps to me." He stepped around the table and held his arms out.

Jacob took a few baby steps before walking smoothly over to the doctor. Doctor Howard nodded and gave a smile.

"Good. If you will follow nurse Amber, she will take you somewhere to get some proper clothes, then to the briefing room where you will get all the answers you need. And welcome home mister Jacob." Howard said with a nod.

Jacob nodded, "Yeah thanks doc. See ya around I guess." With that Jacob waved by as he followed the nurse down a hall.

As they walked he glanced around ideally. Windows viewing into other rooms, where other people were being reawoke or going under the rejuvination process. And others were empty or not in use.

"In here you can aquire some clothes. I'll be out here when you are done." Nurse Amber said with a smile as she motioned to a door.

"Thanks babe." Jacob said and walked in. He closed the door and walked over to a computer and scanned through the choices of clothes he had available.

"Of course, the downsides of being a late waker.....all the good clothes are taken." He muttered to himself before finally pickin a simple pair  boxers,tan khaki pants and a white short sleeved oxford shirt. He walked over to the dispenser and removed the clothes and swiftly switched from his hospital gown into his new clothes.

Once he left the room, he followed the nurse one more down a series of halls till they reached another door. The nurse bowed and gave a pleasant smile. If not for the wedding ring on her finger, Jacob would consider asking her out....once he had money and a place again. 

"Well here is the briefing room. I hope that your new life is both a pleasant and enjoyable one." Nurse Amber said.

"Yeah, here is hoping. I just hope this place has a bar. Could use a drink." Jacob said as he walked in and waved by to the nurse.

Jacob found himself in a room with a window. Several other people sat in chairs, talking amongst themselves or looking outside. Jacob walked over to the window immediatly and gaped in awe at what he saw before him outside.

Green grass, a bright golden sun. Clear blue skies, it was beautiful. It reminded him so much of earth.

'Before the damn war came and fucked everything up." Jacob thought.

The sound of an opening door, drew all the peoples attention as another doctor walked in.

"Hello. My name is Doctor Brown. I'm in charge in making sure all reawakeners are properly educated on the aspects of our new home and what they should expect here. Now if you will all take a seat, and we will begin." Doctor brown said as he waited for the people to do as instructed.

Jacob sat down and rested his head on his fist. Felt like highschool all over again, except without a sexy young female teacher.

"Now, to begin we are on the planet of Equestria. The planet is earth like in every detail when it was still young and uncontaminated by early human pollution, it has the same percentage of water and land. The same everything for the most part. There are just a few minor details that need to be adressed, before you are allowed to leave the ship." Doctor brown began to explain the workings of Equestria.

Jacob listened intently, though he was not one for school, he felt that since this new piece of rock was going to be his new home he should learn all he can. And boy....was there lots to know.

"So wait....you mean to say that this plant is populated by talking horses?" One man said in surprise.

"Actually they are ponies, and there also lives zebras, griffons, unicorns and pegasi along with other strange creatures. All capable of advanced communication on a human level." Doctor Brown said.

"Unicorns? Dragons? Pegasi?" One woman said in shock.

Doctor Brown nodded, "Yes. I know it seems strange, but Equestria seems to have evolved on a completly differnt scale then our plant did. You will find that a good deal of the creatures we considered myths actually do exist here. In fact it has caused a few arguements among some of our scientists and philosophers."

Jacob raised his hand, "Do these....ponies and....whatever that live here speak english?"

Doctor brown shook his head, "No. They speak a language of their own. But don't worry we will imprint the knowledge of the language into your brains before you leave. It will take some getting use to, but eventually you will be speaking it alot mroe then our Earthen tongue."

Jacob groaned, as did everyone else. Imprinting of new knowledge to the brain hurt like hell. Was worse then a hangover.

"Now, we will move, Equestria is ruled by a two equal ruling monarchs. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. An interesting note is that these two equines have both a unicorns horn and pegasus wings and are, so the populous say responsible for the setting and rising of the sun and moon."

"That's ridiculous." One man, a graying man of maybe fifty scoffed.

"Well...not entirely. While we doubt they actually rise and set the sun, we do know that...at least the unicorns and the princesses are capable of magic."

"Magic!?!" One woman said in disbelief, "That is just ridiculous."

Doctor Brown sighed, "Perhaps magic is not the best word for it. Perhaps a form of psychonautics is more apporpriate, but the natives call it magic. Still, whatever it is called, you will sure to see it if you are in the pressence of a unicorn eventually."

Some of the people muttered, others just nodded accepting the more rational explanation. After all psychonautics made more sense.

"Now, if there are no other questions we will move on." Doctor Brown said and began the rest of the lecture.





Jacob cracked his neck as he walked with the rest of the other reawakeners from his...class. After all the information, language imprintment, and the thousands of questions, some from him, he was finally getting any of his previous belongings back before he got frozen.

'Or at least the ones that were deemed safe. Doubt I'll be getting my Desert Eagle back. I can understand why they would recycle all of our military technology and rework them into other things....But that thing costed me half my savings!' Jacob thought with annoyance, and he had only had the gun for a year. 

Entering the main hall, he followed his group to where they would retrieve their possessions. Jacob found himself and empty monitor and headed over.

"Arlight....Jacob...." Jacob said as he typed in his name and searched through the list that showed up on the screen till he found his name and pressed it. He turned to the retrieval basin and watched as a short burst of light appeared and before his eyes was a basket filled with his possessions before entering cryosleep; or well....most of them.

In the basket he found a pair of black sunglasses, always important. He quickly put them on. His wallet, no money of course but had his i.d. when he looked in one of the pockets a reciept from.....Nightingals.

'Uh....I hope no one saw this.' Jacob thought as he quickly tore the piece of paper up. No use in keeping a record of his old life, or at least what he did with his free time...or did....whatever. He put the wallet in his pocket and looked more.

"Is it here...please God let it be...Oh thank goodness." Jacob said as he snatched a simple gold necklace. The chain was connected to a locket. He quickly put it on and sighed in relief, he was glad that this had survived and remained with his possessions.

"Thats everything really now." Jacob said to himself as he tossed the now empty basket back intot he retrieval unit, which caused it to disappaer in another flash of light.

Jacob sighed, wishing he could at least have kept his leather jacket. But...oh well. He turned and headed away from the retrieval units and headed towards a door, where others from his group were taking. This door would lead to the main lobby of the ship, where they would learn of where they were assigned for the Homestay program, and await their transport.

'Might also see some of these ponies.' Jacob thought as he walked. He was still not use to the idea that the council was allowing small group tours of certain areas of the ship, but...what did he care he was never stepping back inside this place if he could avoid it.

Passing through the door, Jacob looked around. The lobby looked more like an airport lobby, or maybe a hotels. He saw other groups of rewakeners and groups of doctors and other personel walking this way and that. But what caught his attention the most was the entrance and exit leading outside. In just a few moments he would be walking in fresh air, with the grass between his feet. The bright sun shining down and warming his skin.

"But first....find out where I'm staying." Jacob said to himself as he walked over with his group to the assignment table. He was lucky to get fourth place in line so he did not have to wait long before he was finally up at the desk.

"Name." The woman behind the desk asked.

"Jacob Durren." Jacob said.

The Assigner nodded and looked through a series of files before handing him one, "Here you are sir. Everything you need to know is in that file. Feel free to look at it in your own time. Someone will be here in awhile to take you to where you will be staying."

"Thanks babe." Jacob said, earning a glare from the Assigner. Jacob got out of there fast, chuckling.

Once safely away Jacob looked down at his file. Should he read it now, or on the way? While he thought of the choices he noticed a sign saying: Vending Machines.

'You know what...I'll decide once I get a drink. I hope they got Pepsi.' Jacob thought as he walked over.

Of course, turning the cornor he was met with a big surprise. About five feet, eight if he counted the horn, of white, pinkish fur and a strange sort of pink, green and blue translucent mane and tail. It was a pony, but this one had a horn and wings, and a sun tattoo on her flank.

'No wait, they called those cutie marks...and don't remember any sort of pony species that had both horn and wings....then again I did fall asleep through most of the class.' Jacob thought.

The pony looked towards him and gave a smile, "Oh hello. Am I in your way, I'm sorry." She, it was obvious by the voice, moved aside freeing the soda machine.

Jacob blinked, time to use that language now, he cleared his throat, "Uh...no you weren't in the way....I guess I was just....surprised....did I say that right?"

The pony giggled, "Well you used the wrong adjactive for weren't and drew out the surprise part a bit. But other then that you did well, I guess you must be one of the....what do you call it?"

"Reawakeners." Jacob said.

The pony nodded, "Yeah that was it. I guess you are then right?"

Jacob nodded, "Yep. Just waiting for my ride to wherever I'm staying for that Homestay program. Just thought I'd grab a drink."

The winged unicorn nodded with a smile, "I had the same idea," She frowned and her ears flattened a bit, "But....I....don't really know how to make this thing work."

Jacob chuckled, "Well no big deal. it's relativly easy. What you want?" Jacob walked over and held his finger over the numpad of the machine.

The pony looked at the side bar that had the various drinks offered, "Umm...a...vanilla coke sounds interesting."

Jacob nodded, "It's pretty good." Jacob typed in the number and the machine dispensed the bottle, still icy cold. Jacob took it out and offered it to the pony.

The pony smiled and her horn glowed a light gold, as did the bottle. Jacob let go and looked at the bottle with surprise, the pony giggled and said, "Sorry. Never seen magic before?"

Jacob nodded, "Yeah...if thats what you call it. Just a bit surprised is all. I'm sure to get lots of others no doubt."

The pony chuckled and smiled, Jacob had to admit....it was....kinda....cute.

'Whoa where that come from?' Jacob thought, then shook his it away as he got his own drink. He opened the bottle and drank deeply of the cold beverage. God it was refreshing.

"Ah...that's the stuff." Jacob said as he wiped his mouth.

The pony hicuped and covered her mouth with a slight blush, "That is interesting."

Jacob chuckled, "That's soda for ya. Try not to drink it to fast, the carbonation can make ya..

The pony gave a small burp after another drink, she blushed even more, "Oh dear.."

Jacob laughed, "Oh don't worry about." 

The two were silent for a moment, during which Jacob looked around ideally, sipping his drink or looking at the Pony next to him. She was tall, taller then what he had been told of pony height, then again there were humans that were eight feet high, so he guessed it was a genetic thing. Her eyes were pretty, a light grayish magneta in color. 

'For some reason I feel as if I should know her...but why?' He thought.

"Something wrong?" The pony asked.

Jacob blinked, "Huh..oh uh...hey....what do you think about us...humans I mean. About us living here?" Jacob hoped to change the subject away from his staring.

The pony blinked, then smiled gently, "I think that you humans have alot to offer us and we to you in turn. You might not be from our planet, but I think you have as much right to call it home as we do."

Jacob snorted, "Yeah, you wouldn't say that if you knew mroe about us." He took another sip from his soda.

"Oh," The pony said as she tilted her head, "Why?"

Jacob looked to the pony, "Well first off, humanity has a history of fucking everything it does up. We're the most arrogant and stupid of any species that has or might exist."

The pony frowned, "Such a negative outlook on ones own race. Why?"

Jacob sighed, "Humanities history is a dark and disgusting one. In the past we had ethnocentric violence, supposed racial violence and religious violence. Pretty much we used every sort of excuse we could make up just to kill each other. And trust me it didn't take much of an excuse to do that, if we had cutie marks it would probably be a skill in our own self destruction."

The pony frowned more, Jacob continued, "We nearly destroyed our home planet Earth once...way back thousands of years ago. It was only after millions died from a sudden water crisis and food crisis caused by our own hands, then a large massive change in the enviroment before we came off our soap box as the pinnicale of creation as we liked to think ourselves of."

The pony frowned more and looked at Jacob with pity, "Such a horrible past...."

"Tell me about it. Then that so called enlightenment only lasted for a few dozen centuries before we got right back to how we were before, with few lording over the many simply because they had more money. That is sort of how we ended up here, after hundreds of years Karl Marx's class conflict came about. Only this conflict ended up wiping out almost all of our species and all the planets we colonized." Jacob gripped his soda bottle tight, memories coming back to him.

"But..." The pony began, but was cut off.

"Beleive me...I think the universe would be better off if we had all just died out. Humanity has no redemption for it. Just damnation." Jacob drank his soda again.

"You're wrong," the pony said, when Jacob looked over he felt his heart stop when he saw the fire in her eyes, "you might have given up on your race....but I think that you have a chance to change yourselves...I know you do."

Jacob looked at the pony, whose eyes now took on a softer tone and smiled at him, "You just have to have faith....I do, and I know that one day you will see that despite the past...you have the ability to become free of your history. Everyone can....I know from experience." The ponies eyes seemd to become distant for a moment.

Jacob blinked, "...maybe....."

The pony simply smiled and placed a hoof on Jacob's shoulder. Jacob looked up and smirked a bit, "By the way, names Jacob." He held his hand out.

"Celestia." The pony said as she placed her hoof in his hand and let Jacob shake it.

"Celestia." Jacob said, then his eyes widened as it all pieced together.

Celestia. Winged unicorn, Alicorn. Princess....

"Princess Celestia." Jacob said in shock as he stood up. He was blushing madly as he realized that he had been talking to the ruler of Equestria, and he had been acting like a complete jerk.

Celestia giggled, "Surprised? It's not that big of a deal."

"Bu...but....wha...wha....you...I.." Jacob tried to think of a sentence, which only made the sun princess giggle more.

"I am really sorry if I did anything offensive or upset you in any way." Jacob said.

'Crap! Crap! Crap! What do I do!?! Do I bow? I don't want to, but should I!?! Crap!' He thought as he tried to think of his next course of action.

Celestia giggled, "Oh calm down Jacob," she smiled, "theres no need to worry about it. And please don't bow I really don't like all the formalities really."

Jacob gulped and sat down and sipped his soda again, really wishing it was whisky or something strong.

"I'm...I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was you....princess Celestia." Jacob said, sweating a bit.

"Just Celestia, but you will have to say princess if we ever talk in public. But since it's just the two of us it is okay." Celestia said with a smile.

Jacob nodded, "Right....hey wait how come there isn't a big gathering with you or something?"

Celestia scratched at the floor with her hoof a bit, blushing slightly, "Well...I wanted to see the next group of reawakeners, maybe talk to some of them. But I didn't really want all the fuss of being the princess so I...sort of came here on my own without the crown and such."

Jacob blinked, "Really? Damn...I mean shit. I mean...gah!" Jacob just covered his mouth.

Celestia just laughed, "Really. though I'm sure to have caused a commotion with the royal guards. I should probably head back to the castle now." Celestia levitated her empty drink to the deconstructor and watched with awe and surprise as the plasting was teleported away to be recycled into a fresh bottle for drink or some other use.

Celestia looked to Jacob with a smile, "It was really nice talking with you Jacob." 

Jacob nodded, "Yeah...was real nice talking to ya as well...Celestia," Jacob tried to think of a compliment, "You know even though your a thousand years old you still look hot."

Celestia blinked, and Jacob went red in the face and sweated more.

'SHIT! Damn it, I'm dead. What was I thinking, you never make a comment about a womans age. I'm dead.' Jacob thought, but when he looked at the sun princess he blinked in surprise to see her face red, looking at her hoof as it circled the floor a bit.

"Oh...dear...um..thank you." Celestia said with a smile, "I should go now. Bye Jacob." With that Celestia turned and walked off, leaving her drink on a table near the vending machines.

Jacob waited till she was gone before sighing in relief, leaning against the wall with a hand over his heart.

"Sweet christ, I think my heart stopped beating through that whole conversation," He said, "I was talking to the princess of Equestria and I didn't even know it. Oh God....I need a smoke."

Finishing his drink he tossed the empty bottle, along with Celestias empty bottle into the recycler unit and walked back into the lobby with his file and sat down to wait for his ride, and to clear his head.





After what seemed like an hour of waiting, Jacob was taking a strategic nap on the bench, his file kept safe under his body. Of course his sleep was soon disturbed by a voice.

"Hey Jacob, welcome back to the land of the waking. Now get up!" Someone said before flipping Jacob off the bench causing him to fall.

Jacob growled as he got up, "Alright whose the dead man!?" 

Jacob looked up at his pusher, ready to break his legs but his eyes widened and his jaw dropped at who he saw. The man was tall, about Jacob's height. He had blond colored hair and brown eyes, with a moon shaped scar running down his left eye.

"Max." Jacob said.

The man smirked and held up two fingers in the peace sign, "What up Jacob. Long time no see."

"Max!" Jacob laughed and gave his friend a bear hug.

Max laughed and returned the sign of affection. After a moment the two broke the hug and smirked at each other.

"Damn man, you look old." Jacob said.

"Pfft, up yours. I'm three years younger then you still. maybe two since I was unfrozen a year before you."

Jacob laughed, "Whatever bitch. What are you doing here?"

Max smirked, "I'm your ride jackass."

Jacob smirked and picked up his file, "Ah, still how did ya know I was unfrozen today?"

"I have a few friends in with the doctors. Since you were not in the groups last year, i figured you would be in the ones this year so I kept a look at the lists. Saw your name and figured I'd help get ya to your homestay host and catch up on old times." Max said as he lead Jacob outside.

"Thanks man. Good to know someone I can tolerate is here on this piece of rock." Jacob said, following his friend.

When they got outside, Jacob stopped and looked in awe of the outside world. It felt different standing outside then looking out from a window.

Max stood beside his friend and placed a hand on his shoulder, "Beautiful ain't it."

Jacob nodded, "Yeah....funny how that is."

The two stood there for a moment, looking up at the sky. Finally though they kept on walking, till they reached an improvised docking area for air cruisers. 

"Over here, this ones mine." Max said as he walked towards a powder blue cruiser.

Jacob whistled, "Nice. Who you have to sleep with it get it?"

"Your mama. Now get in." Max laughed.

Jacob smirked and hopped into the passengers seat. Max activated the cruiser and they lifted up into the air.

"So where you need to be?" Max asked as he put some sunglasses on.

Jacob looked through his file, putting on a pair as well given to him by Max.

"Lets see...uh....a place called....Ponyville." Jacob said.

"Oh that's easy. Now hang on tight man cause we are gonna burn air!" Max shouted and gunned the engine.

The two shouted witn excitement as they raced off into the distance. All the way the sun shune high and bright in the sky, the promise of a new life held in its golden rays.





There ya go. First chapter, I'm looking for an editor for this fic if any are willing to help. Hope you enjoy it.
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Wow, I didn't think this would get so popular so fast. I feel so happy *Hugs for all the commentors* I shall grace you with another chapter. Thank you all again :)





The cruiser flew down the road. All around them, Jacob saw either wide open land or forests. He took in a deep breath, and again could almost taste a sweetness to the air on this planet. Fresh, clean air, how he missed it. It was still hard for him to beleive it was seven hundred years since he was frozen.

"Still taking it all in?" Max asked, glacing over to his friend.

Jacob nodded as he looked out towards the forests, "Yeah. Still feels strange you know. I think every single one of us thought that we were going to die when we got on that ship."

Max nodded, "Yeah, I can agree. I thought it was just a false hope to save our species....but...well I whoever runs the universe felt we deserved a second change."

Jacob shrugged, "Yeah, maybe."

The two were silent for a moment, before Max asked, "So what you do while you waited for me? Meet any hot girls?"

Jacob thought on that, "Uh....not really. Either they were married or just not interested in me....then I had a soda and..."

"And what?" Max asked.

Jacob thought about telling his friend about his conversation with the princess, but decided against it, "Well after that I just....took a nap."

"That all?" Max said, looking suspiciously at his friend.

"Yeah." Jacob said looking away.

Max looked at his friend for a moment, then just shrugged, "Okay. We will be arriving at Ponyville shortly."

Jacob sighed, "Great."

Max punched his friends shoulder lightly, "Hey, don't sound so depressed. From what I have gathered, they have absolutly no humans staying there at the moment. So you will be a celebraty there."

Jacob chuckled, "Celebraty, thats a new one."

Max smirked, "Still man, you're gonna be the first human they see. All of them have only probably heard of our kind by word of mouth or from the princesses speech when we first came here."

Jacob smirked, "I'm sure it will be interesting. Hmm, I guess I should see who I'll be staying with."

"Would be smart." Max said as he took a turn at a fork in the road.

Jacob opened the file and looked through some of the papers till he found the one he was looking for.

"Lets see...I'll be staying at the....Ponyville Library with a Miss....Twilight....Sparkle." Jacob said.





"Spike. Did you pull out the extra bed?" Twilight called to her assistant.

"Just getting it all set." Spike called from upstairs.

Twilight nodded with a smile as she checked another thing off the list, "Good, only a few more things to get done in preperation."

Twilight felt so excited, she was actually going to house an visitor from outerspace in her own house. It was so exciting, who knows what she could learn from them.

"Hey Twilight, I got the bed already, but uh...why did we have to set it up? Is somepony staying over?" Spike asked as he came downstairs.

Twilight turned to the young dragon, "Spike, don't you remember. We are going to be part of a Homestay program."

Spike blinked, "And...thats.....good...right?"

Twilight sighed and facehoofed, "Spike, we are going to have a human stay with us."

Spike thought for a moment then remembered, "Oh yeah, those are those alien things that came here an year ago right?"

Twilight nodded, "That's right Spike, it was only a year ago that humans crash landed on our planet and in that one years time they have gained full citizenship as citizens of the Kingdom of Canterlot."

"So, what does this have to do with the spare bed needing to be set up?" Spike asked.

Twilight smiled, "Well Spike, in order for the humans to become accustomed to Equestrian society, their leaders, and the princesses have began a kingdom wide Homestay program. Volunteery ponies sign up and they offer to house a human so that they can get use to living with us and we with them."

"Oh," Spike said, "So...what kind of human are we getting?"

"Well, I don't know for sure, but whoever it is, he or she will be here soon and I want everything to be perfect when they arrive." Twilight said as she double checked her check list.

"Oh, well what else do we need to do?" Spike asked, hoping that they were done.

"Well...let's see." Twilight said as she looked through the list.





In the distance, Jacob could see a town come into view. He stretched and made sure he had everything on him. It did not take that long.

"Damn I wish I had my jacket at least." Jacob said.

"Oh, that reminds me. Here" Max said as he passed Jacob something.

Jacob took it, "What is....Holy Christ!" Jacob shouted as he looked at what he held in his hand.

It was his old CellComm. He quickly activated it and looked through the projected screen menu. It still had all his music, videos, apps. Everything and it had a full battery.

Jacob looked at Max, "How did you get this?"

Max shrugged, "Don't know. Probably got mixed in with my stuff during the evacuation. I knew it was yours though and hung onto it. Figured you would want it back."

Jacob nodded and turned the device off and pockted it, "Thanks man. So what you been up to while I was asleep."

"Well, I've been living in Manehatten and..." Max began.

"Wait wait wait. Manehatten?" Jacob said.

Max smirked, knowing where this was going, "Yep. And I went down to Las pegasus..."

"Las Pegasus." Jacob said with a raised eyebrow.

Max snickered, "Yeah...."

The two looked at each other, lips quivering before they both broke out into laughter.

"Oh man, don't tell me that alot of these cities have ponified names similar to cities Earth had." Jacob said as he wiped a tear from his eyes.

"You would guess correctly my friend. It's actually pretty funny." Max said, chuckling a bit more.

Jacob shook his head, giggling, "Oh that is funny. What's next?"

Max smirked, "Well....I didn't tell you about Germaney."

The two fell into fits of laughter again, even more so when Max made it clear he was being serious.

Jacob took a deep breath, "Oh man...I can't remember the last time I laughed like that."

Max chuckled, "I don't think either of us laughed in a long time."

The two smiled, and were silent for a time as they drew closer to Ponyville. Though finally Max frowned and looked to his friend.

"Hey...Jacob."

Jacob kept looking at the passing scenery, "Yeah?"

Max sighed, "While you were frozen...I did some checking and....well..she's okay."

Jacob was silent, then said, "Is she happy?"

Max nodded, "Yeah. She and her sister were placed with a nice old couple in Fillydelphia. The family there love her, saw her when I was checking on some of the other Homestay families there. She is doing great."

Jacob sighed, "Then thats all that matters to me. Now...lets drop this."

Max frowned, "Whatever you say man."

After that the two were silent, till they drew closer to the town. In the distance they could make out a small crowd of ponies; who had appearently spotted them coming closer.

"Looks like we got a crowd." Max said.

"Guess I can kiss just getting in nice and quiet out the door." Jacob sighed.

Max smirked, "Then I guess we better make this a greeting to be remembered."

Jacob looked at his friend with wide eyes, "Max....don't do anything stupi-aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!"

Max gunned the accelerator and rockted forward, Jacob screaming and hanging on to his chair for dear life.

"I'm king of the road!" Max shouted.





"Whats that" A pony asked.

"I don't know but....duck!" Another pony shouted before hitting the ground. Every other pony followed suit as something flew over them at a high speed.

When the crowd looked behind them, they all gasped at what they saw. It was a large blue colored object, hovering in the air. Slowly the strange object descended, landing on the ground.

"What is it?" A mare asked, holding her foal close to her.

"It's a monster." One foal said, hiding behind her mothers legs.

"No it's not. It's a human vechile." Another pony said.

"It is?" A bunch of ponies asked, before looking back at the machine.

Suddenly the doors opened and out stepped two creatures. They were giants! They wore clothes, and sunglasses on their eyes. They stood taller then an average pony.

A few ponies stepped back a bit, slightly intimidated by the size of the creatures.

"What are they?" One mare asked, shaking with slight fear.

"Their humans. I remember hearing about them from my brother." A stallion said, looking at the bipedal creatures with wide eyes.

"Excuse me!" One of the humans shouted, causing everypony to jump slightly.

"Does anyone know where the mayor is?" The human asked again.

"Right here," The mayor said as she ran over, she was breathing heavily, "I'm sorry I wasn't here to greet you. Somethings came up and, I guess I forgot that you were coming."

"It is no trouble. My name is Max, I'm here to drop off the Homestay participant. I hope we didn't cause a ruckus." Max said, putting on a polite smile.

"Does almost giving me a heart attack count?" Jacob asked, glaring at Max.

The mayor looked at the other human, her head tilted slightly with confusion, she then looked back to Max, "Um I guess this is him. If you don't mind me asking....what did he say?"

Max chuckled, "Oh don't mind him. He is just a bit grumpy after reawakening.  But beleive me he is very happy to be here."

The mayor wasn't so sure, but she nodded and accepted it, "Well, if you say so. Well, I would like to say that Ponyville is very honored to be part of the Homestay program, and we will all do our best to make uh..."

"Jacob." Jacob said simply.

"Jacob welcome here." The mayor finished, giving a friendly smile over to Jacob.

Jacob looked around at the crowd of ponies, many were whispering to each other. Others looked at with with curiosity, or just stared at him. Some, especially among some of the kids, or foals as he guessed they were called, looked at him and Max with slight fear.

'Yeah....I feel real welcoe here.' He thought.

"Well then, I leave him in your capable hands." Max said with a smile and headed back into his cruiser.

"Do take care." The mayor said as she waved bye.

Max waved bye to all the ponies before closing the door and starting the cruiser. The machine rose into the air, causing ponies to watch with awe, and took off.

Jacob watched his old friend fly off, then focused his attention to the crowd of ponies, who were now looking at him.

Jacob wasn't sure how to proceed so he went with something simple, "Hi."





Everything was silent for a moment, Jacob held up a hand and gave a smalll wave of greeting to the gathering of ponies. All the ponies looked at him, silently.

'Oh boy.....introductions...' Jacob thought.

"Umm.." Jacob began, before he was immediatly surrounded by ponies from all angles. Each one asking a question or seven and looking at him with wide eyes.

"So you're a human?" One asked.

"Are you really from space?" Another said.

"What was that thing you were in? How did it move without pegasi or earth ponies?"

"Who will you be staying with?"

"Where's your cutie mark?"

"Why do you wear clothes?"

"Your mane is rather short."

"You're so tall!"

Jacob looked this way and that, feeling a bit overwhelemed. As well as a tad bit afraid.

'Maybe I should have stayed frozen.' He thought to himself.

"Everypony," the mayor shouted, "I'm sure you all have questions for him, but Mr. Jacob has just arrived, surely you can wait for him to get settled in first."

Jacob chuckled uneasily a bit, but was relieved when the crowd dispersed, "I'll be willing to answer some questions once I get settled in."

Some ponies nodded with a smile, no doubt going to question him once more at a later date. The crowd soon dispersed as ponies returned to their daily lives. Soon it was just Jacob and the mayor.

"Well...that was certainly interesting." Jacob said.

"Sorry Mr. Jacob. Alot of ponies still don't know about you humans, or if they do have never seen you. I guess they are just a bit curious." The mayor said.

Jacob shrugged, "Eh no big deal, and Jacob will do. Mister makes me sound old."

The mayor chuckled, "Forgive me. Well, I guess we should find where you are staying for the Homestay. Do you know where?"

Jacob nodded, "Yeah, lets see," he pulled out the paper that had all the info he needed, "I'm staying with a Twilight Sparkle."

"Oh you are staying with Miss Sparkle? Oh you will be in good hooves then, Twilight is a very dependable pony. She is also very organized and studious, she'll probably have hundreds of questions for you." They mayor said as she motioned for Jacob to follow.

"Oh goodie." Jacob said with a sigh as he followed.

"Oh yes, if you need anything just let me know, as mayor it is my duty to make sure all the citizens of Ponyville are take care of; and that includes you." The mayor said giving Jacob a friendly smile.

Jacob returned the smile, "It is nice to know I will have such fine neighbors. I am rather surprised you are all so accepting."

The mayor frowned for a moment, "Well, there have been a few times when we of Ponyville might have been a bit....suspicious of unknown ponies, but we have gotten over that. Also, the princesses have made you citizens of the kingdom, so that is a sign that she trusts your kind." 

"I see." Jacob said simply.

The two were silent the rest of the way, when they reached their destination Jacob was surprised by what he saw. It was a large tree, or a house built into a tree.

"Well here we are." The mayor said as she knocked on the door.

"Coming." Someone called, a girl by the tone of the voice.

Jacob watched the door open, and there before he stood a purple colored pony. Her fur was purple and her mane and tail were, save for a small line of pink. On her flank was a strange star sort of symbol.

''l'll never understand these cutie mark things. Frankly I don't even feel comfortable looking at them.' Jacob thought.

"Oh hello mayor..." The pony stopped when she noticed Jacob.

"Twilight Sparke, this is.." the mayor began.

Twilight gasped, "Oh my gosh! You're already here, but..oh no I'm sorry I wasn't there to find you!"

Jacob blinked, "Uh..don't worry about it. I guess you're...Twilight Sparkle."

Twilight smiled and nodded, "Oh yes..I am," Twilight giggled, "oh this is so exciting. You're alot taller then I thought you would be, are all humans this tall? Oh, I have so many questions."

'Oh boy....' Jacob thought.

The mayor chuckled, "Well I have some things I need to attend to. I'll leave you to get settled. Have a good day Jacob. Twilight Sparkle."

"Have a good day mayor." Twilight said waving bye.

Jacob gave a small wave bye, "Later."

Jacob looked back to Twilight, who was looking up at him with wide eyes. Though instead of fear or uncertainty, her eyes were full of curiosity and he could just tell, a promise for thousands of questions.

"Um...so..." Jacob said.

Twilight blinked, "Oh yes, do come in. I'm sorry I didn't come and meet you when you arrived. I thought you would have been here later, I'm really sorry." 

"It's no big deal." Jacob said as he watched the purple unicorn walk inside. Jacob looked at the door and sighed as he bent down low and slowly walked inside.

'Living with something that only stands between two and three feet tall...might have some disadvantages.' Jacob thought, feeling a sense of foreshadowing.

"Oh...sorry about the door. This house was made for ponies, and...well..." Twilight said, her ears flat a bit.

"Yeah, height difference. It's no big deal really." Jacob said as he got inside and stood straight again.

"Are you sure?" Twilight asked, worried.

Jacob gave a slight smile, "It's perfectly fine Twilight. Trust me, small doorways mean very little to me."

Twilight still wasn't sure, but she nodded and said, "Well if you say so. Well let me show you around. I had Spike go and get a few things from the grocery store, but we got a bed set up for you."

"Spike? Whose that? Your're brother or something?" Jacob asked as he looked around.

"Well yes I guess you could say he is a brother. I've known him since he was hatched so we are close." Twilight said as she showed Jacob the library.

"Wait....hatched?" Jacob said looking at Twilight.

"Yes hatched. Spike is a dragon, didn't you have dragons where you're from?" Twilight asked.

"Uh no. But I heard about dragons from the debriefing. Uh...is it safe to live with a dragon?" Jacob asked.

Twilight blinked, then giggled, "Of course. Spike is still a baby dragon so there is no need to worry. Besides Spike isn't like other dragons, he is really nice, you'll like him."

"I'm sure." Jacob said simply. He took a book down from one of the shelves, he noticed that it was slightly smaller then a human book.

'I guess alot of things are probably in different size proportions, might not be much but it will certainly make things....interesting.' Jacob thought as he put the book away.

"Oh yeah. I have something for you." Jacob said as he opened his file again.

"For me?" Twilight tilted her head confused.

"Here. It's the check to help in covering expsense with me staying here." Jacob said as he handed the check to Twilight.

"Oh, thank you," Twilight said as she took the check with her magic, "But it really isn't needed. I get plenty of funding."

"Well...take it anyway. I'll try to get a job or something as well, I don't want to be a burden." Jacob said simply.

"Oh you don't have to do that, really." Twilight said.

"Well, even if you say so I'm still gonna find some work. I pull my own weight." Jacob said with a look that said he was not going to budge on this.

Twilight sighed, "Well if you want, well that's the library. Follow me upstairs now."

Jacob nodded and followed the unicorn up the stairs. Jacob had guessed that the building was one of those with the shop at the bottom and the living area on top, and he had been right. The upstairs consisted of a section that composed of a kitchen and another small flight of stairs that lead to either two beds in a sleeping section, another leading to outside where he could make out the guardrail of a balcony.

'There is something about this place....something...distinct.' Jacob thought as he looked around.

"Well this is the kitchen over here, up there is where the beds are. And over there is the bathroom. Any questions?" Twilight asked with a smile.

"Uh...when you say beds....do you mean that you and I are sleeping in...the same room?" Jacob asked.

Twilight nodded, "Yeah. Why, is that a problem?" Twilight tilted her head slightly.

Jacob opened his mouth to say something, but then realized that his answer would only make sense....if it was to a human woman. Jacob chuckled slightly, "Nevermind. No,it ain't a problem."

Twilight blinked and looked at Jacob funny.

'I wonder if all humans are this strange. oh no I shouldn't think that, it's rude.' Twilight thought.

"So...what now?" Jacob asked.

Twilight blinked, "Uh well, you can unpack and..." Twilight stopped when she realized....Jacob didn't have any bags.

Jacob smirked, "Yeah...maybe we can skip that part."

Twilight nodded, chuckle a bit, "Yeah. Um...why don't you have any bags anyway?"

"Well," Jacob said, "I don't have any. Don't really have much on me save the clothes on my back and the few items I was able to gain from the retrieval unit."

"The what?" Twilight blinked confused.

"Nevermind, the thing is I don't have anything really." Jacob said frowning. He hated being a reawakener.

"Oh, how come?" Twilight asked, curious of this circumstace.

"Well I was just awoken, and other then what I could get from the retrieval unit...well all who are woken from cryosleep will be in my posistion I guess." Jacob said.

"Cryosleep?" Twilight said confused.

Jacob sighed, "You know, how about we get the questions out of the way. It would make explaining things alot easier." Jacob said.

Twilight smiled, her eyes glittering and she immediatly went to get a quill and notepad, "Okay, if you're okay with it."

Jacob blinked by the speed at which Twilight had gotten ready, it made him feel a bit unnerved.

"So," Jacob said, "What do you want to know first?"





Jacob fell onto a chair, that was slightly to small for him making the sitting a bit awkward, but his weight at least was not affecting it. Still, he kept himself ready to stand if he heard the slights noise from the wood.

'Shesh....one thousand, seven hundred and fourty two questions.' Jacob thought as he rubbed his head. 

"I had no idea humans were so interesting. You managed to go to the moon and can do things without magic! It's so amazing!" Twilight exclaimed as she looked over her notes.

"Yeah....please tell me that's all the questions you got." Jacob said, praying that it was true

Twilight nodded, "Oh yes, I have lots to study tonight, we can do more tomorrow."

Jacob blinked, "Tomorrow...."

Twilight nodded as she put her notepad away, "Yep. Tomorrow."

Jacob felt an eye twitch, "Oh....joy..."

"Oh!" Twilight gasped, "Since you're new here I should introduce you to my friends and show you around Ponyville."

Jacob thought on that, "Well, if I'm gonna live here for a time, I guess I should know where everything is," Jacob got up, "lead the way Twilight."

Twilight smile, "Great, well first stop should be Sugarcube Corner."

"Great. Sounds....sugary." Jacob said as he followed.

Twilight giggled, "Well it is a cake shop."

Jacob chuckled, and yet....he could not help but feel....more feelings of dread.

'Something's gonna happen...that I'm probably not gonna like.' He thought.





If this chapter was shorter to you sorry. I want to seperate the introductions in a seperate chapter so that one will probably be longer. Hope you all enjoy this :) 

Also as you can no doubt tell...I need a cover art, sadly my skill in art is...not so great*though I am practicing but still not capable of anything good* Anyway if anyone is a good artist out there*Not asking for much really* let me know would be alot of help for the fic.


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Another chapter :) now just gonna say that anything written in italics is normal human language and not the equestrian language. Only humans will be able to understand what is said, though ponies might be able to guess what is being said, at least in telling what the emotion is behind the words. And...thats all I have to say at the moment. Enjoy.





Jacob walked down the street, following Twilight. As he passed, he saw other various ponies stopping to gawk or look at him. 

'I hope this doesn't last. I hate all this attention.' He thought.

"So what do you think of Equestria? Is it alot different from your home planet?" Twilight asked.

"Well," Jacob said, "unicorns and pegasi didn't exist. No did alot of the creatures you got here, expect in myth really. The air has a sweet taste to it, which is odd, but thats probably just from being cooped up in cryosleep for so long."

"Wow, you didn't have unicorns and pegasi? What about earth ponies?" Twilight asked.

"Well we had ponies, but....not the ones you are probably thinking about. They weren't sentient at all....in fact they were really nothing more then dumb animals."

Twilight shivered a bit, "Scarey."

"Hmmm, I guess. So where are we going again?" Jacob asked.

"Sugarcube Cornor," Twilight said, "It sells the best sweets in Ponyville, and its where the Cakes and Pinkie Pie live."

"Hmm, I guess Pinkie Pie is one of your friends?" Jacob asked.

Twilight nodded, "You would be right. Pinkie Pie is the friendlist pony I know, though she can be a bit...hyper at times."

"Hyper?" Jacob said, eyebrow raised.

Twilight giggled, "Well, you have to meet her to see. But don't worry she is a realyl nice pony, if a bit hard to figure out at times."

"Okay..." Jacob said.

When they finally reached their destination, Jacob looked up at the building. 

'Looks like the house from that one kids story book.' He thought as he walked, ducking low to get pass the door, size difference was going to be a norm for him he was sure.

"Oh hello dearie what are you-Ahhhh!" 

Jacob looked over to see a light cerulean mane and a mane with a mixture light and pale light crimsion color. She had three cupcakes on her flank and was wearing an apron. Also she was looking at Jacob with wide eyes filled with fear.

'Ugh....' Jacob thought as he rolled his eyes.

"What's wrong honey-Ahhh!" Another pony said, this one male, with an amber colored coat, some sort of cake cutie mark and orange mane.

"Oh come on!" Jacob said in exapseration, "What do you think I'm gonna do? Eat you?"

This caused the two ponies to back up a bit, which only caused Jacob to growl in irritation.

Twilight laughed a bit uneasy, "Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Cake. This is Jacob, he is the human that is staying with me for the homestay program."

The couple blinked then looked at Jacob, then to Twilight. 

"Oh, you mean this is a human?" Mr. Cake asked.

"I heard about them, but I guess we never did see them before." Mrs. Cake said as she looked Jacob over curiously.

"Sorry if he gave you a scare." Twilight apoligized.

"Oh it's quiet alright dearie. We should be sorry for reacting that way." Mrs. Cake said.

"Don't worry about it." Jacob said.

"Well...Jacob this is Mr. and Mrs. Cake. Mr. and Mrs. Cake this is Jacob."

Jacob nodded, "Pleasure ta meet ya."

"It's nice to meet you dearie. Sorry if we offended you at all, we've never really seen an actual human before." Mrs. Cake said.

Jacob just smiled, "It's no trouble. I'd probably have acted the same way...somewhat I guess, if roles were reversed."

"Well welcome to Sugar Cube Corner. I guess you're here to see Pinkie Pie?" Mr. Cake said.

Twilight nodded, "Yes. Is she here?"

"She went out to get a few things," Mrs. Cake said as she headed over to the counter, "But she should be back in..."

The sound of the door flying open and Jacob hitting ground, face first, cut Mrs. Cake off. Every pony turned with surprise as they saw Pinkie Pie, standing on Jacob's back. The pink pony had a look of surprise, and excitement. As well as a complete lack of realization she was standing on someone.

"Twilight!" Pinkie Pie said. 

"Pinkie Pie...uh..." Twilight said, but was cut off by the hyperactive pony.

"Twilight, you're not gonna beleive it. Those human things were here. They were here." Pinkie Pie said as she began to hop up and down.

Jacob's face controted in various expressions of pain and grunts, as he felt his spine get hopped on again and again. Even if ponies were light weight, the force of up and down motion on his back was painful.

"Oh I wonder why they were here? Do you think they were dropping off a human to stay here? Oh I hope so. I hope so. I wonder if humans like parties?" Pinkie said as she thought for a moment, her hopping stopping for a moment.

"Uh...Pinkie..." Mr. Cake said.

Pinkie gasped, "Oh if a human is staying I have to find out. Then I have to plan them a party. Oh Twilight do you know if a human is here?"

"Uh...Pinkie.." Twilight said and pointed down.

Pinkie Pie looked down and gasped and what she saw. She immediatly jumped off of Jacob and lifted him up.

"Ohmygosh! I'msuperdooperloopersorry! Pleasedon'thateme,I'msosorry!" Pinkie Pie apoligized really fast.

Jacob groaned and rubbed his back, he didn't even register what the pink pony had said, focusing more on if his back was still in good condition.

"Ohnopleasedon'thateme!" Pinkie Pie said, on the verge of tears.

Jacob groaned, "Don't.....worry about it...."

Pinkie looked at Jacob, ready to cry, "Are you sure...I'm really sorry."

"Yes...it's fine.....now....let me go." Jacob said.

Pinkie let him go and looked at him with worried eyes. Jacob stretched, causing his spine to crack loudly, which earned a slightly sickened look from the ponies around.

'Hmm guess they don't like that sound. Heh, I got to remember that.' Jacob thought with a smirk.

"So...you're Pinkie Pie." Jacob said, looking down at the pink puffy maned pony.

Pinkie smiled, her eyes sparkling a bit, and began to hop up and down slightly, "Oh yes. I'm so glad you're not mad at me. I don't think I could stand being hated by somepony that can be my friend. Oh we can be friends right?"

Jacob blinked, 'She said all of that in one breath? Damn.'

"Um sure. Yeah we're friends." Jacob said.

Pinkie smiled more, if that was possible and jumped up and gave Jacob a hug and squeeled in joy.

"Yeah. Oh I have to plan you a Welcome to Ponyville party. Oh what did you say you're name was?" Pinkie Pie asked as she let go of him.

"Jacob." Jacob said.

"Jacob?" Pinkie began to giggle, "hehehehe, that's a funny name." The pink pony giggled more.

Jacob rolled his eyes, but could not hel but crack a smile.

Twilight smiled, glad to see her friend and Jacob getting along. Especially after their meeting.

"Well Pinkie I have to show Jacob around town some more. You want to come?" Twilight asked.

Pinkie gasped, "Oh I'd love to come. But I have to start getting ready for the party. Bye!" and with that Pinkie dashed off at lightning speed.

Jacob blinked, "Does she always do that? And is she always that....hyper?"

Twilight giggled, "Oh don't worry. She's just being Pinkie Pie. You'll get use to it. She is a real sweet heart, if at times her actions can be confusing."

"I'm sure. So where to next?" Jacob asked as he followed Twilight out the door, both of them waving bye to the cakes.

"Well Rarity's is just on the way to Sweet Apple Acres." Twilight said, leading the way.

"Hmmm. Alright." Jacob shrugged.





As the two walked, Jacob took not of the awkward glances he would recieve with stride. They would stop....eventually. Right?

"Well here we are." Twilight said as she pointed to the boutique.

"Nice place." Jacob said as he followed Twilight to the door.

Twilight opened the door and walked inside, Jacob following.

"Rarity. Are you here? It's me Twilight." Twilight said as she looked for her friend.

Jacob looked around, taking note of the vast amounts of dresses and other forms of clothing. 

'Guess the gender ratio means more clothes are made for females then anyone else.' Jacob thought.

A sudden crash from upstairs caught their attention and they ran upstairs to see what had happened.

Reaching the upstairs, the two heard more crashes coming from a room. Twilight opened the door, and ducked low with a scream as a sewing machine came flying towards her. Luckily her fast dodge made it miss her; sadly Jacob was not so lucky as the machine flew right into his stomach, forcing the wind out of him and knocking him to the ground.

"Oh no! Jacob are you okay?" Twilight said as she ran over to the fallen human.

Jacob's mouth hung open, his eyes wide as he lifted the sewing machine off his gut and rolled onto his side and curled up. He had been completely winded from the blow and anyone who suffered that knows that it can be a bit difficult for awhile to get any air back into your lungs.

'Breathe! Breathe!' Jacob thought and finally took in a big gasp of air, and another and another till he felt a steady breathing cycle once more.

"Jacob! Please say something!" Twilight said as she started to shake him, "Oh no! What if his lungs are crushed! I don't know the skeletal structure of humans, what if their bones are really fragile!"

"Twilight, what are you doing...oh dear!" Rarity gasped as she looked over and saw Twilight and a strange creature.

"Quick Rarity I need your help." Twilight called over her friend.

Rarity blinked and went over, "Twilight, what is that?"

"Its a human, his name is Jacob. Remember about that meeting last week?" Twilight said.

Rarity put a hoof to her mouth, "Oh you mean this is a human? I remember that meeting, but we never really learned of what they looked like much."

Rarity spotted her sewing machine on the ground Jacob and gasped, "Oh dear did he get hit by my sewing machine?"

Twilight nodded, "Yes! I think he might be hurt." Twilight seemed ready to panic.

"I'm fine!" Jacob shouted.

Both ponies gasped and moved away from Jacob as he got up and dusted himself off, Twilight's eyes lit up and she gave him a hug.

"Oh my goodness, I thouht you were hurt Jacob. Are you okay?" Twilight asked as she let him go.

Jacob rolled his eyes, "Yeah I'm fine...just was winded for a moment. Though I am a bit surprised that didn't hurt as much as I thought it would." He bent down and picked up the sewing machine.

It was light, though certainly not without weight. Never the less it was not as heavy as a human made sewing machine.

"Well I'm glad your not hurt. Though I am ashamed it happened in the first place. Sweetie Belle, come out here and say sorry." Rarity said as she looked back to her room.

Jacob looked from the unicorn he guessed would be Rarity if he heard Twilight right, and looked where she was looking.

Peeking out from the side of the door, was a small unicorn. She almost looked like a small version of Rarity except for the different mane and eye color, and the style of the mane and tail as well.

"Now Sweetie Belle, come out and apoligize. A lady shouldn't hide from admitting her mistakes." Rarity said.

Sweetie Belles ears went flat and she stepped out, "I...I'm sorry..mister human."

Jacob bit his lip, 'Damn it. Did these guys evolve to make you hate yourself if you made them sad?' 

"Eh don't worry about it....though why were you throwing sewing machines anyway?" Jacob asked.

"I didn't throw it. The yarn yarn ball did." Sweetie Belle said.

Jacob blinked, "Huh?"





It took only a few seconds really for Rarity and Sweetie Belle to explain how the entire room had ended up looking like a warzone, with fabric and maniquins everywhere. But it was taking Jacob forever to comprehend how three balls of yarn fall from their basket could lead....to that?

'Thats almost taking the laws of physics to the extrme.' He thought as he sipped his tea.

The three, Sweetie Belle had run off to play with her friends, were seated at Rarity's kitchen table enjoying some tea. Jacob wasn't really surprised that tea was made the same way on this planet as it was on earth. Maybe it was one of those universal laws.

"It's simply amazing. Visitors from space, and they are now living among us. Its simply a wonder really." Rarity said.

"It is amazing and it has certainly caused a stir among the science and astronoy branches of study in Canterlot." Twilight said with a giggle.

"Oh," Rarity looked to Jacob and said, "I've been meaning to ask. What is that you are wearing? Were you arriving from some sort of semi-formal social?"

Jacob blinked, "Uh...no."

Rarity smiled, "Good, because while that looks moderatly passing it looks simply dreadful."

Jacob felt a twitch coming on, but before he could say anything Rarity went on.

"Though I am curious...why wear it if it was not to look stylish at some event?" Rarity asked.

Twilight blinked, "Actually I've been curious of that myself."

Jacob's eyes widened, feeling that now was the time to start feeling uncomfortable.

'Oh boy....how does one deal with this?' He thought, trying to think of a way to explain it...without having to go into certain...details on human anatomy.

"Uh...well...ummm...I guess...we humans just prefer to wear cloths." Jacob said slowly, hoping that would be enough.

Rarity and Twilight looked at him for a moment, Jacob felt uneasy and was sure he was sweating.

Finally Twilight said, "Well..okay. I thought it was a bit odd, but if its what your species does I can understand that."

Jacob sighed in relief, only to be grabbed by the arm. He looked and saw Rarity with glittering eyes.

"Oh my stars! A whole species of...people? People that wear clothes all the time." Rarity gasped and seemed to be in heaven.

'I am sensing bad juju...' Jacob thought as he nodded.

Rarity squeeled and began pulling Jacob, "Oh my words, this is possibly the greatest thing to happen in the history of fashion. Just think that I could be the first to start selling clothes for more then just formal occasions. Its both new and exciting, especially making the designs fit for your kind oh come come come."

"Where are we going?" Jacob asked.

"Well darling, I don't really know much of human fashion but if wat you have on is stylish then I have alot of work ahead of me. You just can't go walking around in something like that, and I Rarity will make you something to really catch the eye. It will be my welcome gift to you, its no trouble." Rarity said as she pulled Jacob to her work room. Twilight followed giggling at her friends excitement.

"Um..uh.." Jacob tried to say something as a measuring tape was hovered about him surrounded by a blueish aura.

Jacob blinked and watched the tape, this must be that magic he heard about during the introduction class. It did seem like simply psychokinesis but the aura was....strange.

'Best not think on it too much. Just take what you know of science and leave it at that.' He thought.

"I'm sure you have alot to do right now, so I'll just take your measurements right now and begin to work on a design. If you could come back later so that I can use you as a model for the clothes that would be lovely." Rarity said as she wrote down the various measurements she took.

"Uh...sure..." Jacob said.

Rarity smiled, "Wonderful. I think I have all I need. Oh do you have any prefered colors?"

Jacob shrugged, "Hows blueish-gray sound?"

Rarity gasped, "Oh no no no darling, you can't wear such dark colors in the summer. You need something light, don't worry I'll see to everything."

Jacob felt a bit unsure. He was never really one to care what his clothes looked like as long as they were functional and didn't make him look like an idiot.

"If you say so. Um, I guess me and Twilight will go." Jacob said.

"Of course. I'll see you later then. Have a good day you two." Rarity said as she began to draw up some designs.

"Bye Rarity. Come on Jacob, I'll take you to meet Applejack now and Fluttershy next." Twilight said as she walked out the door.

"Uh...right." Jacob said following. He could not help but shake a feeling that the events that have just transpired were going to lead to something very unpleasant.





As the two were making there way to Sweet Apple Acres, someone shouted.

"Look out!"

Jacob stopped and looked up, confused as to why he heard someone from up there. His eyes widened as he saw a rainbowish blur head right for him.

'Oh....no....' He thought before he hit to the ground by the force of...whatever it was that hit him.

"Jacob!" Twilight gasped and ran over.

Jacob groaned in pain and opened his eyes. He looked at what hit him and came face to face with blue pegasus. The pegasus looked back at him and the two just stared at each other for a moment before the pegasus shot up.

"Oh geez sorry...uh...what are you anyway?" She asked.

"Rainbow Dash?"

The pegasus looked over and waved, "Oh hey Twilight. How ya doing?"

"I'm fine but why did you crash into Jacob?" Twilight asked.

Dash rubbed the back of her head, "Yeah sorry about that. New trick."

Jacob got up, groaning as he did so.

'I'm guessing she is another friend of Twilights.' Jacob thought.

"So uh...what is this guy anyway?" Rainbow Dash asked, pointing a hoof at Jacob.

"This is Jacob, he is one of the humans from space. Remember." Twilight said.

Dash blinked and seemed lost for a moment, "Oh yeah....those things. I guess I sort of forgot."

Twilight rolled her eyes, "Well anyway, this is Jacob. He is staying with me for the HomeStay project so he will be living here in Ponyville so I thought I'd show him around."

"Oh cool. Well allow me to introduce myself," Rainbow Dash said as she looked over at Jacob, "names Rainbow Dash. The greatest flier in all of Equestria."

Jacob rubbed his shoulder, sure that he was going to have some more bruises, "Eh...nice to meet you."

"So what are you two doing?" Dash asked.

"We were on our way to see Applejack, and Fluttershy." Twilight said.

"Oh, well don't let me stop ya. I'll see ya around." Dash said as she flew off, and landed on a cloud.

Jacob choked, "What the!?!"

"What?" Dash and Twilight asked.

"How...how do you sit on a cloud? Clouds can't hold a solid object." Jacob said, trying to figure out how in the world that was possible.

Dash blinked then laughed, "Well duh, its cause I'm a pegasus. You really need to look this stuff up."

Jacob opened his mouth to say something, but decided against it.

'Just ignore it Jacob.....for your sanitys sack.'

"Uh...right....," Jacob said, "well...bye.....lets go Twilight."

"Umm okay. Bye Rainbow Dash." Twilight said waving goodbye to her friend.

Dash gave a slight wave as she relaxed onto the cloud ready to go back to her nap.

As she slept a shadow loomed over her. A puffy shadow.





As Twilight and Jacob reached their destination, Jacob saw a farm appear in the distance. It looked alot like farms, at least the organic ones, did during the twenty first century. The big red barn gave it a home on the range sort of feel.

"Hmm. Homely, and big." He said.

"Yep, Applejack and her family own the largest apple orchard in all of Equestria actually." Twilight said.

"Hmmm. So wheres this Applejack you talked about?" Jacob asked as they grew closer to the farm.

"She might be out bucking apples. We can ask Granny Smith if she knows, or Big Mac if we see him."

'Big Mac...as in Macintiosh? Granny Smith?' Jacob thought, 'is there an apple and cereal theme for names in this family?'

The two reached the house, where Jacob saw an elderly pony sleeping in a rocking chair. 

"That's Granny Smith. She seems to be sleeping so lets go find Big Mac." Twilight whispered.

"Wha- Huh? whoses there?" Granny Smith said as she woke up and looked around.

Twilight blinked then waved to the elderly apple, "Hello Granny Smith. It's me Twilight."

Granny Smith turned and focused her eyes for a moment, "Oh hello Twilight. What's brought you here fer?"

"I was showing my friend Jacob around Ponyville." Twilight said as she pointed to him.

Granny Smith looked at Jacob critically, getting out of her chair and walking up to him, "Hmm..."

Jacob blinked and felt a bit uncomfortable under her gaze, "Uh...hi."

Granny Smith smiled and, "Oh yes you're one of them human thing a magigs. Well welcome to Sweet Apple Acres, where we grow the finest apples in all of Equestria."

Jacob blinked, 'Wow....she's not even surprised or shocked....'

Granny Smith walked back to her chair, "If you're all looking fer Applejack she's in the southwest field. I'm sure she'd be surprised to see ya."

Twilight smiled, "Thank you Granny..." before she could finish however the elderly pony was fast asleep again.

"Ah the glories of age. You can fall asleep at anytime." Jacob said with a smirk.

Twilight giggled, "Well lets go. You'll like Applejack, she is the most honest and hard working pony I know."

"Lets just hope I can avoid bodily injury this time." Jacob muttered.

"Did you say something Jacob?" Twilight asked curiously.

"Oh nothing." Jacob said, acting innocent.

Twilight raised an eye brow but shrugged and continued to lead the way.

As they walked Jacob picked up the sound of something hitting the trees, and the shaking of the leaves.

"Ah thats Applejack. Come on." Twilight said as she ran ahead.

Jacob blinked, and followed. When he caught up with Twilight he saw an orange pony, wearing a stetson hat kicking a tree. Jacob originally thought the pony was going to hurt herself, but when her back hooves connected the entire tree shook and ALL of the apples fell out into baskets arranged around the base of the tree.

Jacob felt his jaw drop, 'Damn....I DON'T want to be kicked by her.' he thought.

"Hey Applejack." Twilight called to her friend as they approached.

Applejack stopped mid-kick and looked over to Twilight, "Hey Twi-ahhh! What in tarnation is that!?"

Twilight blinked then giggled, "AJ this is Jacob. He is one of the humans."

Applejack blinked, calming down a bit, "Oh, he's one of them? I've never seen one before so I was a little surprised I guess."

"That seems to be the norm I guess." Jacob said.

AJ walked over, a bit hesitant, "Uh, nice to meet you Jacob. I'm Applejack..."

"Nice to meet you. Jacob." Jacob said as he held out a hand.

Applejack looked at the offered hand with some uncertainty. Especially the tiny digits, she had seen griffon claws and dragon claws but these....these were just strange. 

"Uh...likewise." She said, extending her hoof and hoping she was guessing what Jacob might be wanting. Jacob took her hoof, a bit unsure at first and shook it, letting go after.

"So what brings ya'll down here?" AJ asked, hoping to remove the weirdness and make things a bit more comfortable.

"Oh," Twilight said, "I was just showing Jacob around town. He will be staying here for awhile with me for the Homestay program. Isn't it exciting?" she finished with a smile.

Applejack wasn't sure if staying with someone as big as Jacob would be fun. He was taller then Big Mac by at least a foot she guessed, and she was sure that made it difficult for him to get in and out of places. Plus...what did a human eat?

"Well thats mighty neighborly of ya Twi. I'd love to chat more but I got Applebuckin to do, so I'll see ya'll later okay." Applejack said as she turned to get back to work.

"Sure thing AJ. Was good seeing you, bye." Twilight said waving goodbye.

"So where to next??" Jacob asked as he followed Twilight once more.

"Now we will visit Fluttershy, then after that we can head back to the library. It is getting late and Spike is sure to have dinner ready."

Jacob nodded, "Alright." He actually felt happy for once he meet a friend of Twilights and escaped any bodily harm.

Or...so he thought.

A hard bonk on the head from a falling apple ruined his good mood.

'DAMN IT!' He thought as two more bumps followed before they finally left Sweet Apple Acres.





When they reached Fluttershys house, Jacob felt he had walked into a scene from Snow White or some other Disney movie. There were animals and critters all around, some you wouldn't expect to live in the environment that Ponyville had to offer.

"You'll love Fluttershy Jacob. She is simply the sweetest pony I know, but she can be rather shy around new ponies....or people in your case, so let me get her ready before you show yourself okay."

Jacob shrugged, "Sure."

Twilight walked up to the cabin, while Jacob leaned against a tree.

Twilight knocked on the door and smiled when it was opened. Fluttershy peeked out, "Oh its you Twilight."

"Hey Fluttershy," Twilight said, "how are you today?"

Futtershy opened the door fully, "Oh I'm fine. I was just finishing getting all my animal friends dinner, what brings you here?"

"Well I was actually showing a new friend around Ponyville and introducing him to all my friends. I was wondering if you wanted to meet him." Twilight said.

Fluttershy eeped, "Oh umm....umm I guess...he isn't..scare is he?"

Twilight giggled, "No of course not. Thought he is a bit...tall, but I'm sure you'll like him, the rest of the girls have."

"Oh well...okay. Where is he?"

"Over there by the tree. Jacob come on over!" Twilight called to him.

Fluttershy looked in the direction and eeped. She shook in fear as the creature got closer and closer finally standing before her.

"Hi. Names..." The creature began, but stopped as Fluttershy eeped and closed the door.

Jacob blinked, "Umm....what just happened?"

Twilight chuckled, "Uh eheheheh. One second." She opened the door and Jacob heard what sounded like a scuffle going on inside for a few minutes before Twilight was back, flushing a shaking and obviously scared Fluttershy out.

"Fluttershy. This is Jacob, remember one of those humans we heard about." Twilight said.

Fluttershy blinked, "O-oh...this is a human? Oh I'm sorry if I upset you by being scared.I've never seen something like you and...well I guess I was just a bit....frightened."

Jacob blinked, "Uh..don't worry about it. Nice to meet you Fluttershy."

Fluttershy flew up a bit and began inspecting Jacob, "Oh..you look like nothing I've ever seen. The only animal I think could be similar to you would be the monkeys in the Canterlot Gardens."

"Well..not very surprising, considering my species is about ninty percent or so genetically related to primates." Jacob said.

"Really?" Twilight said and she immediately took that down as a note, "What else?"

"Umm...lets save that for later please." Jacob asked.

Twilight frowned, "Oh alright." She sighed and put her notebook away.

"Umm, so Jacob what brings you to Ponyville?" Fluttershy asked.

"Oh, he is staying with me as a part of the Homestay program the princess has set up with the human ruling body to help them become integrated into Equestrian society." Twilight said.

"Oh..umm..thats nice." Fluttershy said softly.

"Well it was good seeing you Fluttershy, but I think we should head back to the library now. Have a good evening." Twilight said, giving her friend a hug goodbye.

Fluttershy returned the hug, "You too Twilight. And you Jacob."

"Take it easy Fluttershy." Jacob said with a smile.

As the two left, Jacob was on all around look out for any injury causing items and threats. It was only when they finally reached the library that he let his guard down.

'Success! Ha ha, life is being nice for once. I haven't suffered any sort of injury after that final meeting, maybe now I can relax.' He thought as he opened the door.

"SURPRISE!!!"

Jacob fell back, gripping his heart sure that it had stopped. A blast of confeti erupted from the door showering on him. Twilight was in the same predicament. They both looked and saw Pinkie Pie, along with possibly all of Ponyville inside the library, party decoations lined the entire interior.

"You two are just in time. Come on in." Pinkie said as she pulled them in with a smile.

"Pinkie! What is all this?" Twilight asked as she looked around in surprise.

"It's Jacobs welcome to Ponyville and sorry I almost broke your back party." Pinkie said with a smile.

Twilight blinked before laughing, "Oh Pinkie. Still this is quiet the surprise, but a really thoughtful gift. I'm sure Jacob loves it."

Jacob blinked, "Uh...yeah...how did you...put all this together?"

Pinkie just smiled, "Oh I just used my party cannon silly."

Jacob opened his mouth to say something, but decided that it was probably better for his health if he didn't.

"Well I a surprised," he said as he checked his pulse once more. Yep beating again.

"Thats good. I was worried you wouldn't be surprised, and then I was also worried you might not like parties but I see that you do so that makes me really really happy." Pinkie said almost all at once as she hopped up and down.

Jacob smirked, "Well...thanks Pinkie."

Pinkie grabbed his hand, "Come on. Let me introduce you to everypony." and with that she pulled him along to do just that.

"Wait...what?" Jacob said, but found himself unable to resist as he was pulled along.

Twilight watched them go and giggled.

"Hey Twilight."

Twilight turned and saw Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash walking over to her.

"Hey girls. When did you get here?"

"Oh I just got here. Pinkie Pie showed up just after you left and so I made my way down here." Fluttershy said.

"And the rest of us were here to help set things up after you all left us." Rarity said, "oh I have to remind Jacob to come by tomorrow to model for his outfit. They'll be fabulous!"

"Well you might have some trouble. Seems he is being introduced to everypony in town with Pinkie Pie." Twilight said, motioning to the two as they talked to Lyra and Bon Bon. 

The girls laughed a bit before joining in the festivities. It was a party after all.





During the party, Jacob found himself under attack by constant questions. To say the least, he was hoping the party ended so he could just go to sleep now.

He now found himself surrounded by various ponies, as well as three fillies. One, Applebloom was Applejacks sister, which surprised him. Sweetie Belle he already knew, but the third was a orange pegasus, named Scootaloo. The three and introduced themselves as the cutie mark crusades and Jacob had to admit their determination to earn their cutie marks was cute.

"Hey...where is your cutie mark?" Appleboom asked.

Jacob blinked, "Um...well we humans don't have cutie marks."

"You don't? Then how do you find out what your special talent is?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Well, we don't need one. We humans are very adaptable, we can be skilled at almost anything really." Jacob said.

"Really?" Twilight said, as she and her friends joined the gathering around Jacob.

"Umm yeah. We had to be in order to survive...I mean look at us. Not really all that threatening." Jacob said as he held out his arms.

"Well..you are very tall." Fluttershy said, hiding behind her mane a bit.

"Only on this planet. On earth we were about moderate size, and there were plenty of creature that could have taken us down." Jacob said.

"Whats earth like?" Scootaloo asked.

"Yeah. What's your home planet like?" Applebloom asked.

"Hmm, well...it was alot like this one...except all that well...you guys were all just believed to be myths." Jacob said.

"Myths?" Twilight said, tilting her head slightly.

"What do you mean myths?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Well, things like pegasi, unicorns and dragons...didn't exist on earth save in old folk lore and tales. We had ponies...but...they were more or less farm animals." Jacob said.

"So? We earth ponies are pretty good workers of the land." Applejack said with a bit of pride.

"Umm...on earth ponies weren't exactly sentient." Jacob said.

"Oh..." Applejack said.

"Amazing," Twilight said as she took that down, "So you were the only sentient race on your planet."

Jacob nodded, "Yep. We even colonized various other planets and moons. Even our own moon."

"What!?!" Every pony shouted in surprise.

"You mean you lived on the moon?" Twilight said in surprise.

"Wow! Thats amazing, I thought only princess Luna did that." Dash said.

"Well we had to change a few things first, but we eventually colonized those planets." Jacob said.

"So why are you here then?" Scootaloo asked.

Jacob frowned, "...Because....we don't have anywhere else to go."

"What do you mean? You probably got dozens of planets to live on." Dash said.

Jacob sighed, "No we don't.....they arn't around anymore."

"What do you mean darling?" Rarity asked.

Jacob looked up, "...a war....overtook our civilization....and in the fighting...every planet that we humans had lived on...was destroyed....even earth..."

A round of gasps came from the gathered ponies. Some placed their hooves on Jacob's shoulder for comfor.

"Oh my. I'm so sorry sugar cube." Applejack said.

"That must be horrible. Having your home just gone." Fluttershy said.

"Yeah. Everypony needs a home." Pinkie said.

"Well," Jacob said, "we hope to make this planet our home. At least we hope to."

"Well I doubt you will have to worry much. Princess Celestia seems set on helping you make Equestria your new home, and we are all glad to have you here." Twilight said.

Every pony agreed, and Jacob smiled.

"Thanks." He said.





After what felt like hours, the party finally died down. With the last of the guests gone, and all the decorations and stuff cleaned up Jacob was glad to fall into his bed.

"So how was your first day i Ponyville Jacob?" Twilight asked as she got into her own bed.

'Still not going to be use to this arrangement of sleep.' He thought, doing his best to get comfy in the slightly small bed. 

"Eh...it was okay." Jacob said, aligning his body diagonally  to get his entire body on the bed.

Twilight noticed this, "Oh sorry about the bed...I didn't think humans would be so big...we can get a bigger one if you want."

"Eh don't worry about it," Jacob said, "but...that might be a good idea."

Twilight felt her ears flatten, and frowned. Jacob noticed this.

"Hey don't feel bad. At least you got a bed out for me. Thank you I appreciate it."

Twilight smiled, "Thanks. Well good night." She yawned and the lights went out.

Jacob smirked and looked over to the small bed, where Spike slept soundly. He had been surprised to see an actual dragon...even if he was just a baby.

'Well...this will certainly be interesting.' He thought as he closed his eyes, 'I just hope I don't get hit anymore.'






> The Next Day
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Glad everyones enjoying this :)





Jacob groaned as he heard this chirping of birds, and really wished he had a shotgun right now. Couldn't they see he was trying to sleep? Unfortunatly the chirping continued, and since the lack of armament was apparent he begrudgingly got out of bed.

He stretched, and his joints cracked especially his back. Jacob hissed as he rubbed his arms, legs and back.

'Damn, we have to get a bigger bed.' Jacob thought.

It was then that the smell of something cooking, and he felt his stomach moan for food. He made his way downstairs, only bothering to put his pants on; he made a note to get some more clothes today. But for now food was the goal.

'Hope they have coffee.' Jacob prayed. 

Stepping down the stairs Jacob saw a small family table. Two plates and assorted silverware arranged neatly on two sides. In the kitchen Jacob saw Spike flipping pancakes, and wearing the most frilly pink apron he had ever seen. Jacob snicked slightly and covered his mouth, the image of a dragon in an apron was priceless.

"Oh...morning Spike." Jacob said, after he took some control of his laughter. Though he still felt his lips quiver every so often.

"Mornign Jacob...whoooaa! What is that!?!" Spike said as he pointed at Jacob, or more importently his chest.

"Hmm?" Jacob said and looked at his barechest. The only thing he saw was the tattoo there, and then realized that must be what Spike was asking about.

"Oh this?" Jacob said pointing at the tattoo, "just a tattoo. Lots of humans get them...well I did anyway."

"Whats a...tattoo?" Spike asked as he set a plate of pancakes for Jacob. After he put the now empty pan in the sink to wash, and made his way over to the fridge.

"A tattoo is....how do I explain it," Jacob said as he thought, "well think of it as a form of painting. Only instead of canvas we humans use our bodies. They vary in size and representation, but to the person who gets it it usually has a personal meaning to it."

"Oh..." Spike said, though he sounded as if he was still a bit confused, "So what does it mean?" He dug in the fridge for a moment.

"Well I have two. This is just the front one, and its written in my language. It says, "Soldier of the Immortals'"

"Cool...whats that mean?" Spike asked, looking out of the fridge.

"Eh its a band reference. I'll explain some other time. I have another one if you want to see it....say you got any coffee?"

Spike looked out, "Sure. And yeah, its in the cupboard up there. Twilight keeps it there so I can't get at it, says I'm not old enough. I'm ten years old." 

'Praise the lord! I'm saved.' Jacob thought as he got up and made his way to the cupboard and grabbed a bag of Equestrian Coffee. He immediatly got to making himself a cup with eager energy.

"So whats the other tattoo- WOW!" Spike said, finally finding what he was looking for and setting his breakfast on the table. 

There on Jacobs back was a large hooded figure wielding a scythe. A bone hand on the handle of the sinister looking weapon. The shaft extended from Jacobs left hip to the top of his right shoulder, and the blade extended out over and down his neck ending just at the base of his left armpit. A large hourglass as held in the free arm of the cloaked figure, and the contents of the sand looked more like black outlines of people. On the top and bottom of the hourglass was more human words that Spike was unable to read, but the picture itself was awesome.

"Cool. What is it?" Spike asked.

Jacob was finaly done making his coffee and breathed in the sweet aroma of good black dark coffee. No sugar or cream for him thanks. He took a sip and sighed before saying, "The Grim Reaper."

"Whose that?" Spike asked.

"He is suppose to be the guide for the dead, and he takes the souls to the afterlife in human mythology. He represents the power of death. The hourglass represents time, and the people acting as the sands represents how our time slowly begins to fade. On the top and bottom of the hourglass is the old latin phrase, Carpe Diem, meaning seize the day." Jacob said as he turned to sit down again.

"Wow...thats deep." Spike said.

"Yeah well...WHAA what is that!?!" Jacob said, pointing at Spikes bowl, or more importantly what was in it.

The bowl held an assortment of blue sapphires, and while Jacob was not an expert on jewels the combined total had to be worth thousands in dollars. He felt a heart attack coming on.

Spike blinked and looked at his bowl, "Uh...breakfast." He then poured some milk into the bowl and proceeded to eat the gems like cereal.

Jacob felt a twitch...he took deep breathes and drank deeply of his coffee to help calm him down. He sat down and picked up his fork to begin eating.

'Just calm down Jacob...remember the lecture from the other day. This planet has higher gem deposits on it...so gems are not as valuable then they were on earth.'

After calming down, though the crunch of gemstones still made his twitch every so often, Jacob cut himself a good piece of pancake and popped it into his mouth and chewed. After about a second of chewing he spat the food out, grass strands mixed in with the chewed mess.

"Blagh..Spike...what is this?" Jacob asked as he drank his coffee to get the taste of grass out of his mouth.

Spike blinked, "Grass pancakes. Why, something wrong with them?"

"Grass? I can't eat grass." Jacob said with a groan. Coffee was good, but he was going to have to make it very clear to Twilight and Spike...and perhaps every place that sells food in Ponyville that grass, hay...and whatever other foods that he was not capable of digesting was something he could not safely and healthfully ingest.

"Oh..sorry man," Spike said frowning, "uh want some gemstones?"

Jacob sighed, "Thanks but no Spike. And it ain't your fault, you didn't know."

"if you say so dude." Spike said as he chomped down on his gemstones.

Jacob sighed and just drank his coffee, as he did he noticed something now that sleep was out of his head.

"Hey where is Twilight anyway?" Jacob asked.

"Oh she went to the mattress store to try and get you a bigger mattress. She seemed a bit upset that you had to sleep in a small bed." Spike said.

Jacob nodded, "Ah..well that was nice of her. Well if she gets back before I do, let her know I went to Rarities."

Spike looked at him with a glare, "Why you going to Raritys?"

Jacob blinked, "Oh she offered to make me some clothes. And frankly if I have to wear the same stuff again for a third day I'll probably go insane."

"Oh...is that all...okay. Well you should go then, last thing I need is you going crazy." Spike said.

Jacob felt like chuckling, but then realized that Spike...was actually serious.

'Wait...he actually thinks that I was serious?' Jacob thought with surprise.

He then realized that...it would make sense. With the lack of knowledge on humans on this planet...Spike and the ponies in town would probably believe almost anything he said that humans do or might end up doing.

'I better watch what I say then.' He thought, only imagining what the panic would be if he ever said a certain eat a horse saying.

"Uh right....uh you know I wasn't really serious on that." Jacob said.

Spike blinked, "Oh really? Hmm I guess it wouldn't make sense to go crazy from lack of clothes huh?" Spike gave a chuckle.

Jacob joined in, "Heh. Well I'll be going. See you later Spike."

"Later Jacob." Spike said waving good bye.

With that Jacob headed out the door and stepped out into the morning day. Today seemed like it would be a pleasant day.
How wrong that he was.





Jacob walked through town, and he had to admit that Ponyville was a charming place. Sure he got the odd bits of stares, but for the most part he received from everyone....everypony. Whichever phrase worked.

Following the path that Twilight showed him Jacob soon found himself at Carousel Boutique. He walked over and bent down a bit to knock on the door.

"Coming." He heard Rarities voice call in a singing sort of way.

The door opened and there was Rarity, in red glasses. The unicorn seemed surprise, but smiled when she saw Jacob.

"Oh Jacob, I was just thinking about you." Rarity said.

Jacob blinked, "Really?"

"Oh yes, I have simply been assulted with all sorts of ideas for ensembles. Ever since your visit and telling me that all humans wore clothes I have had ideas come and go." Rarity said as she pulled Jacob in.

Jacob was surprised by the force he was pulled in, "Uh well..you know that human females have different body types to males. So anything you design for me would only work for males."

"Oh well that is quiet alright. I'm sure once your people see the beauty that is Rarity's work I will have human mares coming to model for their own clothes. Oh I'm so excited, this is such a new and bold beginning." Rarity said with a squeal of joy.

"Heh...well glad to see your happy. Now uh...you said could make me some clothes..."

Rarity quickly picked up some papers and showed them to Jacob, "Oh of course darling. Now I have made several prototypes based on the way your current ensemble looks, and I then added my own creative touch. What do you think?"

Jacob had to admit, the designs were pretty good. Though the ones that seemed to have some sort of half cloak going down one side or the other was a bit odd. It almost looked like a mix of modern and medieval bits of clothing in it.

"Well they are all good. If you could maybe make me one of each that would be nice. I'll be sure to give you the required payment for them once I see Twilight." Jacob said.

Rarity gasped, "Oh no no no darling. There is no need to pay me, this is my gift to you."

Jacob was surprised, "Wow...that's very nice Rarity."

"But of course. Now lets get started. I just need you to remove your clothes." Rarity said as she brought Jacob to her work room and began getting out the materials she would need.

Jacob blinked, "Uh...okay." 

Jacob saw a changing curtain and immediately went behind it. Even if they were ponies he still had his decency. He quickly removed his shirt and pants and stepped out. He was of course initially hesitant, but realized that this wasn't a human woman he was with and as long as he still had his boxers on he would be okay. right?

"Ummm...okay...so what now?" Jacob asked.

Rarity turned around and blinked, "Darling I said take the clothes off? Why are you wearing clothes under clothes anyway?"

Jacob felt alarms going off, this was not going to end well.

"Uh well I uh...can't you just do the measurements while I'm wearing these?" Jacob asked.

"Well yes, but still darling why would you want to wear those? They look very tacky, and the colors don't match you at all." Rarity said.

"I umm uh..." Jacob stammered.

"You're acting very strange Jacob. Why do you even need to wear a shorter pair of pants under the first?"

Uhhhhhh...." Jacob tried to think of a reason, "hey uh can we just go on with the measuring."

Rarity was confused by Jacobs behavior, but shrugged and said, "Alright. Honestly though you are acting very strange. Now just hold still."

The measuring tape hovered over and began to take Jacobs lengths. Jacob sighed in relief and thanked every god that man has ever worshiped.

After initial measurements, Rarity soon brought over various fabrics and began to lay them on Jacob, inserting pins to keep the fabrics together.

"Alright now stand still. Since I lack a ponyquin of a human I have to use you instead, so this may take a bit of time." Rarity said.

"Sorry to eat up your time." Jacob said, standing stiff as a stone.

"Of nonsense darling. This is a rare and new undertaking. Why I wouldn't care if this took all night. This is the making of fashion!" Rarity said with excitement and glee.

Jacob smirked, and waited till Rarity finished. As she worked he stared up at the clock, watching the hands move down. Didn't it always seem that time went faster with the hands going down then when they were going up?

Finally after a long time of standing still, Rarity finally removed the fabrics, now cut and shaped to the right style, from Jacob.

"There we are. Sorry that took so long darling, but your form is simply unique that I had to rethink several decisions before cutting the fabric. But now we are done, I'll just finish up the designing and the stitching and you will be the most fashionable human in all of Equestria." Rarity said.

Jacob stretched, glad to be able to move again, "Thanks Rarity."

"By the way, I didn't say anything before because I wanted to get to work right away...but what is that?" Rarity asked pointing to Jacobs tattoo across his chest, "I thought you said humans don't get cutie marks."

Jacob blinked and chuckled, 'Guess I'll be explaining this every time I walk around bare-chested.'

Jacob explained the concept of a tattoo and what his two tattoos meant and represented. When he was done the fashonista looked quiet surprised, if not entirely sure she agreed with the idea.

"My words darling, why would you humans allow somepony else to do that to your own body?" Rarity asked.

Jacob put his clothes back on, and called from behind the curtain, "It's a form of art work I guess. We humans like to express ourselves and art was one way of doing so."

Rarity thought on that for a moment, "Well, the way you described what your...tattoo...meant to you was interesting. Still it does seem odd."

Jacob smirked, "So is having a cutie mark on your rear. Is that intentional cause the only way for me or anyone or pony to see it is to be looking right at your ass."

Rarity blushed, "Jacob!" 

Jacob laughed as he stepped out, "Oh don't be so uptight Rarity. I'm just messing with ya."

Rarity looked at the human with irritation, her face still red, "That was still quiet uncouth Jacob."

Jacob shrugged, "Well the point is, every ones got their own thoughts on whats strange and whats not. We might not agree but we can certainly learn to accept the others thoughts on it right?"

Rarity blinked and then nodded, "Yes I suppose you are right. I'm sorry if I insulted you at all, though I am surprised to hear such wise words from you."

Jacob smirked, "What can I say. Man of many talents."

Rarity giggled slightly, "So it seems. Though we will certainly have to work on your social graces, you simply cannot say that to a lady."

Jacob chuckled, "Well, if you don't need me anymore I got to get going."

"Where are you going?" Rarity asked.

"Oh well if I was gonna stay here I figured I should look around town. Maybe find a job.." Jacob said.

"Didn't Twilight show you around when you came here?" Rarity asked.

"Sort of, she mostly introduced me to you guys and I didn't really stick around anywhere to see everything. Anyway thanks again Rarity, I'll see you around okay." Jacob said as he waved bye.

"Of course. Take care as well darling." Rarity said as she waved as well before returning to work. Jacob walked out the door and headed on through town. Time to find some work.





Jacob moved down town once more. Here and there he saw ponies doing one task or another, though they always paused to give a friendly wave, smile or even a hello. Jacob would return with a wave, but he felt a bit uncomfortable with the sheer friendliness of the peopl...ponies here.

'Are they all this welcoming and friendly?' He thought, 'maybe its cause this is a small town.'

Though perhaps the town was smaller due to his own size. Jacob felt sure that if he felt too big in a pony house, then a pony would feel very small in a standard human sized house. 

"It's gonna take some getting use to..." Jacob said.

"What is?" 

Jacob jumped back when Pinkie Pie just appeared right infront of him, "Yikes....Pinkie? How did you do that?"

"Do what?" Pinkie asked tilting her head slightly.

"How did you appear there in front of me." Jacob said.

"I walked silly." Pinkie said with a giggle.

Jacob blinked but shook his head, "Never mind. How ya doing?"

"Oh I'm doing great! What about you?" Pinkie asked.

"Eh fine. Just taking a look around, I didn't really get a chance to see what the town has to offer yesterday." Jacob said.

Pinkie gasped, "Oh I could show you around. I know everypony and where everything is in Ponyville. Come on!"

"Wait I- Ahhh!" Jacob screamed as he found himself yanked by Pinkie Pie through town. It was like the party all over again.





"And this is the Ponyville Cafe. They serve an amazing hot chocolate." Pinkie said as she hopped up and down with a big smile on her face.

Jacob held a hand over his heart as he took deep breathes. His pulse was racing from the sheer amount of running he had just recently done just to keep up with the excitable, and he was sure, meth taking pony.

'Seriously....is she one speed or something?' He thought.

"Great.....are we done?" Jacob said as he sat on a bench.

"No silly. We still got to see the school, then the spa and so many other places." Pinkie said with a giggle and began to hop off.

Jacob groaned and followed, he had originally tried to slip away from Pinkie before but the pink pony seemed to just appear out of nowhere. The last time he tried he had gotten a look with big puppy dog eyes that looked ready to cry, and just hearing her ask if he didn't want to spend time with her was just soul killing. 

So Jacob was left to follow after Pinkie, or risk going to hell or purgatory for making her cry. Still....he didn't have to enjoy it. A man could only take so much info on a place and already he was getting a headache just trying to remember everything.

'How does she do it?' Jacob thought looking at Pinkie with a mixture of curiosity and fear. Maybe he shouldn't know.

"If this is just from one of her....what would six be?" Jacob said to himself.

"What was that Jacob?" Pinkie said as she looked back.

"Nothing. So where are we going again?" Jacob asked.

"To the school silly. Oh you can meet Cheerliee and all the fillies and colts. They'll love you I just know it." Pinkie said with a smile.

Jacob smiled slightly, "Great."





Questions! Too many questions! Jacob was battered by questions by what seemed like hundreds of small tiny ponies, fillies and colts for proper reference, and they just kept asking questions!

"Why are you so tall?"

"Where's your cutie mark?"

"Hey hey, remember me from the party!?!"

"Where are you from?"

"What's it like being an alien?"

"What do you like to eat?"

"Will you play with us?"

"Why are you so tall?"

"Are you part giant?"

"Are all humans this big?"

The sheer amount of questions and the tide of ever closing in herd of fillies and colts had Jacob pressed up against the blackboard, a look of sheer horror as he tried to figure out a way out of this.

"Children!" Cheerilee said, "don't crowd around him. Now get back to your desks and you can ask Mr. Jacob questions one at a time."

"Yes Miss Cheerilee." The young ponies said as they moved back to their respective desks.

"Thanks." Jacob said.

"No problem, I figured you were starting to feel uncomfortable I'm very sorry about it." Cheerilee said.

"Eh don't worry about it." Jacob said with shrug.

Pinkie just giggled, "Aww it wasn't that bad. See I told you they would like you."

Jacob looked over at the smiling pony and just shook his head, "Yeah, well might as well get this over with."

Jacob moved up to look at the class, Cheerilee and Pinkie stood to the side and watched with smiles.

Jacob looked at the students, and gulped slightly. He hated speaking to a crowd...even if they were small ponies.

"Well uh.....Hi." Jacob began.

The class all gave cheerful greetings, some even waves. This helped ease Jacobs tension a bit, but only just a bit.

"Yeah....hi...well uh...I've never had to do something like this so I guess I'll just answer some questions. So uh...whose first?"

Hooves all shoot up into the air waving, some making audible suggestions to call them first. Jacob sighed and picked one at random.

"Okay you in the back there." Jacob said.

A filly with ruby colored mane and color, a unicorn Jacob guessed from the small horn on her head, said, "Where are humans from?"

"Oh that's an easy one," Jacob said, "we came from a planet thousands and thousands of light years away from this planet. Earth it was called, looked alot like Equestria only with different organisms living on it." 

Applebloom, Jacob remembered her from the party, raised her hoof and without waiting asked, "What's a light year?"

"A light year is a unit of measurement for distance. Not to be confused with time despite the word year in it. A light year is about ten trillion kilometers, or six trillion miles. So take about a thousand light years and you got yourself a very, very long distance between here and where Earth was." Jacob said.

The entire class went "Oooohhh." though from the look on their faces, Jacob was sure they weren't fully clear on what he said. Even Cheerilee seemed a bit lost, and Pinkie Pie....well it was difficult since she just stood there with a look of pure amazement on her face.

A thin and skinny orange colt with freckles and a snail shaped cutie mark, what was up with that, lifted his hoof, "Uh, what was earth like?"

"Well it looked a bit like this planet, though perhaps a bit bigger in mass. The creatures that lived there were vastly different as well. Actually I can show you." Jacob said as he reached into his pocket and removed his CellComm from his pocket.

He placed the thin device on the desk and turned it on. All the ponies in the room gasped with awe and stared at the projected hologram screen. Jacob smirked and dug through his files till he found what he needed. Pushing a button the screen vanished and was replaced with a slowly rotating figure of planet Earth, just the size of a basket ball. 

"Wow."

"So cool."

"Awsome."

The kids were going crazy with amazement, and Pinkie was just a hopping frenzy as she moved this way and that looking at the hologram of earth. She touched the hologram with her hoof and gasped when it shifted and gave a view of an ocean, little holographic images of various bird or sea life showing up every so often. She practically squealed when she saw a whale jump out of the water. Jacob made the image a bit bigger so all the class could see clearly and expanded it back to the globe image once more.

"This is Earth. This image was what it looked like before the planet was destroyed many years ago and forced us humans on our exodus." Jacob said, "now it didn't look like this all the time. In fact the planet had gone through several serious makeovers in its history."

"Oh what did it look like before?" Scootaloo asked.

"Oh the differences are various. Once it was nothing but molten magma and later barren landscape and at other times all the continents were a single landmass and all sorts of things." Jacob said.

"Wow." The class said with amazement, they all quickly jumped out of their desks and began to press on the globe making it zoom to all the locations they pressed. Jacob smirked and let the kids have their fun as they looked at random land features of Earth. 

"How does this thing do that?" Pinkie asked as she looked at the CellComm.

"Technology my dear Pinkie." Jacob said.

Pinkie just blinked and looked at Jacob before smiling and say, "Okie Dookie Lookie." Then she joined the rest of the kids in looking at the earth and whatever they zoomed in on.

"Amazing Jacob. This has been very interesting and the kids seem to really love that strange item, or at least the picture it makes." Cheerilee said.

"It's a CellComm. Its a communication device along with a music and video player and a whole bunch of other things. That's just the interactive hologram screen." Jacob said.

"Well I hope you come by more. I think my other classes would love to meet you as well." Cheerilee said.

Jacob shrugged, "Sure why not. Just name a date and I'll see what I can do. I should probably get going, I've eaten enough of your time and you got kids to teach."

Cheerilee looked at the clock and was surprised by how much time had passed, "Oh dear. You're right, but still thank you for stopping by this has been most educational."

Jacob nodded and turned off the CellComm and pocketed it. The kids expressed disappointment when the holorgram disappeared.

"I'm sorry children, but Jacob has to go now and we still have much to do today." Cheerilee said to her class.

"Awwww." The class went.

"But I want to know more." One student said.

"Yeah I want to know how that thing worked." Another said.

"I want to know more about Earth." Another filly said.

Jacob chuckled, "Sorry kids. The history of earth and all that other stuff would take a long time to tell you, and you still have school work to do."

The kids all frowned, some kicked the ground as they moved back to their desks.

'Dang....well....maybe...' Jacob thought and he walked over to Cheerilee and whispered something to her.

"Oh that would not be any trouble. How does thursday sound?" Cheerilee asked.

"Sure that works." Jacob said with a smirk.

Cheerilee smiled and looked to her class, "Well class. Since you have all shown some interest in what Mr. Jacob has to say he and I have agreed that this Thursday he will come to class and answer more questions and even teach you a bit about where he came from. Does that sound agreeable?"

The students were silent before giving a collective cheer, Jacob couldn't help but chuckle a bit.

"Alright then, I'll see you kids on thursday. Till then bye." Jacob said, as he and Pinkie Pie headed out waving farewell.

"Bye." All the kids said.

Jacob smiled and followed Pinkie Pie, "Well that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be."

Pinkie giggled, "See silly, I told you they would like you."