Stan can only stand agape as the world unfolded in front of him.
Now he knows why he recognized those blue flowers.
The dirt path going over the hill leads to a wide, grassy field. Trees with bright red fruit dot the landscape, almost perfectly spaced apart. A thin, vein-like river bleeds through the field, almost like some form of irrigation. A hill, or plateau, stands above this garden of fruit; atop the hill stands a massive, ornate, red barn-like structure. Windows and white, wooden struts hold up the barn as mounds of hay and...human-like farming equipment scatter the sides of the structure, some falling into disrepair from disuse.
Stan knew exactly where he was:
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Stan always had a secret liking for the show. Well, secret up until he bought his "Princess Luna" tee shirt. He was always into fan art, fiction, music, etc., but his liking for the show never got out of him or really made him giddy whenever it was spoken of in conversation. This changed as soon as he found where he was.
"Fuckin'...wh-what!?" He can finally form a somewhat coherent thought after being mind-fucked by what he's looking at.
Stan squats down, picking up his machete and sheathing it. He stands back up to see a side door on the barn opening. He immediately drops to the ground and rolls sideways towards a tuft of tall grass next to the path. A group of three entities exit the door; Stan can barely see them when they initially exit the door. However, when the beings split off from the door and go separate ways, he can see more detail on the creatures.
They're of three colors; one light yellow, one red, and one orange. The light yellow one is the smallest, followed by the orange one, and then the red one being the largest. They're quadrupedal, but Stan can't identify any appendages other than stumps of the same color as the beasts's skin...or coat.
Stan's face twists and turns as he tries to suppress a grin that is eating away at his gape so full of awe. He could even see sprawling hair from each of the three creatures. The yellow one having red hair, the orange being blonde, and the red one having shorter, orange hair...or mane.
Stan rolls over, still going away from the path, onto his back and laughs quietly. This was never going to be the day he had imagined. He thought he would be in the lab for a few hours mixing acids with bases under an electron microscope, and then go home and eat some shitty McDonald's on the way back. Hell, even when he stepped through the inter-dimensional portal, he never thought about any of the possibilities of this even happening.
He was happy; not only for being completely safe from being torn apart by inter-dimensional travel, but he ended up in a safer place than Earth. Stan closes his eyes and sighs deeply. He opens his eyes and gets up into a crouching position, switching his smile with a serious gaze. He should either try some sort of stealth or diplomacy.
Well, seeing that Stan had left heavy boot-prints everywhere he went, while looking back, he decided to be more diplomatic than anything else. Hey, at least ponies weren't too xenophobic...well, at least not Applebloom or Twilight. With a sigh, Stan stood completely up and started to walk down the path. The smell of fresh and rotten apples filled his nostrils as he steps down the hill, staying on the path adjacent to the fenced-in area of the farm.
After a few minutes of taking in the scenery and thinking of his form of diplomacy he'll take, Stan can hear faint chattering that slowly gets louder as he walks down the path.
"Twahlaght said for me to keep this with me at all times, Applebloom." One said with a southern twang...and obviously with the voice of Ashleigh Ball.
"Neat-o! So you can turn this thang on and off faster than you could before?" The other one said, sounding a lot more higher pitched, obviously Applebloom.
"So, you took what Ah said and said it back to me...so clever, Applebloom." The first one replies jokingly.
Both laugh.
Stan shudders.
'Fucking shit,' Stan thinks. 'Gotta play this safe...I wanna make a good first impression.'
Stan is now a mere meters away from a gap in the trees, letting the path to the barn fork into the road. He suddenly stops to see two figures slowly step out from the gap and turn left; the same direction Stan is walking from. Both figures stop and stare intently at Stan, who stares back. He can see them better now; it's Applejack and Applebloom.
Now, never in a quadrillion millennia did Stan ever imagine meeting characters from one of his favorite TV shows in real life. It was just never heard of. If he was lucky he may have gotten to meet the voice actors for a brief few seconds at like, Bronycon or something; but to meet the actual characters...
Stan snapped out of his thought to see two perplexed and cautious ponies staring at him, contemplating what he is.
He thought he'd start out with something simple.
"Hi...I, uh, I'm lost. Can you give me directions to someplace?" Stan asks as he forces a smile.
"H...howdy....partner..." Applejack, still staring like a deer in headlights, replies; she then shakes her head and corrects her gaping jaw.
Stan notices her head height goes up to his sternum, give or take a few inches.
"Ah'm sorry...Ah've just never seen somethin' like you before." She stutters as something around her neck jingles.
That thing around her neck is the Element of Honesty, glowing with magical energy.
"It's okay. I get stares like this from girls all the time." Stan tries to lighten up the first encounter with a joke; the two chuckle lightly.
"What's you're name, stranger?" Applebloom asks, curiously.
"I'm Stanley." He calmly relays to the two mares before him.
"Well...Ah'm Applejack, and this is mah sister, Applebloom." Applejack places a hoof on her sister's shoulder, who waves with a nervous, toothy grin.
"It's nice to meet you two. Is there any place I can find some sort of...information where I'm at? I'm not from here." Stan asks again, a modicum more comfortable with his approach to ponies.
"Oh, yes, there is. We've got a library in the nearby town. How about you come with us and we'll show you." Applebloom offers generously as Applejack gives her a worried face.
"I'd be fine with that." Stan forces another grin, not so obviously this time around as the two sisters give tiny smiles themselves.
"Well then come with us, sugarcube. Ponies here don't take too kindly to big, tall things that walk and talk, so if you stay with us, you won't scare everypony...hopefully." Applejack calmly offers, looking down at her Element as kind of a keepsake for protection.
"Well, alrighty, then." Stan remarks with a hint of amicability as he follows the two sisters.