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// Chapter One: What? 
// Story: Diamonds in the Rough, 
// by The Trotting Dead 
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Max blinked awake, world around him was a drunken blur. His vision started to clear and he noticed he was in the hospital bed, he struggled to sit upright. He noticed in his nose was a different shape, He frantically lifted his hands to his face, but instead of palms and fingers, he had blue hooves! "What the..." He started, "No way.... This is awesome!" He said, and pulled the medical sheets off of him and looked to a mirror to find a blue stallion staring at him, with teal eyes and a damaged ear, That made him look tough. He also discovered he had a back flowed Mohawk that's dark purple and grey. He felt somewhat naked, and that made him uncomfortable. 

He looked at his foreleg to see a tube in it filling him with medical liquid that was unknown to man. He has gotten an headache since he was laying down for so long so he laid back in bed until Nurse Redheart showed up, It was easy to identify everypony since he watch the show for a long time. "Okay, Cloudy Days. Sees like you suffered minor fall damage, and a major shoulder fracture we thought you weren't going to make it, But with the help of unicorns you made a  full recovery!"

When Nurse Redheart discharged him, He fount puzzlement when she called him "Cloudy Days," Which surprised him at first because that wasn't him name, or at least his human name but oddly She reminded him of the nurse he had when he was a child, But that was like a decade ago! Maybe time in Equestria is longer than the one in human years... Maybe Cloudy Days was full of it, He'll never know, but for now, He has to buy a house... How much money did he have on him? 

He reached for his back pocket for his wallet, but he realized that his jeans had all the money he had on him! That was until he found a little fold on his hindquarters, He wondered if anybody have  wondered if there were pockets... Oh well. He found a clear bag that was full of gold coins, No, it wasn't a fortune. "Bits," He said, and tried to guess what was in the bag, "It's like counting jellybeans in a bloody jar!"

He had no idea how much the currency for Equestria is to Britain. Blimey, It could be two pounds for a bit or a two bits for a pound? Ugh, Lets just find a hotel for the day. If he knew anything about horses, It was they can sleep standing up. The last thing he needs is to be nicked on the side of the road, or be crushed by a carriage in  the middle of the night. Or be...
"WAH!!!" Max lost his train of thought as pink mare started blabbing in his ear,

ARE YOU NEW IN TOWN BECAUSE I KNOW EVERYBODY IN THIS TOWN, SO YOU MUST BE NEW! I LOVE MEETING NEW PONIES ESPECIALLY UNICORNY, THE PEGASUASRESREX, AND THE EARTHY PONIES! SINCE YOU'RE NEW, HI I'M PINKIE PIE AND I WANT TO WISH YOU A VERY GOOD DAY *GASP* I FORGOT TO THROW YOU A PARTY!!!"

Max started to lose his hearing, as she kept the onslaught on words, Max was leaning backwards so he could get way, but instead his other ear was pressed against the dirt, Her voice as the rock and the dirt was the hard place. the only thing from literal ear bleed was lowering his right ear. That pink mare confirmed it, Pinkie Pie, (Whom if you make here take a bloody test, You'll find more sugar than blood!)  but he didn't want to lose his hearing so he covered his ears with his hooves with little to no success.

After that barrage of earsplitting yelling, Max ran to find a hotel before night comes or before Rainbow Dash might come and soaks him, or worse. He ran to find on and found a two story INN called, The Hay and Stay "Clever name for a guy who expected something like The Hampton INN in America," He walked in and paid four bits for a room, and trotted to the second floor and went to room 2-12 and looked around, "Not bad, Not good." there was black walls, with a curtain, He ripped it opened to find another building next to it, that meant he had window facing a brick wall, "Really cliché," 

At least the floor and the bed was clean, He didn't dare look in the bathroom, for everything that's worse is in the men's room. He trudged to his bed and sat on it but experienced terrible pain his spine and laid on his back, "Okay, so sitting like a human isn't allowed in this body..." He saw a remote and tried to grab it, but it slipped through his hooves, He tried again with the same result, this time he grabbed it but it slipped and he used his other  had to get it but it bounced up and he caught it in his mouth. It was foul, as if someone has used their hooves to use it. He spat it out and just flicked the lights off. He was tired anyways until a spider landed on his snout..." He flicked it away and rolled over, "This needs some tie to get used to.... Wait..... CHARLES!"