BEEP BEEP BEEP. The annoying alarm clock blared in Tim's ear. BEEP BEEP. The persistent alarm clock would not shut up until Tim woke up and told it to. It is it's job after all to wake him up every day at precisely 6 AM so Tim can get ready for school, it takes a while to get ready for a day in college you know. Every day the same routine, the alarm clock goes off Tim wakes up and slaps the snooze button and half an hour later it odes it again and he decides to wake up and go to school. But today is, different. Tim is going home for Spring Break. He hasn't seen his family in quite some time, being a college student, the most he hears of his family is his mother's voice over the phone when he begs for more money. BEEP BEEP BEEP. The alarm clock screamed in his ear again.
Tim got up and ripped the cord of the clock out of the wall. "Its Spring Break." he said. "Don't wake me up!"
"Morning sleeping beauty." Tim's roommate, Chad, said from the laptop fully awake and playing League of Legends.
"Hey Chad." Tim said with a yawn. "I'm going home for Spring Break, so I can't play League."
"All right bro. I'll just, be here."
"Ok, whatever." Tim stifled a yawn. "Hey man, where's the coffee?"
"Oh, I put on a fresh pot."
"Ok thanks." Tim grabbed the pot and poured a cup. He drank it all and instantly woke up. "Wow, dude, did you mix it right today? It actually woke me up!"
"Yeah, I know, I put some Dan Ger in it. It said caution: makes it difficult to sleep."
"Aww man dude, did you break into the science lab again?"
"Maybe."
"You really are an idiot you know that?"
"Yeah, but your League team needs me."
"Would've settled for anyone else, but you are pretty good with cho gath."
"I know. Well, I guess I'll see you later man."
"Yeah, see ya Chad." Tim said as he stepped out of his dormitory and headed to the front doors. When he arrived at his white Monte Carlo he adjusted the seat, sat in it, started it up and drove home. After a while he got bored so he turned on the radio and was surprised to hear a Katy Perry playlist. "Good old Chad." he said laughing. When he arrived home his parents and little sister, barely able to walk ran out to him and hugged him.
"Oh Tim we missed you so much!" his dad said.
"Need more money this time? More than I can put in an envelope?" his mom asked. They laughed.
"Not this time, just wanted to spend some quality time with my family." Tim replied wiping a tear from his eye.
"Tim Tim I drawed this for you!" his little sister said. Holding up a paper with a crude drawing of him hugging her in a big heart.
"Aww thank you Julie, that's why your my favorite." he said messing up the little girl's hair. "Wait, I thought I had a little brother too, I'm not imagining things again am I?"
"Oh no, Junior is inside watching his favorite show on TV." his mom said.
"All right, I'm gonna scare the little scamp. Come on Julie, follow me but be really quiet." he said putting a finger to his lips and motioning toward the door to emphasize his point. The little girl nodded and the two crept up to the house, through the open door and behind the couch.
"Now?" Julie whispered as quiet as she could.
"Now." Time mouthed, and the two jumped up shouting "BOO" and scared Frank Hiatus Junior witless.
"What was that for?" Junior asked.
"For not coming and saying hi to me." Tim answered.
"Boo!" Julie said again.
"Good job Julie, high five." Time congratulated the little girl and shooed her back toward her parents. Tim jumped over the back of the couch and sat next to Junior. "Whatcha watching?"
"My Little Pony."
"Sounds a little girly, please tell me its got a bad guy or something."
"It does, it has many, there's this one dragon guy named Discord, and he spreads chaos by changing things into more evil versions."
"Sounds cool I guess." Tim said as he readjusted his posture to be more comfortable and started watching the show.
After a few hours of Tim asking questions every 5 minutes, often the same question already asked, Tim decided he didn't like the show.
"Well little bro, the show sounds more interesting than it really is, and whats up with that Pink pony, is she on a never ending acid trip or something?"
"No, shes just really hyper."
"Oh, well anyways, I'm tired after that drive, so I'm gonna go take a nap now. See you in a few hours" Tim said heading into the attic. He left when Pinkie was walking into the cloning pool. He went to his bed lied down, pulled up his covers, and fell asleep
***
When he woke up, Tim felt different, he couldn't quite tell what felt different, everything felt natural, but he knew something was wrong. He looked around and everything was bright and vivid and very cartoonish. He got up and stretched. Then he pushed him self up onto his hind legs. He felt very dizzy. "God dang it Chad, I'm gonna kill you for being such a retard." he said as he fell onto all fours again.
"I'd be careful talking like that around here, and who is Chad?" a voice behind him asked.
"AHHH," he shouted and turned around, "you know its very rude to sneak up on people right? And hey, where are you? Heck, where am I?"
"Oh sorry, forgot I was flying." Tim could tell this voice was feminine, and familiar, so familiar he should be able to pin a name to it. It wasn't family, not that familiar, but not a good friend, more familiar than that, someone he just met and spent a lot of time with. Wait, flying?
"You didn't answer my question, who are you and where am I?" he demanded as a purple alicorn gently flew down into sight. He was taken aback by this sight. "An alicorn? But those things aren't real, they're myths!"
"I'm Twilight Sparkle, and you're in Ponyville, and by the way, alicorns are the most ancient race of pony ever."
"Wait, Twilight Sparkle, Ponyville?" Tim burst out laughing and fell onto his stomach and started banging the ground with his hoof. Hoof? He didn't care, he was too busy busting his gut laughing like a mad man.
"Yes, and why are you laughing?"
"Oh wow, Chad is a complete retard, this 'Dan Ger' stuff he put in the coffee must be like hallucination juice or something."
"Who is Chad and whats this Dan Ger stuff, whats coffee?"
"Ok, so Chad is my college roommate."
"So your friend?"
"Well, I'm not quite sure friend is the word but sure, lets go with that, anyways, he wakes up way before me and makes coffee, its this brown stuff that gives you energy, and he broke into the science lab and stole something that said danger and he thought it was Dan Ger."
"Wow, I can't believe I've missed two ponies entering Ponyville. I have to inform Pinkie Pie right away!" Twilight spread her wings and was about to take flight when Tim grabbed her ankle.
"Wait, so this is real? This is seriously happening?"
"Yes."
"Oh man, I'm going in the looney bin after this for sure. Twilight, kick me right now."
"Are you crazy? Why would you want me to do that?"
"Just do it!"
"All right, but you asked for it, literally." Twilight took her rear hoof and smashed it at full speed into Tim's face.
"OW, that really hurt!"
"Yeah, I know."
"This isn't a dream, its really happening, oh God, what have I done for this cruel and unusual punishment?"
"Who's God? Did I miss 3 new ponies entering the city? Aww man Pinkie, shes going to go berserk!"
"No, Twilight, Chad is a human, just like me, only hes in the human world. And God, hes a god, you can't really explain him any other way."
"I hate to inform you, but all of those statements can't be true, humans are extinct, your a unicorn, the human world is this world's past, and Celestia and Luna are the only 'gods' in Equestria."
"What, no way? Oh and before you go talk to Pinkie, can you take me to the hospital? You kicked me so hard my blood is coming out of every hole in my head, even my ears."
Twilight inspected Tim's face closely. "Yes, your injured badly, I shall drop you off at the hospital, but you must learn how to transport!" And with that Twilight lifted Tim onto her back and flew off to the hospital.
When she arrived, she dropped him in the waiting room, demanded he be looked at instantly, explained what happened and went off to meet Pinkie Pie.
Tim went unconscious during the flight due to blood loss. When he woke up he had a bright light burning out his retinas. "GAH, make it stop make it stop!" he shouted holding his eyes.
"He is awake and well, I shall leave you with him Nurse Redheart." Said a very masculine voice.
"Ok sir." replied a much lighter female voice and Tim heard a switch being flipped and the light power down.
"Who are you?" Tim asked.
"I'm Nurse Redheart, whats your name?" the nurse replied
"I'm Tim. I just appeared here earlier today with no clue as to whats happening."
"Well, your in the hospital now, your completely fine, but a little shaky from your loss of blood, the princess has your bill covered, and sir, Tim is not a name that has ever been used here for trillions of years, I know its not your real name."
"Well, then I don't know my name."
"A case of amnesia I see, completely normal sir, I'm just going to have to give you a check up. Now open your mouth please."
Tim did as he was told and the doctor went through the check up.
"Now, for the last part, I have to remove your blanket sir."
"But, I'm not wearing anything under there." he complained.
"I'm only wearing this hat sir, hardly anypony in Ponyville wears clothes."
"So, this is a town full of whores?"
"No sir, this world does not have one whore, the closest to one is the twins at the spa."
"So, its normal to see people's junk here?"
"People's? Oh dear, not again, your suffering from humitis."
"Humitis?"
"Yes, humitis, its a very severe disease in which the victim believes he is a human!"
"You must be mistaken, I'm clearly a human." Tim said holding out his arm as if to demonstrate his human hand and was surprised to see a yellow hoof. "What the hell?" he was confused as he checked himself over and realized for the first time that he was a yellow pony with black stripes. What did Twilight say he was? A unicorn? Yeah, that's right, so that means he has a horn and can do magic.
"Sir, don't use that word ever again. You can get arrested for saying 'hell'."
"Sorry, uh nurse, whats your name ma'am?"
"Nurse Redheart."
"Ok, Redheart, is there a mirror I can use anywhere?"
"Yes sure, here you go." she said as she handed Tim a hand mirror, or a hoof mirror as the ponies would call it. He looked at himself in the mirror in disbelief.
"I'm a yellow pony, with black stripes, and a white mane and tail tipped with red?"
"Yes sir, and your cutie mark is a lightning bolt."
"My cutie whatsit?"
"Your cutie mark, the thing that tells you your special talent."
He panicked to think of what to say to get out of this conversation. "Oh, its all flooding back to me now." he lied. "I'm a pony, I flunked magic school." he said to explain the lack of magic ability he had when he tried to levitate a cup of water to him. "And my special talent is controlling the weather."
"Good, now do you remember your name sir?"
Tim quickly thought through what to say. "My name is, Thunder Shock!" he announced triumphantly as if he was so satisfied with his lie like it meant he'd won the lottery many times over.
"Well Thunder Shock, all we could find where you appeared was this blue watch, we aren't sure who owns it, but we figured it was yours." Nurse Redheart slipped him a fairly cheap watch with a blue strap.
"Thank you." he said as he strapped it onto his hoof and set it according to the time on the clock on the wall. "So, is there anything to do here or can I go now?"
"Well we have to keep you here at least one night while you regain blood, but in the meantime you can read some books from this shelf." the nurse said guesting toward a large bookcase with a few books missing.
"Well, this will be fun." he said obviously unamused.
"I have to go check on some other patients, if you need anything just hit the buzzer he said as she walked out the door and shut it behind her.
"Time to test my magic" he said to himself as he attempted to levitate the lightest book over to him. To do so, he focused all of his energy on the base of his horn. He barely got it halfway to him when he ran out of energy and dropped it. "Phew, I need that nurse." he thought out loud and he reached for the buzzer which was just out of reach a couple inches. "Oh come on!" he complained. He thought for a second. "Maybe I'm using the wrong muscles?" he said to himself. He tried to levitate the buzzer to him focusing his energy a little further up his horn. This time the levitation was easier, of course the buzzer was much lighter than the book. When the buzzer got to him, Tim, I mean Thunder Shock, hit the button to get a nurse.
A pegasus nurse he didn't know almost instantly walked in.
"What do you need?" she asked sweetly
"Yeah, uh, I'm not so good with magic, so I was wondering if I could get a unicorn nurse to teach me magic." Thunder Shock asked. Or was it Tim?
"Sure, just give me a second." the nurse said as she walked out the room.
A minute or two passed and a new nurse walked into the room.
"Hello Thunder Shock, I heard you need a magic lesson?"
"Yes, I could only get that book there." he said pointing to the book.
"Well, I'm not really a magic teacher, but I guess I could try, maybe It'll count as overtime." she quietly added the last part. "All right, so lets start with something small. Like that flower. Focus your energy on the tip of your horn and just imagine what you want the flower to do."
Tim, I mean Thunder Shock, did as he was told and got the flower to him almost effortlessly.
"Wow, you're a natural!" the nurse said. "Most ponies fail even that test!"
"Really? That was so easy."
"Yes, really, then again, most ponies who need that are children."
"Oh, well next time don't add that part."
"Is that all for now?"
"Yes, thank you."
"Your welcome." she said then trotted out the room and shut the door gingerly.
Thunder Shock looked at the bookshelf, picked the most interesting looking book and tried to levitate it to him. The effort left him with nearly no energy, so he decided to take a nap. He'd read Daring Do in the morning.
It didn't take him long to fall asleep, it was a long and dream filled sleep. He dreamed of his family back in the human world, would he ever see them again? Is it just his subconscious here and his body is still on the bed? Would he get used to his new name? There are many other questions he had, but lets not get into that.