All I can remember was the sound of cars, swerving to move out of the way to avoid one another, to save their own lives. The sound of a crash. The crushing sensation all over my body. I think I was in a car accident... Yeah... Yeah I was definitely in a car accident.
Is this Hell? Purgatory maybe? All I can see is an empty darkness. It feels almost as if I'm floating inside a large hot tub. Warm, wet, very wet in fact. Once I opened my eyes I was able to take note of the fact that I can still look down at myself and see that I am in one piece, surprisingly.
So where am I? Am I even dead? Or am I stuck in some kind of weird coma?
After hours of floating there, pondering to myself, about where I am and how I could possibly get out. A light appeared in the distance. Of course my first reaction was screaming "FREEDOM!" over and over in my head.
I started to reach for the light, clawing at it frantically, trying to get my hands on it. The light got brighter and brighter with every inch I made towards it. Searing my eyes with a painfully bright flash and awakening every sense in my body, bringing it back to life. The water surrounding my body now turned from a warm feeling, to an instantaneous freezing sensation.
I suddenly couldn't breathe anymore, almost like this whole time I've been holding my breath under this cold water. I reached up to grab the ledge of something. I pulled with all my might to get my head above the water so I could take in a deep breath of air.
Now you may be thinking, "alright, so a normal way to act would be to quickly gather your surroundings and make sure there is no danger around". That would have been a good idea... But I didn't quite have that same reaction at all. Actually the first thing I did was scream bloody murder as I pulled myself out of the water and onto solid ground. In which I proceeded to dump whatever contents I had in my stomach out onto the ground. I'm pretty sure that will be the last time I will ever taste Wendy's delicious burgers and frosties ever again.
There was other screaming around me aside from my own. I couldn't focus on it clearly since my vision was still blurry from that blinding light. The screaming in my own head was starting to drown out the others screaming as well. Once I established that I was on solid ground, I allowed my body to collapse next to the pile of burger vomit.
Slowly my blurry vision started to focus in, only for a moment. I swear I can see something... Something yellow, like a lemon. A second color joined in trying to pull away the yellow color, it was a pink color. I tried reaching out to it to bring it closer to me so I could get a better look. But my body was not allowing me to move anymore. I suddenly blacked out once more.
I just hope when I wake up I won't be in a pool of water like last time, god that would suck if I did though.
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It was another bright and sunny day in Equestria. The birds were chirping, the air was filled with the scent of blooming flowers. Everyone was happy... Except one pony. Sunny Days was busy grading her students paper work, at least until those pesky birds started annoying her and ruining her concentration. It didn't help when a certain lemon coated earth pony, Daisy Bloom, snuck into her home and gave her a surprise hug.
"Hey Sunny!" Daisy exclaimed, startling the pink coated unicorn. She let out a sigh of annoyance as she turned to her friend.
"Daisy how many times do I have to repeat myself. Do not bother me when I'm working." Sunny reminded her.
"Aw but Sunny! You promised to go to the park with me today! You're not going back on your word now, are you?" Daisy said with enthusiasm.
Sunny turned back to her paperwork before saying "You can wait a little bit longer. I need to finish these papers right now, or else I will have to work all night in order to finish these."
Daisy didn't really like this, she hated seeing her best friend getting stuck in such stressful work without a single break. "Tell you what, we only go for 10 minutes. One walk around the park and a little snack at the fountain, deal?" Daisy said. Sunny sighed in defeat, knowing her friend wouldn't stop annoying her until she submits to her demands. What the hay, it's only 10 minutes, right?
Daisy always enjoys her walks with Sunny, even though Sunny dislikes being out doors. They proceeded with the usual small talk, asking one another how their day is going, talking about problems at work. Daisy was going on and on about this new monster movie called "The Swamp Monster from the Void". Sunny never enjoyed scary movies, especially not ones with monsters in them. But she felt she had to indulge her friend, letting her know she's always interested to hear what her friend has to say.
Then there was a loud sudden sound, a sound that startled and scared the living daylights out of everypony that was around to hear it. Both Daisy and Sunny looked over to hear where the scream came from. Ponies were running in fear of the thing that was creating such a terrifying scream. Daisy's eyes lit up while Sunny's eyes shrank to the size of pin pricks when they saw the "monster" that crawled out of the fountain.
A large, ape-like creature had climbed out from the fountain. Screaming in intense agony, as if every nerve was shooting pain throughout its body. Sunny hid under a nearby bench while Daisy stood there, staring at this mysterious creature amazed at its shape and size. It climbed out still groaning in pain, before stopping to throw up on the ground.
After the monster collapsed onto the ground, it stopped screaming. Daisy took this chance to get closer to it so she could see this monster up close. "What are you doing?! Daisy get back here!" Sunny whispered loudly, trying to get her friend to come back without alerting the monster. Daisy ignored her friend's pleas as she stepped closer until she stood in front of the creature, now able to take note of the clothing it's wearing.
She even took note of something bulging from what she could only assume was the creature's back pocket. She tried reaching for it before she noticed the monster started moving again, which startled her and made her take a few steps backwards. It turned it's head to the side and glanced up at her. It stared into her eyes, and she stared back.
In it's green eyes she could see the words that this monster was trying to tell her. "Help me, please help me." were the words that Daisy could see. Sunny couldn't stand by any longer. She rushed over to her friend and grabbed her hoof, trying to pull her away from the creature.
"Daisy I told you to get away from it! It could be dangerous!" Sunny said in a scolding tone to her friend. Daisy turned to look at her friend right in her eyes. "He needs our help Sunny!" Daisy said, sounding sad.
"What?! H-help this thing? But Daisy it could-." Sunny said, still shaken up from the monster's horrifying scream.
"Look at him" Daisy interrupted, gesturing a hoof towards the now unconscious monster. "He's hurt, he could die out here if we leave him." Daisy said, trying to convince her friend to help her.
"O-oh hoho no no no no no! I'm not dealing with THIS thing, we don't even know what IT is!" said Sunny.
"Sunny you owe me... Remember when we were both just little fillies and-" Daisy said.
"Nope! Nope I'm not listening to this!" Sunny interrupted trying to ignore Daisy's guilt trip.
"And you found a stray dog that was cold, alone, hungry and dieing? I helped you take it home to care for it! Come on Sunny... Do this for me, pleeeeease?" Daisy begged, putting on her best puppy dog eyed look.
Sunny knew when she was defeated, she knew her friend helped her when she needed her most, and now shes asking her to do the same for her friend. "Alright ALRIGHT! fine!" Sunny sighed. "I'll help you get him to your house... But! we have to do this quickly!" Daisy got a wide grin and nodded her head quickly.
Sunny's horn started to shine with a yellow golden glow, as the monster's arms were enveloped in that same golden aura. She lifted his arms up as Daisy stood under his left arm, and Sunny under his right. She carefully sat his arms down onto their backs and held onto his hands while his arms were slung over their backs, so they could both drag him back to Daisy's home.
"Eeewww! There's vomit on his arm! I-I can feel it on my back!" Sunny shuddered with disgust while dragging the unconscious monster.
"Hrm! And he's heavy too! What does this guy eat?!" Daisy grunted while struggling to pull this 250 pound monster. What? I've been meaning to go on a diet, don't give me that look! Luckily they were able to get the strange creature back to Daisy's home without anymore troubles, aside from the occasional on looker. There, Daisy had to work on a way to warm him back up and clean off the vomit on his arm and around his mouth.
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Water. I have a feeling by the end of today I'm going to HATE water. This is the first thing I wake back up to, the sensation of warm water around my entire body. It didn't shock me awake though. The water this time was actually quite soothing. What did shock me awake however was the two multicolored horses standing in front of me while I am now sitting in a bath tub.
I shot up out of the tub and grabbed onto the edges. The pink coated horse-... pony... thing, backed away into the wall. But the yellow one put her hooves onto my chest to help sit me back down into the tub. Of course I was panicking and I had no idea how to react to this at all, so I just sat there in the tub. She gave me a soft smile while grabbing a sponge with her hoof... How the fuck is she doing that? The more I look the more it baffles me, she just puts her hoof on it and it sticks to her like shes got some sort of sponge magnet power.
She started to soak up a bit of bath water and continued to clean the vomit that was still on my chin with the sponge. Like I said, she has a yellow coat, like a lemon. She has a blue mane, the closest way I can compare the shade to is the same shade that denim pants has. Her hair style also reminded me of the character named "Sophie" from Final Fantasy VIII. She has purple colored eyes, took me a bit to look away from her eyes to inspect the rest of her. On her butt she has some sort of tattoo, two daisies, one with an orange color and one with a red color. The orange flower hiding half way behind the red one. Her tail was really long too, it literally touched the ground.
I looked over towards the pink coated pony, who was a bit more relaxed now as well. She has a horn, like as in a unicorn's kind of horn. (Maybe in this world some of the ponies have magic.) She has a golden brown color to her mane, like the perfect shade a roasted marshmallow should be. She also has a yellow triangle pattern in her bangs, like half a triangle on one bang and the other half on another bang. The rest of her mane hanging down off her shoulders has a sort of candy cane pattern where the yellow twists around down her mane. Her tail was shorter compared to the lemon coated one. Wherever her tail hair curled there was a yellow color to it. She was wearing a pair of green glasses, and even wore pure white pearls around her neck. Her eyes have a teal color to them. She also has a butt tattoo as well, (maybe it's a trend?) Her's was a ruler with a chalkboard behind it, everything about her just screams "I'm a teacher."
After the lemon coated pony finished cleaning my face, she started to inspect me more. Almost like she was taking notes of how I look. Just to help all of you I can describe myself. There's one word I need for this... "Hairy." There's hair all over my stomach, chest, and down both my arms and legs. I haven't had a haircut in awhile, but it doesn't go anywhere past my ears. I did shave my beard off not too long ago, so I only have a clean stubble of hair, with only a few patches missing on my cheeks. My nails where slightly longer than normal cut nails. I never cut them because I never cared to make first impressions with my looks. Plus I don't enjoy the feeling after I clip them. I don't have any blemishes on my face really, aside from a small scar made from a horse biting my cheek when I was a kid. I never really had a normal sleeping schedule, I always went to sleep very late and woke up early, rarely a full eight hours unless I slept into the afternoon. As a result I have a darker color around my eyes showing off my lack of sleep.
We stared at each other for what felt like hours to me, when really it was only about a good fifteen minutes. "So..." This was an obvious bad idea as this startled both of them.
"I-it can talk?!" the pink coated one screamed.
"Sunny! Calm down!" The yellow one yelled, trying to calm her down. Sunny, eh? Nice enough name.
The yellow one looked back at me again and smiled once more. "My name's Daisy, Daisy Bloom. What's your name?" Daisy said in a calming voice. Daisy Bloom? Is the bloom part a nickname or something? How are these ponies talking to me? Why am I still talking to myself?
I finally spoke up. "My name's... My name is Joel. Joel Summers." After telling her my name I proceeded to look around, taking notice of the small bathroom around me. "Where the hell am I?" I said.
"You're in my house, in Calmare." Daisy stated, now starting to get a more happy tone.
I looked at her with confusion. "Wait what? Calmare? Alright where is Calmare on the map?" Also, "Calmare"? I hope that is just a coincidence.
This time the pink one, I think her name was Sunny, came closer to me until she was standing behind Daisy. "Calmare is located in Equestria. Near the city of Fillydelphia." Calmare? Fillydelphia?
This started to make me laugh, which confused the two ponies. "Hahah! hah that's a good one, next you'll be telling me there's a place called Manehatten or even a giant city called 'Canterlot'! Bwahahahah!"
"But... There is." Daisy spoke up which immediately made me stop laughing and get right into her personal space.
"What was that?" I questioned her.
This made her back away slightly and shifting uncomfortably. "Th-there actually are cities with those names." Sunny spoke up for Daisy who was too nervous to answer.
What kind of sick joke is this? "This has to be a joke... Right? There can't possibly be any cities with those names!"
I started to slink back down into the tub. "I-I'm sorry Joel, but-" Daisy said before being cut off when I held my hand up to stop her.
"Please... Please don't explain it right now, my head hurts way too much to understand your geography... So I'm in a town, right?" I said, followed by her nodding. "And... There's others in this town like you?" Again, she nodded to confirm my question. "And... Are there any humans in this place you call 'Equestria'?"
I was hoping they would nod, I didn't want to deal with the truth that I'm stranded in some other world filled with colorful talking equines. But both Sunny and Daisy's heads shaking told me that there are no humans in Equestria. My heart stopped. This has to be a dream, yeah it has to be! This is impossible, I mean a world full of ponies? That's too crazy to be real. Maybe I'm in a coma, maybe I'm just sleeping in a hospital bed waiting to wake up. Well, if this is a dream I better just go along with it.
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After helping the human, Joel. Both Daisy and Sunny came walking downstairs after leaving Joel to bathe alone. Daisy wandered off into the kitchen to prepare dinner for everypony. While Sunny went over to Joel's clothing to inspect them further.
She used her magic to lift his clothes up to check them. He has a pair of black socks and brown rough shoes. She can't tell what the material these shoes were made out of but they seem like slip on shoes. He has a dark green t-shirt, and blue jeans that are slightly ripped up at the end of the legs. There's a pair of dirty glasses sitting on the table nearby that he wore.
She started to empty out the pockets in his pants. The contents in his pockets were a set of 3 keys on a key chain, a single wallet, and a slip of paper with smudged ink on it. Obviously smudged because of the water. She opens his wallet and starts to check the miscellaneous cards and receipts inside.
One card seems to catch her eye though, two in fact. One that displays Joel's picture, his birth date, eye color, sex, and even the name of where he is from. What was this place known as "Washington"? Sunny wondered. Taking note of his birth date, 1993, she could tell he is 20 years old. Only 20? He's only 3 years younger than her, 2 years younger than Daisy.
On the second card it shows Joel's picture again, this time with something different. On the card it displays the words "Honored Citizen", could this possibly mean Joel earned this title for an exceptional good deed in his town? She will have to ask him this when he has had time to calm down.
After about an hour Daisy finished making dinner. She didn't know what a human eats, so she decided to be prepared. Tonight she made hay fries, deep fried to the crispiest texture. A wonderful green and leafy salad filled with the essentials such as spinach, cabbage, sliced carrots, chopped beets, and her absolute favorite treat, daisies.
She also prepared a fruit salad with bananas, strawberries, pineapple, apples, oranges, and even Sunny's favorite fruit, plums. For dessert she decided to bake a cherry pie after preparing the other dishes. She was filled with so much excitement, she was finally cooking for a monster! Well at least Joel doesn't seem to act like a monster, not ones from her movies. But that wasn't going to stop her from feeling excited to treat Joel to a special Equestrian dish.
Daisy called out to Sunny and Joel to inform them that dinner was ready. Joel didn't come down from the bathroom which both Daisy and Sunny noticed. Sunny decided she should handle it and got up to gather Joel something to wear for dinner. All she could find was a blanket that she could help him fashion into a toga. She walked upstairs and knocked on the door three times. "Joel, dinner's ready."
Silence.
"Joel? Joel are you in there?" She started to open the door.
The moment she opened the door Joel was sitting right at the door ready for her "BOO!" he yelled. She screamed in surprise, dropped the blanket and fell backwards down the stairs. Letting out a yell and swear as she fell down each step. Joel popped his head out from the top of the stairs "Yo Sunny... Y'alright?"
Sunny let out a groan of pain and mumbled something about how she would love to stab him in his big stupid monkey face before standing back up. "Y-yeah! Yeah I'm alright... ow..." Joel looked at the blanket and frowned. He looked back at Sunny, who was climbing back up the stairs.
"Hey, what happened to my clothes?" Joel asked.
"We still need to wash them and dry them off before you can wear your clothes. I brought you a blanket so I could help you get into a toga for now" Sunny answered, still obviously angry at the human that had just scared her for the third time today.
Joel did NOT like that idea one bit, but he didn't enjoy the thought of walking around naked like these ponies either. "It's fine Sunny. Tell Daisy, I think that's her name, that I'll be down in a moment." Joel took the blanket and walked back into the bathroom so he could start forming it into a toga. Of course he didn't know how to make a toga at all. Every time he tried making one it would just fall down onto the floor and he would stare at it. As if he thought if he glared at it long enough it would hop onto him in the form of clothing.
After 20 minutes of struggling he finally made himself a makeshift toga. He walked downstairs to see that Sunny and Daisy were sitting at a table without chairs and three plates set up. His dish already set up with a leafy salad, a fruit salad, and what looked like really skinny french fries to him.
He sat on his knees at the table and started to poke through his salad to check it. "Uhm... There's flowers in this salad."
Sunny turned to look at him while swallowing a bite of her fruit salad, "Yes Joel, there ARE flowers in the salad. After all daisies are what make a 'daisy salad'."
Joel rolled his eyes at her comment. "Thanks for the information but here's a tidbit for you... humans don't eat flowers. Were omnivores, which mean we eat specific plants and meat."
Joel could see this worried Daisy and Sunny for a moment before he spoke up to calm their nerves. "We don't eat ponies, the closest thing to ponies we have where I'm from are horses."
Daisy started to get a smile on her face while Joel ate his fruit salad. "Oh! Speaking of where you're from. Where ARE you from Joel?" Joel looked over at her and then looked back at his food.
"Definitely not from Equestria... in fact, I'm from a whole different planet, or universe..." This caught Sunny's attention now, another universe? Impossible. "I don't know how I got here. All I want is to go back home to my family." Joel continued, Sunny and Daisy decided to sit in silence to let him finish his story. But he never finished it. He just sat there eating and staring at his plate.
Daisy thought maybe Joel could use some cheering up. "Well don't worry Joel, we can help you out. You can stay with me until you figure out how to get home."
Her plan worked, Daisy got Joel to smile at this. "Thanks Daisy, that means a lot to me. It really does... Well if you'll excuse me, I need some sleep."
Daisy pointed towards the doorway that leads outside of the kitchen and to the stairs. "Go upstairs and take a left down the hall, at the end take the right door. You can sleep in the guest bedroom there." Joel thanked her before standing up. His toga fell off just as he stood up, exposing his hairy body and even his manhood. Sunny and Daisy both smiled and giggled at his wardrobe malfunction.
Joel blushed and thought "No, fuck them! You walk out like a boss!" but instead, He panicked and quickly dashed out of the kitchen to the upstairs guest bedroom. After closing himself off he let out a sigh of relief to finally be out of that embarrassing moment. He walked over to his small bed and glared at it. "Seriously? a tiny ass little bed? Why do I keep getting the shit end of the stick." Joel couldn't care anymore at this point, he at least had a bed at the end of the day instead of the floor. He flopped down onto the bed, which of course made the bed creak.
Joel passed out into a dreamless sleep only moments later after wrapping himself up with the bed's covers.