“M-mom?” I said as I began crying.
“Yes, Daniel, it's me.” My mom said. But her voice…. there was something different about the voice.
“Why do you sound different?”
“Don’t you remember me before dad died?” She asked, with a hint of regret in her voice.
Then it hit me. I was hearing something I haven’t heard in my mom’s voice since dad died, happiness.
“I'm sorry” my mom said suddenly. The happiness was being lost to a deep sadness.
“For what?”
“For the hell that I put you through after dad died.” She said as she was about to cry.
“…mo-“ I began, but I was cut off.
“I made you look after me every second so I wouldn’t kill myself; I made you leave your friends for my own selfish reasons; I put you through the stress of my depression and cancer because I couldn’t overcome the fact that your dad was gone. I’m a horrible mother.” She finally began to cry.
“Mom, I will always love you no matter what. I would go through it all over again for you. Like I said, I love you and I forgive you.”
“This is the first time we have been together as a family in a long, long time.” Said dad.
“How long will you guys be here for?”
“Until you're with us.” he replied.
“Awesome.” Was all I said.
I woke up from what was happiest time I've had in a while to see the cutest thing I ever seen. The same girls who were here before, plus Pinkie Pie, Spike and another cream yellow pegasus with a light pink mane, sleeping all over the room. I guess this new pony came after I was knocked out…again, I thought to myself. I looked out the window to see the sun starting to rise. I took out the IV in my arm, stood up from my bed, and tip-toed over the window to see the sun rise. I never woke up early to see the sun rise on earth. After the sun was fully erect I hear Twilight’s voice.
“Daniel….I’m sorry”
“It's alright,” I comforted Twi while still looking at the sun. “She’s in a better place now. As my grandma Jill said before she died, ‘Do not morn my body, but celebrate my life, my spirit, and the memories we’ve had together.’”
“It still must be tough.”
“Don’t worry. I have closure.”
“Well that’s great to know.”
I turn around to see that all the girls, plus Spike, are all awake with sadness painted all over their faces.
“Hey everyone, like I said, I'm alright.” I assured them. I looked at the new pegasus I haven’t met and said, “Hi! I'm Daniel”
“I'm Flutters…” she spoke so soft I couldn’t hear the last part.
“I'm sorry I didn’t get that”
“I'm Flut…” this time she spoke softer then the first time.
“I'm sorry but your gon-“
“Her name is Fluttershy!” yelled Dash. “Futtershy, Daniel! Daniel, Fluttershy! There!”
“Nice to meet you Fluttershy” I said
“Nice to meet you too Daniel” she said a bit louder than last time, hiding behind her mane.
Then nurse Redheart came through the door and saw me standing with the other ponies. She cocked her right eyebrow, glared at me, and said, “I came to take out the IV out of you, but I see someone already be me to that.”
“Hehe… well see, I wanted to see the sun rise but I didn’t want to wake them up so I took I out myself. hehe.” I weakly smiled knowing that I was caught.
*sigh* “Well, next time wait for a nurse or a doctor to take it out of you, alright?”
“Will do, sorry.”
“It's alright. Get ready, you're going to be released today.”
“Great…wait…where’s my knife?”
“Oh it's at my house.” Said Rainbow.
“How do you have it?” asked Twi.
“When he collapsed in the forest I saw he dropped it next to him. I picked it up and took it with me.”
“Thank you Rainbow Dash.” I said
“No problem, but call me Dash.” I nodded.
“Let's do a quick physical so you can get cleared.” Said nurse Redheart.
I was 35 minutes into a physical that should’ve taken only ten minutes. It was tough trying to translate the pony anatomy into human, even with the help of Twilight and Fluttershy. Then Redheart said, “Alright one last thing. Take off your clothes.” I sighed as I thought to myself;I guess she is a medical professional. I turned to Twi and Fluttershy.
“Girls I need some privacy please?” They shrugged and left the room and I took off my clothes, except my underwear.
“Um…that too.” She said pointing to my underwear. I took it off revealing my junk. “Oh my Celestia, Have some self-control!” she screamed.
“What!?”
“Put that back in you!” she pointed to my junk as I pulled my underwear back up.
“I can’t! It’s always out like this!”
“Oh….” The most awkward silence presumed. “I guess we are done here.” As I finished putting on my clothes she said, “I'm sorry…if it helps… it's the biggest I've seen on anypony.”
It didn’t. I walked out of the room with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. I opened the door to see Twilight and Fluttershy with redness in their cheeks. Knowing they heard the screaming, I yelled, “Damn it!” I stomped all the way to the main lobby to see the rest of the girls; thankfully the lobby was far enough from my room that the girls didn’t hear the screaming. They haven’t noticed me yet so I tip-toed to the counter and asked the nurse for the bill.
“Oh no ya don’t!” yelled AJ as she knocked me out of the way. I got up and ran at AJ trying to knock her out of the way. When I hit her it felt like I hit a brick wall and fell down. I've hit a manticore and knocked it down but I can't knock down this damn pony!? I looked at her as she gave a prideful smile.
The nurse said, “I'm sorry but the bill has already been paid.”
“Yes!” I yelled in victory. “Wait…who paid?”
“Princess Celestia.”
“Damn it now I'm in debt to the princess. How long do I have to pay her back?”
“What?” asked Twilight, “Princess Celestia isn’t like that. I bet you can't even pay her back.”
I sighed, “Well I need to make an appointment with her.”
“Way ahead of you, you have a meeting with her tomorrow afternoon.”
“Ideaaaaaa!” sung Rarity. “I need to make you a suit for your meeting with the Princess.”
“But-”
“No buts! As before, it will be on the house.”
“I. WILL. PAY. YOU. BACK.”
“With what bits?” she smiled.
“…..” I guess bits are money here which I have none of, “…damn.”
“Exactly”
“Well let's all go back to the library and found out more about the human world.”said Twi
“I'm sorry darling but I can't. I must go back to my boutique and work on his suit. Tata” Rarity waved as she left.
The rest of the girls and I walked outside into the simple town of Ponyville. As I walk through the town all the ponies were staring at me; I guess it was better than them running away in fear. We walked through the town for only five minutes befor we reached a large tree.
“We’re here.” Said Twi
“You live in a tree?” I asked incredulously.
“Well, yeah. The tree died a while ago and the mayor at the time decided to hallow it out and use it as a library. These days, nopony checks out books, so the Princess sent me to Ponyville and arranged for me to live in a library because I love books.” She smiled.
“Um…okay.” We walked in to the library/house sat down as we began asking questions. “Who’s first?” I asked.
"Where did ya learn to fight a manticore?" AJ asked
I thought to myself, Holy shit I killed a frickin’ manticore with no prior combat experience... How the hell did I do that!? "TV?" I shrugged
"Er... What's a 'TV'?
"Um... It’s an electric box that transmits pictures from one place to another."
When I finished Twilight's eyes lit up, “You have advanced technology!? How does it work?”
"Um… I'm not sure about the new ones, but I think the old ones used radio waves to transmit the pictures. Honestly I'm not a hundred percent sure."
"What do you mean you're not sure?" Twilight said with some irritation evident in her eyes.
"I'm sorry I just never really learned how they worked." I said as I looked at the floor ashamed.
Twilight sighed, “It’s alright."
"I guess it my turn. Hhhmmmm... Oh. Why is there no king or queen?"
"Oh! I got this one girls." said Pinkie. “When Lauren Faust created the series, she didn't want to use queens because Disney portrayed them as evil. So she used princesses instead." Pinkie said as she smiled from ear to ear.
"D-Disney!?" I spluttered, surprised that this pink pony even knew what that was!
Twilight was completely confused by what Pinkie said. "Um... I think what Pinkie meant is when the princesses began their rule about two thousand years ago they decided to rule in unity and they use the term princess because it would sound weird if there were two queens."
"Yeah, it would sound weir TWO THOUSAND YEARS! Are you saying the princesses are two thousand years old?"
"Oh they're much older than that. About three or four thousand years old is more like it."
I sat there stunned. "How long is your average life span?"
"Oh well average ponies like us are mid to late seventies. What about your species?"
"Same" I said with a surprise look on my face
"Why do you look so surprised?" asked RD
"Well ponies on my world live about twenty-five to thirty years."
"Oh you have ponies on your world, too?" asked Twi
"Yeah, but they're not as intelligent as you girls. They can't speak, use magic, or fly."
All the girls looked at me shocked. "So they're cave ponies?" asked AJ finally.
"Er... I guess. Hey, how old are you girls?"
“Well,” began Twilight, “me and Pinkie are eighteen, Dash and Applejack are twenty, Fluttershy is nineteen, and Rarity doesn’t like for anypony to know her age.”
“She’s twenty-one.” Interjected Applejack. Twilight just gave her a funny look, but didn’t say anything.
RD asked, "So can you guys fly?"
"Or use magic?" added Twilight.
"Well we can't use magic. And flying is a yes and a no. Naturally, we can't fly, but we have created machines for us to fly. Some can break the sound barrier."
"Well I've done that twice."
"Really? Can you really do that?"
"Yes." answered Twi. "But only members of the Wonderbolts have done so and even then it's very rare."
"Yeah it's no big deal. I'm just the first non-Wonderbolts member on record to do so. I’m also the first one to make a Sonic Rainboom when doing so!" RD said with a huge smile on her face.
I looked at Twilight and saw that her eyes were bright like before and I knew I had to break the news to her. “Sorry Twilight, I don’t know how they work ether.” Twilight sighed. “I'm sorry, I wish I had something I coul-“ I stopped myself with a sudden realization “My Iphone!” I said as I searched my pockets.
“Yer what now?” AJ asked confused.
“An Iphone is one of the most technological advanced objects in my world. I must have left it in my other pants when Rarity took them. Let's go.” I got up and ran to the door, but before I reached it I saw a bright blinding light. Next thing I know I face plant the ground.
AN: again i would likw to thank Bronymaster for editing this. without him this would like the manticore decaying in the forest.