Celestia awoke in a room that was not hers. She finds it not at all familiar at all, as she does not recall traveling outside the castle. She hold her head and grunts from the headache before wondering how she got here. Like a curious filly, she decides to wander about. She doesn't know what it will lead her to, but the house must have an owner, and the owner might know something.
As she looked out the room, she walks down the stairs and finds the living room. A coffee table, a couch, a recliner, and a book shelf, with for some reason a big black picture frame in it. She also sees some kind of creature sitting on the recliner reading a book. It looks up and takes off its glasses.
"Oh, you're awake." the creature says calmly with its boyish voice.
"Who are you?" Celestia questions. "Where am I? And why am I in this house?"
"I'll be happy to answer your questions." He insisted. "But please ask one at a time."
Celestia raises an eyebrow of suspicion. She suspects this man knows something. She complies however and asks, "What are you?"
"I'm a human male. I've just turned 20." He answers.
"Do you have a name?"
"My legal name is Anonymous, but I changed it to Alex."
"Okay… now where am I?"
"This is my house." Alex says with a hint of pride. "It used to be a tad run down, but it's gotten better over the years."
"Now why am I here?"
Alex frowns and holds his chin. Celestia becomes even more wary of his next choice of words.
"I'm not too sure really." He states. "Let me explain. First off, you're now in my world. Not in Equestria. Second, you were just in my front yard, so I brought you in and treated your wing. In fact, the medicine I used healed the bruise you had pretty fast."
Celestia squints her eyes at this creature. She doesn't know what to think. She of course appreciates the favor, but he knew too much, and seemed too calm about it. Looking at her wing, she raises it and sees that the bandage was wrapped around it. Perhaps the treatment she was given made it barely noticeable. "Alright then… How do you know about Equestria?"
"You're not the first pony to come here mysteriously." He says as he gets up and puts away his book upon the shelf. "And you're neither the second or third. Many ponies kept appearing here, and I always took care of them."
"Where are they now?" Celestia questions.
"They went home." He says with a smile.
"How do you get back to Equestria then?" She inquires. "I must get back, I need to check on my kingdom."
"I'm afraid I have no control of the time period you're here." He states as he places his hand up. "When a pony comes here, they stay for about a week minimum. The longest was a month."
"I cannot stay here for a month!" Celestia then yells a bit. "My apologies if I seem a bit rude to your hospitality, but as the princess, I must tend to my royal duties. Are you sure you have no idea how to get back home?"
"Ponies come and go. I just happen to be in the middle of all of it." Alex claimed. "A portal would appear in my backyard over the rock."
Celestia quickly passes by Alex, shoving him to the ground without noticing along the way. As she rushes to see the large stone, she inspected it and its surroundings. Using her magic, she scans for any strange energies. Sadly, no avail. Alex walks to the scene and tilts his head.
"The last five unicorns did that when they came here for the first time. They didn't find anything." He remarks.
Celestia glares at him before stepping down from the rock. As she walks inside, he adds something to that note.
"I'd also appreciate it if you don't just step on that rock all freely like you did back there."
"Tell me, do you know who I am?" Celestia asks. If he does know that I'm a princess, it may explain why I'm here. He could possibly have some sort of ability that can teleports between worlds. And he may be holding me hostage in order to do something.
"No, I don't actually." He chuckles a bit. "I always tend to bring ponies in regardless. I was actually going to ask what was your name."
"My name is… Celestia."
"Celestia?" He mutters. "That… actually sounds a bit more normal than what I usually get."
"Now Alex… I thank you for your time in aiding me. I best be on my way."
"Where do you think you're going?" He asks.
Celestia looks back and says, "I'm going to find my way back on my own. Don't try and stop me."
"There's only one way back." He reminds her. "The rock in the backyard."
"I checked and sensed no energy there. You must be mistaken."
"I'm not. I saw the ponies I take care of leave through there. All you have to do is wait at my house for the time being."
Giving a cold stare, she says what she thought so far. "As much as how kind you are, I simply do not trust you very well. Here I wake up outside of my castle, in your house, being tended by you? An alien creature I have never heard of? What do you plan to get out of this? Why do you do it? And I swear, if this is some dream made by Luna, I am going to take away all of her desserts!"
Alex places his hands in his pockets and simply agrees. "Yeah, I know it's frightening too. To place your life under the care of someone you never met nor have no connections to? I'd be scared as well. But I can tell you this. I will take care of you. I will see it that you are taken home safely. That I can promise you."
"You're going to have to do a lot more than speak words of righteousness" Celestia states.
"Alright, then how about bribery?" He walks to the other room and no later brings back a plate of pancakes to Celestia. "I can cook, do medicine, and other skills to help you have a good time until you go back home. This is an example."
"The catch is…?" She asks before she uses her levitation to lift a fork and pluck a piece of the pancake off. As she eats it, her eyes shrink to pinpricks.
"You stay here. My world would kinda go into a panic if they saw a pony like you. Unlike me, they won’t let you off easy. I might need some help with other things as well, but in the meantime, just keep my human race sane, okay?"
"W-Well…" Celestia stammers as she recovers from pure joy. In an attempt to maintain her authority in the conversation, she accepts with dignity. "I would absolutely love to… As long as you keep making food like that."
Alex grins as he shakes Celestia's hoof.
Late at night, Celestia is upon the queen sized bed still in deep thought. She wasn't comfortable with the current situation. Though it wasn't the worst case scenario, she had many equines to look over, her sister Luna, and her faithful student as well. She didn't want to make them worry, and she didn't want to be guaranteed with a maybe on going back home. She was still of course very suspicious of her new companion. She didn't trust him quite yet. All this to offer to some alien creature? He did say she wasn't the first, but what if that was just a ploy? Or maybe to ease her guard down? She was told this is an alien world. Yet it looks so similar to her world. Everything he says so far seems like a white lie. Perhaps he is like a sly thief. All she wanted to know were the answers in her mind.
"There has to be a way back." She says to herself. "I know I can find it."