"You're a pegasus." Sam blurts out, noticing the wings folded at the pony's side.
Rainbow sets the hangar on the bed, she looks up at him, it takes him a moment to decipher her facial expression, bemusement, "I've been one all my life, and in case you didn't notice, big guy, that's my feather in your hair."
Oh…yeah, Sam stumbles to the bed, looking at the clothing. He looks at Rainbow, she's peering at him intently, "Big guy, are you okay?" Amazingly, her wing unfolds and brushes across his forehead. Many times he's ended up in very unusual situations in his time leaping from life to life. But this is so outside of every experience he's been in. His autopilot takes over, and he mechanically dons the outfit the pegasus laid out for him. In a matter of minutes, he's downstairs, then he receives another shock. They are exiting a large tree, what he had taken for wood work was actual living wood! He stumbles a bit as he looks at the huge tree. The rainbow maned pegasus leading him gently down the dirt path.
"They are all ponies." He says quietly in wonder, multi-colored ponies are moving along the streets of this town. He notices many with wings just like the rainbow maned pony, and others have what look like horns on their heads, just like unicorns.
He feels a body brush against his legs, and he recognizes the lilting voice, "Hey Fingers, you doing okay?"
Sam is able to jerkily nod. A mint green unicorn moves up next to the rainbow maned pegasus.
Sam puts his hand to the side of his head, "I've got to be dreaming."
He walks a little faster to be able to hear the two ponies talking.
"Lyra, is it me, or is something wrong with Lero."
The green unicorn peers back at Sam, he tries to keep a smile on his face, but he thinks the smile looks as fake as it is.
"Rainbow, I don't know, I haven't talked to him much today, but he did refuse my help in the shower."
Rainbow brought her hip to rub against the unicorn, "You two would still be in the shower if he didn't." She gives a full throated chuckle.
Sam, for his part is still trying to figure things out, both these ponies seem to be attracted to this Lero guy. But they aren't jealous of each other. Sam shakes his head. He keeps listening to their conversation as they walk. Eventually, they end up in front of a restaurant. He reads the sign, Crispy's. He shakes his head as they enter the restaurant.
A light orange pegasus greets them at the door, Rainbow is apparently familiar with the pegasus, she says, "Hey Sky Gem, has Twilight made it here yet?"
The apparent hostess for the candle lit restaurant shakes her head, "I know it's time for your weekly herd date, Twilight hasn't made it here yet, but she should be here before too long. You guys are early."
Rainbow flicks her tail to whap Sam, "Ole Lero here decided to take his time getting ready, so I hurried us up so we wouldn't be late."
The other pegasus chuckled as she picked up some menus in her teeth and put them under her folded wing, "Your usual table, if you would follow me."
In moments they were at the table, all sitting comfortably. Sam found himself with Rainbow on one side, and Lyra on the other side, both leaning against him contentedly. After a few minutes, Sam saw Al waving at him from across the restaurant, he points to the apparent bathrooms.
"Uh, excuse me, I think I need to use the facilities." Sam is able to mutter.
Lyra chuckles as she moves for him to get up, "Fingers, you certainly are in an odd mood today."
Sam stutters for a moment, "I must have eaten something that disagreed with me." He chokes out as he excuses himself from the table. He quickly walks to the restrooms, taking a moment to decipher the sign to determine which was for mares, and which was for stallions, he enters the stallions restroom. Taking a moment to check to see if the room was empty, he flips the lock on the door.
"You know, Sam. If I wasn't looking at this with my own eyes, I would think poor Lero is off his rocker. But it's all true? Intelligent, thinking equines. In their own world. It's amazing."
"Al, I've leaped into the body of a chimpanzee, I've leaped outside of my own lifetime, something that should have been impossible. But how in the hell am I here?"
Al look at his comlink, "We don't know. You aren't even on Earth. Well, not our Earth, though apparently the ponies here call their world Earth. But we have been interviewing the young man in the chamber. Gooshie is still talking to him now, but we got some information, and given how unusual this place is. I rushed back here to tell you what we know."
"Okay, Al, I don't think any more surprises will surprise me today, this is, by far, the oddest leap I've ever done."
Al presses a few buttons, this hits the comlink, "Ah, here we go. You already know his name, Lero. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was brought to Equestria, that's the name of the nation, about three years ago. Since then he's found employment as a handyman, and a masseur. And most of all, he's joined a herd with three mares and a baby dragon."
"But these are sapient horses."
Al shakes his head, "They are not horses, we aren't on our world. They are ponies, and they are certainly equine, but they are not horses. It all started when he was sitting in a field after a hoofball game with the one with the rainbow mane. Her name is Rainbow Dash, she started by kissing him, and confessing that she was in love with him. And I trust you don't need all the details of their time together, right Sam?"
Sam just gives him a dirty look.
Al clears his throat and continues, "A while later, Twilight Sparkle joined the herd. She's the protégé of the Princess of this realm, Princess Celestia. And then the green unicorn, Lyra, joined their herd. The dragon's name is Spike, by the way. And they have formed a herd together. Some months ago, Princess Celestia sent Twilight a spell, which ended up swapping the personalities of some of the herd members. Though Lero hasn't gone through all the details of that swap yet, he did say that Twilight was able to eventually fix the problem, and rewrite the spell so it wasn't a danger anymore. That was where she gained wings, and became a princess."
Sam puts out his hands, "Wait a moment, she became a princess? How is that possible?"
"Apparently in this world, to be a princess isn't a matter of birth or heritage, you have to earn the right to become a princess, and become an alicorn."
"An alicorn?"
Al nods, "Yes, a pony with wings, and a horn."
Sam looks back at the door, "Are you telling me that those horns actually do something?"
Al shrugs his shoulders, "Lero said that Twilight is a very powerful mage, and although Lyra isn't as powerful as Twilight, she's strong in her own right."
Sam laughs, "So, you are telling me, that I'm in a world that possesses magic? That's not scientifically possible."
Al looks seriously at Sam, "I'm telling you that you are in a situation very different than anything you've encountered. You need to tread carefully."
Sam huffs for a moment, "Fine, can you tell me why I'm here?"
Al looks bleak, "I have no idea, neither does Ziggy, because Ziggy can't access the records of this world, she can't do a statistical probability study for any possibilities, and Lero has no clue."
Sam looks at the locked door, "Oh boy."