"Soo.... Can you help me?" I asked hopeful. Though the look on Twilight's face pretty much gave the answer away.
"I'm not entirely sure how you got here either, or why you're here." She gave a crestfallen look. "I'm sorry." My gut instinct figured she knew as much as I did but my heart refused to believe it. Stupid thing, hope is. It gets you excited with false promises of whatever you wish to have, and tears those promises to shreds along with the joy you had once its time to collect.
"I figured this much, I- I just had to make sure." I looked down at the ground, not wanting to look up at Twilights face.
"Actually, I might have a theory of how you got here." A new voice chimed in, Celestia, if I wasn't mistaken. I turned to face the sound coming from behind me. "Luna noticed a disturbance in her night sky a day before Twilight told me of a creature that was not anything she had ever seen before. I do not believe in coincidence, living for as long as I have, you learn not to." I gave her a puzzled look before glancing back at Twilight who looked like she had just had a revelation.
"So Princess, are you saying something from space sent him here?" Good job decoding what she said because I had no fucking clue. I'd rather the theory of me being dead and this being some sort of purgatory. It seemed just about as pluasable as just shooting from space onto a planet filled with techno colored donkeys that talked. Celestia nodded her head,
"I'm not sure of how exactly, but from what Luna was say-" I cut her off.
"Wait, Princess Luna? The blue horse who invaded my world like I was playing dark souls? You know her or something?" Celestia rolled her eyes at this and nodded.
"That would be Luna. She tends to take a more direct approach in pursuing the things she wants. I apologise on her behalf, but do not misjudge her, she is as kind hearted as anypony, just stuck in her old ways." From the hard to read look on Celestia's face, I guessed there was some family turmoil in there somewhere. Been there done that, one time, my sister drank my chocolate milk so I threw her through a wall in our old house... Not exactly my crowning achievement.
"Nah she seemed alright its just she kinda raped my privacy by barging into my dreams and basically asking me to be a slave to the media. Other than that she seemed cool. She had cool hair at least." I shrugged and motioned for her to continue talking.
"Right... As I was saying, Luna said a star cluster she hadn't manifested herself appeared and as quick as it appeared, in a bright flash it was gone. She's not sure how it happened or what it was but she's doing the research to find out." I nodded and smiled sweetly at Celestia.
"So what you're saying is you still have no idea?" Celestia nodded. "Well fuck."
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After all my questions were left unanswered we left and headed to the hospital to go check on Fluttershy. When we got there the nurse let us in because Princess horse commanded it. More like she asked politely and the nurse damn near shit herself when she turned around. Anyway we made our way to Fluttershy's room and walked in to see her sitting up and hooked up to a gaggle of thing like heart monitors and such. The blood soaked bandage on her side is what worried me.
"Hey Fluttershy, you look pretty banged up, how are you holding up?" The unease was clear in my voice. Hospitals had never been in my list of favorite places just because of what they're for. Something about the thought of being in a place where people ( or ponies in this case ) had died wasn't something I wanted to think about. Thankfully the happy look Fluttershy gave me cleared all the worry away.
"Oh hey Jay, did you get to talk to Twilight?" She looked past me at Twilight and waved. She waved back.
"Yeah I did, but she knows about as much as I do why I'm here or how I got here. So I guess I'm stuck here until Princess Luna does her research." She frowned.
"I'm sorry I couldn't help more Jay." I smiled, looking at her.
"You helped more than enough, obviously," I geustured to her wounds. "But I guess I'll be staying here for a while. And since I don't have a place to stay, I was wondering if I could stay with you? Once you get out of the hospital of course." I looked up at Fluttershy with hopeful eyes.
"No."