Waking up in what seemed like a few minutes, I realized it must have been much longer as I woke up in a hospital at sunset with 3 concerned and worried princesses looking at me. I realized I must not be dreaming, because usually after falling asleep in a dream you wake up in real life. Sitting up, I felt a pain in my chest and flopped back down quickly. Seeing my chest was wrapped, I figured that those magic bolts came from Luna, Celestia, and Twilight.
“Hello there human. We are very sorry for injuring you, but a single changeling can infest a population and destroy them from the inside out. We messed up when using our revealing spell we developed after the attack on Canterlot, but I guess we all thought of the same thing at the same time, resulting in you getting a triple dose of power, and sending you to sleep for a few weeks, and flying a quite a few feet.”
“So I’m really in Equestria? This is a bit of a shock.” I stated. “Scratch that, this is amazing and horrifying at the same time. I mean unless you can get me back to my, I’m assuming dimension, I’m stuck here, but I don’t really want to have to live on the street, or return to my drunk of a father at least.”
“So I take it that’s your way of saying your fine with staying in equestria?” Twilight stated.
“Yeah, although I do want to say one thing. I don’t know if you know this, but where I come from, you aren’t real, and are a TV show meant to entertain little girls.” I stated with a blank face, I wanted to see their reactions when they realized this.
“Wait, what?!” all 4 of them screamed at once. Just the reaction I was hoping for.
“Yeah,” I replied. “So if the shows I saw were accurate to this world, I know a little bit more about you than you know about me.”
“Like what?” Twilight demanded
“Like the fact that you were once a unicorn, who ascended to alicorn status after completing a spell your idol, Star Swirl the Bearded couldn’t perfect, because he didn’t have any friends, oh, and you wore a costume of him and no’pony’ knew who you were. I also know that you went to Canterlot high and fought sunset shimmer, who then became instrumental in helping you fight off the sirens, and then met an alternate version of yourself after she caused chaos in the friendship games, who your friends from canterlot high, where they thought she was you for a little bit.” I said and smiled in her direction. “If the show was accurate then you should see that I wasn’t lying. If I only had my phone, I could show you, I have most of the shows on it.”
“That’s…” Twilight started before losing any train of thought. Great I broke her, I thought.
“Do you mean this device, human?” asked Celestia. “The guard found it on the ground after I informed you weren’t a changeling. We have been trying to figure it out what it does since we knocked you out.”
“Yeah, that’s it.” I stated “And my name is Aaron, not human. How do you even know what a human is anyway?”
“They used to live on an island not too far from the eastern edge of our border, but then the dragons came and they revolted. Of course the dragons easily wiped all except a few of the humans out. They in turn came to Equestria to seek shelter, but it turns out pony pox is very deadly to humans, due to the lack of tolerance to the disease. This took out the last of the humans on this planet.”
“Wow. When can I leave the hospital? I need to get a job, I want to explore this world the most that I can. Imagine all the amazing things that I will be the first human in years to experience.”
“Not years, centuries.”
“That long ago they were wiped out?”
“Yes, and just to let you know, there is a mare in ponyville that is obsessed with humans and their hands…” said Twilight, and winced “You might want to avoid her if at all possible.”
“So even some of the fan ideas are real? That’s a useful fact.”
“There are fan stories? I thought that the audience was little girls?”
“It technically is, but because to the ‘references’ to the more mature things, the ‘animation’ and the story it has gathered a HUGE, and I mean HUUUUGE audience of people outside of the intended audience, guys and sometimes girls are called bronies, and the girls are sometimes called pegasisters. It’s a really great community.”
“Ok…, anyway you should be able to get out tomorrow morning, and I will leave a little money for you to get on your feet and find a house. That will be my way of saying sorry that I hurt you.” Celestia told me.
“Thank you princess, I’ll figure out some way to pay you back, I just don’t know how long it will take.”
“That’s fine Aaron. I’m looking forward to it” she said, and with a smile over her shoulder, took off out of the room, leaving me with 2 other alicorn princesses to deal with.
“So why are you two still here? I’m happy for the company, but I’m still kinda wondering what demi-goddesses want to do with me.”
“Well we were going to tell you about equestria and ponyville, but it seems you wont need that introduction anymore, does it?” said luna.
“I guess not. The only thing I really need is a map of equestria and ponyville.”
“We can get you those if you so wish, and it will be our way of repaying you for the trouble we have caused.” she too then left the room, but quickly stuck her head back in, “Just have spike send me a letter with your new address, and I will send you both a wall copy and a pocket copy.”
“Thank you princess Luna, that will be a big help.” I replied and she left for real this time.
“Help with what?” Twilight asked.
“Traveling all around Equestria and the surrounding area,” I replied. “I want to see everything, from canterlot, to ponyville, to the furthest most dangerous area out there. I want to meet everyone and every species that there is to see. I want to see even things that the princesses have forgotten, and that they never even knew of. This is a whole new world where there are so many things to see and do, why stay in one place for too long. I will say this will be where I come when I’m done.”
“And how are you going to do that? The time it will take to get around Equestria itself will be enormous!” Twilight quickly replied.
“I know, and I’m fine with it. I got sucked into this world from misery, so I’m fine to go through a little more, to see the beauty this world has to offer.”
“Ok Aaron, well since the other princesses have each given you gifts for hurting you, I will give you one too. I will help you in any way I can to help your trip around equestria and beyond.”
“Thank you Twilight. Now if you will excuse me I have to get some sleep so I can find a job. Unless Celestia decides to give me more than she said, I doubt that it will be enough to even finance my first leg out of here, and I have to study the cultures and geography of this place.”
“Then I guess I’ll see you at the library tomorrow, oh, and watch out for pinkie-“she started.
“Welcome party?”
“Yeah, it can be pretty traumatic.”
“I know” I replied.
“Bye then, I guess.”
“Thanks twilight. I will be at the library tomorrow, as soon as I get out.” And with that, Twilight left and I went to sleep, ready to start another day in equestria.