Every story has a beginning.
Chapter #1 Every story has a beginning.
There are times when something so outrageous happens that you put yourself into a sort of a trance. Your mind goes into a trance and theres a numbness at the surreality. It ignores the glaringly obvious reason why you should be freaking out. Instead it focuses on something it can recognise, provided it can recognise anything at that point. For instance when Flynn awoke to find himself in the air held up by restraints he couldn’t really feel. Also there were two talking ponies standing at the foot of the bed talking. One was purple, the other a tan orange.
Not that it particularly matters right now since the main character of this charming little story’s head was doing all it can to ignore that perceived impossibility. Instead, he focused on the question as to why he was being held up in what looked like violet bands of light. The bands coiled around his arms and legs, leaving him in a spread eagle position. This of course led him to think of all the tentacle porn he has seen in all of his time on the internet. He smiled at this but was otherwise silent as he tried listening to the impossibilities.
“Well what are we going to do with it?” The purple one asked. “ I wanted to learn more about it but it seems ridiculously resistant to magic. almost like there’s something about his physiology that makes it extremely difficult to hold in magic. As if it was iron or something. It’s all I can do to keep it strung up like that.” Oh really. Well little miss purple impossibility serves you right for calling me an “it”.
“Well ah seriously doubt your spell really worked. I mean ah don’t think this thing can really do anything. Ah mean look at it no claws, no obvious teeth, no stingers. It looks rather weak and it doesn't even look very smart “ This was from the orange one that said that. Really? You too? I mean seriously I am not an “It” or a “thing” I have feelings too. Then Flynn realized that the orange pony called him stupid. HEY! NOT COOL. He thought. He didn’t however feel any particular interest in talking however, but his mind was slowly working through the shock of seeing two physical impossibilities and came to the conclusion that he was looking at two small horses. One of which being a unicorn. Great. This place not only has talking horses. But also unicorns. Strangely colored ponies, that talk and there’s a unicorn. What’s next? Magic? In hindsight he should have recognised that, that was what was holding him aloft.
“Well I can’t send it back. There isn’t a counterspell for finding the most dangerous animal in Equestria.” Alright this is getting surreal. It must be a dream. Magic, talking horses, unicorns, multi colored animals. I’m either high or had too much frozen pizza before bed. Time to end it.
“You know, I’m questioning the sanity in a person who would use a spell to summon something so powerful. I mean if it was the most dangerous thing in the world it would probably be more dangerous than you and easily unravel these bonds. Which apparently you have a problem keeping on me because of a ridiculously common element in my bloodstream. Seriously, you’re not very bright are you?” Flynn smiled smugly. Thinking that the world would dissolve away.”
The room went silent. Flynn soon discovered that no. It was not a dream, and if it was he couldn’t break it with a logic puzzle. That didn’t stop him from over rationalizing whether or not it is a dream.
“It can speak?” asked Twilight in curiosity. Then she realized that she also was insulted. “Hey, I graduated from Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns thank you very much, I’m not stupid.
“You called me stupid. I call you stupid. That’s how it works is it not. And didn’t your mother tell you to not judge a book by it’s cover? Because seriously. Not cool.”
Applejack took that as an opportunity to interject. “Why do you think we’d give you anything? You’re so damn abrasive that I certainly don’t want to help you with anything.”
“Applejack, you won’t be making things better by returning his abrasiveness. Now, the simple answer is that we can’t send you back. I’m actually surprised that you’re sentient, and more so that you can speak equestrian. Most things that I end up bringing here to study start trying to destroy everything or something otherwise.”
‘Well I guess it wasn’t the smartest thing to live here now was it?’ Flynn thought. Then he realized the implication of the rest of her statement. “Wait… Wait wait wait. You mean you summoned me her, not only despite your previous experiments results you also didn’t have a plan for if whatever you brought here would turn out to be smarter than you. Then you are sending away your countermeasures, I mean for all you now I could be extremely dangerous and just waiting for you to drop your guard for me to strike. Not only that you also have told me that i wouldn’t be able to get back home. Seriously, I was joking before but you really need to start thinking things through. If this is real then the likelyhood of me getting back is astronomically low...Flynn breathed heavily. The last thing i remember is that I went to sleep in my normal bed… “With all that said if i meant you any harm i wouldn’t draw attention to all of those facts now would I?”
“So ah… what is your name?” Applejack asked, while a look of confusion crossed Twilight’s features.
You know what. If they want anything out of me they’ll have to let me down first. I will NOT be trussed up like a turkey for this dream… Goddesses, I sure hope this is a dream. “Let me down and I’ll tell you.”
“Well I don’t think he’s dangerous. He seems to be well spoken for an animal… I mean like you said Twilight… he doesn’t have any claws… or… teeth… I think you could let him down… If you um… wanted to.” Flynn gaped at the new arrival. Fluttershy somehow didn’t catch his eyes. Which was surprising to him. He got over this quickly however.
Twilight still looked unsure. “What do you think AJ? Do you think it can be trusted to be let down?
“Ah’m not sure. Something just seems off about it. I can’t quite put my hoof on it.” She squinted up at Flynn studying him closely. “But it is probably safe for us to let him down.” Right now, I’m not sure if I hate you or not. “AJ” I’ll be watching you.
Twilight nodded and with a sigh she cancelled the spell. Flynn fell to the floor like a sack of bricks.
“That fucking hurt.” He grunted. Wincing, he stood up and brushed his hands down his legs. “My name is Flynn Leslie Gregory Bowcut Troy Rakdar Navarone MacDonald. You can call me Flynn.”
“Twilight Sparkle,” She replied, holding out a hoof. Rakdar looked at it strangely. Then it clicked and he met it with a fist. Twilight gave him a flat stare. “You were supposed to shake it.”
Flynn looked at her and said, “You would have to buy me dinner first.” Then he laughed
This went over her head though. “Applejack thanks for helping me decide, you can go home now. You too Fluttershy.” This better not be going where I think it’s going.
“Ya sure? I don’t have much else to do with it being after the harvest and all.” Applejack replied.
“I wanted to stay and meet this interesting creature… I mean if that was okay.” Fluttershy whispered.Slightly better than “it”, we are making progress.
“Thanks for the offer girls, but I’d like to get this done as fast as possible. I have other things I still need to work on.”
“Let me interject, you summoned me here, and according to you you cannot send me back ,so
Flynn didn’t take this time to add a sarcastic comment because he was too focused on getting over his shock at seeing a bright yellow pegasus with bright pink hair just appear out of nowhere. However Twilight simply replied with “ I’m sure i’ll be fine. It seems to be intelligent enough to not know that we mean to hurt it.”
Flynn ground his teeth and muttered obscenities at the word “It” but otherwise stayed silent. Fluttershy nodded and left the room soon after.
“So, what is your name really?” Twilight asked casually.
“Didn’t I tell you-”
Twilight gave him a flat stare. It was ruined a little bit because she had a little bit of a horse face. Scratch that, she had literally a horse face.
“Sheesh, fine my name is Flynn.”
“Twilight Sparkle, it’s interesting to meet you.” She stuck out a hoof.Flynn was unsure what to do with it. “You shake it…”
“Oh right.” He did so. “ So where am I? I mean where i come from we had horses but they didn't talk, weren't purple, yellow, or had pink hair. Let alone had horns or wings. Speaking of those wings look awfully disproportionately small. Can you actually fly with those?”
“ You, my new friend, are in Equestria. Specifically Ponyville. Welcome to Ponyville.”
“That wasn't very helpful. You also barely know me, so we aren’t friends either.”
“ By your tone, I’m guessing you didn’t expect it to. I personally am more interested where you came from. Since you aren’t from the Everfree, where are you from?” “ She pointedly ignored the bit about them not being friends.
“ Similarly you probably won’t find my answer very helpful. I’m from Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Northwestern hemisphere, Earth, Milky Way Galaxy, Third Dimension.We seem to be getting a nice bit of repartee here.” He poured as much derision as he could into those words.
‘I’ve heard of Earth before. But where?’ Twilight thought as she said. “ Well, what are you then? I mean your shape looks kind of familiar but I want to know what species you call yourself.”
“Straight to the point. I like that, Bella. Well, my people call ourselves ‘Humans’. OR if you’re latin then they call us Homo Sapiens. We also call ourselves a lot of other things that are typically insulting, like ‘Cuntface McFucklips’.” Flynn stopped his mocking speech when he noticed that Twilight was looking at him strangely. “What are you looking at?”
Twilight’s studious, and slightly fearful’ expression changed to one of embarrassment. “It’s nothing, probably just a coincidence.” ‘Is it though? There hasn’t been a mention of a “human” since before the rise of Discord.’ Twilight thought. “Yeah, definitely a just a coincidence.”
“What’s a coincidence?” Flynn asked, The question irking him.
“Just some superstitious nonsense.” Twilight lied it was rather obvious too. Flynn saw this but decided to put that question into his vault of questions he would answer later. “ So what is your question?”
“Well. Since I have no money, no concept on how this world works, no home, and I’m going to assume I am a complete and utter outcast, since I am so radically different, Thank you for that by the way, How am I going to support myself?” He replied in an abrupt matter of fact tone.
“Well you can live here until you get all of this down. I mean ponies generally want to help each other, so it shouldn't take too long to get something to earn you bits. I actually have a few ideas on what you could do to help earn fame in this town.”
‘Great, so this is like a video game’ Flynn thought with a scowl.He swallowed his scepticism and asked. “What did you have in mind?”
“Well, first off, the populace is a little xenophobic,” She remembered the Zecora incident and shuddered. “ so I think it would do you some good to meet with my other friends and help them in public. Since we are kind of heroes to these ponies, and technically I'm a ruler of this land. Not sure what that entails, but it shouldn’t be too hard to get Ponyville to accept you.”
Flynn gave a sigh and accepted this as fact. ‘This is SO going to bite me in the ass’ “Alright, well lets get started. The sooner I have some way to support myself the sooner i can be happy.”
“Well can we-” Twilight began.
“No, you brought me here. You can’t send me back. For all I know you were going to dissect me or something. You want anything from me then you have to fix this. ” Flynn snarled, then amended “I understand you’re trying to help, but right now I can hardly stand to be around you. I’d be happy to answer any other questions after I have acclimated better to this new world.”
Twilight Looked at him, her mouth hanging open at the outburst. She nodded and soon after they left the library to complete those very tasks.