Gates

by AzureClef5873

First published

While driving to a concert, Three friends end up being dragged into a portal to Equestria. There, they meet all kinds of ponies while they try to find their way home.

One night while three friends were driving to one of their friends concerts. Before they can reach the concert, a portal opens in the middle of the road. Not being able to stop in time, Troy, Devon, and Harry drove into the portal. When they came out of the portal, they were flying straight through a stained glass window and crashing into Discord with a truck. After they crash, they met the mane six. Now they try to find their way home while dealing with the antics of the ponies they are surrounded by.

Edited by: Wise1296

Chapter 1: Did That Just Happen?

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“Watch where you’re going asshole!” A man shouted as a black and red F-150 swerved around the corner. A loud and thumping beat echoed from the truck as it sped through downtown Dallas.

“Jesus Harry! I know we’re late but I really don’t feel like dying in your truck! It smells like Pillsbury dough boy’s bunghole’ on here.” said a tall blonde man riding in the back seat.

“Fuck off Troy! The concert started 10 minutes ago, I told Jackson we would be there for his debut and I like to keep my word.” said a husky brunette guy driving the truck.

“Yeah! And besides, who’s fault was it that we had to go back to the apartment to get the tickets that SOMEBODY HAD LEFT BEHIND!” said a buff looking black guy with his hair tied up in a puff.

“I get it, I fucked up, but layoff, Devon. You had to stop by Alice’s place because you forgot your damn wallet.” Troy snapped back as he was slammed into the side of the car as The car swerved around another corner.

“Both of you shut up! We are almost there.” Harry griped at the two passengers as he sped over the nearby bridge. Just as the group reached the bridge, the bridge began to shake violently.

“What the fuck?!” Devon shouted as he saw cracks appear in the middle of the bridge. Before any of them could react, A giant circle burst into existence as the bridge began to collapse. The portal pulsated with an unknown energy as its color changed rapidly. The group looked at each other before they yelled in unison “SHIIIIIIIIT!”. They saw the world around them vanish as they entered the portal. Inside, they watched in a mix of awe, horror, and shock as they saw nothing but blackness before the tunnel around them erupted with every color of the rainbow.

“AHHHHHH” is all they could manage to say as they began to feel their bodies being filled with an unknown energy. All three of them writhed back as they felt as if their bodies were being stabbed with needles all over their bodies. Before they knew it, they regained control of themselves as they watched the world reform around them.

Breathing heavily as he struggled to get his heart under control, Troy noticed something odd as they regained their senses.

“Is that a fucking castle?” He questioned as he pointed at something incredible.

“The hell should I know?” Devon asked as they felt the ground beneath the truck vanish and went into near freefall. They all screamed as the portal closed behind them.

About 50 feet below, In a white castle

A rainbow of multi-colored ponies ran in terror as a beast turned the skies pink, clouds turned brown, and the world just began to twist and distort. The beast had a long slender body with a head that appeared horse-like in nature but had two horns protruding from his head. One appeared like an antler of a deer while the other looked like a mountain goats horn. It had the arm of a lion and an arm of a bird of prey. It had two wings, one that had feathers like a bird, the other was leathery and sleek like a bat. It had the leg of a crocodile and a leg of a horse. It also had a tail that resembled that of a lizard with fur on the end. He was currently flashing his power with abandon in front of the royals of his world.

“Oh, Celly what could you possibly do to stop me.”

Celestia stood with her sister and the element bearers at her side.”That is enough Discord we have the elements here to stop you.”

”Oh Celly I may be crazy but I always have a backup plan.”

After his proclamation Discord proceeded to snap his fingers and nothing seemed to happen at first. Discord then looked at his talons and snapped 2 more times.” Oh, come on. Is this thing on.” He then tapped on his talons and a loud screech resounded from them.

Then he heard the screaming and he turned around to see the grill of a truck falling toward him from outside the castle window.”Oh, that portal may have been a little bit off.”

His pupils shrunk as a truck came crashing through the window and into Discord’s face. The truck didn’t even stop as it plowed through discord and preceded to crash into the wall on the other side of the room. Smoke soon began to erupt from the truck as someone could be heard screaming inside.

“DAMN IT!! I just got my suspension repaired!!” he screeched as he stumbled out of the driver’s seat.

“We literally just crashed into what seems to be a castle and some freak of nature, yet the only thing you care about is your shocks?” Troy replied slightly irritated watching Harry stumble around his truck looking for more damage.

“On a more important note, is everyone okay?” Devon asked as he rubbed the back of his neck.

“Not really, but I’m not missing anything” Troy replied.

“Fuck off, my car is fucking totaled,” Harry responded as he popped the hood of the truck. On the other side of the room, nine figures just stared at the group of three as they bickered and argued among themselves.

“Who the, how the, why the, WHAT THE BUCK?!” shouted a purple horse in utter confusion as to what just transpired.

“Ah don’t know sugar cube. I'm just as confused as you are.” said the orange horse

“Same here, the only thing I know is that carriage looks awesome,” Said the cyan one with a rainbow mane. In between the two groups, a creature began to stand up with steam rising above its head.

“Okay…… Ow” Discord said as he slowly began to stand up.

“Did somebody get the name of the bus that hit me by chance?” He asked the group of nine. A pink horse tilted her head sideways she pointed at the truck while jumping up and down excitedly.

“Ooh Ooh! Maybe it was that truck over their carrying those humans?” she shouted in a high pitch voice.

“Excuse me we are trying to panic over here if you don’t mind.”Harry griped at the group before looking back to his car. Suddenly he stood straight up with an arched eyebrow and turned to look at the group.

“Did those horses just talk?” He asked nobody in particular.

“A-actually, w-we aren’t horses, we’re p-ponies.” Said a small yellow horse with wings.
Harry just stared at her for a second, he then turned around and got in his car.

”I am never eating any of your brownies again Devon,” he stated with a blank expression.

“There was nothing in that batch. The party brownies are in my bag.” he snickered holding up the crushed bag.

“Shit” he muttered to himself.

“Then why the fuck did those ho-” Harry attempted to say before a pink blur appeared on the windshield

“DID SOMEBODY SAY PARTY BROWNIES?!” The pink pony shouted with a large smile on her face as she stuck her against the side window. The group of guys just looked at her for a second before Devon bluntly stated.

“Did I mix up the batches?” He looked in the bag and grabbed one. He then sniffed it to see which one it was.

“Nope, this is definitely the good batch.” He then put the brownie back in the bag.

“We should probably get out now,” Troy commented as he got out of the truck. He winced when he stepped out on his left leg.

“Remember when I said I was fine? I lied” He said with a strained voice as he lifted up his pant leg to see his shin sticking at an odd angle.

“Oh Shit,” said Devon and Harry in unison as they went around the car to get a better look at Troy’s leg. Back on the other side of the room, the yellow pegasus saw Troy’s leg and zoomed over to him despite the immediate protest from the rest of her group.

“Oh, you poor thing!” The little yellow pegasus said as she rushed over to aid him. She saw the bend in his leg and immediately she pulled out a first aid kit. Troy just stared at her with a blank expression.

“Did you just talk? Where were you keeping that first aid kit? What the fuck?” Troy stated in utter confusion. As the ponies watched the yellow pony treat Troy, Discord just watch as he slowly got more and more annoyed with everyone not paying attention to him.

“Um excuse me, literal chaos god floating right next to you” he stated as he watched everyone ignore him and focus on the humans. The tall white pony began to walk over to the humans with caution. She stood around 6 feet in height with a flowing mane and tale even without wind. The mane and tale shimmered with the colors pink, green, and blue. She appeared to have two suns plastered on what one could assume to be its butt. The most peculiar thing about this tall pony was the fact it had Giant wings and a horn protruding from its forehead.

“Hello little ones, My name is Celestia. I am the ruler of this kingdom called Equestria and the castle you just… crashed into.” She said calmly as she smiled warmly towards the trio.

“Okay, first of all, two of us are taller than you and the third matches you in height. Second…. I still need a minute to process this before we get into either politics or the fact that that stained glass window probably costs more than my life.” stated Harry as he kept a blank expression. Before Celestia could even respond, Devon spoke up.

“Down Harry, I’m pretty sure we don't need to piss off the ruler of the nation we are currently residing in.” He said approaching Troy just as the mare finished setting Troy’s leg back in place. She then proceeded to get a crutch out of nowhere.

“Okay, how did I not want to scream in pain as you moved BONES back in place. Also, where do you keep hiding that shit.” Troy asked as he was genuinely curious as to how she did that.

“While I would like to know the same thing, I’m pretty sure the answer will just be ‘magic’ and they’ll just leave it at that. Also, Devon, ‘residing’ is a bit of a strong word, don’t you think?” Harry remarked as he walked towards Celestia.

Discord just floated there, getting more aggravated by the minute.

“HEY!! I'M TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE KINGDOM HERE!!” He shouted in anger as the group reeled back in shock.

“And I'M TRYING TO HAVE A HALF DECENT CONVERSATION HERE!!!” Harry shouted back at the seething draconequus. Discord just stared at his body started turning red with anger. Yet just as soon as he heated up, he cooled down with a slow exhale.

“I don't have time for these hairless apes.” he flew over to the group of ponies.”I am very irritated right now so I'll be brief, you’ll find the elements at the place where you first began. Toodle loo.” Discord proceed to vanish into thin air. The two groups just stared at the place where he had vanished for a brief second before turning to each other.

“Okay, now that that ‘thing’ is gone, can someone get me some painkillers or something? My leg is fucking broken.” Troy said as he stood up with the help of Devon and the yellow pegasus. The group quickly turned their attention back towards the wobbly human.

“My apologies my, um,” Celestia struggled to find the word she was looking for.

“How about humans?” Harry chimed in with an annoyed tone.

“Oh, ok then,” Celestia said as she regained her composure and smiled. “My apologies humans, I’ll have a medic come up and take your friend to a nearby hospital,” she noted before turning towards the smaller ponies. “I hope you all understand the severity of the situation my little ponies.” They all nodded firmly. “Good, if that's the case, then the fate of Equestria rests in your hooves,” she spoke softly as she appeared to knight them with her horn.

“We won’t let you down princess.” The purple one stated as she and the rest of her group ran off.

Turning her attention back to the three humans. Celestia noted, “Let's get you to a doctor.” All three nodded warily as they watched the tall Alicorn gallop out of the room they were in.

“So is she just gonna leave us here or what?” Devon asked as he helped Troy get balanced on his crutch. Harry just shrugged as he heard galloping coming back into the room.
Celestia came back into the room with another pony. This particular pony had a white coat like Celestia's, it even had a horn. However, this pony had a purple mane curled upwards at the end. It also had a nurses hat that with a red cross on it. Another odd thing is that the mark on her but was a purple broken heart with a bandage on it; similar to how Celestia had a sun on hers.

“Hello there, My name is Purpleheart, I'm a nurse and here to help your friend.” She said with a smile as the three looked at each other with worry.

“Don’t fret humans.” The three then looked over to Celestia. “We wish you know harm, so please allow us to help you.” The three stood there a second before forming a little huddle.

“What should we do guys, we are currently in an unknown castle in what I presume to be a place called Equestria, Troy’s leg is broken, Harry’s truck is crashed into that wall over there, and I am very confused as to what just happened in regards to that thing” Devon questioned as he took another look at the two ponies. “Any ideas?” He asked with a nervous tone.

“I honestly would like to take them up on their offer. You know, since MY LEG IS FUCKING BROKEN.” Troy growled at his friends as he felt pain slowly increasing in his leg as time passed.

“I agree.” Devon’s and Troy’s eyes widened as they turned to Harry with surprised looks.

“Did you just agree with somebody? Not just anyone either, Troy of all people?” Devon asked still surprised at his normally insane friend.

“Normally I would be insulted right now, but he is right. Why would you agree with me.” Troy asked with mild curiosity.

“Because your hurt and my truck is busted. What other options do we have?” Harry said with a calm expression. The two others just stared at him in disbelief. “What? I may be psychotic, but I know when we are in a royally fucked up situation.” Harry griped with a huff. The three of them then turned towards Celestia with Troy hobbling towards Nurse Purpleheart.

“Please fix my leg.” He said with a pained look on his face. She smiled back at him.

“Certainly dear, one moment.” Troy just stared at her as her horn began to glow with a lavender aura. Suddenly Troy felt something grab hold of his entire body.

“WOAH WOAH WOAH!” He exclaimed in surprise as he was slowly lifted into the air while covered in the same purple aura as the mare’s horn.

“You’re okay dear, I’m just levitating you with my magic,” she said with a soft chuckle before turning towards the exit and trotted out of the hallway. His friends just stared as they watched their friend float away.

“You should probably follow him.” Devon and Harry turned to see Celestia chuckling at their antics. The two humans just looked at each other before sprinting after their friend. “They are very interesting creatures,” said the tall princess before shaking her head. Celestia walked over to the window to look at the chaos spreading outside. “Please hurry Twilight.” She muttered to herself before turning back into the castle.

The streets of Canterlot

"So, the hospital is just around the corner." Nurse Purpleheart was leading the group of humans down a residential street and giving them a brief description of the area. Which seemed to have seen better days with the odd forms of destruction all over the place. Some areas had large globs of rocky road ice cream hailing from the sky and cotton candy clouds pouring chocolate milk overhead.

“So that is magic?” Harry questioned as he moved his hand through the purple energy that surrounded his floating friend.

“Yes, it is.” Nurse Purpleheart said as she tried to dodge the gallons of chocolate milk falling from the sky.

“Can we learn magic? Because that would be fucking awesome.” Harry said aloud while thinking of making his truck fly with magic.

“Not unless you have one of these,” She said as she pointed to the horn erecting from her head. She shot an energy blast from her horn as a rocky road meteor was falling straight towards us.

“That's it, I want a fucking horn” Harry exclaimed as he ran out of the way of a smaller rocky road meteor. While Harry was chatting about magic with Nurse, Devon and Troy just watched their casual conversation amidst all the chaos around them.

“How are they that calm? I mean, I understand Harry just rolling with whatever just goes on, but not the nurse. Like is this a regular thing around here” Devon questioned while keeping under Troy. His eyes widened when Harry grabbed an oncoming meteor and started eating it.

“I don’t know man, I'm just thankful this ‘magic’ stuff is keeping everything away from me” as Troy said that he began to lay back in the magical field he was in and folded his arms behind his head. The group just continued walking when someone screamed “HELP!!”

We looked over to see a small pony running out of a house on the verge of collapse as large rocky road meteors crashed into her house, ”My mom is stuck under a meteor that crashed roof! Please help!” Before any of us could react, Devon sprinted over into the house.

“Shit!” Harry ran over to the hose to try and help his friend but the section of roof above the door collapsed as soon as Devon ran inside.

“DEVON!!” The humans shouted in unison as they watched the house shake violently from the collapse.

Inside the House.

He looked around as the building shook with dust trickling down from the ceiling. The walls cracking more and more. “Please, help me” Devon turned his head to see a grey pegasus with a yellow mane pinned under some crossbeams and ice cream. Devon rushed over to the beam and tried to lift it. “I don’t want to die,” she whispered with streams of tears falling down her face.

Devon’s eyes widened at her words before growling loudly as he slowly lifted the pile of cross beams off of the mare. She stared in awe for a moment before crawling out from under the pile with her forelegs. Devon let the pile drop before turning his attention towards the mare. One of her hind legs had a decent sized chunk of wood sticking out of it and blood was all over it and the other was bent a bit too far to one side. The mare was crawling towards the front while saying “Dinky” under her breath over and over.

With a loud yelp, the mare found herself in Devon’s arms. “What are you-?” She tried to mutter out before Devon took off sprinting towards the door. Unfortunately, the front door was blocked by a collapsed section of the roof so he turned and ran towards the back door. He went charging for the back door only to see the hallway leading to it to be full of debris. He stopped to assess a path through and to talk to the pony in his arms.

“I need you to listen to me. I’ll shift you onto my back and I want you to hang tight around my neck. Got it?”

The pony looked up and nodded weakly her confirmation. So he adjusted her around to his back and she hung on as tight as she could. He then rushed through the hallway. There were beams underfoot and tight spots to get through but he pushed through. He almost got through the hall and to the back door when another beam partially fell from the roof and into his head.

He yelled “Fuck!” as he stumbled back, almost dropping the pony. But he recovered his wits and pushed through the rest of the way to the back door. He finally made it to the back door when he heard a large snap as one of the last load bearing supports seemed to buckle. He immediately kicked the door down and ran out as the rest of the house finally came crashing down behind him.

“Are you okay?” he asked the pony on his back.

She only responded with a half-hearted grunt.

“Right dumb Question.”

He then made his way to the house and back into the front yard where he saw everyone waiting for him looking at the front door. He also noticed red at the edges of his vision on his left side. He put his hand over his eye and noticed he had been bleeding from a cut on his brow caused by the beam that hit him in his head. “Hey think the ladies will like the face scar? Makes me look badass right?”

“JESUS FUCKING CHRIST MAN!” Harry ran over shouting at his injured friend. “You nearly gave me a heart attack you asshole.” He laughed as he punched Devon in the shoulder.

“Fucking moron,” Troy muttered as he watched the events unfold while being stuck in Nurse Purpleheart’s magic. He suddenly yelped in surprise as The unicorn mare carrying him sprinted over to the other two humans.

“Ditzy! Are you alright!” She asked examining the grey pegasus.

“I can't feel the bottom half of my body” Ditzy responded weakly as she barely held on to consciousness. Nurse Purpleheart lifted Ditzy off of Devon's shoulders with care.

“Now, before any more of you decide to get hurt, let's get into the hospital shall we?” Nurse Purpleheart said with a strained a smile before we finally made our way to the hospital. Just as the rest of the group followed the nurse into the hospital, Harry noticed a small pulling sensation on his leg. He looked down to see the little foal that shouted for help.

“Is my mom going to be okay?” The foal stared up at him with a worrisome look.
“She’s fine, everything's fine, she’s only gonna be gone for forever,” he said with a smirk. The little foal began to tear up before he let out a sigh and kneeled down. “She’ll be fine, I promise.” He stated with a smile. He reached out and rubbed the top of the foals head before saying, with a gentle tone, “Do you want to go see if we can get some of the nurses in the hospital to get you a lollipop?”. She nodded as he led her into the hospital.

Inside the Hospital

Ditzy and Troy were put in rooms across the hall from each other and Devon just needed his cut to get stitched up before he was cleared. So he waited for the doctor in Troy’s room. Eventually, a doctor called Doctor Stables came in to check on Troy while nurse Purple Heart came in to do Devon’s stitching.

Doctor Stables walked up to the side of Troy's hospital bed.“Hello, I’m Doctor Stables and I’m here to take a look at your leg.”

“Hey, doc. Thanks for this,” replied Troy.

“No problem. Now despite the break of the bone, it was a clean break so with a bit of magic we can fully set the bone and put a light healing spell on it to jumpstart the healing process.”

Doctor Stables' explanation made Devon curious.“Wait. If you can use healing magic, why not heal it completely.”

Doctor Stables turned to Devon to reply but nurse Purpleheart beat him to it.“Magic may be able to do some amazing things but the precise nature of the body's processes make magic healing dangerous. The body requires healing mostly through natural means and using magic to force it can have unintended side effects that could leave you worse off than before.”

Devon was mostly satisfied with that response but had one more question."Then how does the healing magic you are doing help if it can't help directly?

Doctor Stables replied this time. "It is rather simple really. Our healing spells are basically just used to stimulate the cells in the area around the wound so they work a bit overtime to fix the problem. but it will require you to increase your diet a bit to compensate."

Devon found this talk of medical magic to be a rather interesting subject to him."Wow. Note to self, look into healing magic more.” Before he could ask the doctor more questions. The floor began to shake violently. “Ugh! What now!” Nurse Purpleheart asked before looking out the window. Her and everyone else's mouths dropped as they sight of a giant rainbow energy beam shot down from the sky in the horizon. Soon, the beam turned into a dome of white energy that expanded at an alarming rate. The only thing heard before the energy could hit us was the sound of the three human friends shout “WHAT THE FU-”.

The white energy covered all of the kingdom for a brief moment before it dissipated into the now deep blue sky. When everyone was recovering from the disorientation of the energy, Dinky could be heard shouting with glee. “Everything is back to normal!” She hopped into our room with a large smile plastered across her muzzle. Again, everyone in the room looked out to see the once chaotic world that they previously saw was no more. The sky was blue again and the other oddities that Discord had created vanished from existence. However, Devon looked upon the city with a frown.

“Yeah, back to normal.” He said with a dark tone as he stared upon the city. While the abnormalities from Discord had disappeared, the damage done to the city were clear as day now. Houses were still demolished and ponies ran rampant trying to help each other.

“Be prepared to take in many more ponies, today is not over” The group looked over to see Doctor Stables giving orders to the other nurses in the hospital. The nurses then took off in a hurry to man their stations accordingly as new patients began to flood the hospital. From the window, the group looked on at the ponies with worrisome looks.

“You know, for a place that looks like a three year old had gone crazy with markers, it’s not very colorful if you know what I mean.” Troy said with a sigh as he laid back into his hospital bed. The group just looked at each other before falling into a deep silence.

A couple hours after the event with Discord came to a conclusion, the hospital was ablaze with nurses as they ran to a fro. During the chaos, Ditzy had gone into surgery due to the fact there was wood in her leg as well as her other leg being completely shattered. The nurses did not want Dinky to wait outside of the operating room worrying about her mother, so Nurse Purpleheart ended up taking her to Troy’s room where she ended up falling asleep in Devon’s lap. Nurse Purpleheart deemed it necessary seeing as Devon did save Ditzy. She laid there in blissful ignorance as he scratched behind her ears. The room remained relatively peaceful despite the events that had transpired earlier in the day, that is until a knock came from the door. Harry, being the only one able to move at the moment, got up and went to the door. To his surprise, he came face to face with Celestia as she smiled down upon the human.

“Mind if I come in?” she asked with a small smile.

“Sure, just be quiet, alright? Someone is asleep, so please be a little quieter .” he said as he opened the door wider to let the giant pony in. She gave him a confused look before her eyes landed upon the little foal in Devon’s lap.

“Do you mind if I ask why a little filly is currently napping in your friends lap?” she questioned. Harry simply nodded his head.

“You may want to sit down for this, its a bit of a long story.” He said as he sat down on one of the chairs in the room. When Celestia sat down, Harry began to tell her about their little walk down the street, including the parts about how Devon ran into a building and saved the filly’s mother. Troy chimed in to tell the princess of how Ditzy was now in surgery due to her legs and how the filly came to nap in Devon’s lap. Celestia just listened intently as the two humans retold the tale of their rather enthusiastic walk down the street.

“Sounds like you had a very exciting walk.” She stated with surprise. “While I am grateful that you went out of your way save one of my little ponies.” Devon gave a short nod. “I am afraid that we have some other, rather urgent matters to attend to.” She stood up with serious look adjourned on her face. The humans looked at each other before they turned their attention towards the solar princess.

“We need to discuss what your intentions are while your here in Equestria.” she looked upon the humans with a neutral look.

“We don’t really know actually.” Celestia turned to Troy while he was laying back in his bed. “We kind of came here against our will. So I guess for now we will try to find a place to temporarily call home as we look for a way back.” The other humans nodded in agreement. Celestia just stared at Troy with an intense glare; she sighed in relief before beginning to smile.

“Alright, if that is the case, I will look into finding a place for you to stay.” The humans began to smile. “While I look for a place however, I will have you transferred to the castle so that you can recover and we can keep an eye on all of you seeing as trouble follows you wherever you go.” She chuckled as she said the last bit.

“Thank you very much Celestia.” Troy said with a large grin as Devon smiled in the corner, watching the filly just yawn before relaxing back into his lap. Celestia just smiled at the two humans before noticing Harry was frowning.

“What seems to be the problem my dear human?”

“Its nothing princess, it’s just have a question i’ve got to ask you.” He asked standing up from his seat.

“What might that be?” She asked with an arched eyebrow.

“What’s going to happen to my truck?”

Chapter 2: Introductions

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The sounds of footsteps could be heard throughout the marble halls of Canterlot castle. The three humans have just arrived from the hospital. It had been 3 days since Discords attack and Troy was allowed to leave the hospital. Hearing of his release, Celestia had sent some guards to the hospital and had them escort the humans back to the castle.
Breaking the silence of the halls, Troy sighed “Is there anyway I could take a break? My leg is killing me.” Despite his leg healing at an accelerated rate due to magic, his leg still needed some time to heal. So Troy is still on crutches.
“Stop being such a bitch man.” Harry griped back at his limping friend. “I just asked one of the guards and he said that the throne room is just around the corner.” Troy glared back at his friend before letting out another sigh. “Fine, but when we get to the throne room, im finding a chair.” Devon laughed at his friends antics as they approached a giant pair of golden doors.
“We’re here, the princesses are waiting for you on the other side of these doors.” One of the guards said as he and the rest of the guards began to open the door. Troy arched a brow ‘Did he just say princesses? As in more than one?’ he thought as he noticed the doors had fully opened revealing the long hall they were in when they first arrived in Equestria. However, Troy and his friends noticed the small gathering of ponies at the end of the hall. Celestia was sitting in her throne with six ponies standing in front of her. The group soon recognized the six ponies as the ones they met when they crashed. Lastly, the humans noticed there was an additional pony sitting on another throne next to Celestia’s. This particular pony had a flowing mane like Celestia’s except for the fact that it looked like the night sky rather than the tri colored one of Celestia’s. This pony had dark blue fur with a mark like Celestia’s on her flank, however, instead of a sun, it was a crescent moon.
As the three humans began to approach. Celestia raised her attention from the six ponies around her to the humans.
“Ah, I see that you finally arrived my dear humans, it’s good to see that you three are doing better than the last time we saw you.” She said with a smile before motioning the ponies in front of her towards the humans.
“Yeah, the only thing is that part of my soul is damaged and cannot be repaired here.” Harry feigned with over exaggeration clearly present in his mood.
“Don’t mind him princess, he’s still upset about his truck.” Devon said eyeing Harry with an amused expression.
“It’s quite alright my dear human,” she said smiling at Devon before turning towards the feigning human. “Actually, I have been having my royal scientists and engineers look at your ‘truck’ to see if they can repair it.” she exclaimed as Harry nearly jumped out of his shoes.
“Seriously?! Awesome! My baby is going to be alright.” He just giggled like a schoolgirl at the thought of having his truck back. Troy smirked at his friends antics before limping up to the front of his friends with the aid of his crutch.
“All things aside Princess Celestia, the last time we spoke, you talked about finding us places to stay while we search for a way home. I assume that since you called us here, you found such a place?” I asked as my friends began to focus back on the situation.
“Thats right, however, I haven't found the exact place to which you will be staying, but I have narrowed it down.” She motioned to the six ponies in front of her. Without even a moment's notice, a pink blur shot across the room and latched itself to Harry’s face.
“Hi there, my name is Pinkie Pie, what's yours?! Do you like cupcakes?! I like cupcakes! I also like to party, do you like to party?!” When the pink blur materialized on Harry’s face, he fell back onto his rear in surprise.
“Who, what, why, how?!” Harry questioned the hyperactive pony before an orange hoof grabbed Pinkie off of Harry’s face.
“Sorry ‘bout that sugarcube. Pinkie here tends to get ‘excited’ whenever she meets somepony new.” Said an orange pony with a yellow mane. She wore a stetson cowboy hat and had a mark like the other ponies. Her mark had 3 red apples. “Names Applejack. Nice ta meetcha” she said with a smile and an extended hoof

“Harry,” He said as he grabbed the extended hoof. “Pleasure’s all mine.” Applejack raised an eyebrow before helping Harry up.

“Weird way to do a hoof bump, but it don't matter.” She shook her head as the small yellow pegasus walked over to Troy.

“H-hello there. H-how are you feeling?” Her voice was soft, almost inaudible. She had a long pink main and wings folded at her side. The mark on her flank were 3 butterflies.

“I’m better than I was when we last met.” Troy rubbed the back of his head before smiling nervously. ’She is so fucking adorable.’ he thought, shaking his head. “I almost forgot, we really didn't get to introduce ourselves last time we met.” she nodded slowly.

“M-my name is Fluttershy.” She said while trying her best to look at him in the eyes.

“My name is Troy, and I would like to say thank you for helping me back there, doctor told me that if you didn't help me, my leg would have been alot worse.” He smiled warmly at her.

“O-oh it's no problem at all. I-i always help out injured creatures and ponies.” She said as she returned the warm smile. Before she could say anything else, she noticed that Devon was behind his friends and was just smiling awkwardly.

“U-um,” She said softly as she pointed towards Devon.

“Oh, would you like to meet him?” Fluttershy nodded in response. Troy nodded before turning to his friend and motioning him to come over. Devon walked over to the group with a nervous smile.

“Hello, My name is Devon.” he said as the yellow pony’s eyes shot wide open. Before she could say anything however, another voice shouted in surprise.

“Did you just say your name was Devon?!” A cyan mare with rainbow hair flew over at incredulous speeds. She stopped just in front of the dark toned human with wide eyes.

“You were the one who saved Derpy right?” She questioned as Fluttershy slowly excused herself from Troy and walked over to stand beside the cyan mare.

“If Derpy is the gray pegasus with a yellow mane, then yes I did.” He said with a smile. Before he could say anything else, both mares jumped and tackled the dark toned human. He yelped as he fell backwards at the surprise force.

“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” both mares exclaimed as everyone just watched in surprise. The rainbow mare slowly stood back up with a smile, “You see, Derpy is a dear friend of ours, and you saved her life. So we can’t thank you enough.” Fluttershy stood up as well and nodded in agreement.

“I just did what anyone else would do. I’m not going to... let someone die…” Devon said with some slight hesitation. “But besides the point, who are you?”.

“Oh! Almost forgot.” She puffed her chest out and proclaimed confidently, “The names Rainbow Dash, don’t wear it out.” Devon chuckled slightly at the mare’s confidence.

Off on the side of the room, Troy was watching his friends mingle with the ponies. “You know, it won’t hurt to talk to them either darling.” Troy looked down to see a mare with snow white fur and a long curled purple mane. She had 3 diamonds plastered on her flank as well as a white horn protruding from her forehead.

“I know, but to be frank, I’m a little woozy from the pain meds the doctor put me on.” Troy said pulling out a bottle of pills. “Apparently not all stuff can be cured by magic.” He chuckled at his remark before putting the pills back in his pocket. The mare beside him let out a small chuckle of her own. Troy then said, “The names Troy, and who might you be.”

“My name is Rarity, Its very nice to meet you Troy.”

“Likewise.” Troy smiled before noticing a purple unicorn hiding behind Rarity. “Um, Rarity?” Troy asked with an arched eyebrow.

“Yes?”

“Who is that pony behind you?” Rarity turned to see the pony behind her. Rarity smiled before motioning the unicorn to approach the pair. When she came into clear view, he could see the unicorn had a sort of lavender coat with a long straight mane. The main was mainly a dark violet with light purple and pink highlights. She had large dark pink star with 5 smaller white stars orbiting the large one on her flank. The mare then whispered into Rarity’s ear. Rarity just chuckled before turning towards Troy.

“It appears that my friend here, Twilight Sparkle, wishes to ask you a couple of questions.” She said as Twilight began to have a hopeful/fearful look on her face. Troy looked at the two with an arched brow before shrugging.

“I don’t see why not.” Troy said as he adjusted his crutch again. Twilight’s face lit up like a light bulb and rushed over to start her interview but was cut off by Celestia clearing her throat. Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their attention towards the regal ruler.

“It is nice that everyone seems to be getting along, however, I’m afraid we must get down to business.” Everyone nodded except for Twilight whom had a look of disappointment before shaking her head and payed attention to the princess.

“Now, as I believe a few days ago, I told you three that you would stay in the castle until I found a possible place of residents for the three of you. Did I not?” Celestia asked. The three of them nodded. “Well it appears there will be a change of plans.” The three shared a look of confusion and worry. Celestia noticed this and smiled warmly. “Do not worry, the only change is that I have already found your places of residents.” The three sighed in relief before Troy approached the throne slightly.

“That's great! So where are we staying then if could be so blunt?” Troy asked as the three stared at Celestia in anticipation.

“That, my dear humans, is something I was going to bring up. For the time being, we don’t have a place that can house all three of you. So instead, the three of you will be staying with other ponies. If that’s alright with you.”

“Hold on a sec princess,” Harry rose up in agitation. “I really don’t like the idea of me being so far away from my friends.” The three humans nodded in agreement.

“I figured as much. That's why the homes you will be staying in are in the same town and a short walk away from each other.” Celestia kept a constantly warm smile as she motioned for the other 6 ponies to come forward.

“Okay Princess, as long as we are still with each other at the end of the day, we’ll be fine.” Harry relaxed a bit as they all gathered by the steps of the thrones. Celestia nodded in satisfaction. “Now then, let's assign where you three are going to be staying, shall we?” everyone nodded. “First up, Harry, right?” Harry approached the princess with a smirk. “The one and only.” Harry jokingly remarked with a quick chuckle from his friends. “After some consideration, I deemed it necessary to find a place that was large enough to house you and your “truck” seeing that you are set on repairing it.” She motioned for a pony to come forwards.

“That being said, the pony you’ll be staying with is Applejack.” Harry turned towards the orange pony with surprise. Applejack nodded before saying, “Mah family owns ah farm and we have ah spare barn that your, whatyamacallit, “truck” can be stored in so ya can repair it.” Harry smiled as he walked over to the orange mare. “Well, I look forward to it. But please, let me know if you need any help with anything. I’m not a fan of freeloading if you know what I mean.” He scratched the back of his head smiling. “Ah wouldn’t have it anyother way.” Applejack then moved over to the side along with Harry to discuss their arrangement.

Celestia smiled before turning her attention back towards the main group. “Now, As for Devon,” He stepped forwards. “After hearing of your bravery for saving one of my little ponies, a certain pony immediately volunteered to house you as a thank you for saving her friend.” A yellow mare walked forward sheepishly.

“I-it’s the least I-I can do.” She let a small smile appear on her muzzle.

“As I said before, I just did what everyone else would’ve.” He smiled back at her as he crossed his arms behind his head. “That doesn’t mean that I won’t take you up on that.” Devon chuckled before he and Fluttershy went to join Harry and Applejack.

Celestia smiled once more for she was down to the last human. “Now, Troy, it is time to designate with whom you will be staying.” She smiled warmly as Troy stood with an air of worry and anticipation. “The reason I paired you with this pony is because I wish to study you my dear human. Your biology, your mannerisms, even the way you treat others of your own race is completely different from anything here in Equestria. So, with your consent of course, I wish to study you and your friends.” Troy held his hand up to his chin and rubbed it while he was contemplating her request.

“I don’t see why not. I mean, I'm also interested in how you ponies function as well. What about you guys?” Troy turned towards his friends who just shrugged. Harry gave him a small smirk.

“I don’t care really, I'm pretty sure Devon agrees,” Devon nodded. “So by all means, study us. Just no needles, fucking hate needles.” The humans gave one final nod in agreement before returning their attention to Celestia. The princess smiled widely at the humans compliance.

“Excellent!” She giggled happily before coughing to regain her composure. “Now with that out of the way, I will pair you with your new roommate.” Celestia motioned the unicorn over to the human. The unicorn in question walked forwards.

“Troy, you will be paired with my faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.” Twilight shyly waved her hoof. “When I told her that I wished for her to study you three, Twilight bounced off the walls thinking about what we could learn from your culture and sciences.” Twilight approached Troy with her glancing up and down his body while muttering under her breath something about minotaurs. Troy watched the inquisitive mare as she circled him like a wolf circling prey. Some nervous laughter escaped Troy before he let out a soft cough that snapped Twilight back to reality.

“Oh! Sorry about that Troy, when I get a chance to study something im interested in, I tend to get overly excited.” She smiled nervously as Troy relaxed a bit.

“That's alright, but lets leave the analyzing of my physicality for latter. Right now i’m rather tired.” he said as he adjusted his crutch again.

Twilight relaxed for a moment before responding, “Sure thing.” She smiled as the rest of their friends gathered around them. Celestia, with a look of satisfaction adjourning her face, nodded in contempt.

“With that being said, I’ll have you all sent back to your quarters. After all, you all have a long train ride ahead of you.” the mane 6 bowed before the princess and said their goodbyes before leaving the throne room. Celestia turned towards the humans and smiled before motioning two guards over. “These two will take you three to your room for the night. Sweet dreams my dear humans.” The humans bowed and said their goodbyes as well before following the guards out of the room.

“I really don’t like this idea tia.” The dark pony beside Celestia remarked as she turned towards her counterpart.

“I know Luna, i’m still slightly worried about how this will play out as well. Only time will tell us now.” Celestia and Luna shared a worried look before getting up and leaving to do their own respective duties.

In the humans quarters

Troy slumped down onto the bed with a large sigh. His friends followed suit. “You know, despite our situation, i’m oddly relaxed.” Troy said while folding his arms across his chest.

“Same here, i’d figured we would be panicking like crazy right about now.” Devon agreed while chewing on an apple he grabbed from the castle cafeteria. “We were nervous wrecks back home, why aren’t we now?”

“Maybe it’s something to do with the magic in this place.” Both Devon and Troy turned to look at Harry who was looking overlooking Canterlot from the rooms balcony. The humans in the room looked at each other before getting up and joining their friend on the balcony. The City below was a hive of busy workers running and flying to different buildings. Many other ponies kept their heads low as many black caskets were laid across the streets. The humans frowned at the dark scene unfolding below them.

“That worries me though.” Troy spoke with narrowing eyes. “We witnessed so much, homes being destroyed, and ponies whom have been pushed to the brink.” the other humans faces darkened in response. “Yet we are acting as if it was some minor inconvenience. I know I feel sorry and worry for them, but it's as if my mind is blocking these emotions from being expressed.” The humans stand on the balcony before Harry spoke up.

“Is there anyway to tell if magic is involved? I mean, for all we know we may just be in a state of shock.” Harry exclaimed before a knock came from the door.

“We should ask the princesses about this later.” Devon turned to his friends before all three of them walked over to the door.

Troy opens the door to see Twilight standing there with what one could assume to be the pony version of a backpack.

“Hi there Troy, I was wondering if I could get some measurements from you and your friends.” She asked with a nervous smile and laugh. Troy looked at his friends for a second before turning back.

“What kind of measurements?” Troy raised his brow.

“You know, basic stuff like height, weight, mane color, coat color. Eye color. A “Physical” if you would.” She said pulling out a scale and what looked to be a meter stick. She smiled at the humans. Troy turned back to his friends who just looked at each other and shrugged. Troy sighed before turning towards the lavender mare.

“Fine,” Twilight jumped in excitement.

“This better not get weird. I’m all for kinky shit but not right now.” Harry smirked at his friends who just looked at him with disappointment. Twilight looked a the three humans in confusions

“What does “kinky” mean?” she asked with a raised eyebrow. The three humans eyes shot wide open. After a second of silence, they all laughed. Twilight watched as the humans held their stomachs and fell to the floor laughing.

“Oh my god why!” Troy managed to slip out before his howling laughter resumed.

“Are…you guys okay?” Twilights brow lifted up as the humans continued to laugh.

“We’re,” Devon snickered before continuing, “Fine.” His wild laughter continued.

“It doesn’t look like it.” She looked at them worriedly. I’m going to get the guards to come help and maybe they can help me figure out what “kinky” means.” The three humans looked at eachother again before they began to laugh louder than before. Twilight just looked at the three before attempting to go find guards. Luckily, Troy was able to regain his composure enough to allow him to grab Twilight before she could leave.

“Honestly Twilight, we’re fine. You just said something that,” He snickered lightly. “We found extremely funny. Right fellas.” His friends nodded as they slowly regained their sanity. Twilight looked at the crazed humans before returning her gaze back to Troy.

“Alright, but you are going to explain to me the meaning of “kinky” later. Alright?” twilight expressed with slight agitation. Troy snickered at her last comment.

“Yes Ma’am.” he said as she entered the room.

“Aside from that, let's get these examinations started.” She smiled happily. “Now, if you three will stand in a line please.” The three exchanged looks before they complied to the pony’s request. A pinkish aura shined on her horn before a lavender light covered every inch of each human. The humans recoiled slightly at the tingling feeling that surged over their bodies. After a few more seconds the light faded and Twilight grabbed a notebook with a quill out of her bag. She then began to write down everything from heart rate to different scars located on each human’s body. A flash of worry covered her muzzle for a split second before turning back to normal.
“So is that it?” Harry asked before the lavender mare shook her head.
“Yes, for you and Devon at least. I just have a few questions for Troy. you two can go start your way to the dining hall, dinner's almost ready.” she gave the humans a small smile. “The guards down the hall can take you two down there.” The two humans gave Troy a questioning look before he smirked.

“Just save some for me alright?” Troy shook his head with a smirk as his friends smiled before exiting the room. With his two friends gone, only Twilight and Troy remained. “So, what questions do you have for me?” Troy asked while he sat down on the nearby bed.
“I have a general question about Human biology and a few questions regarding you specifically, is that alright?” Twilight asked while she sat down in a wooden chair in the corner.
“Sure, lets knock out these questions before my friends decide to eat everything.” He chuckled. Twilight's eyes shrank a little bit before returning to normal a second after.
“Alright then. First off, what makes up a Humans dietary needs?” She asked with a shake in her voice. Troy noticed the mares subtle shake and narrowed his eyes in skepticism.
“If you don’t mind me asking, what brings that up?” Troy’s voiced remained monotonous as he watched the mare shift uncomfortably.
“Well… when I was scanning you and your friends, I noticed that your have a set of incisors. Those are normally indicators of a carnivorous diet.” She smiled nervously as the human laughed a bit.
“Okay, first off, I am carnivorous,” The mare looked on nervously, “but, I do not eat anything that is sentient. As in I don’t eat anything that can think and feel.” The mare relaxed for a moment before worry flashed for a bit.
“If you are carnivorous, what did you eat at the hospital?” Troy adjusted himself on the bed.
“I just ate the salads they gave us. Gotta say, they are pretty good.” He smiled. “And before you ask, Im what you can call an omnivore, I eat both meat and vegetation to keep a balanced diet.” The mare looked at him for a moment.
“So you don’t need to eat meat to survive, correct?”

“Yes and no, while I don’t have to eat meat, I am required to eat meat to stay healthy.” Twilight sighed before shaking her head and smiling.

“I guess i’ll talk to the princess about getting some meat from the griffon empire. But on a side note, what meat did you eat back home?” She asked curiously as she pulled out her quill to write down the types.

“We mainly eat beef, chicken, fish, and turkey.” He said calmly. Twilight shrunk in her seat slightly before returning to normal. She muttered something about a “bison tribe” but didn’t go into detail.

“Alrighty then. Onto the personal questions.” She sat up and turned the page in her notebook. “What was that thing you and your friends were in when you crashed into the castle?” Troy laughed a bit before saying, “Just trust me when I say that you want to ask Harry about that thing in detail. To answer your question, it is called a truck, it's a sort of transportation vehicle for us humans.” Twilight nodded before scribbling down something in her notes.

“Okay, Just one more question and we can go to dinner, Ok?” She smiled. Troy just laid back on the bed and held up an okay symbol with his right hand.

“Haha, i’ll take that as a yes.” She giggled before turning her page. “Now then, when I was scanning you and your friends, I noticed that you in particular had some sort of ink all over your back. May I ask what is on your back?” She tilted her head with a nervous smile.

“Oh…” he sat up with a disturbed look.

“Is that a problem? As long as it’s nothing that is any danger, i don’t mind skipping it.” She looked at the human with concern.

“No… its fine, I just didn't expect the question is all.” He smiled at the mare before he stood up with help from his crutch. He then took off his jacket and t-shirt and turned his back towards the mare. On his back was a large tattoo of angelic wings folded on his back.

“Is that where humans keep their cutie marks?” She asked before beginning to write something down.
“The hell’s a cutie mark?” he asked turning to see her gesturing to the weird star mark on her flank.
“A cutie mark is a symbol of a particular pony’s talent, for instance, my talent is magic.” She said proudly.

“Oh, well this is a tattoo. From where i’m from, humans get these for any sort of reason.”
Twilight was writing down everything he was saying. In her notebook. She raised her head.
“What did you get that one for then?” she asked tilting her head. Troy winced slightly before putting on his shirt.
“Sorry, but that's a rather sensitive topic. If it’s all the same for you Twilight, i’m getting hungry. Is it alright if we just head to dinner?” Troy walked over to door and waits for her response.
“Oh! Um…. sure?” She responded with curiosity in her voice before she packed up her notebook and quill before heading out the door with Troy. They walked down the equestrian castle in silence. Twilight occasionally looked up at the human. When she did, all she saw was a face as cold as stone. After that, she would look down in fear and regret for even asking the question. Silence remained between the two as they made their way down to the dining hall.
Eventually, they came to a stop in front of the doors to the dining hall. Troy was reaching for the door handle when he stopped and let out a small sigh. His expression lightened as he turned back to the scared mare beside him.

“Listen, i’m sorry if I scared you.” The mare looked up at him. “I know that you are just curious about humans and I get that. However, my tattoo has a meaning that is very…. difficult to talk about. I may be able to tell you in the future. But right now, let’s let sleeping dogs lie, alright?” He kneeled down and held out a fist with a smile on his face.

Twilight stared at his fist for a brief moment before nodding. She smiled as she bumped the fist with her Hoof. “I get it, it’d be very odd for someone to spill out their past to someone they just met. But i’m here if you ever wanted to talk about it.”

“I may take you up on that offer eventually. Right now, however, I am starving and I really hope my friends didn’t eat everything in the castle.” He said with a small smirk on his face.

“I hope not, I was really wanting to have one of Chef’s salads tonight. As a friend of mine would say, “They are to die for”.” She said with an over-exaggerated stuck up voice. The two shared a laugh before they opened the doors.