Ex-Army Ranger Adal Lupe has known nothing but war for the past two years of his life. Said life has been a day to day struggle, with no guarantee that he'll live to see the next sunrise. In fact, by all rights, he just saw his last.

So when he wakes up in Equestria, he'll soon find that there are some challenges far greater than surviving in a time of war.

Note: Did some editing on the first chapter, hopefully for the better.

After watching Ponyville's favorite mailmare for a time, Mark starts to see some things about her that seem to go unnoticed, even by the mare in question. The young human may not know all about Equstria or the ponies who live there, but he does know when somepony deserves recognition, and today is the best day for it.

Mark Hirami, a young male human of twenty-six, isn't sure how he ended up in Equestria, but with seemingly no way home, he decides that the burden is on him to adjust himself to this new world and the creatures...er, ponies who inhabit it. It won't be easy, being the only one of his kind in this strange new world...but is that really a bad thing?