A Brave New World
Prologue
Jared Hayes was just your average smart, but slightly introverted kind of guy. Often times he would spend most of his time either reading or being outdoors; video games and internet dabbling didn't mean much to him. Today he found himself walking down one of the quiet forest trails near his house. He had always found that nothing was more relaxing than the peaceful sounds of nature, the chirping of the mockingbirds, the gentle rain, the rustling of the leave; nothing else put him at such ease.
His average build coupled with his blonde hair, and blue eyes had always earned compliments from the girls, but he had never found one that he fancied. He dated occasionally, but it had never been much of a priority for him.
Lost in thought as he walked down the trail, Jared barely noticed that the sun was beginning to dip beneath the horizon. "Fuck…" He scorned quietly, mentally kicking himself for walking so far into the woods when night was approaching so soon.
The sun had fully set by the time Jared reached the edge of the forest. He had taken a shortcut to make it out of the woods faster. Hopping from stone to stone and jumping over dips in the ground, jolted like lightning, but he didn't notice a stray rock jutting out of the ground till it was too late.
He fell down a small hill landing at the bottom with a heavy thud. "Ow…My head" Jared felt the warm trickle of blood on his fingers as his vision began to spin and he slowly faded into unconsciousness.
"What happened?" He whispered to himself suddenly noticing the numbing cold. As Jared stood up, he shook off the frost that had formed on his coat. He felt his head while he slowly began to recall what happened to him.
After washing the blood out of his hair with the last remains of a water bottle, he decided to try and find his way back to the trail. Nearly 20 minutes had passed before Jared gave up looking for the trail out of frustration. "I swear it was here…" Jared's voice trailed off as he heard voices off in the distance.
"So… Fluttershy, what exactly are we looking for?"
As Jared neared the source of the voices he strained his eyes to see who was speaking. Sticking his head out of the bushes ever so slightly, he saw two small oddly colored ponies. "I must have really messed myself up…" He whispered quietly as the two ponies began to chat idly amongst themselves.
Jared stuck his head back in the bush causing a branch to snap loudly. "Damn it." he said angrily as the two ponies began to look around for the source of the noise. "Fluttershy did you hear that?" The purple mare began to approach the bush that Jared was hiding in. "it's O.K little guy, you can come out…" The yellow mare cooed at the bush with a gentle smile on her face. "I must really be going crazy?" Jared mumbled climbing slowly out of the bush. He chuckled nervously as the two ponies stared at him in shock. "This can't be real…I must still be unconscious."
The purple mare swallowed nervously and opened her mouth as if to ask a question, but no sound came out.
"I…ummm…you're…uhh…" The yellow mare nervously muttered before she made a sudden squeak and jolted behind a bush in the distance.
"I have never seen a talking horse before…" Jared said while forcing himself to smile.
"What are you talking about? Everypony can talk." The purple mare replied quietly.
"Everypony? You mean everybody?" Jared nervously corrected her beginning to fear that he was not unconscious after all.
"So who…or what are you?" The purple mare asked quietly, raising her eyebrow at him.
"My name is Jared. Ummm, I'm a human?" Jared answered trying to push the thoughts of him possibly being insane out of his mind.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle and this is Fluttershy" The mare answered looking back at Fluttershy who promptly gave him a shy smile from behind the bush.
"Nice to meet you Twilight, so where am I exactly?" Jared looked around the slightly unfamiliar forest.
"You are on the edge of the Everfree Forest" Twilight gave him and incredulous look.
"And this is where?" Jared replied somewhat sarcastically.
"In Equestria, perhaps you should come with us…" Twilight suggested seeing that Jared still looked very confused.
Jared gave the forest landscape one last look before following the two mares out of the forest. He looked in awe at Ponyville "Wait so there are more of you. Maybe I'm not going insane I'm just still dreaming." His voice was full of relief.
Jared saw a large tree in the center of the town. "So this is where I live." Twilight said looking back at him.
"You live inside of a hollowed out tree?" He said as he gave her a look of disbelief.
"It's also a library!" Twilight told Jared happily.
"Who's this?" Rainbow dash asked loudly as she soared out of the blue of the sky.
"Wait, you guys fly?" Jared said really starting to get shocked by the whole situation, "How is this even possible? First talking horses, now flying talking horses that have rainbow manes…This has to be some kind of joke right?" He mocked as he began to back away from them slowly.
"You're kind of cute." Rainbow Dash said with a clever romance in her tone to Jared. "My name's Rainbow Dash."
"That's nice…ummm I have to go…" Jared began to run out of Ponyville. His heart was racing. He could not stop thinking about ways to snap himself out of this crazy dream.
As soon as Jared reached a large field outside of Ponyville he sat down to catch his breath. "This is one hell of a dream…I hope I don't freeze to death before someone finds me…"
"Aww, why did you run away?" Jared jumped when he heard Rainbow dash's voice behind him. She noticed his look of disbelief, "What? you didn't think you could out run the fastest flier in all of Equestria did you?" Jared was slightly surprised at how prideful Rainbow Dash was.
"You're pretty sure of yourself of yourself, aren't you?" Jared smiled in counter trying not to sound too cocky.
"I could make it from one end of this field to the other in ten seconds flat." Rainbow Dash replied boastfully.
"On foot, to that rock over there on the other side of the field!" He declared, in the idea that if this was a dream he might has well have fun with it.
"Is that a challenge?" Rainbow Dash smirked.
"What do you think?"He smiled, meeting dash's gaze.
"You're so on!" she exclaimed.
Dash landed next to Jared as he got two feet away, "You ready?"
"Yes" Dash said confidently.
"Go!" Jared shouted taking off as fast as his own two feet could carry him. He noticed Dash was right behind him, her rainbow mane flowing in the wind. Jared struggled to keep up his speed as he began to lose his breath. He looked behind to see dash was still going strong, but ultimately, he won.
"Yes!" Jared proclaimed proudly has he made it past the rock and to the far end of the field. It took him several moments to regain his breath before he looked up to see that Dash just staring into the grass, kicking it to reveal dirt while looked slightly disappointed. "What's wrong Dash?"
"I'm just not used to losing…" Rainbow Dash appeared to shake her disappointment off quickly giving him a smile, "So what are you anyway?"
"I'm Human." He answered calmly sitting down next to her.
"I've never heard of 'humans'." Rainbow Dash was starting to sound bored.
"Anyway, I'm sure that your friends are still waiting for me back in Ponyville." Jared said as he stood up. He noticed how small these ponies really were; Rainbow Dash was barely over four and a half feet tall.
Jared stood back as she flexed her wings and took off into the sky. He began to look around at the trees before realizing that it was actually springtime here. He also realized that Equestria must not be an industrialized society, the air was really clean. Instinctively he pulled out his Iphone to check his text messages before realizing that it would of course, not work. He looked at it feeling slightly disappointed before attaching his ear phones, and resuming his walk back towards Ponyville.
As Jared reached Ponyville's library, he saw that Twilight was sitting outside of the door. As soon as she saw him she grinned. "So… I'm sorry I ran off like that…" Jared said feeling slightly guilty.
"Oh! It's ok." Twilight replied with a friendly smile, "So I was reading and I didn't find anything about humans. Is your species capable of magic?"
He could tell Twilight was brimming with questions before she could ask anymore, he interrupted her, "So do you know somewhere that I could sleep. I don't really have a home here."
Twilight motioned for him to follow her into the library; ducking slightly as he followed entered the building. "I apologize for the door, you're just taller than what we are used to." She gave him an apologetic look.
"It's ok…" Jared looked around the surprisingly large library.
"I have an extra bed upstairs that you can stay in if you want." Jared noticed that Twilights tone had changed slightly to something more bright. "So do you like to read?" Twilight had obviously seen his look of surprise.
"Yeah…I love to read." Jared replied sitting down in one of the slightly undersized chairs. He was surprised when Twilight levitated a book off of the shelf; he had never seen something like that before. "Whoa how did you do that?" He gasped in question.
"What?" Twilight replied while nonchalantly, flipping through the book.
"You just telekinetically picked up that book; that's amazing!" Jared found himself dumbfounded once again.
Twilight blushed, "That's nothing."
"What do you mean? I've never seen anyone able to do that." Jared watched as she put the book back on top of the high shelf.
"So humans can't use magic?" Twilight asked, pulling out another book and laying it on the table.
"Well, where I'm from, magic exists only in the realm of fairy tales, but to be honest so do unicorns and pegasi…" Jared explained, looking intently at the worn book that Twilight had set down upon the table.
"So humans are incapable of magic?" Twilight looked disappointed.
"I don't know. It's obvious the laws of physics are different here…" His voice trailed off, "I don't know how to perform magic so I guess we will have to figure it out together." Jared gave Twilight a determined smile.
After several minutes Twilight managed to explain the concept of magic to him. "…It's also important to focus while you are casting the spell." Twilight finished explaining.
"Ok, I think I got this" He stood up and stretched his hands outward.
"Why are doing that?" Twilight gave Jared a confused look.
"I just saw it in a movie."
"A what?" Twilight sounded perplexed
"I'll explain later…" Jared replied returning his focus to the book.
After nearly ten minutes of constant focus on the book he was just about to give up when the book jumped forward several inches. "Whoa…did that really just happen?" Jared felt a small rush of excitement.
"So what do humans eat anyway?" Twilight asked after looking at the clock.
"We are omnivores." Jared replied, suddenly realizing how hungry he was.
"So? You eat meat?" Twilight gave him a slightly disgusted look, before following him out of the library "I thought gryphon's and diamond dogs were the only sentient species that ate meat?"
"Hey, don't get me wrong I like a good salad" He chuckled.
Jared looked shocked when he saw the restaurant that Twilight was taking him to. "The Sugar Cube Corner" He read the sign out loud.
"Ooooo….who's that!" A pink mare exclaimed jumping out from behind the counter.
"Pinkie Pie, I would like you to meet, Jared." Twilight said calmly.
Jared was shocked when the mare screamed and ran past them. "What's up with that?" He questioned in shock.
"Oh, she's always like that." Twilight reassured him. The two sat down at a table in front of the small confectionary. "So tell me more about yourself…"
"What do you want to know?" Jared said, looking hungrily at the cupcakes that had been set before them.
"Were do you come from?" Twilight asked, before taking a bite out of the cupcake.
"Earth." Jared replied. He was starting to wonder when he would wake up or if he wasn't really dreaming after all. He began to think about what he had learned in physics, about the possibility of being trapped in a parallel dimension.
Twilight seemed to have a never ending thirst for knowledge. The two would talk for nearly 3 hours before a stallion with a cake symbol ushered them out.
"You should come with me to see Rarity." Twilight said; Jared wasn't sure if that was a question or command. He shrugged and followed her to a rather exquisite looking building down the road from the Sugar Cube Corner.
Immediately upon entering the building Jared noticed a white mare working furiously on a piece of fabric. "Hello darli…" Her voice trailed off when she saw him walk in the door.
"This is Jared." Twilight said, if she noticed how surprised Rarity was she didn't show it.
Rarity ran over to Jared and began inspecting his shirt. "This garment…It's simply marvelous I have never seen a design like this."
"I guess?" Jared replied monotonously.
"You guess?" Rarity started to look closer at the V-neck t-shirt "It accentuates your muscles very well." Jared began to get the odd feeling that Rarity was not looking at the shirt anymore. Rarity seemed to ignore Twilight has she explained what had happened to him, and were he had come from. "So if he's trapped here he will certainly need cloths to wear." Rarity replied suddenly her grin seemed to double in size.
"Ummm yeah I guess…" Twilight gave her friend an odd looking seemingly ignoring Jared's uncomfortable expression as Rarity started taking measurements "Anyway I have several errands that I need to do, Jared I guess I'll see you back in the library…bye."
"So I don't really have money to pay for shirts…" Jared scratched the back of his neck uncomfortably. Sitting down in a small chair next to where Rarity had been making her dress.
"That's ok darling…I would however like something in return." He knew what Rarity was getting at "How about you let me give you a special introduction…"
Jared was caught off guard when she kissed him. He settled into the kiss playfully exploring her mouth with his tongue. His mind went blank as Rarity advanced upon him easily removing his shirt. Suddenly he snapped out of it to instantly break the kiss.
"Aww, why did you stop?" Rarity said with a disappointed tone.
"We aren't even the same species!" Jared was seriously starting to doubt his own sanity. "First I get teleported to a land of ponies…and then I started making out with them?"
"Do you think that earth ponies only date other earth ponies?" Rarity sounded particularly amused at his reaction. "In any case why don't we take this to the backroom so we don't have any…Interruptions." She gave Jared a flirtatious smile.
He stood up quickly, "yeah I'm not comfortable with this…"
Rarity gave him a look of mock disappointment "Oh…well ok… I can have your shirts ready in a day or two."
"Thank you." Jared gave her a smile starting to feel slightly guilty.
"Anyway come back, if you want to design another shirt..." Rarity blew Jared a small kiss as he walked out of the small boutique, letting out a small sigh after closing the door behind him.
"What is the deal with these ponies?" Quickly ducking under a tree as Rainbow Dash went soaring through the sky above him.
Jared reaching the library hoping that Twilight was there, He was slightly disappointed when the library was empty.
Well this is my first story this is my first story reviews are appreciated