Troubling Times

Character introductions somethings will be found out later.

Name: Nikolai Krechenkoff (He is American.)

Hair style and color: Around 7 inches but its curly so it barely touches his shoulders. As for the color it's brown with a little bit of blonde in it.

Facial hair: Goatee

Age: 18

Height: 5'9 ½

Weight: 142 ½

Personality: I'll let you find out.

Talents/hobbies: I'll let you find out later.

Name: Tix Varkonin (Also American.)

Hair style and color: Around 4 ½ inches straight. Coloration dirty blonde.

Facial hair: Kept well shaven.

Age: 18

Height: 6'7

Weight: 270

Personality: Same as above.

Talents/hobbies: Same as above.

-Tix's Pov- (In case you don't know Pov stands for Point of view.)

As Nikolai was driving down the interstate music blaring, we were rocking out in the car just chilling. Singing along with the music, Nikolai being a decent singer and me being below average.

We were looking at eachother as we talked so we could lip read to help understand what the other person was saying. We were going a good 85 MPH up a hill.

"I'm pumped for the Falling in Rev- ohfuck!" I shouted in Nikolais face, pointing at the windshield. As he turned his head towards the front he went white as a ghost and started to turn to the left. It was too late all he did was turn us enough to ensure my death first. I know he was trying to get up out of harm's way so I just just leaned back almost as if accepting the inevitable.

"Shit" Nikolai shouted continuing to turn it as the 18-wheeler was inches away from the engine. As the 18-wheeler began to push the engine block onto our laps. It started to crush our legs first screams of pain were not low on supply at that moment. Top of the engine and the frame of the car started to cut and crush our upper bodies. As we started to bleed around we weren't in pain for very long as we breathed out for our last time.

As I start to stir in a black room, not dark but black. I see my friend laying down next to me, we don't look like we are in bad condition like we should be. Attempting to shake my sleeping friend to the 'land of the living' as it were. He started to wake but after he had his eyes kind of open he shot straight up waking up fully instantly.

"Sleeping beauties up and even without a kiss." I said grinning towards my friend, seeing that he was still a little disorientated.

"You can kiss the darkest part of my little white ass" Replied Nikolai with a smirk creeping across his face.

"So is it just me or should we be dead?" I responded in a more serious tone pretty much killing the humorous mood that had previously filled the room.

"Are we in heaven?" He seemed to be questioning himself more than me. I scan the room a little bit more intensely than I had since I had woken up.

"Hmm, I think we got the short end of the stick and ended up in hell." I stated bluntly.

"Hell is the personification of eternal pain and torment, we're not in hell bro." He replied with a matter-of-fact kind of look on his face. As I stood there in deep thought.

"This could be the torment part of he-" I was cut off by a guy entering the room.

"I can assure you gentlemen that this is not hell." The mysterious guy who seemed to materialized into the room. As I eyed him up and down trying to find some sort of identification he was just wearing a plain black hoodie with the hood up. Black jeans that seemed like regular jeans. As I got to his feet a pair of black sneakers on his feet, not any name brand as I could see. I scanned back up his hands in the hoodie pockets.

"It is Death who walks among us invisible only until he chooses to reveal himself to those who have perished, so we're dead aren't we?" Nikolai said intelligently.

"Woah bro, that's deep." I said like a smart-ass.

"Would both of you shut up, I am here with an offer would you two like to hear this option?" The mysterious guy says not really confirming if he is 'Death' or not.

"Speak then, because I see no way out of this dismal void." Nikolai said to the man who stood a few meters in front of him.

"Lets hear this offer." I said interested.

"Seeing as you both died unjustly I was propositioned to give you another life." He said disappearing leaving a laptop with two options on the screen 'Yes' or 'No'.

"Well this seems anticlimactic." I said striding over and picking up the laptop walking back over to my friend. Showing it to him.

"Well we're fucked either way, so why not?" Nikolai said with a slight chuckle.

"Well then I guess we pick yes." I say moving the cursor over the 'Yes' button. As I begin to click it there is a blindingly bright flash and we crumple to the ground unconscious.

I felt myself being shaken as my eyes start to open very bright light floods into them. 'Wearealive' I thought. Looking around noticing we are sitting in a cave, the cave entrance being one of the other things I saw quite quickly. It all looked brightly colored and more cartoonish that I was used too.

"So have you explored out of the cave yet?" I simply asked.

"No, I just woke up." Nikolai responded honestly. A loud crash outside got us both riled up looking around I grabbed a large rock probably a 40 pound rock. Then we cautiously started walking towards the cave entrance. As we got to the entrance I dropped the rock noticing a lot of envelopes fluttering towards the ground as I look up I put out my arms just in time to catch a grey blur that was falling. It wasn't that heavy but I still think it would have been hurt worse if it hit the ground. It was alive that I was sure of because of the fur feeling and the warmth coming out of the blob into my arms. As the bundle starts moving in my arms I notice wings on it. There seems to be a fracture in one its wings. It seems startled, so I carefully set it down and took a couple steps back. Getting a better look at it. It appeared to be a startled pony.

"Are you seeing what I am, bro?" I said keeping my eyes on the pony. It seemed even more startled by my speaking.

"I'm out" He said starting to walk away but stopped and turn to face me. "I've got to be losing my mind. Some fucking deal youhadtoclickyes, didn'tyou!" He exclaimed.

"Y'know this place can't be that bad" I said keeping my eyes on the pony who flinched as Nikolai was cussing.

"Umm, what are you guys?" The grey mare asked cautiously, it looked as though she was going to run away.

"You don't have to worry, we won't hurt you." I said trying to sound as nice as possible when I said 'we won't hurt you.' I shot Nikolai a don't do anything stupid look. "So do you mind filling us in a little, we can ask some questions and answer some. I'll give you the basics, we are from a different planet, we are a species called humans and we are the primary species that lives where we are from." Taking a deep breath, noticing the look of shock on her face it looked like I answered most of her questions.

"Well that was very informative, you're in a place called Equestria, you are currently in the Everfree forest. I am a mail mare. I was making deliveries too Zecora a resident nearby." She said looking around with a worried expression on her face. I could tell she was looking at all the mail on the floor. I started to bend down and pick up some mail and so did Nikolai. As we helped her gather up the rest of the mail.

"So can we follow you around to finish the rounds, until you head back to town anyway. then maybe you can take us to the library." I said in a hopeful tone.

"Sure." She responded.

"I need to lay down." Nikolai said as though he was exasperated.

"Alright you lead we will follow." I said grabbing Nikolai. As we were walking I was guiding my friend that was in a helluva daze. We approached a hut in the middle of the woods. It had masks hung around the outside looked like a friendly enough place. As it were being led the mare turned around when she was standing fully I noticed she was only up to Nikolai's chest.

"We never introduced ourselves." She said looking delighted. "My name is Derpy Hooves." She looked at us awaiting a response. I looked at Nikolai seeing that he wasn't going to answer anyway he was too out of it.

"I'm Tix and this is Nikolai." I say gesturing to my friend. She just nodded her head acknowledging that she understood.

"You guys just wait outside, okay." She said.

"Okay." I responded as she casually strolled up to the door. I noticed there were a few glances tossed our ways. The zebra didn't seem like she wanted to walk to us. She looked like she was in a hurry, so that could be why. As Derpy walked up to us we just waited for her to pass us and continued following her. After a little bit of bantering on the walk to town I saw the civilization get closer.

"They aren't as advanced as us it appears, so don't give them any ideas for new items let them create and come up with them on their own they need to advance by themselves." I whispered in my friend's ear he seemed to be more attentive in town. Possible because he was fearing we might get jumped. After a few minutes of walking we approached a tree. Derpy started to slow down so I assumed this 'tree' was the library. Could be possible considering the windows, door, and balcony.

"A tree, a fucking tree." Nikolai said. Derpy flinching again as the cuss word was spoken not only that but she had almost forgotten about him. She just continued up to the door as she was about to knock on the door a purple pony opened it.

"I thought I heard somep-" She just stopped speaking as she saw us. I was looking at her almost as curiously as she was at us. "Come in." she said.

"Okay." I said startling her a little. As we entered the room I was in awe of all the books that lined the shelf, as the purple pony turned to face us she was about to speak but I stopped her. "Okay, I will let Depry fill you in, can you point us to your history section, ma'am?." As I said 'Ma'am' I saw her slightly looked down with a small blush I just looked believing that it was the fact that no one had ever called her ma'am before. She just sheepishly pointed to a section.

Nikolai and I meandered over the designated place to find out about this land. As I heard some talking and gasps in the background I continued to look for books that might help so I start to piece off what eventually grows into a nice stack of books. I walk over to the nearest table and set them down. Noticing Nikolai had a fairly similar in height stack of books as I. We began reading, we weren't interrupted to my delight I was almost done with my stack as was Nikolai. So I figured they just decided to let us be and continue learning about the land we were in.

As we were finishing our last books I noticed a candle sitting in the table which was about halfway burned so that purple pony must have set it there a while ago so the lack of daylight wouldn't impede our reading. I also took the blankets on the floor as a sign of where to sleep.

"Looks like we aren't getting any better than floorboards my friend." I said to Nikolai. As it got further into the night I found it hard to get to sleep with a thunder storm brewing outside. I always liked the rain, as I slowly got up and lumbered over to the window. I watched the rain beating down on the landscape, as I begun to ponder about the reasons behind us getting drug here. After hours of staring out the window, there was a sound of someone stirring behind me. "You slept for a lot longer than I was expecting you too." I said turning around to my friend to see him rising off the ground.

"Tix I had the weirdest dre- oh" Nikolai replied in a sad tone becoming aware of his surroundings. As I scanned the library I saw a sleepy purple lizard on the stairs. Then I quickly pointed it out to my comrade. I cautiously stride over to the sleeping lizard.

"Wake up, little -uh-" I look back at Nikolai for some assistance.

"Wake up, little tike." Nikolai said over my shoulder to the sleeping lizard. As the lizard starts to wake a familiar purple unicorn trotted tiredly into the room, as her eyes look over the room she seemed startled as her eyes drifted onto me and my companion. After a couple seconds the realization that it wasn't all a dream, it seemed like Nikolai's reaction with the exception of sadness was replaced with pure happiness and curiosity.

"This is Spike. Spike this is Nikolai and Tix." Twilight said. Apparently there is a man code throughout all of the universes/planets, I found this because we all just simply acknowledged each others with a nod. Twilight seemed to take note of this simple exchange as she trotted into the kitchen part of the library. "So, what do humans eat?" Twilight asked inquisitively. I cautiously look over to my comrade.

"There wouldn't happen to be any poptarts here would there?" Nikolai asked with a small tinge of hope in his voice. Twilight just stood there with a confused look on her face, I knew the answer to my friends question already.

"What's a 'poptart'?" Twilight asked still kind of confused. Nikolai just stood there with an expression of pure shock and rage. I saw him tense up, he looked about ready to burst. After a very suspenseful gasp for air.

"How dare you." Nikolai whispered barely loud enough to meet Twilights ears. She just looked at him with an apologetic look on her face.

"I'm not quite sure what I did to offend you, but I am sorry." Twilight apologized.

"Apology acce-" Nikolai was cut off by a loud crash. As time seemed to slow Nikolai looked towards the loud crash which was the front door. "Not again." He said right before he was tackled to the ground by a cyan pony, with if I do say so myself a very colorful mane. As the cyan pony got off my comrade she turned to face me and I just put my hands up signifying that I wasn't going to fight.

"Stay away from my friends." The cyan pony barked, she kind of moved her head to see Twilight with a shocked look on her face.

"Why on earth did you do that Rainbow!" Twilight almost in raged. "These two are friendly." As she finished that statement I noticed my friend wasn't just hurt he was in the fetal position.

"Can we stop for now, Twilight do you have an ice pack?" I asked calmly. "Rainbow was it? I suggest you get out of here before he feels better it will take a while to repair the damage you have done and well he won't even want to see you for a little bit. So I'd say come back in a couple hours or something." Rainbow just looked at me kind of depressed. I'm guessing she thought she completely ruined any chance of making friends with the hurt one on the ground.

"Here is the ice pack you asked for." Twilight said levitating the ice pack to me, as I grabbed it out of the air. I lightly chucked it so it would land on the ground and slide to him. He slowly grabbed it and moved it so it covered his groin. "Should we take him to the hospital?" Twilight asked.

"No, give him like 15 minutes he will be good." I say with a slight chuckle to the concerned looking Twilight. I just started to walk towards the kitchen. "I guess its time to explain our eating habits, care to have a seat?" I say sliding out a chair and gesturing to it. As she calmly strode over to the chair and took a seat. "This is going to shock you, humans are omnivores." I said gauging her expression which was one of pure horror.

"You eat m-meat?" Twilight quietly asked.

"Yes, although we do not eat ponies. So no need to worry, possible substances like fish or something along those lines. Would work for us." I said again attempt to gauge her reaction, which was still mortified but a little relieved that we didn't eat pony. It looked like she understood though. "If it's breakfast for now do you have pancakes?" I asked.

"How do apple pancakes sound?" She quickly responded. I just shook my head as she and spike got to work. "Itappearedtobeafirsttimecookingforher. Perhapsshewastryingtoimpressoneofus." I thought to myself walking over to help my friend to the table as he was started to getting feeling into his legs back. I helped him stand and waddle over to the table to sit down. I take the seat directly away from him for a little experiment.

As the pancakes were getting done I noticed that the pancakes Nikolai had were a little worse for wear. A couple minutes into the breakfast I noticed Twilight watching Nikolai force down the pancakes. I saw him forcing down the pancakes that I could even smell were more burnt than anything else. As I stood to put my plate in the sink I heard that Nikolai was the first one to break the silence. "So Twilight where did you learn to cook?" he asked.

"From a couple books that I read recently." Twilight replied.

"Must have been some really good books because I love your cooking." Nikolai lied. Twilight was blushing at the compliment. I just sighed and returned to the table.

"That was amazing Spike, best pancakes I have ever eaten." I said directed at Spike. He just nodded, I think he noticed the dig I just took at my friend as a smirk crossed our faces. I returned my look to Nikolai he had his middle finger in the air. He was flipping me off, not that I could blame him.

"What does that mean?" Twilight asked gesturing toward Nikolai's hand.

"It means brotherhood." Nikolai lied again, as I just start to laugh. Twilight just gave both of us a very confused look. As I stood up and took a couple feet as a loud crash, Nikolai rolled under the table as quickly as he could. I just stood there dumbfounded by the gaping hole in the ceiling and the object that was flying at me, I looked familiar I braced myself for impact. As I hit me I flew straight back with this what I realized was another human in my arms. I slammed into the bookshelf I didn't think it was possible to hit something that hard. I heard a sickening snap assuming the worse I thought the adrenaline was masking the pain of a broken back. As everything went black, I slipped out of consciousness.

A/N: Well I hope you all enjoy it. If I get a couple people that like I will continue doing the story. I will keep it going for now because I haven't any opinions yet. This is based off of a couple of my friends and myself. So I hope to hear back from everyone. If you find any mistakes tell me I've been through it a couple of times.