"Alex… Alex…" I kept on hearing and as I opened my eyes I looked to find Samson's heading looking at me from behind me.
"Hey Samson…" I said.
"Get up." he then said and that made my eyes go wide.
"Holy shit!" I then yelled as I sat up and looked at him. "You can fucking talk!"
"You can understand me?" he then said cocking his head.
"Yes I can understand you! How the fuck are you talking and how can I understand you?!" I yelled.
"I don't know. I woke up down here just a few minutes ago." He said.
"Okay so then let's assess the situation. I still got my sixxers along with my knife. And by what I can tell we are in someone's basement." I said.
"Why am I smaller?" Samson said and when I looked at him I found he was correct. He looked like he shrank 2 inches.
"Who knows. I'm still freaking out that you can talk." He only nodded as I heard talking upstairs as I approached the stairs and then walked up them towards the door.
"What are these things Twi?"
"I don't know Applejack. We will need to inform the princesses about these."
"Great we landed in a fucking monarchy." I then said as Samson walked up the stairs and put his head up against the door next to my own.
"So what did the intruders look like?"
"Well one of them looked like a diamond dog and the other was a pony. They crashed into the barn and we lost quite a few bushels from whatever happened to them."
"Well I think we are in the basement of a farmer. But what kind of name is Applejack?" I asked Samson who only shrugged.
"Well guess we should check and see if they are awake in the morning… then we can send them to the princesses."
"Fuck that." I said as I pulled out my knife and I slipped it between the door and the frame.
"Well goodnight Applejack."
"Goodnight Twilight." And with that I got the door opened and standing on the other side was an orange pony with a yellow mane and tail and with a brown cowboy hat on.
"Shiiiiiiiit." I said as I slammed the door closed and braced it as Samson did as well as the door started to be hit from the other side.
"That's it." I then heard.
"Brace for impact!" I yelled as the door was broken open sending us flying down the stairs as we then tumbled to a halt at the bottom and we both looked to find the pony walking down the stairs angrily.
"Your gonna have ta pay for the door." She said. She has a country accent. "Now what in Celestia's name are ya?"
"Well I'm a human and this is my horse Samson." I said with a little bit of fear in my voice.
"Now that that question is answered why didja crash into ma barn?" she asked.
"As far as I know. I was about to leave the barn, Samson started to neigh like crazy, I walked in to a giant ass hole pulling everything in, Samson was sucked in, and then I soon after." I said as she reached the bottom.
"Well ya are telling the truth I can tell. But how am I supposed to explain the barn to ma family when they get back?" she then said with a little bit of anger.
"When do they get back?" Samson asked.
"In about a week." She said.
"We can help you fix it up. I did take a building class in school for maintenance on the farm we are from." She only smiled.
"Now that would be mighty kind of ya. But I don't know if I should trust ya or not." She said.
"I give you my word as a Texas ranger." She looked at me confused.
"What's a Texas ranger?" she asked and I sighed.
"It's what I am from the place we are from. God bless America." She looked at me more confused.
"I don't think I ever heard of the place called 'America'. All I know is Equestria and Griffonia." She said.
"So I take it we are not on Earth?" I then asked.
"You are on Equus." She then said.
"Well shit. Guess we might be here for a long while Samson." He only nodded as I stood up.
"Now how didja unlock the door? It was locked real good?" she asked as I pulled out my knife.
"This knife has gotten me out of a lot of jams. Unlocking doors is one of them." She only sighed.
"Well can I get ya anything to eat or drink? As long as you are up I might as well make sure ya stay alive." She said.
"Some water will do. Get a bucket and fill it for Samson though." She looked at me confused.
"And I thought he was like one of us? Seeing as he looks like one of us and he also has a cutie mark." She said.
"Cutie mark?" we both said as we looked where she was pointing to find a picture on his flank. On the bottom was a cross and the top of it swirled over each other once and it turned into a heart.
"What the fuck is a cutie mark?" I asked.
"A cutie mark represents what a pony is good at. If ya look at mine: I'm good with apples." She said as she showed her flank and there were three red apples there.
"I have seen the mark before Samson. I think yours means loyalty." I told him as he continued to look at it.
"Loyalty? Ma friend Rainbow Dash is the element of loyalty. Most loyal pony ya could meet." She said with a smile.
"Then maybe Samson could meet her at some point." I said with a smile as she shared a laugh with me.
"Well I will go get ya both some water. If he drinks from a bucket I know for certain ma friend Twilight is going to have fun teaching him." She said.
"Well I would love to see that. But also can I have all of my things? I know a lot of the stuff from my farm had gone through whatever that hole was." She only nodded as she walked back up the stairs and when she was no longer in sight Samson spoke.
"Should we trust these ponies?" Samson asked.
"Might be a very good idea to. Until we find out that what they want to do with us is bad." He nodded as the mare walked back down the stairs with a bucket in her mouth and a glass of water on her back which I was very surprised it didn't spill as she walked down the steps and when she reached us she set the bucket down and she handed me the glass of water which I thanked her for.
"So what did go through the hole you came through?" she asked me.
"A few of my family's old guns which are in good condition and very rare. Luckily my dad taught me how to make gunpowder and reuse the shells." I said with a smile as she looked at me confused.
"What are guns?" she then asked.
"They are human weaponry. Very deadly if you are not the one pulling the trigger. But I will not harm anything that does not try to harm me." She sighed with relief when I said that.
"Well then I will bring them down to ya." She said as she walked back up the stairs.
"So what are we going to do? I mean since we are most likely stuck here forever." Samson asked.
"Most likely just try to adapt. But you are lucky. You could most likely have a family and I cant." He only laughed.
"Then I am very happy to for once be a horse." He said which confused me.
"What do you mean by for once happy?" I then asked.
"Because being a horse where we are from sucks… at least I can actually communicate with you here even though you understood everything that I asked for… well except for the day of the water buckets." I looked at him amazed.
"Wait a minute! So when I got you buckets of water for an entire day! You really didn't want water?!" I snapped as he laughed.
"All I wanted was to go outside!" he said and now I was mad at him. I lugged over 20 buckets a hour from the house into the barn. Every time I came back I found the previous water bucket had been tipped over. Eventually I had to let him free roam the farm due to his stall being flooded. I had to do this every few hours!
"I will get my revenge." I said and he only smiled.
"We shall see about that." He said and I heard footsteps and I looked to see Applejack walking down the stairs with multiple bags with her and as she dropped them off I opened them and smiled.
"So all the sawed off shotguns are accounted for. As well as the rifles- wait a minute. There's one missing." I said looking at her.
"Before we met at the door my friend Twilight took one of them with her to send to the princess." She said rubbing the back of her head.
"Well I have 9 others so that doesn't matter." I said with a smile as I took them all out and found they were all still in good condition. "Thank you god. At least none of them were damaged." I said as a scream rang out.
"That sounded like scootaloo!" she yelled as she ran up the stairs and I quickly loaded multiple shells into the first rifle I grabbed and I ran up the stairs and then looked around until I eventually ran out of the front door and I saw what the scream was about.
"Is that a wolf made of fucking wood?!" I yelled as I noticed the mare with a small foal on her back running towards me as I raised the rifle towards the group of wooden wolves and I fired once as it impaled in the head of the first timberwolve as I then quickly did the lever as I started to walk forwards as the mare with foal ran past me as I fired once more and as I did the lever I felt it didn't go up all the way. "Shit your jammed!" I said as I tossed it to the left as I got into a showdown stance and as the wolf leaped at me I quickly whipped out my knife and threw it as it impaled in its head and it fell to the ground. As I walked over to it and kicked it and it jerked up. "how are you still alive?!" and with that I pulled out a sixxers and shot it in the head a few times until it finally stopped moving and I then ran over to the two. "What was that thing?"
"That was a timberwolve. What it's doing out of the Everfree forest is the question on my mind. Now scootaloo. Why were you out this late?" She asked the little foal.
"I heard a loud crash and I thought something had happened…" the little foal said and I realized it was feminine. She's a girl.
"That happened about an hour ago scootaloo. Why were ya really out?" she asked.
"I just felt something like calling out to me…" she then said.
"Now we will have to talk to you about telling the truth." She said and the little filly put her head down.
"She's actually telling the truth." They both looked at me.
"What do ya mean?" she asked.
"If you lived in a world full of lying you got to know what is a lie and what isn't a lie. What she was saying was the truth." I said.
"For once I actually couldn't tell so I just went with what my head thought was right." She then said.
"Well you might hear me lying sometimes and if I can fool you then you need to work on your truth detector." She only smiled as I heard shouting coming from behind and I then quickly turned around and saw a total of 5 ponies running this way and on one of them… was a giant purple lizard?
"Diamond dog!" the cyan pony yelled before it flew… wait a fucking minute… Flew! As it flew at me I then sidestepped as it blew past me and crashed into the house through the open door.
"I may not know what a fucking diamond dog is but I rather not be called one." I then said as they all ran past me and to the mare and filly as they stood in front of her. "Well if you need me I will be fetching my casings." I then said as I walked over to the nearest carcass and I then pulled out my knife and started to cut through its head. "There's the little buggers." I then said as I pulled out the bullet which were covered in sap and I then walked over to the next carcass and I started to use my knife on its head. "Jesus how deep did the shell get in there?" I then said when I finally found it and I pulled it out with a smile before I moved onto the next one. This one was in the deepest.
"Well shit." I then said as I started to try and dig it out. "Well I lost one shell fully. This little bugger isn't going to be coming out any time soon." And with that I stood back up and as I approached the group of ponies they were looking at me with shock when I got wide eyed and pulled out both of my sixxers. "GET DOWN!" I then yelled as they did and I unloaded a total of 5 shots into the body of the wolf before it fell to the ground unmoving and no light in its eyes as the ponies got back up and stared at me as I unloaded the sixxers and replaced fully loaded barrels into them. My sixxers were special made. All I had to do to reload them was grab another barrel and unclick out the current barrel and then replace it.
"You killed a timberwolve!" the purple pony yelled and I noticed it… had… a… horn… and wings… what the fuck is going on here?
"So what if I did? I bet you kill them all the time." I said as I walked towards the house only to be stopped by the winged unicorn.
"Nopony can kill a timberwolve! No! Pony!" she yelled.
"Well there's your problem." She looked at me confused. "I'm not a pony. Hey Samson!" I then yelled into the house.
"Yeah?!" he yelled.
"Bring my stuff up here! I'm most likely going to be working for the night to fix the barn that we crashed into!" I then yelled.
"Actually only you crashed into it buddy!"
"Are you kidding me?!" I yelled.
"Nope!"
"Well… I should of seen that coming. Now I believe one of you has one of my things?" I asked cocking an eyebrow at them.
"That would be me." The winged unicorn said.
"Well I expect to have it back in the morning. Also may I know all of your names?" I then asked.
"I'm Twilight sparkle and this is spike. This is Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and I see you already met Applejack." She said with a smile.
"Okay then. Name is Alex Price. Friends call me price, you not until I get to know you enough to give you all nicknames." They all only nodded as Samson walked out with two bags on his back and a bag in his mouth. "Thank you Samson." I then said as I walked over and grabbed the jammed rifle and I walked back over and put it into the bag with the other rifles before I stood up. "Meet Samson. My best friend from my world and the most loyal horse I know." They looked at me with surprise.
"Why did you just make fun of your best friend?!" Twilight yelled.
"Because in my world he was bigger than he actually is and that's what we call him. The size he currently is, is what we call ponies." I answered as I walked over to him.
"How does he have a cutie mark then? If he's from your world." Fluttershy asked.
"Well I think the powers of this world morphed him into what he already was but smaller, he can talk, and he now has that. At least I know what it means." I said with a smile.
"What does it mean? I never seen that symbol before in any of the books." Twilight asked.
"It stands for loyalty in my world." Rainbow Dash's eyes got bigger. "Forgot that Applejack said that you were the element of loyalty."
"Maybe you could tell us some things about your word including how you know what that cutie mark is." Twilight suggested.
"What do you think Samson?" I asked him.
"As long as I am not experimented on I'm okay with it." Twilight only smiled as several of us gave a big yawn. "Well I suppose we could continue our talk in the morning. Goodnight everypony!" she said as she walked away with the others leaving only me, Samson, scootaloo, and Applejack.
"Well it's too late for ya to return home scootaloo. How about ya spend the night." Applejack said as she smiled bigly.
"Really?!" she said and she nodded as she and Applejack walked into the house now leaving only me and Samson.
"So was it only me that crashed into the barn?" I asked him.
"Yep. Must of hurt." He said as he walked into the house as I only sighed and I walked over to the barn but immediately walked out as I gripped my head.
"How is this barn still standing?! I crashed into the main support beam and broke it!" I said as I then spotted multiple beams on the left side of the barn if you were looking at the front and I then spotted some tools on the inside. "This means that if it is still standing I have some time before it collapses." I then muttered as I walked over to the beams and took them all off of each other and as soon as that was done I walked into the barn and estimated the size of the beam. So it's about 5 of me tall so let's have a looksee at the beams. As I walked back out I started to look at all the beams and I had three choices. There was one that was one foot smaller then the next and the same with the last one but one foot bigger. "Well let's try them out one at a time." I then muttered as I picked up the smallest one and I carried, no, struggled with it into the barn.
As soon as I entered I put it down as I climbed the ladder and then pulled out the nails connecting the top part of the broken beam and as it fell with a loud thud I then went back down the ladder and I then lifted the broken parts of the beam outside and I then set them down as I then picked up the good beam and I set it up right. "Not tall enough." I then muttered as I took it down and I then struggled with it back out and I grabbed the largest one and I set it up but it was stopped about one foot away from where it needed to be. "To big. This just means I know which one to use at least." And with that I carried it out and set it down as I grabbed the one in the middle and somehow this one was heaviest.
As I struggled with it into the barn and I started to set it up as soon as it was up I let go and it started to tilt towards multiple large buckets full of apples. "Shit!" I said as I rushed to the side it was tilting towards and I propped it back up and I then quickly climbed the ladder and I then started to nail it in nice and quickly. "An inch shorter then needed but it will have to do." I then muttered as I gave one last swing and it was nailed in I climbed back down the ladder and I admired my work as I wiped the sweat from my forehead and I then noticed the sun going up at the same time the… moon… was… going… down… note to self… ask Twilight about the physics of this world. As I walked out I found Applejack walking out of the front door.
"I fixed the support beam for ya! Might want to get another one an inch bigger for it to actually fit!" she only nodded as she walked over and walked in and looked at it.
"This was the one that was supposed to actually be used the first time this barn was built. But when the barn fell about a year ago we made the barn a little bigger and we couldn't use it. I'm surprised you used it." She then said.
"Well it was the only one that would actually reach the wood that was connecting it to the top of the barn." I told her. "Now all that's left for me to do is fix the second floor's floor and the roof."
"Well ya can get ta that later. For now I will take ya to go and see Twilight so she could show ya around town. How strong is Samson?" she asked.
"He's pretty strong. Why do you ask?" I asked her.
"Well a will need some help with the apple trees until ma family get back. So do ya mind that he helps?" I only shook my head.
"He could help. Just be careful though. He's a sneaky little horse. When I put him to work in my world when you look away he just stands there but when you are looking at him he actually works. Always keep him in your line of sight." She only nodded as I followed her out of the barn and I then grabbed a rifle and a bandolier belt and I put them both over my head and I then followed her off the farm and into the town.
"What are those things anyway?" she asked as we walked.
"I told you about these earlier last night. These are called guns. My most reliable ones to. I got two six shooters with me and a lever action rifle. Best weapons a country man like me could use." She smiled.
"So you're from the country in your world? No wonder I heard the hint of a country accent in your voice." She said with a smile and I noticed many of the ponies we passed gave me weird looks. Of course they would. I'm new here. As I continued to follow Applejack I noticed scootaloo walking towards an old looking building that looked rundown. Must be where she and her family lives.
"So what can you tell me about this town?" I asked Applejack.
"Well everypony here is nice and they would like to be treated the same way. When Twilight shows ya around town you will get to meet a lot of ponies." She said.
"Well is there a blacksmith or a forgery?" she looked at me.
"Yep. I know the pony that runs it." She said.
"perfect." I said and she only looked at me confused.
"What do ya mean by that?" she asked.
"If I am going to replace my shells and bullets I will need a blacksmith or a forgery to do so. I can make the gunpowder but the casings need to be forged." I said and she only nodded as we once again started to walk. "So how many apple bushels did you lose when I crashed into the barn?"
"About 15 of them." I gave a low whistle.
"Guess that means I need to work up multiple bushels for you." She only smiled.
"I'm sure your friend could do that for ya." I smiled an evil grin at that.
"That would be perfect for revenge against him for not helping me fix the barn." She only nodded as we then continued to walk in silence once more but I then decided I would go crazy if the silence went on any longer. "So what else can you tell me about Ponyville?"
"Well its where ma friend twilights castle is." She said and I froze mid-step as she walked a few more feet before noticing I stopped.
"Did you just say castle?" I asked.
"Yep. Its over there." She said and my mouth went wide as I saw it.
"Holy shit…" I then said. "Please don't tell me she's a princess or something."
"Then I won't tell ya." Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit she's a princess.
"Well this just means I will have to be careful not to anger her." I said as I ran to catch up to her as we started to walk once more.
"Well she's pretty nice unless you plan to harm a book." She then said as we then reached the castle just in time for Twilight to walk out of the front and she smiled when she saw us.
"You ready to be shown around town?" she asked and I only nodded as she walked over to us.
"Well a better get back to the farm and put your friend to work. I will see ya later Alex." Applejack said as she trotted off leaving me with Twilight.
"Well let's get going."