A/N: Wrote this next chapter from between 2-4 am in the morning. Why? Because I really care about my readers and wanted to get it out as soon as possible! Also because Insomnia. Mostly insomnia. If any parts seem a bit worse than normal my excuse is that I was half awake when typing it.

The work day was over, and Sugar Cube Corner was now closed, but this didn't deter Pinkie Pie's friends from going in, they had agreed to meet up in Pinkie's room after the work day had ended to talk with/about Jacob. There were lots of things that needed to be figured out, and lots of questions that needed to be answered. The 6 ponies and the 1 human were sitting in a circle, the ponies who hadn't introduced themselves to Jacob had done so, and there was a pause as the ponies wondered what to say first.

Twilight Sparkle decided to start by saying, "So Jacob, just in case you didn't know, the reason we're all here is to talk with, and about you. We're going to ask you some questions and we're going to talk about you're current situation, Ok?"

Jacob was drawing as Twilight spoke, and didn't bother stopping as he said, "Ok."

Twilight Sparkle was a little that Jacob wasn't going to stop drawing, but didn't say anything about it, "First off Jacob, and I don't mean to sound rude, what are you? I've been going through all kinds of books in my library and I can't find even a mention of a creature that looks even remotely like you."

Jacob laughed a little and said, "Don't worry, I don't take any offense. My species is called Human. Are you sure you weren't able to find anything? Humans are fairly well known where I'm from," Jacob ended his sentence with another small chuckle, still not stopping his drawing.

Twilight frowned slightly and said, "No, I couldn't find anything, but what you said leads to another question, where are you from? Please don't just say the city or town, but as wide spectrum as you can get."

Jacob paused his drawing and leaned back stretching his arms, "I'm from the city Seattle, which is in the state of Washington, which is part of the United States, which is in the North American Continent on the planet Earth," Once he was done stretching Jacob moved his hand back to the paper, but he paused for a few seconds, after which he made displeased grunting noise and put the half-finished drawing at the bottom of his stack of paper before starting again on a new piece.

Twilight Sparkle was being careful to write down everything Jacob said on her own piece of parchment so that she wouldn't have to ask him the same thing twice. Twilight frowned and chewed on the tip of her quill, going over her data with an increasingly worried look. Applejack spoke up saying, "Twilight, what's with that look on your face? What're you thinkin'?"

Twilight Sparkle sighed and said, "None of the places Jacob just named exist on our map, the only name that I even recognized was Earth."

Rainbow Dash, who wasn't fully clueing into what this meant asked, "So? What does it matter if some places don't show up on the map?"

Twilight sighed again her brow furrowed, as she looked at Jacob. He hadn't stopped drawing this whole time, but he hadn't said a word either. She was beginning to suspect it was some kind of coping mechanism. "It means a lot of things, but the biggest thing it means is that Jacob isn't going to be getting home anytime soon."

There was a collection of small gasps and "Oh dears/noes/mys," from the group of ponies, and they all turned to Jacob to see his reaction, but he just kept drawing. Twilight wasn't done speaking and continued, "I have a few theories explaining as to why the places Jacob named don't exist for us, but I'll just share the top two. The first one is that Jacob is from some other universe or world, and the other is that Jacob is from some point in our far past or distant future."

"Do you have any idea as to how I got here Twilight?" Jacob's voice was calm, but it didn't take much to tell he was very upset with the news at hand.

Twilight sighed again, not happy to the bearer of so much bad news, "Unfortunately no. There are no traces of magic on you, no traces of magic where you appeared. I can't make head nor tails of it. I don't know how you got here Jacob, but from the way things look right now you aren't going to be getting back in the foreseeable future," There was another pause as everyone let this news sink in. "Does anyone have any other questions for Jacob? This is the time."

Fluttershy was the first to speak up and asked, "Umm, do you eat meat Jacob?"

The ponies were starting to realize it was almost always going to be hard to judge Jacob's reactions to things due to the way he kept his mane/hair over his face, and that he didn't move his head reactively to most anything, but they seemed to feel he was a little surprised this question. "Uh, yes, why?"

All the ponies gathered except for Fluttershy were definitely surprised, not only that Jacob ate meat, but that Fluttershy had all but guessed that he did. "Oh, well um, you see us Ponies are herbivores, and I'm very sorry, but can you go without eating meat?" Fluttershy, in keeping with her name and character was being very timid and quiet.

Jacob laughed a little again and said, "Yes, I can go without eating meat, Humans are omnivores. But um, every now and then if we could find a way for me to get some meat to eat, that would be nice. I can go without it, I'm just kinda used to it and enjoy it."

If Jacob could see the looks on the ponies faces, he would've been quite surprised. Rarity was obviously a little disturbed by this new-found knowledge, but decided it wouldn't let it affect her opinion of Jacob and maintained the neutral mask she wore whenever she was trying to hide her feelings. Pinkie Pie didn't seem to care in the slightest and was bouncing in her seat, a wide smile plastered onto her face as per the norm. Fluttershy who had seen Jacob's teeth when they first met wasn't really surprised by the information, and was used to dealing with carnivorous animals thanks to her job. Applejack was perturbed by the information, but she was used to dirty details due to her farm life and didn't try to let the news affect her, but she couldn't help but look at Jacob a little more appraisingly, as if to figure out who would win in a fight. Twilight Sparkle took the information in stride and just wrote it down in her notes, not really caring that Jacob ate meat, if anything she found it mildly interesting. Rainbow Dash was flabbergasted at the this new found knowledge and was staring at Jacob with open disgust.

"How the hay can you eat meat!" Rainbow Dash all but yelled at Jacob, who was certainly not prepared for such an outburst.

Jacob jumped back in his seat slightly and looked in Rainbow Dash's general direction, "Umm, with a fork and knife?" Jacob was confused by the sudden outburst and was unsure of how to respond.

"Oh, real funny! I mean how the hay can you eat the flesh of another creature!" Just saying that almost Rainbow Dash gag. Fluttershy was curling into her seat, reverting to her instincts of, become as small as possible. Twilight had stopped writing her notes and Pinkie had stopped bouncing in her chair. All eyes were on Jacob, waiting for his response.

Jacob was trying to figure out what was up with the sudden outburst when he remembered that Fluttershy had mentioned Ponies are herbivores. If Ponies are the dominant race, and they didn't eat meat… Jacob didn't know exactly how "wrong" it was considered for him to eat meat, but it was obviously pretty bad. Jacob was still trying to think of an appropriate response and was tapping the side of his chair, scratching his arm, just trying to think of a response when Rainbow Dash spoke again, "What the buck is wrong with you!"

Jacob froze. If you could cut the tension in the room with a knife before, it would take a chainsaw now. "You want to know what's wrong with me?" Jacob's voice was low and menacing, "You want to know what the fuck is wrong with me!" Jacob had raised his voice and stood up from his chair now.

Rainbow Dash was a little frightened by his response, but wasn't going to back down, "Yes! What makes-"

Pinkie Pie had hopped out of her seat and in-between Jacob and Rainbow Dash, "Hey, friends! Why don't we sit down, and-"

Pinkie was interrupted by Jacob walking by her and straight to Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie was about to say something, when she noticed her fur was a little wet. Looking at Jacob, she could see he was crying again and some of it had gotten on her fur.

Rainbow Dash had noticed Jacob was crying too and was starting to calm down, realizing she overreacted, just a little bit. "Wait Jacob, I didn't mean."

Jacob kneeled in front of her, "I know you didn't mean. I really do. I'm sorry it's just that. I've been through a lot, and right now the last thing I need is someone to blow up at me for something I do naturally. I'm sorry, that I eat meat and I can sort of get it must be considered a bad thing to eat meat in your society, but it's just part of life in mine," Jacob's voice was calmer now, and he seemed to have calmed down along with Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash noticed his tears as well, they were starting to drip off his face, but either Jacob didn't notice or he didn't care because he made no motion to stop them or wipe his face, "I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have yelled at you like that," Rainbow Dash didn't really know what spurred her to do it, but she licked the tears off his face for him and asked, "Friends?"

Jacob was a little surprised at the sudden feel of Rainbow Dash's tongue on his cheek, but quickly realized he had been crying. Maybe licking them was a pony thing? Regardless Jacob pulled Rainbow Dash into a hug and said, "Friends."

The touching moment was broken up by Applejack barely containing fits of laughter as she called out in a sing-song voice, "Rainbow Dash and Jacob, sittin' in a tree K-I"

She was interrupted by Rainbow Dash immediately pulling away from the hug with her face a bright crimson saying, "AJ! What the heck!" Her voice cracked as she said this and only added to the growing laughter of the rest of the group.

"I'm so sorry Jacob, I do hope we can still be friends!" said Rarity doing a rather terrible impersonation of Rainbow Dash before pantomiming licking in a slow exaggerated motion.

"Rarity! It's not like that!" Rainbow Dash's face was steadily growing redder by the second.

"Licking the face of another is a sign of affection and something only mates do with each other in the case of most animals," Fluttershy added in, a small smile on her face as she joined in with teasing her friend.

"Not you too Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash was practically a tomato at this point. Fluttershy's only response was a small giggle and even Twilight couldn't keep in a chuckle.

Jacob intervened and stood up saying, "It's ok Rainbow Dash, I understand," Rainbow Dash sighed and was visibly relieved to hear Jacob say this. Jacob then leaned in so that his was roughly next to hers and said in a very loud whisper, "You can show me how your affections when we're in a more private setting, Ok? You can introduce me to some new 'Pony Culture'."

Rainbow Dash's face was bright red and her mouth was hanging open as she just stared at Jacob in shock. Applejack and Rarity were rolling on the ground together, unable to contain their laughter, Pinkie Pie wasn't much better off, while Twilight and Fluttershy stayed in their chairs doing their best not to join the others on the floor. Jacob couldn't help but laugh as well another genuine smile splayed across his face.