A/N Spasibo comrades for your patients, I hope this covers up for my lack of update. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go... take care of things in Moscow... *Places M1911 in suitcase*


As Fluttershy and James walked for a while, they finally arrived at the market.

At every corner, there were stands that sold many different varieties of produces; fruits, vegitables, cooking oil. They were even selling alcohols and other beverages.

'Doesn't really change to the markets in my world.' he thought.

James to look a fluttershy.

"So Fluttershy, are you sure you don't want me to help you with the grocery?" James asked.

"Y-yes, I handle these kinds of chore everyday. Really, I don't mind carrying all these produces." she replied.

Fluttershy opened her saddle bag and pulled out a list. The list was quite long. In fact, it was so long, it reached floor and it reached by James's foot.

"...And you said you can carry all this?" he asked.

Fluttershy made a squeak sound (To James confusion of where it origanted from) as she tried to go through the list.

"W-well I used to be able to carry most of them alone in the past, but I may need to make a few trips for this."

"Then I can shorten your trips." James said as he picked up the list and took a quick check. He was dumbfounded by the long list of food, supplies and other neccesary items.

"Whoa, this is enough supplies to support a small country." he said as he handed it back to the Pegasus.

"Really James, you don't have to help me. I can do this on my own. It's not a problem, I've been doing this every week."

"Hey, the least I could do in return for your hospitality is help you with your chores. And besides, even though I'm technically a different species from this world, I think the 'ladies treatment' still applies here." he replies.

"Well, o-okay if you want to."


Meanwhile in Twilight's library

Twilight sat by her desk, surrounded by books. She studied each book under the request by Princess Celestia to locate a transportation or some kind of dimension crossing spell. She must find it or else the princess might send her back to magic kindergarten or be banished to the moon or thrown in a dungeon or be banished to the moon, in a dungeon, while serving magic Kindergarten for lack of trying.


Meanwhile in Canterlot

"Achoo!" Princess Celestia sneezes at her desk as she was signing a document for the representative of Damarecus.

"Has thy caught a cold?" her sister asks.

"Sniff* No, but I think someone made another rumor."


Spike woke up with a loud yawn as he crawled out of his bed.

"Twilight, it's Saturday. Can't you take a break from your studies for one hour? You've been up all night, flipping through those pages." the little baby dragon said.

"That's something I can't do right now Spike. Princess Celestia entrusted me find a spell that is capable of trasporting James back to his world at all cost."

"She said, 'If you could find it'." he retorted as he walked down stairs to get ready for breakfast.

As the lavender pony placed the book back to its shelf and levitated another to her, she found a documentary of a pony who ended up on a different world.

The title said, "The bloody side of the coin".

As she flipped through the first page, it told a story about a thoasand years ago, a earth pony from Fillydelphia named Boron, who was a scientist at the time, was engulfed in a bright white light on his way home from work and before he knew it, he was in a world riddled with corpse of creatures he had never seen before. In his descriptions of these creatures were chracteristics of a monkey but stood differently as they had very little hair and wore identical clothes to each other.

As she continued to read, she realises that this documentary was about the human world. But how did he manage to return?

She skipped to the very end of the document and found her answer. But it wasn't the answer she hoped for.

According to Boron, he returned to Equestria mysteriously as he came. But it says that he was traumatized from his five year experience.

'Wait, 5 years?' she thought.

Boron was trapped in the human world for five years before he returned. But he didn't return the same way he came. He claims that the humans were savage creatures that killed their own kind with weapons he had never seen before.

The weapons seemed to control weather as he saw them produce clouds and thunder with a long staff as hundred of these humans pointed the staff at another. And each thunder caused the other human to drop to the ground, dead. Boron never knew what the humans called this weapon but he was sure as manure didn't want to find out the name for this dreaded weapon.

He even saw some horses on the field, who suddenly exploded with blood when a monstrous metal beast unleashed its horror.

He was lucky to be alive but that horrifying experience stayed with him till he past away.

The documentary shocked her as it explains full details of a pony who has enter the other demension many many years ago.

Then she realizes something. "What if James is like those humans written here?" the mere thought made her blood run cold.

Her thoughts were cut off when Spike called out to her.

"Twilight, breakfast is ready! Put down that book and come down!"

Twilight closed the book and set it aside. Then joined Spike for breakfast.

The room she entered filled the air with rich scent of maple syrup and hay pancakes. She sat down in her seat and poured herself a cup of coffee.

"So Twilight, what were you reading up there that made you quiet all of a sudden." Spike said as he flipped the last peice of pancake on the plate.

"Oh, I was just... reading a scary story. You wouldn't like it, it's for things like mares and stallions read. It's really scary."

"Hey, I can handle scary stuff if you can Twilight." Spike retorted, "Besides, how bad can it be?"


Spike coward in fear in his bed as he read the first horrifying paragraph of "Muffins" by Lt. Frosting.

"I told you it would be scary." Twilight said as she placed a blanket over him.

"T-twilight?" Spike spoke, still disturbed by the novel.

"Yes Spike?"

"Please don't let her do that to me?"

"I won't, I promise. Now you take a rest and you can have have the rest of the day off, okay?"

Spike nods his head and curls up in his bed.

Twilight went back to her desk and levitated a quill, blank scroll and a good ink. Then opened up the book and started write down notes.

"I hope James isn't really what Boron claims to be."


In the market

*Achoo*

James sneezed all of a sudden as he was carrying several bags at one time for Fluttershy. He couldn't wipe his nose because of the bags in his arms so the unpleasant liquid swung around his nose like a pendulum.

"Oh my, um bless you." Fluttershy said. She pulled out a tissue from her saddle bag and kindly wiped it for him.

"Thanks, next time I'll watch my manners." he said.

"Alright, where to next?" he asked as he repositions the bag in his arms to a more comfortable position.

"Um Actually, we're done." she replies as she shows James the checkmark riddled list.

"Oh, Well lets get this back to the cottage then."

When the two were about to leave the market, a voice called out to Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy, Over here!"

As she turned around, she saw her hyperactive pink friend, bouncing toward them.

"Oh, Good evening Pinkie. Um, how are you today?"

"Oh I'm doing superly duperly great! You know I'm a pony always with a smile but today is absolutely a joyful day! I mean aside from singing and dancing and throwing parties, I found out that somepony just opened up a new place today!" Pinkie cried as bounced up and down continuosly in her spot.

"Really, what's that place called?" James asked.

"Oh Hi James, I'm not so sure. It had a weird name. I thinks it's 'something Okay'." she replies.

"Something okay?" both human and Pegasus were confused of what this place was.

"I read it's policies by the wall. It said you can dance and sing there, regardless of how good you are. I think it sounds fun so I thought I invite you guys to have some fun."

"Singing, Something...Okay." James repeated, then the gears in his head began to turn.

"Hey Pinkie, do you mean Karaoke?" he asked.

"Ooh That's it! Karaoke!" she resumed to bouce as she finally remembered the name.

"Wow James, how did you know?" Fluttershy asked.

"There were a couple of Karaoke bars from where I was from. My parents used to take me there in our free times. Though we stopped going after... my father left for the war." he replies.

"Um, what about your mother?"

"She past away after I joined the army. Things hasn't been the same for a long time."

"I-I'm so sorry." Fluttershy attempted to apoligize but James cut her off.

"You don't have to appoligize, we all made choices that led us to who we are now. Including me. It had absolutely nothing to do with you." He reassured Fluttershy then Pinkie popped in between them.

"So, do you guys wanna come to the karaoke? I already invited Rainbow dash, Rarity and Applejack so it all leaves to Twilight and you two."

"What about the cost? I'm sure you guys have enough to pay but I don't have any money right now. Or... specifically the currency for here."

James didn't carry a wallet since money meant little when he's on the job.

"Don't you worry about a thing about currancy because your auntie Pinkie Pie has all of it taken cared of." Pinkie said as she rubbed her hoof on James' head.

"I think I'm much older than you Pinkie." James retorted as he fixed his hair.

"So, does this mean your paying" Fluttershy asked.

"Nope, the sign said it's free if you exceed five or more pony in one reservation. But you still have to pay for the orders inside. It's a policy of theirs." Pinkie said.

"Well, we gotta go back to the cottage to drop off the supplies first. Not to mention I gotta figure out how to get back to my world. Besides I don't sing that good." James said.

"But you sang by that cliff yesterday and I thought that was beautiful." Fluttershy said as she blushed under her coat. She hopes he doesn't notice it.

"Really? I wanna hear him sing too! C'mon James join me and the others, it's going to be fun!" Pinkie hopped around in her spot as she stared at James.

"Alright, I'll give it a try. Give us the address to the place and if we can, we'll meet you there at five o'clock. If we're not there after ten minutes or so, it means we can't come. Sound good to you?"

"Okie dokey lokie!" Pinkie exclaimed, out of nowhere she pulled out a peice of paper and quill and wrote down the address to the karaoke bar.

"Here you go, five o'clock then!" As Pinkie finished, she bounced off to the distance and disappeared around the corner.

"We better get going too if we want to get there in time." James said as he began walk off. Fluttershy followed behind and trotted next to him.

"I really do think you have a great voice, I...I want to hear it agian." Fluttershy said.

"Is that what you really think?" he asked.

"I do, I mean if that's okay with you. um, I heard many beautiful sounds from birds and surrounding nature but i never heard such sound like yours." she replies.

"Well, glad you like it."

Her words accelerated his heart rate again but he tried his best to shrug it off.

"C'mon, let's speed up our pace before the food spoils." he said as he quicken his pace.

Fluttershy tried her best to keep up but she could hardly keep up with the human's pace. Since she was carrying a few extra pounds in her saddlebag.

"um James not to be a thorn to the side but how can you go that fast with all this weight?" she asked.

"I carried up to about 50 to 60 pounds around my back each day when I trained in the army. Now, 30 pounds feels like a feather to me." he reply.

"I wish I was as strong as you."

"Believe me, you DON'T want to be me. I gained skills and traits at a early age that I kind of regret. It... haunts me alot in my sleep." he explains. He hasnt notice that he slowed down and came to a stop.

"James? Are you okay?" Fluttershy showed a little concern of his change in behavior.

James shook his head as he snapped himself back to reality and replies, "Yeah. C'mon, let's speed up our pace before the food spoils." he said as he continued down the road back to Fluttershy's cottage.

'Poor thing,' she thought, 'he must have been through alot in his foal hood. Wait, does human say foal for their young? Oh I wish there was something I could do to help him.'

"Fluttershy, what's holding you back?" James asked.

"Oh s-sorry."

Fluttershy caught up with James and continued up the road to the cottage.