"Guess whoooooo~!" Pat could already guess from the voice and groaned in annoyance, looking around at the black space surrounding him. "What do you want?" He grumbled, his arms folding over his chest as he got a grumpy look on his face.

"Well that's no way to greet me, is it?" The voice had a pouty tone to it as if he was in mock hurt from the way Pat had spoken. "I just wanted to check up on my best buddy. Is that so bad? Also, I wanted to tell you that you're not gonna be in the same place when you wake up," It spoke the last part casually but had a hint of malice in it.

"What do you mean by that? I can't just leave Chrysalis out of the blue!" Pat was worried for the changeling queen and who would get hurt once she found out that he wasn't there with her anymore.

"Oh quit your whining. I just need you to be able to go out and see the world! So you'll be waking up in a pony's house. But don't worry. She'll love the company. Plus that little changeling filly will be with you, too." Even the big scary, god-like guy has a hint of squeeing in his voice at the thought of the cute changeling that had apparently become the human's adopted daughter. "Oh, and before I forget, there will also be a new human joining you fairly soon. He knows the world a bit, though, so I would recommend befriending him. I know how you humans are with your wars and what-not."

"What's that supposed to mean?" He grumbled, knowing full well what it meant. "And how could he know about this world?" The fact that a human would know anything about Equestria shocked him. Did this human have some kind of powers?

"Well you see, you would be able to have knowledge of this world as well if you had paid a bit of attention back on Earth. Maybe you've heard of the show My Little Pony?" He questioned in honest curiosity.

"Erm, I think so. Pretty sure one of my buddies was a fan of the show or something. But he never really talked about it cause none of us really knew anything about it or were into it."

"Well the human that I'm bringing in isn't actually from your universe. He's from a universe that is a video game where you're from, though. I know for a fact that you've never played it considering the fact that it comes out about a year after I took you here…"

"Wait you can take people from the future and stuff? Sounds pretty awesome. So am I gonna wake up any time soon or are you gonna keep blabbing?" He smirked, hoping to have irritated the being a bit.

"Hmm? Oh right. Well, we'll talk again whenever I have something to say to you. Bye!" Pat felt a force push on his chest and he fell back seemingly endlessly. At least he crashed into a couch and groaned as it cracked. The last thing he heard before he lost consciousness were hooves clopping on wood and the sound of a female making a squeal of excitement.

When he was awake once more he was lying in a bed that was about two sizes too small, at least considering the fact that his knees were bent, the bottom half of his legs hanging over the edge. Went his head turned to look around there was a aqua-marine colored mare with a mane and tail of the same color, a white stripe added, sitting in the seat next to his bed like a….human? She had what appeared a lyre tattooed on her butt which confused him.

He grunted and did his best to sit up, his torso and head about a foot taller than the backboard of the bed, and he adjusted his blankets so they covered his legs and feet, finding that his chest was bare….Along with the rest of his body. This irritated him a bit that the ponies stripped him but he figured that they wouldn't have done anything to him. At the sound of a knock on the door he turned and in stepped a cream-colored mare with a pink and dark blue colored man and tail that were curled. She had the tattoo of three pieces of candy on her butt. What was with these ponies and but tattoos?

He didn't mean to but that was the first thing he blurted out to her, "Why do you have tattoos on your butts?" He immediately regretted it but she merely giggled and glanced at it. "This isn't a tattoo. It's my cutie mark. It shows that I have discovered my special talent, which is running my candy store!" She had sat a tray of food on a table before she spoke and picked it back up when she was done, carrying it over to set it down on his lap. On it, he observed, were thick strips of what appeared to be mashed up yellow stuff that they tried to make bacon out of, an orange, an apple, cereal, orange juice, toast, and….a piece of fish!

"I thought most ponies didn't eat fish." He looked at her curiously, his head tilting as he took a sip of the juice.

"We don't but Lyra over there just loves you mythical- though not so mythical now- humans and tries to be just like you even in your diet! But our biology doesn't allow us to digest meat so we eat fish as a substitute. I would do anything for that mare because she's always been a sister to me but sometimes I just wonder with her…." Her worried look at the sleeping mare made the human chuckle as he cautiously took a bite of the fake bacon and found it to be decent. It just was bland, though not bad. He finished the meal after about twenty minutes and the mare took the tray back to what he guessed was downstairs judging by the clopping of her hooves that receded downward.

She had closed the door behind her, however, and this awoke the unicorn that he guessed was Lyra. When she looked over and found him awake she squeeled and jumped onto him. This alerted him to the large bruise in the middle of his back and he winced, groaning in pain as she gasped and hopped off of him. Though worry lay primarily in her gaze, it belied the excitement that she was holding back from him.

"My name is Lyra! And you're a human! A real life human! I never thought that I would see one, let alone meet one, in my life! Omigosh, omigosh, omigosh!" She was bouncing around, as he had rested back against the headboard once more, the pain having seemed to ease away.

"Uh, hi Lyra. I'm Batman." He decided to stick with the fake name for the time being, finding it a bit funny that all of these ponies would be referring to him as Batman. Though maybe he should at least tell Chrysalis his real name since they were together…At least he thought they were. Inwardly shrugging, he zoned back into reality to find her having been excitedly rambling on about her studies on humans and what-not. That was when he remembered that he was naked under the blankets and spoke up.

"Uh, Lyra, do you think I could have my clothes? And could I know why you took them?" He had a bit of sternness in his voice to silently reprimand her about taking them in the first place, but he couldn't really stay mad at such a cute colorful pony.

"Well we took them so that we could wash them! They were really dirty! But sure, you can have them back! I also sent them to Rarity after they were clean so that she could make you some new ones! I hope that's alright…" She poked her front hooves together nervously, the human just realizing that she had been standing on her hind hooves the whole time…like a human.

"Well I suppose it would be fine, but I don't have any money to pay for them so that would be a problem, you see." He frowned a bit. He hoped they didn't expect to pay for someone they had just met. He'd feel really guilty about it if they did.

"Well, we were planning on paying for it, Bon Bon, and me. Plus, Rarity said she would give us a discount if we took you in to have you measured sometime and we said we would…Is that ok?" The pony looked like she had just been caught stealing from the cookie jar and he couldn't help but smile and scratch her behind the ears.

"I'm thankful that you two are doing so much just for me. And I guess it would be alright if you paid since you're getting a discount, but I still want to do something for you in return, if that would be alright, maybe housework or something. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, alright? So yes, please go get my clothes if you don't mind." He chuckled sheepishly and watched her trot off on all hooves. This gave him a bit of time to think. At least until he fell asleep again. He wasn't even mad, considering that he was used to waking up at noon and it appeared to be really early in the morning.