My Little Pony: Ben Foster

Chapter I: The Land Of Ponies

It was an ordinary day like any other. The sun was out, school was about to open, nothing out of the unusual. Ben Foster slowly got out of bed, which was a lumpy mattress in an old store, he lived there. "Kushal?" he said. The boy next to him, on another mattress woke up.

"Huh, what do you want?" he said.

"Just to know if you could be bothered to look through the bins today, might be something useful" said Ben.

"Ben, we look in the bins every day, it's not like we have a choice" Kushal answered. A few hours later, they had properly gotten up, and left the shop. "Which bins today?" said Kushal.

"Let's see, the ones on Slate Street have food usually, and I think I saw a TV being thrown out just after we left" he said. Kushal nodded.

After they had arrives at Slate Street bin department, which is what they likes to call it, they had indeed found a TV, some cold chicken strips, but they had a working microwave. The previous day, Kushal had stolen an eight pack of soda from another shop. Ben had been scolded by the owner, but after realizing it wasn't Ben, he let him go.

"Kushal, I need help with this TV dude, it's really heavy!" shouted Ben. He was about to drop it, then Kushal jumped in, and grabbed it. Suddenly a tape shot out of the TV's VHS slot. They put the TV down, and Ben picked up the tape. It had "Ponies" written on it. "What. Ponies? Ponies are beautiful creatures…" he said. Ben was the environmentalist side of the duo, and Kushal was the all for cool side.

When they arrived home, Ben still carrying the tape in his pocket. They plugged the TV into a socket, the only socket that still worked, and it was luckily right in front of their beds. Kushal turned the TV on, there was only static.

"NO! Dammit, I thought we could watch something good, not just static!" he shouted.

Ben remembered the tape. "We could always try this?" asked ben, motioning for Kushal to put the tape in.

"Fine, you and your girly ways!" he said in a playful tone. Kushal put the tape in, and all it had on it were pictures of animated streets, with some strange markets. Then there was a jump scare of a pink blur.

"JESUS!" shouted ben.

"Haha, you shat yourself!" he shouted, leaving his bed. Suddenly Ben felt something under his mattress.

"Kushal, do you fell that, it's like-" he was cut off, when he came to the realization that was sinking in to his mattress. "KUSHAL!" he shouted. Kushal looked back, and his eyes opened wide.

"OH MY GOD! Hold on buddy!" he lunged forward and grabbed Ben's arms.

"Dude!" screamed Ben, as Kushal's grip slipped, causing Ben to let go, and he fell right through his bed.

"No!" said Kushal, he backed away from the mattress. But then, like paper was on fire, everything in view burned away, until Kushal and the mattress remained.

"Oh, please lead somewhere good…" he mumbled as he was given no other choice than to jump into this portal.

He was falling into a green-looking surface. "Wait, is that a field of grass?" he said, but all of a sudden multi-coloured blur appeared next to him, it was going to collide-"Huh?" he said, before getting pummelled in the face by something.

Elsewhere, Ben was asleep in a small area, he was unconscious against a tree. He opened his eyes, and sat up, panting. "Huh!" he said. His chest felt like he had just been hit by a car. He hadn't even focused on what was around him.

"What…" slurred Ben, unconsciously. He didn't know what had happened, one minute he was walking home, in the shop, next he was waking up sat next to something. But to his surprise, he wasn't in a hospital, or home-he was sat up against a massive tree. The strangest part of this was that the tree wasn't a tree- it was a home of some sort.

"Hello?" Ben said. He wasn't sure he should say anything. He looked around a bit. There was a chicken coop, some small dens-what was really exiting was this tree, and it had windows and a door, curtains. Ben stood up, painfully. His legs really hurt-maybe it was because he had ben sat in the same position for ages. That's a point-how long had he been here?

He looked through the window carefully, not wanting to gain attention. Inside the tree there was, decorations? Yes, there was a bed, a sofa, usual living stuff. It wasn't any of this which caught his attention the most. The thing that caught his attention was a butter-coloured equine, with wings! It had a smoothie pink mane, and cyan eyes. Whatever it was, it had stopped what it was doing-dusting, and Ben realized that the creature was looking through the window, not at him, luckily, as his face was useable from its position.

"It's female, there was no way that was a boy" thought Ben. He heard noises, and the pony inside turned away from the window, and walked up to the door, which Ben had sneaked away from.

"Fluttershy?" said some female voice.

Fluttershy? That was a weird, but cute, name…

"Hello?" she said.

Ben looked around the bark a little bit, where he saw two other ponies. One was orange, and had a cowboy hat, presumably both girls, she had blonde hair, and apples on her rump. As he noticed this, Ben looked at the other one, which was Purple, with a crystal, or a sparkle, or something like that.

Ben looked back through the window to see if 'Fluttershy' had one too, big mistake. For as he looked at the window once more, her face was looking through it, she was right next to it, and she squealed when he appeared.

When she squealed, it made Ben gasp, and he fell over backwards. "Oh goodness me!" he shouted. When he got up, he found the other two ponies next to him, away, but next to him.

"Who are you?" the orange one said, with a southern accent.

"I-I' he was too confused to say anything, so he mumbled his name, "Ben…"

Too confused about what was happening, he spoke up again, this time, more confidently. "Ben, I'm Ben. Ben Foster- and you are a pony!" he said.

"Yes, and what creature may you be?" said the purple one.

"I-I am a human, where am I?" he said.

He he, mystical land, with talking ponies, could it get any better?

"You're in Ponyville" said the purple one again.

"So, I'm probably going to collapse from shock in 3, 2…" he stopped speaking as he keeled over. Wow, probably the most accurate thing he'd ever done.

{LATER}

"Fluttershy…House…Ponies…" He mumbled. He immediately opened his eyes and sat up; he was on a sofa, in the house.

"Where-no, I've asked that, who are you?" he asked the purple one, who was still here, along with the orange one.

"Well, I'm Twilight Sparkle, and this is Applejack-", Ben cut her off,

"And that's Fluttershy?" he asked. "How…How did you know that?" asked Fluttershy timidly, and then she stared at the floor, as though she wasn't allowed to speak.

"Applejack, can you go the library, and tell spike to write to the Princess, tell her to come as soon as she can…" she was cut off again; Ben started to sing, softly.

"You're insecure; don't know what for…" he started.

"What?" said Applejack.

"Huh, was I singing again? I tend to do that when something reminds me of a song, can I continue? I like this song" he said.

"Ah suppose so" she said.

"Your turning heads when you walk through the door. Don't need make-up, to cover up. Being the way that you are is enough." He started once again, but soon was interrupted by Twilight,

"Uh, what reminded you of that?" she said.

"Easy, Fluttershy" he said.

Fluttershy reminded him mainly of the part of the song that went "I don't know why, you're being shy, and turn away when I look into your eye eye eyes." He stood up once more. "I hope you don't mind me saying-and you probably do, but-you are amazing" he said, looking at Fluttershy, he didn't just want to get a girlfriend as soon as possible, or anything like that, but she was just beautiful.

Fluttershy's face went a pinkish colour, indicating a blush. "Why, urm, thank you?" she said, or rather asked.

"No, really, I mean, usually I tend to keep away from people, but- for one, you're a pony, and two-you are really cute, being shy." He said.

"Your acting a little weird" said Applejack.

Ben replied with "No, it is merely that I find Fluttershy attractive-NO WAIT!" but it was too late.

Fluttershy blushed and giggled "Oh my".

"Well, that's precisely what I was hoping never happened" he said. Fluttershy giggled some more, and walked into a kitchen type area. "Oh smegging hell!"

"What's that mean?" said Applejack. Twilight had been stood in the same area for around five minutes looking so confused she could blow up.

"It's a word from… well, a TV series on my planet called "Red Dwarf", it's really funny" he said. He hurried over to the front door. "Can we go outside?" Ben said, he'd not really seen this new world, just a back garden type area.

"Sure…" said Twilight, opening the door, god knows how.

"Wow, how'd you do that?" Ben said.

"It's magic" she said.

"Holy smeg! Actually, remind me not to use that word, but magic, you're kidding right? Magic is fake!" he burst out.

"I can assure you it's not, see?" she said, using her horn to pick up a vase. "No, no, that's just as real as me kissing you right now, and I'd never do that. Well, maybe?"

"Ben?" said Applejack. Ben looked at her. "Have you ever seen a talkin' pony?" he shook his head. "Ah reckon it's shock" she said.

Ben looked at Twilight, "Yeah, either that, or I am deeply in love with you all. That didn't sound good, did it?" he said, causing Applejack, Twilight and Fluttershy each to shake their heads, or say no or not really.

"Okay, I'm sounding a little pervy…" said Ben. He had been here like what, 2 hours, excluding his nap-time, and he had made himself look like a total smeg-head.

"BEN!?" said a familiar voice from outside.

"Ku-er, Rainbow?" said Ben, for the boy stood in front of him had burst through the front door, was his good friend Kushal, although he only told Ben his real name.

"Who is this?" said Twilight.

"Twilight, meet my best friend Rainbow Cow Dragon!" he said.

"Ben, what, where-I don't understand, why are we in a world of talking ponies!" he said.

"Well, neither do I, which pony did you meet first?" he replied.

"Well, I met a Pegasus called Rainbow, lol, and she introduced me to Pinkie Pie, and Rarity." He said.

"Oh, so ok, Twilight are they some of your friends?" Ben asked her.

She looked at him, and made a calculating" face. "Well, yes. We call ourselves the mane 6, not all the time, just like at… places" she said.

*When was the last time we called ourselves that?* thought Twilight.

"So, Rainbow, have you managed to make yourself look like an idiot yet?" asked Ben.

"No, but Rainbow Dash flew into me, she seems to do that a lot…" he answered. Rainbow entered the house; he looked at the giggling pony in the kitchen. "Why is she lolling?" he said.

"Well, you see, I said I found her attractive, and now I look like an idiot!" whispered Ben to Rainbowcowdragon. Rainbow looked at him, and laughed hysterically.

"Just like you, eh mate?" rainbow said. He kept laughing.

"You haven't made a fool of yourself, showing your emotions are a sign of trust." Said Fluttershy; now that she had stopped laughing.

"Well, I think there's a 0 to 100 chance of me being with a pony" he said, sarcastically.

"I don't see a problem" said Fluttershy, not understanding the sarcasm Ben had used. Ben face palmed.

"Fluttershy, I was telling a joke…" he mumbled. He walked over to rainbow, and opened the door. "Can we go and see some things now?" he asked.

Twilight had said yes, as long as they didn't do anything to hurt any pony. So for about five minutes now, Ben and Rainbowcowdragon had been walking through the pony town, getting strange stares.

"Racoon?" asked ben.

"What?" said Rainbow.

"Well, the Ra from Rainbow, the Co from Cow, and the on from dragon, Ra, co, on?" asked Ben, simplifying the statement.

"Yeah, no… just call me, uh, Rai-gon for short" he said.

"Why can't we know your actual name?" asked Twilight. She focused on Kushal, Studying him [Kushal is Rainbowcowdragon].

"Well, uh, I don't trust some folks with my name, so I only tell people my name that I really trust. Like Ben." He finished. Twilight just looked away and sighed. "It's not that I don't trust you, but I don't really know you…" he said.

"Rai-gon?" asked Ben. Kushal looked at him,

"Yesh?" he said, thinking what Ben could ask him out of the many questions going through his head.

"Well, its just-do you remember anything after the…you know what?" he said.

Kushal looked at him regretfully. "NO!, I mean, no… I just woke up in a small pond" he said.

"What 'you know what?'" Twilight asked, still listening to the conversation.

"Er, Ben, should we tell her?" whispered Kushal.

"Well, I suppose it couldn't hurt…" said Ben.

"Well, before we came here, we were, erm-let's just saying we were…goddammit-we stole from a shop!" he shouted out.

"What?!" screamed Twilight, stopping and looking scared slightly. "You stole from a shop?! What did you steal?" she asked, looking as though a murder had been committed. [Over-exaggeration].

"We stole some drinks, fizzy pop." Said Ben.

"Whatever for?" said Twilight. Ben slouched to the ground, laying on the floor now.

"We-are moms were good friends, and about a year ago, we were robbed' Kushal also collapsed to the floor' and my mom was…killed." At this Twilight looked more devastated by this than anything she had ever seen in her life.

"And Rai-gon's mom?" She asked, as politely as she could.

"Well, she couldn't handle life anymore, so she killed herself…our dads fell in love with other people, and they didn't want kids, so- for around 3 or 4 years, we've been living in an abandoned shop…" he finished.

Twilight looked as though she had just been told she had cancer, or something worse. She literally had tears welling up in her eyes. "That's terrible!" she said quietly.

"Can we pretend I never said that?" asked Ben, Twilight just stood there looking shocked.

"S-Sure…" she said.

"Rainbow?" asked Ben. Rainbow looked at him, "I think we may have broken her…" he said. Rainbow agreed.

There was a knocking at the door. "Twilight?" said Ben. Twilight came out of her depression, and looked at the door,

"Oh, right" she said. She trotted up to the door, and she used her magical horn powers to open it.

"I still say magic is not real" said Ben. Kushal looked disappointed.

"What? But you can see it!" he shouted.

"I know it's real, I'm just not used to it yet." He said.

The pony who had just entered was Pinkie Pie, looking happy as usual. "Hey? How are you? Who are you? Where did you come from? What's your name?" she spat out. Ben rushed over to her, and out his hand on her mouth.

"Please-Pinkie, I assume, one question at a time!" he said.

"Oki Doki Loki!" she said. "Question 1…" she said. Pinkie enjoyed the thought of interrogating a never-before seen species. "What…erm, are your names?" she said. Ben decided to speak first,

"I'm Ben Foster-" he was cut off, well, he actually just stopped speaking so he could witness Pinkie stand on her hind legs, and shake his left hand with her two front hooves.

"Okay defying physics, lovely. Anyway, I'm Ben, and my friend goes by the name of Rainbow Cow Dragon" he said.

"What a silly name!" she screamed. 'Was she always this hyper?' thought Ben.

"Second question, what animals are you?" she said. She was bursting to shout all the questions at once, but resisted.

Kushal answered this next question, "Well, Ben is human, but I'm a Rainbow Cow Dragon!" he shouted.

"KUSHAL!" said Ben,

"Oops" he said soon after.

"Ben! Now they now my name! Ugh, I suppose I'll have to trust you now, and I'm actually a human too…" he mumbled.

"Twilight?" she said.

"Yes Pinkie?" she said, she looked happier than before.

"Have you got everything ready for the sleepover?" she said. Twilight sighed,

"Pinkie, I told you everything was ready this morning, before I went to see Fluttershy.

'A sleeper? With girls?' thought Kushal, 'I must be there!' he thought. "Can we come?" he said.

"Well, urm, I don't see why not, but it'll be girly…" said Twilight. Kushal thought about it some more…

"And? As long as there are girls there…" he said, with a smug look on his face.

"Are all six of you sleeping over?" said Ben. Twilight closed the door, as it was starting to get dark.

"No, Fluttershy is busy tonight" she said.

"Oh, well, I just thought of something, where are me and Kushal going to sleep?" he said. Kushal playfully punched him in the arm,

"Silly-head, I'm sleeping here *wink*." He said.

"You could always stay at Fluttershy's cottage" she said.

"Yeah… I embarrassed myself earlier…" he mumbled.

END OF CHAPTER ONE.

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