Everything was dark. I couldn't see anything. It was like I had been sucked into a black hole of eternal nothingness. It even felt like I was floating on a pool of water. I raised my right hand up to my face and felt the water drip off my fingertips. I started hearing a strange noise that was making this sound "beep, beep" almost like the sound of a ECG.

[i]Where am I? How did I even get hear?[/i] These were the thoughts that were crossing through my mind and I drifted in this limbo. I let out a long sigh and continued drifting into nothingness. Now, I know how the nihilists feel.

That's when I saw the light. Now, usually, when you see the light, you would hear God telling you to "Come towards the light!" but it wasn't God I was hearing. It was the sound of young girls and not in the perverted sense, either. Reaching out my right hand, I tried to pull myself out of this deluge of nothingness and flew up into the light. As I reached into the light, everything blacked out, again. My eyes, slowly, opened and I could see colorful blurs. Then the blurs became clear and that's when it all started.

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Jake's eyes began to open, slowly, revealing a pair of emerald-colored orbs. He started hearing voices, but he couldn't see who they belonged to, as his entire sight was a complete blur. Fully awakened from his comma, Jake leaned up and started examining his surroundings. It would appear that he was in a hospital room where he was dressed in a hospital gown that was about his size and had his arms wrapped in gauze and even a bandage on his forehead, too. In front of his bed was a group of six small, colorful horses and one overgrown lizard staring at him with eyes the size of dinner plates. Usually, something like this would be weird for Jake; however, it started to get crazy for him when one of the horses, Twilight Sparkle, spoke to him.

"Greetings being from another world, I am Twilight Sparkle and my friends and I would like to welcome you to the Land of Equestria! Uhm...are you okay?" Jake's eyes bulged as a trail of mucus fell from his left nostril. Now, this would be the part where Jake would freak out, but his face changed from the shocked expression he had before, to a calm, normal one. "Y-yeah, I'm fine. I was just a little surprised by a bunch of talking horses," He responded as he scratched the roof of his head.

Twilight corrected him on that, "We're not horses, we're ponies!"

"Oh, now that makes since. You know, with the height and all," He said, nodding his head up and down. "Anyways, my name is Jake West."

"Another question I would like to ask, Jake. Just what are you, exactly?"

"What am I? Why...I'm a human," Twilight's jaw dropped from hearing that word. "Human" was a word that was rarely ever heard, or said, in the Land of Equestria.

"A...a human. B-but that's impossible! Humans don't exist; they're just an old mare's tale!" Twilight took a step back away from Jake, her expression fully astounded. That's when an orange pony, Applejack, spoke up with her southern accent, "Now, what in the Sam hill is a human, Twilight?"

The young Alicorn turned to her friend and started explaining it to her, "It's hard to explain what they are, Applejack, since what is known about them is shrouded in myths, but this is what can be described: 'The humans are a bipedal race of primates from an unknown world. They're said to have the appearance of hairless apes and are taller than the average pony; maybe, even taller than Princess Celestia." However, another thought began to process when Twilight examine Jake. "Then, again, maybe not as tall as the princess."

Jake started to get, comically, angry from that statement, shouting, "Is that some sort crack about my height!" with his comical angry face consisting of a pair of sharp teeth and blank, white eyes. He face returned to normal after that.

"No, no, Jake, I didn't mean it as an insult to you," Twilight responded with her hooves raised in a non-threatening gesture. "But, just out of curiosity, how tall are you?"

"I'm 5-foot-6!" Jake replied, seething with his teeth grinding. Twilight's expression changed with her eyes closed, a huge smile, and a large drop of sweat on her forehead. "I-I see, Thank you for the information." [i]I was right, he isn't as tall as Celestia. His height would be about Big Macintosh's level than the Princess's.[/i]

Then Rainbow Dash flew up to his face with a judgmental expression and started asking her own questions, "Tell me, Jake, if that is your real name, why did you come to Equestria, huh, and what was up with that freaky storm!? Are you some kind of spy, or something!?"

To calm the paranoid Pegasus, Jake told her everything, "No, I am not a spy. I was transported here after...actually, to tell you the truth, I don't remember how I got here." He scratched the back of his head with his left hand. "All I remember was me and my friends were wondering through Summerland and...that was it, I guess."

"Summerland? Is that where you're from?" Twilight asked.

"No, it's not. My home world is Earth. Summerland is...I'll explain the whole thing later."

Suddenly, the door opened with a slight ease and walking in was Nurse Redheart pushing a tray full of disgusting hospital food. "Okay, girls, visiting hours are over, now. it's lunch time for the patient." Pushing to Jake's bedside, Nurse Redheart presented him with a tray with a green sludge and a jello cup. A spoon was provided, as well. The green crap wasn't very tempting. "Am I suppose to eat this?"

"Of course! How else are you suppose to get better!? This food is filled with the vitamins you need to help you heal," retorted Nurse Redheart.

"Yeah, I'll believe believe it when pigs start flying out of my ass," Jake, cynically, replied. "Then, again, since I'm in another world, guess I'll have to try the cuisine, huh." Grabbing the spoon he scooped up some of the green sludge and placed it in his mouth. He body started to tremble from the taste. Despite the faux smile, the food tasted awful. "Hmmm...this is...delicious!"

Nurse Redheart was happy to hear that. Smiling, she walked out of the hospital room and closed the door behind her. After she left, Jake stuck out his tongue and wiped what's left of the green sludge off his tongue.

"Oh my, are you okay?" Fluttershy inquired with her timid tone of voice.

"Oh God! It tastes like moldy gym socks dipped in week old rice puddle and rotten eggs!" Jake responded quite sickeningly.

"Yeah, I should've warned you of how gross the food here is," Rainbow Dash snickered. She even started laughing very "But you should see the look on your face!"

You are a disgrace to be called 'food'," Jake started shouting at the green sludge in front of him. Lifting up both of his hands, he hovered it over the plate and began chanting: "Mutatio!" appearing from his hands was a bolt of electricity and a bright flash of light and as the light died down, the green sludge on Jake's plate disappeared and replacing it was a plate of sushi with the jello cup replaced by a cup of soy sauce and the spoon with chopsticks. Clapping his hand together, he says with a smile on his face "Itadakimasu!" and began eating. Jake grabbed the chopsticks and picked up the hamachi on the left. Dipping it in the soy sauce, he starts to take a bite out of it, chews, and finally swallows.

The girls were dumbstruck by what they had just saw. "That was awesome!" Spike was excited. He couldn't believe what he just saw with his own eyes. "How did you do that!? Did you use magic!?"

"That was amazing!" said Twilight. "How were you able to preform a changing spell, even though you're not a unicorn!?"

"Oooh!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

"Well, golly," murmured Applejack.

"Oh my!" Fluttershy sighed.

"What just happened?" dumbfounded Rainbow Dash.

"I say, darling, just what is that dish you're eating?" Rarity asked, arching a right eyebrow. "It smells a bit...fishy."

"Please hold all questions until food is entirely consumed. "til then, I will gladly answer any question you ask."

20-minutes-later, every piece of sushi was cleaned off of his plate. Jake felt his hunger completely satisfied, rubbing the extending belly and letting out a relaxing sigh. Nurse Redheart returned to take her patient's food tray but was baffled when she saw the plate was licked clean. "My, my, I have never seen anypony finish any of the food in the hospital! Usually, they pass out from eating just one bite!"

Nurse Redheart was about to take the tray when she was stopped by Jake who offered to help clean up his plate. Now, Nurse Redheart objected to this because she didn't want Jake to get up until Jake replied with "Who said anything about getting up?" Like before, he hovered both of his hands, shouting "Tersus!" and next thing you know it, the plate was completely cleaned off of any trace of juices and crumbs.

Before the plate was taken away, Jake turned to Nurse Redheart and said to her with a hint of inquiry in his voice, "Excuse me, nurse, but how long am I going to be here?"

Nurse Redheart turned and answered Jake's question, "Oh, the doctor says that you'll be here for about a week."

"A week! I can't wait a week!" Jake's eyes became wide from here what Nurse Redheart just said, thunderstruck by the what he just heard. "I have to find my friends! If I'm here, then maybe they're here, as well!"

"I'm sorry, sir, but you have to stay in bed until your wounds are healed," she retorted and finished off with "Doctors orders".

"Well, I guess I'll have to do this," Jake placed his hands on his lap and shouted with so much concentration: "Recede iniurias!" A flash appeared and, unbeknownst to the mares in front of him, he started getting out of bed and removing all the bandages all over his body. Once he removed every last gauze, Nurse Redheart, Twilight and her friends' jaws dropped when they observed as all the wounds on Jake's arms, head, and chest had disappeared. "Okay, now, where did you all put my clothes because I don't want to run around wearing nothing but a hospital gown?"

"H-here you go, Jake. We had your clothes cleaned and pressed," Jake's clothes hovered in front of him while a blue aura was covering it as Rarity's horn glowed the same color. "Although I don't mean to be rude, but are those the only rags you have? Because I would gladly make you some new, more stylish clothes at my Boutique." The six mares and Spike turned around, giving Jake the privacy he needed to change. Nurse Redheart was still dumbfounded to turn around. So, Applejack had to help turn her around.

"Okay, you can all turn around now," They did as Jake said and turned to see that he was fully dressed in his clothes. He walked up to Nurse Redheart who was still baffled by what had just happened and asked her where the check-out counter was and she replied with "I-it's right down the hallway to your right, b-but you should really..." Jake said "thanks" and had already walked out of the room with the Main Six behind him.

Walking outside, Jake started feeling the uncomfortable stares of other ponies in the town who were whispering and sharing gossips about the new arrival to their world. Jake, however, shrugged it off and kept on walking. The Main Six caught up to him, still filled with unanswered questions as they walked beside him.

"Okay, now, will you answer our questions!?" Twilight complained.

Jake responded with an "Okay."

"How were you able to use magic? You didn't use a wand, or anything, but you were able to transform the food into...whatever that was you were eating and to heal yourself," Twilight wasn't finish questioning Jake. "Tell me, how were you able to do all that?"

Jake pondered, he gave Twilight a straight answer, "That's an easy question, Twilight. The reason why I could do all that is because I'm a magic-user."

"That doesn't really explain much," Twilight retorted.

"What I mean is, Twilight, that, in my world, there are people who are born with the ability to use magic do to being conceived under Halley's Comet, or during the Equinox, in which strange phenomenons occur. However, because only a minority of humans are able to possess magical abilities, they would hide themselves from the majority of the human race out of fear of discrimination and witch hunts."

"That sounds awful!" Fluttershy exclaimed, meekly.

"It is, but they got use to it over time," Jake confirmed. "It was the 'hide from the non-magical masses or start a war that could lead to the end of the world' sort of situation and so we went with the first option."

"Second question, what was that dish you were eating?" Rarity questioned in her elegant manner of speech. Jake didn't want to say it to alarm them, but he had to. Jake replied to the white fashionista with ease: "The food I was eating was sushi, a traditional seafood delicacy from the island-nation of Japan that was introduced by the people of China in the 8th century, consisting of rice, seaweed, and...fish."

"Well, that's obvious, being a omnivore and all," Fluttershy interrupted. The four mares, excluding Twilight, and Spike were unfamiliar with the word 'omnivorous' and so Fluttershy had to fill them in on that: "I notice that the four of Jake's front teeth are canine. So, it would make sense that Jake would eat food made out of meat and vegetables."

"Jake was baffled by the young, timid mares' knowledge, "That's correct, miss...um..." He didn't really received much of a proper introduction from his new found friends.

Twilight spoke up with her cheeks flushed in embarrassment, "Oh, sorry, we forgot to introduce ourselves, properly. Well, again, my name is Twilight Sparkle and this is Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Spike."

Not the most unusual names that Jake has ever heard, but they are the funniest, "Nice to meet you' all and, again, my name is Jake West."

"So girls, and guys, what do you want to do, now. Since our picnic has been postponed due to an enormous crater, the park has be closed off until the Earth Ponies refill it," Twilight asked her friends.

Pinkie Pie was the first to answer, raising her right hoof in the air like a happy schoolgirl wanting to answer a question to the teacher, "Ooh! Ooh! I know, let's all go to Sugarcube Corner! Mr. and Mrs. Cake are baking these yummy marshmallow and chocolate cookies! Can we go, Twilight, huh, can we!?" She started bouncing off the ground with excitement. "Also, we need to throw Jake a welcoming party!"

"Okay, Pinkie Pie, we'll go to Sugarcube Corners; although, I don't think the Cakes will be fine with Jake entering their bakery," the Alicorn said, humorously. "Who knows, maybe they'll keep an open mind."

The group walked to the location of where Sugarcube Corner was located; However, Jake couldn't shrug off the feeling that he was being watched, and it wasn't from the glares he was receiving from the ponies around him.

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Sitting on a trashcan four-feet-away away from where Sugarcube Corner was, a calico cat with two tails and a bell collar around its neck watched as the Main Six, the dragon, Spike, and the human, Jake, enter the bakery. Wasn't staring at the mares and the dragon, but at the human who was with them. A word crossed through the cat's mind as it led out a small "Nyan". [i]Onii-chan?[/i] pouncing off the trashcan, it ran to Sugarcube, almost like it was happy about something. As it walked, it hummed "Nyan, nyan, nyan" in a harmonious way, sounding like it was singing a lovely melody.

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A/N: Here's the second chapter of the story, so far. Please, press the "like" button and leave a comment on what you think of it. This may not be my best work.

Note: The way Jake transformed the hospital food into a sushi platter was similar to the transmutation ability seen in Fullmetal Alchemist. "Onii-Chan" is the Japanese for "Big Brother" and "Itadakimasu" is Japanese for "Thank you for the food" or "I humbly received."