Equestria's New Comedian

Hi! This is a revised version of an older fic I wrote, hopefully this will be continued, this will have a different opening, but the same story outcome as the previous story, please enjoy!

Chapter One: Meet Gareth

Hi, I'm Gareth "Chuckles" Murphy, most folks just call me Chuck though. This is the story of how I left my life as a bar comedian going nowhere behind in favor of a new life, new friends, and even a special someone. I suppose it all starts one cold November night. I was walking home from a show I had put on, decent crowd, all drunk though. It seemed as if I was putting on comedy for babbling toddlers, no, I've put on more successful comedy shows for toddlers. I sighed and put on some music.

Why are there so many songs about rainbows, and what's on the other side?

Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide

So we've been told and some choose to believe it,

I know they're wrong, wait and see…

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers,

And me… I sang to myself before a heavy sigh, as a kid, all I wanted was to make it big making people laugh, smile, or anything. Now all it seemed I could do was make someone cough awkwardly every now and then. I guess I couldn't bellyache too much, my grandparents were kind enough to give me a place to stay when I couldn't keep up with my bills, sure, I had my friends, kind of.. My best friend had recently went off and got married, barely seen him since.

"It'll get better, Murphy" I told myself. Soon enough I got to my grandparent's place.

"Oh hi Gareth, how was your day?" My grandmother asked with a hug.

"It was fine" I replied.

"Oh Hello Gareth, oh geez! They sure feed you well at that bar you work at!" My grandfather remarked as he walked in the room.

"Hahahaha, I guess they do." I said, holding a facetious reply in. He can't talk honestly, he and Santa Claus could enter a Santa Claus lookalike contest and he'd win. Whatever, I've gotten used to his remarks, besides, I'm 6'2, if I wasn't a little hefty I'd look like a flagpole.

After a quick drink of coffee, I resorted to my room. My room was as if an eight year old lived there, action figures and vinyl figurines covered the shelves, posters of Transformers, Disney, Muppets, and of course, My Little Pony covered the walls, it wasn't how many would expect (or approve for that matter) a 19 year old to live like, but I didn't care, Buzz Lightyear was my hero when I was 5, didn't see how it had to be any different now. It did put a damper on my dating life, and I can understand, not many girls are really turned on by a giant The Muppet Show poster looking over the bed, or a guy who spends his pay checks on the latest Pinkie Pie plush Hasbro had to offer, but I didn't let it get to me. I was happy for the most part. But something was definitely missing, you can put as many distractions up as you can, but a lonely night is a lonely night. I sighed and grabbed a root beer from my mini fridge, I wasn't much of a drinker, soda was always more my speed. I grabbed my laptop and opened Netflix.

"Family Guy… Nah, Brickleberry… Not in the mood, ah, here we are." I said as I clicked on My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. The episode started and I contently watched, but soon enough, I must've fell asleep, but what happened next was no dream.

I woke up, my body felt like I fell a hundred feet, I had a pounding headache. I opened my eyes.

"What the hell?" I muttered to myself, I was in a field, near a pond, surrounded by trees and a familiar yet alien looking cottage in the distance. I walked over to the pond, or at least tried to, as soon as I got up I fell flat on my face, like my two legs couldn't hold me, I looked down at myself, no hands, no feet, just… hooves? I got on all fours and trotted to the pond, and there I saw a crimson red stallion with a puffy auburn mane, freckles, and big blue eyes.

I screamed in shock. This must have startled someone, because I heard another scream right after, I turned around to see a faded yellow Pegasus hovering above me, looking at me with slight fear.

"Who are you?" She said, seemingly afraid.

"Name's Chuck, you can come down, I won't hurt you, I only want to know what's going on... How I got here."

"Oh I'm sorry…" the Pegasus replied, "I don't know, all I know is you fell and landed there in the middle of the night, I was worried and wanted to see if you were okay." Fluttershy replied.

"Great". I said dryly. "I'm here with no memory of how I got here, I don't have any money, I can't even call a cab…" I started rambling on about my situation until Fluttershy cut me off.

"I'm sorry if I'm interrupting, but I know someone who might be able to help, I'm Fluttershy by the way." She said.

"Great!" I said as I followed her into town.

Castle of Friendship

"So let me get this straight.." Twilight Sparkle said "You claim you woke up in a field… with no recollection of how you got there?" She ended.

"That's the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but." I said, while a bit of a lie, as I omitted the part about remembering being from another dimension.

"Odd…. My books don't say anything about that happening in the past…" Twilight said, leafing through what seemed to be a hundred books a minute.

"Guess I'm just special." I said with fake pride.

"Well maybe I could see Princess Celestia and ask her if she's seen anything like this before…" Twilight said, though cut off by another voice. Pinkie Pie to be exact.

"Twilight! Guess what! I was stirring cake batter and suddenly a bug flew in it! I tried asking him to leave but he wouldn't listen to me- heyyyy, who are you?" Pinkie Pie said looking at me.

"I'm Gareth, but call me Chuck. Pleased to meet you." I said.

"You're new here!? You know what that means? A welcome party! Oh boy! First I'll give you a tour around Ponyville and invite everyone else, then tonight we'll party! Come with me!" She said grabbing my leg excitedly.

And off we went, Twilight and Fluttershy exchanged looks.

"Does he seem kind of funny to you?" Twilight asked.

"He told a pretty funny joke on the way over." Fluttershy said.

"That's not what I meant, as in suspicious." Twilight said dryly.

"A little… I guess". Fluttershy replied.

And that's the end of the chapter, chapter two is already underway. Hope you enjoyed! Please follow and favorite if you want to keep up with the story! Until next time!