Xamspona Tevopi/ Twilight Sparkle
Etpinego/ Applejack
Vivmay/ Rarity
Paxxila/ Fluttershy

The next day found me on a train as we rode to destinations unknown. While the others conversed amongst themselves, I found myself content to stare out the window at the passing scenery. Pristine farmlands and wilderness passed by at a steady pace, only visible for a few moments before they were gone in the ever-changing backdrop. The monotony of the moment allowed my mind to wander on the events since last night.

After I had read the message on the parchment I tried to ask Xam for answers, but once again my attempts were in vain as I only succeeded in making myself look like an idiot as I flailed my arms around trying to act out my words. The only information I could get was a phrase the Xam would repeat over and again in her sentences as she tried to calm me down.

“Wypujil Gilzia.”

I didn’t know for sure if this ‘Wypujil Gilzia’ was a person or a place, but I assumed that it had to be a person by the word ‘Wypujil.’ A word that I had heard Xam referred to numerous times since the moment I had met her. Either way I hoped that whoever it was could answer my questions about what was going on. Because honestly I didn’t know how much more of this weirdness I could take.

Once I had been disappointed in my quest for some kind of answer, Xam had motioned for me to take a seat at the table with her and the others. Yet even though my stomach was growling from not having a good meal in a couple of days, I just didn’t have the urge to deal with the situation anymore. So with a slow shake of my head I turned to return to my room and was swiftly blocked by the four guards briefly before Xam called them off and thankfully let me on my way. I shot the girls a small smile as my only sign of thanks before wandering out of the café as I heard the muffled whispers of the other customers as I passed.

As soon as I had reached the room I didn’t waste any time as I shucked my flip-flops by the door and threw my shirt on my backpack before I collapsed on the bed. No sooner than did my head hit the downy pillow I was off to the land of dreams.

Next morning I awoke to a warm weight resting on my arm as my nerves tingled from the pressure. I opened my eyes to the darkness of the room; the sun apparently hadn’t yet risen for the day so I had no idea of the time. Reaching my free hand over to the numb arm to remove the weight from it I was met with something soft. I pushed on the weight and heard a soft moaning sound in return. Confused, I ran my hand along the object until I was met with something soft yet firm and very familiar. Another moan was heard as I squeezed the object, and immediate recognition washed over me at what was on my arm.

One of the guards must have fallen asleep on the bed to catch some sleep at the end of their shift and accidentally rolled over onto my arm. Using my freehand I managed to roll her enough to remove my arm, which soon filled with the pins and needles feeling as blood rushed back into the appendage. I gritted my teeth so as to not yell and wake the sleeping woman next to me, and through no small feat of will I was able to accomplish my goal. Yet now that my arm was free another issue began to present itself as I felt a movement on the mattress behind me and a strange arm draped over my waist.

Now even though I might have still been half asleep at the time my mind could still do simple math. Two arms of my own, plus one woman lying in bed in front of me, plus an arm around my waist equals… I cautiously looked over my shoulder to find the orange guard from last night peacefully sleeping there, which meant that the blue one must have been the one who was on my arm earlier.

‘Alright Eric you’ve been in tougher situations than this before.’ I thought to myself as I turned back to the blue woman sleeping in front of me, ‘You’re the meat in a naked woman sandwich, which while pretty awesome, doesn’t help the fact that you really need to take a piss right now. Now these girls may look like saints now but you already know how they act when they’re awake; so the question is how to get out of this bed without waking them?’

I tried to look around the moonlit room for an escape path out of this trap of arms and legs. Yet every squirm and movement I made only caused the orange one to tighten her grip around my waist and the blue one to roll over and drape her arm over my chest as I eventually made my way onto my back. As grand as it was being these two women’s life size teddy bear, that urge to use the bathroom was reaching near critical levels.

‘Well desperate times call for desperate measures.’ I thought as a final crazy idea came to mind.

I began to run my fingers softly against their thighs and hips, to which I was rewarded with a content moan from the two. After a moment of focusing on their hips I moved my fingers around to their lower backs and they responded as I had hoped and rolled away from me as their bodies subconsciously attempted to follow my touch. Before I could even give them a chance to realize it, I had shot out of the bed like a jack-in-the-box. As I reveled in my small victory silently, I looked back to the bed just to make sure that my escape hadn’t awoken them. The two women just rolled back to the center of the bed where I had been moments before and used each other as a substitute for my missing body heat as I watched them embrace and settle back into deep sleep. I would have stayed and admired the view longer but I had more ‘pressing’ matters to attend to.

After completing my morning business I made my way out of the room as I wanted to attempt to try and rummage up some grub before my stomach decided to eat through my spine. Once down the stairs I went into the café, whose doors were luckily open, and took a look around. The place was empty, save for one lone winged figure asleep at a table by the fireplace at the back of the room.

Once I got closer to the figure I realized it was Xam, her face cheek down on an open book while papers and quills were strewn about on the tabletop. I didn’t want to wake her because she looked like she had been up late, but she also looked a little uncomfortable and it would have only been right for her to be in her bed.

“Xam? Xam,” I said as I gently shook her shoulder “come on let’s get you to bed.”

With a twitch of her wings I watched as her eyes slowly opened before she immediately shut them again and let out a low moan.

“Oh, alex apqi mo pa?” she said slowly as she rubbed her eyes.

“Nooo, Eric remember?” I smiled as I joked a little at her expense as she let out another moan; obviously she wasn’t a morning person.

“Eric? Ale-!” she said as I watched the realization dawn on her face before she bolted up and fell over the back of her chair, ”Ow.”

I had a good laugh at her expense as she rubbed her sore rump, which only earned me a small scowl as she looked away from me embarrassed. After having my fill of jovialness I helped her back to her feet and I glanced at the documents and books on the table hoping to make heads or tails out of it all.

“Whatcha working on?” I asked as I picked up a graph.

Even without knowing what I was saying Xam still seemed to understand the question as she stood beside me and looked at the graph that I was holding. “Mi aew acpun e wi mao xivi aew a dec e spzi eol perkeki pzwyi zs ai ger xepo sel cel. Iba eol spiyevc livi mu Qeriwbyn hisu’a lezi eol wynoa fsow mirih e gospixi que viwiegl. Xivimo zsqiaopun efsyx osa eol Qekth eol Levyvue hsivu’a wiit e gurilja sel cel moi eol viw fao yew. Izir ra mi ger wi pa zova pun haec myst cel.”

I saw a glowing coming from Xam out of the corner of my eye and I dropped the paper as I turned to see her horn glow a faint purple while her eyes were bathed in white light. She reached her hand out towards me, but paused before pulling it back nervously, or it was me who backed away from her I wasn’t sure.

“Ma moi e aye zsqiaopun, mao cel lecu’a puk?” she asked me hesitantly.

I knew that she was asking for something and I paused momentarily wondering if I should trust the now glowing woman. Yet I pushed that thought to the back of my mind and nodded my acceptance because other than the guards, and maybe Skittles, they hadn’t given me any reason to doubt them.

Slowly her hand reached out towards my bare chest, but she paused again just centimeters from my skin before gathering the courage to close the final distance between us. The change was almost instantaneous as the glow from her horn and eyes disappeared back to their normal states. Just like the previous times I felt nothing different from the contact other than the feeling of her hard smooth fingertips against my skin. She pulled her hand back like she had been burned and looked between me and her hand, confusion and worry laced across her face, but with another glow from her horn she let out a sigh of relief.

“Eqedpun…” she breathed out before she went to the table and grabbed a quill and a clean piece of parchment before she furiously began to scribble stuff down.

As I watched her write away I saw the letter from last night in the pile and picked it up before getting Xam’s attention again, “Xam can Gilzia get me home.”

She looked confused at the mention of Gilzia but when she saw the letter I was holding she put down the quill and looked a little downtrodden. Even though we couldn’t talk she seemed very good at understanding what I was trying to say, at least that’s what I wanted to think because it made our conversations less confusing for me. “Mi lecu’a orsa.”

Her mood told me everything even without knowing what she had said and I could feel the feeling of uncertainly and depression start to come over me again. I sat the letter back down as I took a seat across from her at the table. Xam looked like she was searching for something encouraging to say or do, but I didn’t need her worrying over me because it didn’t do anyone any good to solve the problem. So with a reassuring smile I tried to change the subject. Luckily I didn’t have to as Etpinego walked into the café yawning. She smiled when she saw Xam and me but it faded slightly as she probably picked up on the down atmosphere.

“Tuvypun c’ela xas. Mo zsqiaopun’ eoe qexiv?”

“Uv, uv uvapun ex eps.” Xam replied as she put on a smile; I could only hope she was trying to reassure Etpinego.

Etpinego looked between the both of us with disbelief written all over her face. Her blonde tail twitched subconsciously, but she thankfully left whatever was bugging her go and came to join us at the table and rubbed her belly.

“Mi zybl gysph ko sy zsqi epti tergeoiw aoz tuvypun’.”

Xam seemed to agree with whatever Etpinego had said when my stomach let out a loud growl. The two women looked at me briefly before they began to bust out laughing at me.

“Yeah, yeah laugh it up.” I told them as I crossed my arms and gave them a little glare, “Let’s see you survive on jerky and nuts for a few days and not be starving.”

Etpinego waved a hand in apology to me as she wiped a tear from her eye, “Wys Eric soop moi ce’lei efsyx ew lyrvc ew e thuagyvi sel e avaolegli. Pix qi wi mao mi ger vyaxpi yew zsqi nyvi.” And with that she got up from the table and walked into the kitchen.

As she walked away I noticed that she wasn’t limping nor did she seem to be in any pain from her injury from yesterday. I was relieved that she obviously felt better, but was a little surprised at the speed of her recovery. With how swollen her ankle looked yesterday I figured she would have been off it for at least a week. Yet there she was walking just fine, swaying that firm backside back and forth like nothing was ever wrong.

Xam must have caught me watching Etpinego a little too long because she let out a suppressed cough, breaking my concentration on that apple bottom. When I looked towards Xam she gave me a disapproving look.

“What? I was just making sure she was feeling better? Plus if all of you girls are going to walk around naked, it’s only natural that I’m going to look at the goods. Any man that says he won’t is either lying or gay.” I said defensively as she rolled her eyes.

After that we both sat in silence as I began to dwell on my situation again. What would I do if I couldn’t find a way back to where I was from? I would more than likely have to find someway of making a living but as what? What kind of job could an aircraft maintainer get in a place like this? Mechanically speaking, this place was very pre-Industrial Revolution yet they still had the occasional modern technology like the video game system I had seen in a shop window last night as I entered the town. So maybe if they had electronics they also had other mechanical things I was used to, and if not I could also get a job as a hired hand in some kind of manual labor job.

Then there was the language barrier that I would have to overcome before I could do any of that, and if those four years of Spanish I took in high school was any indicator then that was going to be very difficult. That brought about another thought of where I was going to stay until I could garner the skills necessary to work in this strange society? I couldn’t possibly impose upon these girls who had taken me in after the forest, it just wouldn’t be right. Maybe I could do something for them to help them out to help cover my rent.

And what about my enlistment? Even though I was probably no longer on Earth I was still a Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force with a little over two years on my current enlistment left, and I had taken an oath that I would never betray. Lost in an alien world or not I was still an American Airman. In the end it was a very daunting and challenging path ahead of me.

I was lost in my thoughts and barely noticed that the other girls from yesterday had walked in. Xam introduced each of them in turn as I stood and shook their hands; all except the light yellow woman, named Paxxila, who continued to hide behind her friends. Even Skittles, who was actually named Vemsa Hewl, shook my hand even though she still was very defensive around me as I would find her looking at me with a hawk like gaze every time I looked at her. After the introductions were over Etpinego came back in with a waitress behind her, who swiftly handed out menus to everyone. It seemed that luck was shining down on me this morning as the menu was mostly illustrated, and while some items looked foreign to me there were still quite a few that were familiar like pancakes and eggs.

Once the waitress made her way to me I simply pointed to the picture of the waffles with a couple of eggs and a glass of orange juice. She seemed a little perplexed on why I pointed as opposed to telling her, but she didn’t bring it up as she smiled and moved onto the next order. As she moved on to Etpinego I noticed that Xam was scribbling down something in a notebook but decided to not think more on it at that moment. The rest of breakfast was uneventful except when it came to the bill when, to my embarrassment, the girls had to cover my tab which they almost seemed too happy to do for some reason.

After the meal I made my way back to my room to get dressed back in my uniform for the trip I assumed we were going on if I read the girls actions from last night correctly. Part of me didn’t really want to put on the dirty uniform because it had three days of sweat and funk embedded in it. Yet part of me felt that if I was going to meet an official or someone of importance that it was proper etiquette to be in my military uniform.

Upon entering my room I found the two guards still embracing each other as the sunlight had just begun to shine through crack in the curtains. Hoping not to wake them still I sneaked my way to the bathroom, to where I had left my uniform the night before, only to find it missing. My ID and RAB and wallet and other things that were in my pockets were still sitting there in my hat, but the rest of my clothes from yesterday were nowhere to be found. After I had given the room a thorough look over and still not finding the lost clothes, I went to the bed to wake the two guards. Maybe they were playing some sort of prank on me for making fun of them last night or even worse they desired my uniform for some other means.

I shook the orange woman by the shoulder and she eventually opened her golden eyes slowly before giving a yawn which woke up the blue one.

“Alex?” she said as she stifled another yawn.

“No, Eric.” I replied without thinking before mentally slapping myself for making the stupid pun and decided to continue on before they caught on, “Where are my clothes?”

They looked confused at me as I stood and rubbed the bridge of my nose, ‘It’s too early for this shit.’

I went and grabbed my shirt that I had discarded the night before and held it up for them to see before pointing to the open bathroom door, “Where are my clothes?”

“Taw Vivmay loop celv valoew sy pierpun.” The blue guard said as she raised her arms above her head and stretched her back, giving me a great view of her tits and caused me to look away lest I lost focus.

I couldn’t make out most what she had said but one word stuck out to me ‘Vivmay’ for that had been the name of the white-furred woman with the curled purple hair and tail. I gave the two guards a quick thanks as I bolted to the door, swinging it open to find the woman in question standing there, my clothes nestled in one of her arms while the other was raised to knock.

“Oh, Eric,” Vivmay said, seemingly startled by my sudden actions before regaining her composure and began to speak in an almost haughty tone, “Mi wea osa kapvyc celv valoew leh figsqi ciwxivhec, uva e izir qirxmur wiptzl fao cel lezipun e spil mu lex hviehys vivza. Zs mi highih e pier xliq ew e shepp xsoir sy aohurz my wezipun Etpinego.”

She levitated the clothes to me as she spoke, the clothes and her white horn glowing a soft blue, as I wordlessly took them the glow disappearing instantly as I touched the fabric. She continued to talk about something, being very dramatic in her actions as I checked over my clothes. They were clean and I meant really clean. Being a maintainer my uniforms, even when washed, never were fully devoid of grime and stains after the first wear; though each dirty knee and oil stain and tear was worn with pride as I would watch the plane that I had toiled on take off. But now they were all gone every last one like it had never been there, and needless to say I was colored impressed.

When I came upon my underwear I heard Vivmay go quiet as she took notice of them. I looked to see her white cheeks tinge a light shade of pink as she smiled and I assumed to try and play it off.

“Aips Hevppun, pa assedrux lec togl kiss e lec e nif lesmaec.”Vivmay said as she rolled a hand in the air as if trying to explain something.

I gave her a wide smile and a curt nod of my head, “Well thank you very much Miss Vivmay.”

“Aips mi zlep wi cel mu e spasi fam.” She said as she turned to leave and gave a little wave over her shoulder.

I watched her leave for a moment, as I admired her smooth soft curves, especially the dimples in her lower back, before I went back into my room to get dressed for the day.

That was around four hours ago by my best guesstimation. Although this was yet another time that I wish that I had had a watch to be sure. Being as we maintainers were not allowed to wear watches with exposed metal for safety purposes, most of us didn’t wear any to begin with just to be safe. The train ride had been highly uneventful and honestly I didn’t like it because it gave my mind too much time to dwell on the thought that I would never be going home. We had stopped about halfway through the ride so far at another town, and I was directed off by the guards as the girls got off at the train station.

Xam said something to the lead guard, to which the guard nodded in reply, before her and the other girls disappeared in a flash of light from Xam’s horn. As I waited with the guards for Xam and the others to hopefully return I watched as passerbyers stared at me and the guards as they went along their way. Honestly it made me feel like an animal at the zoo, which didn’t help with my frustration that had been building as I began to grow impatient. Luckily Xam and the others returned before too long in another flash of light. This time I noticed that each of them now wore a golden necklace around their necks with a shaped jewel amulet; all except Xam who wore an elegant gold crown with a large pink jeweled six-pointed star in the center.

Upon closer, careful, prolonged inspection I noticed that all of the pendants that the girls wore were of similar shape and color to the tattoos that marked their hips. This was just another piece of evidence that these girls were somehow important around here, in particular Xam. I put that case on the back burner for the time being as I figured that the answer would come along on its own with time. Xam directed us back onto the train and as the engine lurched forward we were back on our way down the rails.

That lead us back to where we were now, clanking along down to the tracks to some unknown destination with me staring off distantly out the window. I was lost in what was basically a specialist’s wet dream with no way of communicating and no foreseeable way of getting home. The more I thought about my situation it honestly made me more depressed and that just made me pissed that I was at the whim of fate right now. I was so deep in my thoughts that I didn’t notice someone sit down on the bench next to me. Suddenly I felt the slightest touch on my right shoulder, soft like the brush of a butterfly’s wing, and I was startled out of my thoughts.

Turning to my right quickly I heard a squeaking sound like the tiniest mouse, and a certain butter colored pink haired woman freeze in fright. My heart beat loudly in my chest at being startled but it also beat for other reasons as I was finally able to gaze upon the shy woman’s face for the first time. She had to be the most beautiful woman I had seen since arriving to this land. True each of the women were stunningly beautiful in their own ways, even Vemsa Hewl was a good solid 8.5 or 9 because none of them wore anykind of makeup. Yet the winged woman sitting in front of me now held a level of beauty that one could only find on only the purest of angels or other heavenly beings, and as I saw her eyes mist up a little with tears from being startled just as much as I had been. It just made me want to hold her and shield her innocence from the evils of the world.

I tried to give her a reassuring smile to help calm her down, “Hello there...Paxxila was it?”

Slowly I extended my hand to hopefully reassure her by touching her on the hand, but as I my hand got closer to her I stopped as her hand was trembling the closer mine became. Not wanting to frighten her any further and figuring I had done enough damage to the poor girl I returned back to my side of the bench.

I waited in silence for what seemed like around ten minutes for the shy woman to say or do something, but all she did was sit there and nervously fidget with the ends of her hair as she hid her face behind the silky bangs again. Every so often I would see her move slightly to face my direction but when she would see me look towards her she would cower again and mutter “Wys” in a voice so soft it reminded me of the cooing of a dove.

Figuring that my previous actions around the poor woman had made her think I was just some kind of mindless violent person I sadly returned to looking out the window wanting to give her her space. And after almost half an hour more of silence I pretty much assumed that she had returned to her seat, too afraid to talk to the violent creature. My eyes grew heavy under the noonday sun and I closed them to take a quick nap. I drifted slowly off to the world of dreams when a slender pair of yellow arms ripped me back to reality as I was pulled backwards.

My first reaction was to jump like before, but any urge to struggle was immediately squashed as the smell of cherry blossoms filled my nose. As I was pulled back against a soft chest I dared not speak a word, lest I scare the angel who was now wrapping her wings around me in a comforting embrace. I felt her fingers begin to run softly through my hair as she began to say something in her soothing voice that I could only guess was some kind of apology or reassurance that everything was going to be okay. Because even though she was nude there wasn’t even the slightest feeling of lust in the embrace, only one of comfort like a newborn baby being cradled by its mother. And it was in this comfort that my worries drifted away and I slowly fell asleep in the arms of this timid woman.

Author's Notes:

There! Finally he's had somekind of interaction with each of the Mane 6, even though I'm still not sure if the scene with Fluttershy was OOC for her. Maybe I'll edit that part another day when I've had some time to think about it. She just seems like the type of person who would show kindness to a complete stranger and give them a hug. Anyway now that that's over with onto hopefully Eric getting some answers here. Working on posting the chapters with the translated Equis on GoogleDocs just haven't had the time to figure it out. Equis itself is going to start to phase out in the next few chapters which is a relief to me because translating English to Equis takes up the most time in writing a chapter. LOL

Next chapter ASAP. Eric vs. Canterlot and the nobility.

Edit: Because some people wanted a verison with the translated Equis I decided to link it here.