Some time now has passed when the ponies first made the discovery that the 'dead' alien that they had brought into their tent was in fact alive. Upon discovery, Twilight, Fluttershy, Lyra, and, surprisingly, even Shining worked frantically to attempt to prevent the alien from dying. The large dog, Spike, was a little more than displeased when the ponies suddenly intruded upon his master's body, throwing a more than a few threatening barks and growls at them. However, he calmed down a bit when Fluttershy convinced the uptight dog that they were not trying to hurt his master.

The ponies had gotten him onto a combination of four cots and treated him for his wounds. The alien's wounds were very severe, two deep puncture wounds resided in the alien's gut region, going through a few organs; whether or not they were vital organs the ponies did not know due to their unfamiliarity to the alien's biology. Fluttershy was sure that if it had not been so cold out and his blood didn't freeze, he would have bled out very quickly; it was probably the only reason he was alive at the current moment.

It was not an easy process for anyone, especially the main medic, Fluttershy, as the pressure of saving the very life of the alien rested upon her shaky, yet capable, hooves. The process would have been a lot faster, but Fluttershy had to be very careful about giving the alien drugs, antibiotics, or medicine of any kind. She feared that the creature may have an unexpected reaction to a foreign medicine. As such, it was very touch and go and experimental, going on for nearly three hours before Fluttershy became more comfortable and confident in her medicating. Many risks had to be taken and many close calls were had before they finally stabilized the alien. It was another hour after that they felt comfortable enough start him on stim-therapy, to ensure a faster recovery time.

Now, all, besides for the guards and Twilight, were surrounding the cot in which bared the resting alien creature. Spike, Lyra, Daring, and Fluttershy were all watching the alien very carefully as his (a gender they determined after they striped him of all his equipment for the medical purposes) chest slowly rose and fell. All were making sure he stayed stable and nothing else went wrong until he woke up. Twilight and the guards, on the other hoof, were observing the strange, yet familiar, equipment that they had stripped off the alien.

Lyra, while observing the alien, took some time to take as many mental notes of the creature's appearance and physical features as possible. Though Lyra was not showing it externally, she was actually quite psyched about this. Other than politics, Lyra took great interest in anatomy and biology as hobbies, and she was internally squeeing at the thought of being the first pony to study this new alien species first hoof.

She first observes the slender and muscular build of the alien's limbs and torso, taking note on how frail, yet study, his physical structure was. She then took note of the head and facial features. She almost made the mistake of comparing his looks to that of a equestrian monkey, but observed that his features were far more developed and more cute. She then noted the apparent lack of a fur or hair coat, apart from the top of his head, his face, and and far more intimate parts of his anatomy. Lyra found this lack of fur or hair curious, considering the environment it was surviving in.

However, what she found most interesting about this alien was the fact that it was bipedal, and more pointedly, that it had hands. Hands was a favorite when it came to parts of anatomy for Lyra, she always found them fascinating and was personally very envious of the creatures who were gifted with them. There were so many applications for hands, so many uses, that ponies might have gotten so much farther so much faster if they all had hands; least in Lyra's opinion.

However, the hands of this alien creature was not interesting because of her obsession interest in hands. No, it was the fact that these were hands unlike anything she had seen before. The complexity of these hands were much greater than those she had seen from monkeys long hands or minotaurs stubby hands alike. They were almost perfect, not too long, not too stubby, simply a perfect median that could out perform the others by a long shot. These hands left Lyra was absolutely enthralled.

Twilight took interest in the alien's adaptive suit and gas mask, comparing it to the suits and gas masks of their own, surprisingly not finding much difference in their performance and function; they were basically the same if not in shape and size. She also took interest in a strange box like device that she couldn't figure out. It was just a plain box like device that didn't seem like it had any function at all. All it had was some sort of meter that didn't seem to move. She determined that it was obviously meant to detect something, but she wasn't sure what.

Meanwhile, Shining Armor and the guards took interest in some other round, tube like devices; particularly a large long one and a small short one. Shining couldn't quite figure out what they were at first, but figured it out quickly enough for him to prevent Sparks from blowing her own head off and putting a hole through the roof of their tent.

He recognized the weapon from a project back in Equestria. Though 'mini-cannons' didn't look anywhere nearly as advanced as these weapons, the way they were designed were very similar to the weapons before him; give or take the length and bulkiness. The idea of the 'Mini-Cannon' project was to create a weapon, using a similar concept behind cannon design, that shot a small projectile at hundreds of feet per second with ten times the force and lethality of their crossbows. Though it would have improved their weapon technology significantly, the project was scrapped due to 'safety concerns'. Apparently, many of the prototypes exploded upon firing and were deemed too dangerous to use in the field.

The weapons that Shining could see before him looked to be a perfected design of the lethal weapon they were trying to create themselves. A weapon that supposedly powerful enough to scare off or even kill something of the likes of a manticore within seconds. The idea that these aliens could create incredible weapons such as this both impressed and terrified Shining armor.

If there were ever a war between them and this alien race, he was not confident that they would be able match-up against this kind of weaponry. Though Shining was not one for going out without a fight, he was sure that they would most likely lose a war against these aliens. This, in itself, made Shining question the nature of these aliens. It made him wonder why these aliens would need such advanced weapons. Where they power hungry monsters? Or was there a even bigger threat than them that required better weaponry to fight off? Both probabilities were just as terrifying.

The next few minutes were spent in silence as Twilight continued to study the alien equipment and Shining continued to study the weapons. Nothing could be heard other than the wind whipping around outside the tent. That was until somepony spoke up.

"Well, now what?" Daring asked to nopony in particular.

"I guess we just wait until the alien wakes up." Twilight responded in a neutral tone, her focus solely on the alien equipment before her.

Daring rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Yeah, that much is obvious! What I am really asking is what we do when the damned thing wakes up!?"

"We'll just have to try to talk to it I suppose, perhaps even hope that it is in a good and talking mood." Lyra responded this time, though still keeping her focus on the alien; still trying to figure out the hands looking for any sign of it waking up.

Daring Facehooved. "You guys are all idiots... I don't know about you, but if I were to suddenly wake up to aliens from outer space surrounding my bed, I would be in anything but "good or talking mood," in fact, I might clock the nearest alien and go for my weapons." Daring responded, most pointedly at Shining and the other guards.

The moment Daring pointed it out, Shining did realize that they were keeping the weapons a bit too close to their owner; almost within arms reach. Though he really doubt the alien could in its condition, he could snatch the weapons at a moments notice. With that realization, Shining subtly moved the study of the alien weapons a few more feet away from the makeshift operating table.

"Well, what do you suppose we do, Ms. Daring? Restrain him? I am sure the dog will approve..." Shining replied, remembering the dog's first reaction when they tried to save his master.

"Well the dog is going to have to suck it up, because, at the current moment, this guy is a potential danger to us all. We sure as Tartarus don't know what the buck he is nor what he is capable of! He could have superpowers for all we know! We are going to have to restrain him somehow... just keep him from moving until we explain the situation to him." Daring suggested.

Shining, Twilight, and the guard seemed to like the idea, mumbling and nodding in agreement among themselves. Fluttershy and Lyra were not so sure; they believed that it might cause more harm than good.

"But Daring, are you sure restraining him is the best idea? I'm pretty sure that tying him up is probably going to cause more panic. It is going to look like we are taking him prisoner." Lyra countered.

"I agree, it would be like putting an animal in a cage. It will likely just cause more hostility." Fluttershy added.

"Well what do you suggest we do then? Ask it kindly to play nice?" Daring Replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes at the idea.

The room continued to debate on how to handle the alien situation, none of the ponies really gaining ground with their ideas. While Daring, Shining, Twilight and the guards wanted the alien to be restrained, Fluttershy and Lyra believed that may be a bad idea; for a huge variety of reasons. As the arguing continued, Fluttershy got an idea.

"Well... we could just blindfold it." Fluttershy suggested, just loud enough to be heard over the arguing ponies.

With that, the whole room went silent as their focus turned to Fluttershy, the latter instantly regretting the words that had left her mouth while the former awaited an explanation. Whether or not it was an explanation for how brilliant or stupid the idea was, Fluttershy did not know. Fluttershy was about to back away and go hide under a cot before somepony spoke up.

"We could what now?" Sparks asked confused, as if she had not heard what was said.

Fluttershy regained a little bit more confidence from this, making her believe that the group had simply not heard her idea and were simply asking for a reiteration. With this regained confidence, she repeated herself.

"Blindfold it, you know, put a cloth over its eyes?" Fluttershy explained.

"Yes, we know what you said Fluttershy, what I believe Sparks meant to ask is how in Tartarus do you think that will work?" Daring replied.

The confidence that Fluttershy regained almost made another hasty retreat as Fluttershy was informed that they had already heard her idea, and instead wanted her to explain herself; something that was not exactly her strong suit. Despite this, Fluttershy held strong. She knew that her idea would work, it had worked on some of her animals at home after all...

"Well, if he can't see us, he can't panic over us. Right?" Fluttershy explained further.

Daring seemed to put some thought into this, trying to decide whether or not it was an idea worth trying. As Daring thought about it, she realized that the idea did have some merit. If they did simply blindfold it and leave it as that, it would not be able to see them and immediately panic, much unlike what would happen if they restrained it. It could work.

However, however, as Daring thought about it more, she realized there were so many ways this could backfire on them. First off, there was no way they could keep him from taking the blind fold off. Secondly, there was no way to even convince it to keep it on as he likely didn't even speak the same language they do. Finally, unrestrained, it would still be a huge threat; as they still did not know what this being was capable of. As much as Daring would prefer this idea over pissing off an alien from another planet, there was just not enough merit to this idea to justify the risks they would be taking with this. If they were going to go with this idea, Daring had to know if they could prevent the current risks.

"Alright, you got me there, it could work, but how exactly do you plan to make it keep it on?" Daring asked.

Once again, Fluttershy's confidence was fleeing from her. She believed her solution was going down the drain at this point. Due to this, she was barely able to formulate her next response.

"We... um.... ask it nicely to?" Fluttershy near mutters. She then internally cringes when she realized what had left her mouth.

Daring mentally rolled her eyes, she near expected such a response. Especially from this timid Pegasus. "Right... and you do realize that it likely doesn't speak equish?"

"Well... um..." Fluttershy muttered.

Thankfully, as Fluttershy was about to abandon ship on the idea, Twilight came to the rescue.

"Actually, I believe Fluttershy's idea has some merit. We could just blindfold it, and I could use a translation spell to convince it that the blind fold is necessary for the time being. This way, we can avoid panic all together and give us the opportunity to explain the situation without conflict on either end. We could even possibly get some information out of it." Twilight added in support of Fluttershy's idea.

Though Daring was surprised by Twilight's apparent change of heart on the alien matter, her input was not unwelcome. Daring had never considered a translation spell, and almost felt stupid for it. Now this idea was starting to look quite a bit more appealing. If they could just convince it to keep the blindfold on, they might be able to just pull it off without any problems. Worse comes to worse, they'll just have to put it out with a stun spell. It could just work...

"Really? You can do that? Well, I would feel a whole lot better if we just tied it up, but, if you think this will work, I am willing to try it." Daring replied.

"Are we all in agreement?" Twilight asked everypony in the room.

Every pony except for Shining and the guards seemed to like the idea, as they still didn't really think that leaving the alien was a good idea.

"Are you sure that the translation spell will work Twilight? I mean, we are on a different world. Perhaps it won't work here." Shining added in.

"There is nothing to worry about, Shiny. I've been able to use magic just fine since we got here, haven't felt any sort of strain yet. I am sure we will be able to use magic just fine here." Twilight said.

"Yes what if we can't convince it to stay calm and keep the blindfold on? What if-"

"Then we put it out with a stun spell, seriously, you worry too much." Twilight gave as an amused replied.

Shinning looked as if he wanted to add more, but decided to just let his sister do her thing. If things go wrong, then they will have to do it the other way. With that Shinning finally gave a slight nod in permission.

"Fine, we will do it this way, but if anything goes wrong, we are restraining him. You got one chance.

"That is all we are asking for." Lyra replied off to the side.

With every pony in agreement, they proceeded with their plan. Fluttershy blindfolded the unconscious alien and the group patiently awaited him to awake. They didn't know how long it would be, but they didn't have anything else to do anyways until the storm cleared anyways.

Twilight, Lyra, Daring, and everypony else, wondered about the same things. What would he be would be like? Was he some monster or warlord of these frozen lands, seeking to conquer and destroy anything that was in his way; much like the monsters and villains of their own world? Was he a peace keeper, a soldier or warrior of this world whose only goal was to protect it from those who wish to destroy it? None of the ponies really knew, and it would remain a mystery to be uncovered until the alien woke up...

"GAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

...which was to be sooner than they originally thought.

"GAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" A shrill and ear piercing scream erupted from my mouth as I quite suddenly woke up.

Agonizing pain was coursing though my body, my entirety withering and burning as I spasm uncontrollably on a rather uncomfortable surface. Fucking hell this hurts! What the fuck was happening to me? What the fuck even happened to me!? Didn't I die? Is this hell? I don't even fucking know anymore!! AH FUCK PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!! IT HURTS SO MUCH!!!

I continued to scream my head off, begging someone, anyone to end my misery; though it probably only sounded like more garbled screaming as I could even formulate a sentence. I felt as if I was going to pass out again, but that was when I felt a stab in my side and something being injected into me. The relief was almost instant, but not entirely. My spasms continued for another few seconds before they finally seized all together.

I let out a sigh of relief as whatever I was injected with did its work. Soon, even the aching I was feeling after the spasms stopped was gone completely. At this point, nothing else mattered as all my pain was unbelievably removed from my body. I didn't think about where I was, who I was, how I ended up here, whether or not I died, or even if Spike was okay. I simply lied there, basking in my relief.

However, As I lied there, basking in my relief, I was suddenly brought back to reality as I heard voices all around me; either shouting or speaking in hushed voices.

"What the buck just happened!? Fluttershy!?" I heard a scratchy voice exclaimed.

I think I remember this one... This is Tomboy right? Wait, if I am hearing Tomboy, and she is this close...

"I-I don't know. Perhaps he had a bad reaction to one of our medicines?" A soft feminine voice replied nervously.

I remember this one too, Fluttershy right? Holy shit...

"I thought you said there shouldn't be a problem!?" Another familiar voice near shouted, the authoritative voice.

I am in the goddamned tent! This isn't good... I still don't know these people.

"Shinning! There no need to yell at her. There was no way to know this could have happened." The educated voice replied.

I need to find my weapons, it could be possible to just hold them up, get my gear, restock, and head out...

"Yeah, lets just try to keep our heads here." A feminine voice replied. This one I didn't recognize...

No. That won't work, whatever they injected me with likely will make me a bit dopey, and I won't be able to react as quickly or even be able to stand up straight... But then again, that would have effected me mentally, right? I think I am thinking relatively straight? What fuck did they inject me with!?

"Dear Celestia, that scared the crap out of me, that thing has a set of lungs!" A masculine voice replied. I think this was subordinate...

Forget about it, I can't gun my way out as I apparently can't see. Due to the fact that I can't even feel anything at the moment, I am not sure if they have my blindfolded or even restrained... Perhaps I can talk my way out?

"Yeah, tell me about it... Say, do you think he is awake now?" Another unfamiliar feminine voice replied.

Well, looks like I am going to have to anyways. They haven't killed me yet and wasted some of their medicine on me, they must want me alive for some reason. Let's find out why... What the fuck was that shit anyways? Must have been really hard to find... How the fuck did they even save me? I was practically torn in two! There is a lot of shit that is going on that make zero sense at the moment...

"I don't know, it is hard to tell... should I get the translation spell ready?" The educated voice said.

The translation what now?

"Yeah, probably a good idea, do your thing Twilight." The authoritative voice, now known as Shinning replied; revealing the once again strange name of one of the group members.

At this point, I couldn't take it anymore, all this confusion was becoming a little bit too much. "What the fuck are you talking about?" I asked myself.

It was only a few seconds later, when I noticed how silent the room became, that I realized I had said that out loud. Real smooth, me, real smooth. Now they knew I was awake, and likely listening to them the entire time.

"Wow, Twilight, I didn't think that spell would actually work! Good job. Did you cast it on all of us or something?" The authoritative voice replied in reaction to something I apparently missed.

"I didn't..." The educated voice, now known as Twilight, replied quietly, in a rather shocked tone.

"What?" Everyone in the room seemed to ask at once. Other than me that is, who was still confused a fuck as to what was even going on in the first place.

"I didn't cast the spell, he just talked to us in Equish." Twilight restated.

Equish? What the fuck is going on here? I decided that this was the right moment to reiterate my question, colorfully.

"Seriously, what the fuck are you people talking about? While you are at it, who the fuck are you, why the fuck can't I see? What the fuck did you inject me with? Where the fuck is my dog? And what the actual fuck do you want with me!?" I interrupted the conversation, with more than a few f-bombs

The whole room was completely silent once more, despite the fact that I couldn't feel anything at all, I could feel all their eyes upon me. It was at this point I realized that I made a potentially deadly mistake. Weirdos or not, these people had the upper hand, and I was in no position to be making any demands. What I said now could very well get me shot, that is if they really don't want me as badly as I originally thought.

As I was about to make an apology and try to speak with these... strange people... with a bit more reasonable tone, tomboy spoke up.

"No bucking way."

This is going to be a extremely confusing conversation...

Author's Notes:

Yes, I am a evil bastard. (And god do I hate leaving you with this chapter...)

You are probably wondering why in hell I would commit such an act of villainy, why I would leave you all on cliff hanger and a relatively uneventful/short chapter? Well, lets just say that this was taking to long. Far. To. Long. (REFER TO RELATED BLOG POST FOR MORE INFORMATION) Not to mention, I have a huge art project I need to start working on for school. (Yup, they already gave me homework, shocker right?) Anyhow, I will try my best to get the next part of this to you as soon as I possibly can. (And I promise it will be far more eventful.)

PS: No fucking deadlines, not that shit again. I am not going to do it. I AM FUCKING NOT!!! NIEN MOTHERFUCKER!!! DO YOU SPEAK IT!!!