The sun had rotated to the noon position by the time we reached the place Twilight had been mentioning. The Golden Oak Library is indeed a towering Oak tree gutted out into a live in business, meaning the owner of the library lives just above the work space. Twilight explains this to me when the ornate, red front door comes into sight.

"Soo, this is where you live i take it?" I ask as she finishes her explanation.

"Well of course, It was a bit of a fixer-upper when I first moved here from Canterlot," She states cheerfully, "But I've made it home ever since." She opens the door and went in, with me and spike following after. "Girls, We're back." She calls out but no response at first.

"Huh, guess they haven't showed up yet."

"Probably still working, it is only noon Twi." Spike noted looking at the grandfather clock located on the main floor just right of the front door.

"Well, I'm sure they'll show up when they can Twiligh-" before I could finish my thought I hear the growing sound of what sounded like a F22 flying close to the library, "The fuck-" I look round, "-is that?"

"Sounds like one of my friends is coming, but um, you might want to stay clear of the book shelves." Twilight gestured backing up towards the middle of the room

"What do you mean stay clear of the-" Again, before I could finish, a Cyan colored blur bursts in from one of the upper windows and smashs into a set of bookshelves. I could only look up to be covered by the sudden shower of books, followed by being drilled into the ground by something heavier than those books.

Not sure what hurt worse, my healing injuries or my pride as I heard another voice cough above me just a layer above me, "Jeez Twilight, learn how to dust your stuff more often!" was the female's only remark before I feel the weight shift.

"Oh my gosh, get up, get up, Jeff is under there!"

"Who?"

"MOVE!" Twilight shoves part of the pile of books away with her magic and grips my exposed hand. As she was helping me rise out of the pile up, "Are you okay?" she asks standing me back up as I slowly dust my self off as pain had indeed shook my body, I am at least glad that I didn't start bleeding from the impact, "Are you hurt, er, um-" she pauses at her own dumb question.

"Obviously not anymore than I am, just add my pride to that list..." I grumble as I look around, the shelves behind me had indeed been completely emptied of its books, beside me, dusting herself off too, stood the perpetrator that had caused the avalanche of literature.

She was Cyan color in coat, her matching wings flaps once before folding at her sides; her rainbow colored mane was rocking the tomboyish mullet. One could also tell her build was very athletic, could explain the Jet noise prior to her crash. "Oh hey, I'm fine, thanks for asking." The Pegasus mare teases as she looks at me, "So this is the human you spoke of." she came over to get a closer look at me.

"Hey, thanks for breaking my fall champ." she gave me a "Gentle" nudge against an arm before trotting off the pile of books.

We haven't exchanged names yet and I can tell I'm not going to like her at all today.

"No problem." I writhe holding my arm, "Ya going to need help picking this up?" I ask looking at Twilight.

"Nah, This has happened so many times, I've gotten faster at putting it all back." Twilight Boasts as she started picking up chunks of books off the floor before putting them back, organizing them as she did. "That flying wrecking ball is my friend Rainbow Dash." she points to the mare as her wings picks herself back off the floor at a hoover.

"How'd ya do? You got the pleasure of meeting one of the most AWESOME flyers to ever come out of ponyville!"

"Awesome?" I stare at Rainbow, "If so, then you would have used the front door instead of flying into this tree like a rookie flyer." she has a split moment of being stunned by my words but recovers just as fast, I only chuckle at her fumble.

"N-Nah, I was, Just trying to make a dynamic entry is all, Yeah."

"Riiight." I shake my head, "I've Seen Ninjas make a better entry than that."

"WHAT? whatever, It's just an off day and," she pauses to think, "I forgot to slow down okay?"

"Guys, please," Twilight interrupts. Apparently, she, staying to her previous statement, had cleaned up the mess before turning towards us to mainly keep Rainbow from probably bucking me in two with her, "Awesomeness".

"I didn't ask you to come here to simply pick a fight with him, I just figured you'll want to meet the human in person while he is still able to walk." She glances at me worriedly where I only just shrug off the quiet glare Rainbow shot me with before picking a seat on a lounger, she lazily scans the over of the book in hoof but discards it when she lays back, fore hooves tucked behind her head.

"Oh yeah sure, to bad he can't recover as fast as Yoours truly."

"But you didn't have to face the fury of an entire living forest now did you?" Twilight scolds before trotting towards the stairs leading towards somewhere, probably the upstairs apartment she lived in, "The library is technically closed for today, so let's head up stairs while we wait for the rest."

"Ugh, but I just got comfortable!" Rainbow groans with a stretch before hopping off the lounger.

I only shake my head at the Pegasus as she clambered out of the lounger, she flutters her wings and hovers up the stairs as I limp behind. Twilight waited half way up to watch me scale the stairs. I didn't bother to tell her not to worry for I guess she doesn't want her living specimen to get anymore hurt than he already is.

Shrugging the odd thoughts away, "Don't mind her," Twilight comes up to my side, "She can be a little-"

"-Blunt, Obnoxious or headstrong?" I add glancing at her.

"Yeeeah," her ears dropped slightly, "Just don't let her get to you."

I wave the subject away, "No worries, I have a friend that smells of ego and isn't afraid to speak the first thing on his brain." I caught her off guard, the random comment sparks a giggle from her.

"I didn't know Ego had a smell."

"Oh trust me, It does, and let me tell ya, she," I point up stairs at rainbow, leaning closer to speak quieter, "There is no soap in the world to cure that odor." We both tried to stifle our laughter as we got to the top of the stairs.

"What's so funny?" the Jock mare snaps a suspicious glare at us, She looks between the both of us as we try to play it cool but the look on our faces that my comment was still plucking at our funny strings.

"Oh nothing, Just something I thought aloud." I say skillfully covering up my previous comment about Rainbow, she narrows her eyes at me before turning towards the first door on left on this floor.

"Right, Just as long it wasn't anything about me, we're fine." she pushes the door open then went inside without breaking eye contact until the door closes. As the door closed, I look at Twilight before she started giggling again. Apparently, she found it funny no matter how lame it was.

"I"ll have to look into the odor subject later, but if it were true, it would make so much sense!" she then starts to regain her composer after another short fit of chuckling/giggling.

Right As I placed a hand on the door knob I hear what sounds like a classic brass bell chiming away near the door, I look at Twilight a little puzzled, "They heck is that?"

She perks up at the sound of the chime, "That would be my House bell," she says turning back towards the stairs, "You probably didn't see it at first, but there is a pull string beside the library's front door."

"An After hour door bell?" I guess absently. Just like the apartments back east (on Earth), some of them have a large panel with buttons that buzz up to the individual apartments, however, sometimes they never really work all that well. That's what happens when they make almost everything electronic.

"That's right!" Twilight confirmed, "Oh, uh go on in and make yourself at home." I already had the door open when she told me this.

"You sure about that?" I glance inside with a smirk, referring to rainbow. She only shook her head with a smile before heading downstairs.

"Just, go in." She says over her shoulder before going downstairs while I went inside.

Pulling the door closed, I look around the apartment;

It was a quaint little home for being an apartment, the natural coloration of the oak wood complemented the soft, darker color theme of the furniture; half the decorations of this place were han-HOOF carvings of flowery vines stretching across the natural floor board that made the (technical) third floor visible from the living room floor; the other half were thematic plants with the golden curtains rolled open on the sides of the windows.

Personal bookshelves, carved out of the very wall of the tree, were lined with books of many subjects, further up one could look probably had more personal books stored away from visitors.

As I was wondering about spike's living space, I glance over to see Rainbow Dash almost tackle the little dragon in a hug, "SPIKE!"

"How's it hangin' Little guy?" she asks giving the tyke a playful noogie before letting him go. The little dragon dusts himself and corrects his head spines before looking up at the Cyan mare.

"Oh the usual, riding out another one of twilight's crazy science storms," He shrugs before looking over to me; I had found a chair due to the aches building up in their legs, "As well making sure she doesn't do anything over-the-top with him."

"Like what, dissect me like a biology class experiment?" I chime in from my seat, we all had a short laugh at it but a part of my brain had a back hand poised to smack the teeth out of me with the warning careful with what you say! which also caused me to rethink my humor about myself being a subject of science or whatever, that and/or the knot that briefly twisted up in my gut.

"Oooo Of course! nothing like figuring out what makes you tic." Rainbow mocks wiggling a fore hoof at me.

While I was not amused by this, I still thought about it: if Equestria was anything like the U.S., I would've been picked up last night and be ran through interrogations, psychological tests, then probably end the day in a live biopsy operation seeing how my insides function for a few minutes before being snuffed out to cover my existence in this world.

Strangely that kind of thinking made me shudder, where did you go Twilight?!

"Guys, be careful with what you say," I raise an open palm at them both, "One day that might just happened and you'll feel like shit for even thinking about it."

"Naaah, I don't think anypony would do that to you here."

"You sure about that?" I cock a brow at Rainbow as she loungs in mid air thanks to the fluttering of her wings; before she could say anymore the door opened with chattering voices pouring over the threshold.

"-and again, darling, How come you did not bring him to me after the hospital?" A rather posh sounding voice came through the doorway as Twilight reenter with another unicorn following her in.

She was a pure white coat, with styled violet mane and tail, her soft blue eyes glance from her friend towards me in which they instantly widened with a matching gasp. "Sweet Celestia, how is he still looking like this?!" She exclaims (in almost artistic exaggeration) as she rushes over to my side to get a closer look.

"Uhh, because I still got healing stitches?" I answer out of confusion by her equally confusing question, to which her first reply was quick wave of a hoof to dismiss my reply.

"Oh, No no no, I mean, look at your clothing dear sir," she gestures towards my ragged remains of my earth clothing.
"Why hasn't anypony given you fresh wears to at least hold you over till you came to my shop!?" As she started to lean closer to further examine my torn artificial clothing. I look over at the others with a hand raised with a distinct 'dafuq' look on my face.

Their reply was, of course, stifled snickering as she started to try to tug at my rags, testing their remaining strength. "Uhm, I think there will be a proper time for that." I gently pull my arm away from her as she looks at me.

"Pardon me Mr-" she pauses, probably haven't heard my name yet.

"Revere, Jefferson Revere." Why did I just pull a Bond, Tha Fuck brain?!

"Right, Listen here Mr. Revere, how can a newcomer to our beloved town be trotting around in these rags, when one brave pony, such as yours truly, can step forth and at least make you look decent for public viewing?"

"Look, whoever you are, I do appreciate the concern for my-clothes, but When I can at least stand and/or walk I'll make it a priority to replace this crap." I calmly explain, or at least a decent attempt to be calm; "Also, You sound like I'm some pet to be paraded around town, Y-you do know that I'm a human, not an art piece."

The unicorn recoils as if I had just bitch smacked her with a rubber chicken coated in Salad dressing. She looks away with a preppy scoff, "I would never-at least somepony has to fuss over the newcomer one way or another.

"Rarity, I think I do that enough," Twilight butts in, obviously saving me from the fashion nut. "Jeff, You'll have to excuse her, she can be a little crazy over fashion."

"Gee, I hadn't noticed..." I deadpan at Twilight as Rarity had taken a chair with an audible 'humph' as if we had insulted her pride.

"I think Fashion Genius is more fitting if you are going to talk about me like so!" The room rattled with the chime of the beckoning bell down stairs.

"I got it!" Rainbow quips before vanishing in a blur through the door and down the stairs to answer the door. Twilight had wandered over to continue her conversation with Rarity, or at least calm her down, but the white unicorn's voice sounded a little irked. All the while, I notice Spike had seated himself next to me; with his head propped up on a knee, he had a half-lid gaze on his face while staring at the white unicorn.

"She is something right?" he sighs, I could almost say if she would to look his way he would swoon, "That's my Rarity for you." I look down at the tyke. My brain could only compute one thing: HOW? How can a dragon and a unicorn be-no, all of the no! oh and nevermind the pictures with all the graphical details that shot across my mind.

I shake my head from that mental mess, then look back at the little dragon, "You really think she's yours?" I ask looking up at Rarity, she caught my glance then quickly looks back at twilight, as if she snubs my very gaze. "I mean, do you really have a chance with that?" If your into preppy fashion nuts then go for it little guy, but she isn't my shot of jack ya know?

wait, why are you thinking like that brain?

As I rub my face with a hand, Spike simply shrugs, "Beats me, but hey, at least I can dream right?" he looks up at me, "I mean, Twilight seems to of taken a liking towards you, at least that's what I've noticed."

Fucking really?
"I kinda doubt that spike, I think her fascination towards me is more of scientific curiosity." I dismiss his comment before I could hear noise coming up from the stairs as Rainbow had left the door open. Sounds like more ponies were on their way up.

"Jesus, How many of them did she invite?" I ask aloud watching as Rainbow first came into the room. Behind her were two more ponies, One was another Pegasus like Rainbow but blonde coat with a light pink mane with matching tail. The other looked like a normal pony but had an orange coat with blonde mane tied back in a ponytail (bah-dum-tish) and wore a beat up looking stetson.

"So, where is this Jeff ya’ll kept mentionin’'." The orange pony asks as they enter the room, The more timid looking Pegasus looks pass her more toned friend as her turquoise eyes fell on me then gasps in shock. Ah shit, another one?!

Well, instead of rushing over to my side like Rarity did, the shy Pegasus cautiously came over to me and when she saw that I wasn't going to spring out of my seat with a knife, her entire demeanor changes from being scared to worried.
"You poor thing!" she expresses her concern with a matching look, "Are you okay? Does it hurt?!" I was originally prepared to tell her away like I did with Rarity, but since she is addressing me like a living being instead of a discarded mannequin, I thought against it.

"Well, the stitches are still tender since I had'em changed today," I began explaining with a reassuring smile, "But give a few days I'll be able to walk around without any kind of escort." or fearing I would keel over from the pain, I would mentally add, speaking of which I think I forgot my pills. I could feel a few twinges of pain as I talked to the blonde pony.

"uhm, I honestly don't think you should even think about walking right now." she looks at my head bandage, then back at me, "Why are you not at home resting?" Cute, but very concerned about the human here apparently. Where was this pony when I was laid up in the hospital?

"Ask her." I point at Twilight who snaps to attention from her conversation.

"Huh-what? about what?" she looks at the both of us, the Pegasus turns then stalks towards the unicorn.

"Twilight, you should know better!" she scolds her with a scowl, "why would you bring him out here when he should be at home bed resting?!"

"Uh, Flutter shy, I invited him here-"

"And she did send me to get him." Spike jumps in, "I didn't think he would even get up today." he shrugs as I glanced at the tyke with brows raised, talk about being doubtful for this guy.

"Sure about that? I knew I was still in bad shape and all," I, again, explain, the mothering demeanor faded seemingly instantly as Fluttershy turns back to look at me curiously, "But it wasn't going to keep me in bed all day, I would get too restless to even want to do that."

"Oh, uhm." Fluttershy blushes out of embarrassment from her random act of mothering/doctoring, "I-I didn't think of that, s-sorry Twilight." her head lowers with ears flat.

"No worries shy," Twilight smils giving the Pegasus a comforting pat on the shoulder, "Jeff is more sturdy than he looks." Almost, almost sturdy. I wouldn't consider myself that 'sturdy', taking the fact that I spent two weeks in that hell hole and almost died from it.

"Besides, Doctor Horse mentioned that when-" she pauses to look at me, she then drifts for a moment thinking before looking back towards her friends, "-well, Why don't you tell them Jeff." She gestures towards me which brought me out of a moment of absent spacing.

"Whu-Wait-what?"

"Didn't the Doc tell you how bad it was when you first got there?" Twilight asks, then all heads turned towards me as everypony waited for a reply.

"oh, well, um," I pause trying to remember how it went; Of course my head started to sting when I tried to recall on the details. "Sadly, I wasn't really told how bad I looked when I first crawled into that place." I admit, Gee thanks for putting me on the spot Twilight!

"Honestly, No one really told me how messed up I was when I finally woke up and wasn't going to strangle them."

"What? You wanted to hurt somepony?" Fluttershy almost paled at that last part, she took a few steps back away, placing herself behind Twilight.

"No no no, what I mean is that When I first got there, I was expecting to see other humans, like myself not," I pause looking at everypony in the room, "Well, ponies." I felt a little guilty for swinging at the staff back there now that I'm thinking about it.

"Being approached by talking animals while have suffered heavy blood lose while walking there can freak a guy out." I felt horrible, not guilty horrible, just nausea horrible. Fuck, why is talking about this starting to make me feel like vomiting?!

"ugh, Honestly, I don't remember much after one the bravest members of the hospital staff took me down and dosed me with something to knock me out." of course, the last thing I did remember exactly was the final sting of the syringe to take me out of the world of hurt I was literally in.

"I see," Twilight takes notice of the change in my mood before turning towards her friends, before she could speak I opened my mouth again,

"And you know what's funny?" I ask looking at each of them.

"And that is?" one of them replied.

"I forgot my meds." I crack a smile with a weak chuckle.

Looking around I noticed that It didn't come from no pony in the room, "uh, who said that?" I ask aloud.

"Pills here!" a pair of pink hooves pops up from nowhere next to me, looking at them, I noticed the pill bottle sitting in the middle of the hooves. Grabbing them, I looked at the prescription label printed on the side:

They didn't even bother to ask for my real name, niiice; "well, these are my pil-"

"Your welcome!" A pink blur glomps me in a hug. I could only blink in surprise as this new pony held me in a rather painless, tight, hug.

"Thaaanks?" I look at the pony puzzled as she let go and hopped over to Applejack's side. Not sure what was more weird, the fact that this multi-shaded pink pony with bushy mane and tail had appeared out of nowhere or the fact that I was the only one surprised by this, they only giggled from their friend's behavior. I glance around my chair to see if there was a trap door of any kind, "The fu-How did you get here?!"

"My secret!" She smiles broadly with a displaced squee, "SO, you're Thee Jefferson Revere?!" she asks excitedly, "The human whopracticallyalkwedoutoftheeveryfreeforestwithsomeNaaastylifethreateninginjuries?!" Jesus girl, breath!

"Holy crap, b-buut, yeah, uh you're right, that is me," I smile back awkwardly, "Doubt there is-"

"Of course it is you! YOU ARE the only human in equestria," she blurs up close to me, putting a hoof next to her mouth, "Trust me, I've checked."

"Wha-?"

"SO, what brings you out here aside from being invited over by twilight?" She asks abruptly as she put an arm around me, I think I'm going to need those pills now.

"Well, Not sure, this is my first full day outside the hospital," Was all I could reply with as my brain swam with confusion. "Say, Can ya let me up so I can get some water," I gesture by shaking the bottle slightly, "Gonna need these."

"Don't move, I'll get it," Flutter shy was the first to speak up as she took off for the kitchen.

During the pink pony's outburst, Twilight had brought out some seating for her friends, she had long vanished into mentioned kitchen at this point. She then returns with a tray of refreshments that looked welcoming but my stomach cowered into my intestine out of fear of throwing it self out of my mouth.

"Here you go everypony." she chimes returning. overlooking the crazy one, I noted the seating had been arranged around the coffee table in the middle of the living room. I honestly didn't expect to be sitting in on a get-together, then again, I AM the center of attention for today. "I see you've made it Pinkie." She greets her rather bubbly, energetic friend.

"OF course Twilight! Why would I miss out on this little party to welcome the Crash victim."

"Crash victim?" I look at her again confused on how she knew that, "how did you-?"

"Jeff, Best not ta think 'bout it, could only make it worse." A.J. gestures to me, trying to put me at ease. Needless to say, that It wasn’t getting any better, Just more questions bubbled from everywhere.

"Anyway, girls, If I may have your attention," Flutter shy had returned, fluttering over to me with a cup in hoof, "oh thanks, forgot about that."

"Here you go." She kindly smiles at me before taking her seat.

Taking a moment to open the bottle to dump out two beefy tablets. Twisting the cap back on I took the tablets and chased them down with the water, "I have to ask," I lean forward to put the cup down on the table, that took some effort though as the obvious muscles stretched stiffly.

"Why was I brought out here? I mean, I don't mind being invited over to someone's house just after being released but," I pause, "Couldn't of at least wait till I was feeling a little more better?"

"Simple, No pony shouldn't be stuck in a rickety place like that," Twilight was first to reply and of course, she had one of her tomes propped up on a book stand facing her with a quill in her levitation scribbling more crap on those pages, "Well, At least not all day." Feeling sheepish, I had to nod in agreement to that logic.

Back there, that house would probably be more like a woodplank greenhouse than anything and would of cook me into a puddle of sweat while I lay in bed writhing in pain, alone and- well she does have a point there! As I felt the water had curbed my need to dry heave I help myself to one of those glasses of lemonade that was made for everypony in the room.

"Of course, I guess you have a point there and the rest of you?" I look to each of them.

"Darling," Rarity, seemingly forgetting my words from before, was next to speak, "We heard the story of a creature had been admitted to the hospital about a week ago. So when Twilight had said she was bringing you out here, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to meet someone so unique, (but very open mouth)." she mumbles something else into her cup before taking a sip of her tea.

"She's riaht though,' AppleJack nods, "We've seen and met all sorts of critters in these parts but never had we seen anypony like you." My brain was still grasping their terminology as I tried to stop myself from correcting the Pony on using 'someone' instead of 'somepony'. I simply stayed quiet as I listened.

"I guess I should be honored to be considered 'unique' then," I see Pinkie had reached into her mane and pulled out a perfect looking cupcake before nibbling on it, listening with great interest. Gotta remember to just accept her randomness I guess, "Not often I also get invited anywhere by complete strangers, if you don't mind me saying that."

"Oh no worries," Shy says sweetly, "That is one thing we are good at is to make others feel welcome to ponyville."

"Well that is sweet of you guys, however, I think the hospital staff would think otherwise."

"Oh don't sweat it Jeffy," Rainbow finally spoke up, "They tend to be uptight when they have somepony as head strong as me of course."

"You mean me?"

"Right, did I say that, I mean head strong as you,"

"Like your last stay there Rainbow dash?" Twilight asks with a smirk, "Couldn't tell the last time someone broke into a hospital to steal a book."

"HEY, that book was awesome, I just-"

"-Didn't know how to get another copy from elsewhere?" I ask as I took a drink of lemonade, couldn't help but note the perfect blended flavor of the homemade brew, Guess somepony had taken time to perfect it. With a shrug I turn back to listening to Rainbow Dash who currently was caught dead in her words.

"you can it human! I just-just didn't know how to admit something embarrassing like reading."

"There is nothing wrong or embarrassing about reading, remember that," Twilight points to her before returning her attention to me. That quill writing away only periodically dipping into the neighboring ink well before continuing without a drop or mistake. Props for the awesome calligraphy skill.

"Anyways," I politely speak up after a moment of silence, "I guess what comes up next is the five W's." I actually dreaded at the thought of telling them what I did before ending up here. Be kinda hilariously mean to mention that I was hunting with several others before-

"-Of right, of course!" The page on the tome of notes flipped to a blank page while the quill dipped it's tip. As it hovered at the ready, those light magenta eyes locked onto me as I watch her prepare. Not sure why, but her eyes spoke not of formality but genuine curiosity and something else kinda like-
"If it is okay, we can start with you?" she asks kindly. The others sat casually while they too show interest in what will spill out of my mouth. Though of course couldn't help but wonder if the day will be spent learning about me more than me learning more about them.

Before I could shift my lips to form a word, "Where did you come from?" was the first thing brought up.

"Now hold on," I didn't want to be rude but honestly, enough about me for the time being; "Let's not just jump onto the subject about me right away, um," I look at each of the girls sitting around me, Twilight was the only one who cocks a brow out of slight confusion. "I've only met you girls and of course, only know your names, that is about it."

Again Twilight was about to say something, probably what I was thinking, gesturing her for 'one moment'. "So, as exchange of knowing more about my hosts, I'll disclose what led up to me being here."

"Well, I'll start," Twilight quietly huffed, she must of had to pull the breaks on her curiosity train. "As you know Jeff, I'm the owner of this library, um, before that I used to live in Canterlot; the Capital city of Equestria." She explains before levitating a glass of that perfect ratio lemonade towards her for a sip before setting it down on a corner table next to her. "About a year ago, I was originally only sent here to Ponyville to oversee the progress of the Summer Sun Celebration and-" she pauses to look over her friends, "-make friends." she smiles warmly before looking back to me.

"Of course, but back then," Rarity chimes in, "You were more focused on getting the inspection done instead of befriending any of us darling."

"Right, I was more focused on not only that but getting back to my studies with Princess Celestia-”

"I guess something obviously changed that?" Was my only penny for the conversation.

"But of course, after Nightmare Moon's return, gaining the elements and Luna's reformation, I ended up staying here." Twilight nods as she drifts with her thoughts, I could tell that she was reminiscing about the apparent life changing moment.

"Of course, much more happen’ between then an now," AppleJack crushed the budding awkward moment almost on cue, "Tha rest of us all live and work 'round this little town of ours so-"

"-well, unlike book worm over there," Rainbow Dash butts in, "Flutter Shy and I moved over here from Cloudsdale, Mainly because there is no pony else that can manage the weather like I can."

"Nor do I in taking care of-"

"Yeah, if ya ain't loungin' on them most of tha day." AppleJack spoke up, over speaking Flutter shy I noticed; Rainbow Dash snaps a glare at the orange mare.

"Buck you! You know as well that this town would match the Everfree's weather if It isn't me keeping those wild clouds out."

"True, but ya have to also realize that there is somethin' ta stay on top of otherwise-"

"Yeah, yeah, I know." Rainbow finally waved the subject away, "I'm still best flyer here." she folds her arms looking away from AppleJack with a snob nose to the air.

"Anyways girls," I lift a hand to them, "What were you going to say Flutter shy?" I gestured towards her who almost shrank from my gaze as if she didn't expect me to turn her attention to her.

"Oh, uhm," she paused, gaining some courage in her demeanor, "Like Rainbow said, I moved into a cottage outside of Ponyville to take care of-"

"-She takes care of any hurt animals like some anima-"

"Rainbow!!" Rarity and Twilight interrupts the jock.

"Sorry!" she shot her arms into the air.

"Please continue," I nod to Shy who briefly look towards the floor bashfully grinding a hind hoof into the floor boards before her wide eyes looked up at me.

"Uhm, I take care of any stray or Injured wildlife that come to me, as well ask for their help when we want to, well uh, organize special occasions."

"So, kinda like a local veterinarian."

"Uh-huh."

"That's Awesome, not everybody can have a hand, or hoof, in taking care of animals." then again, never would I really think that a hors-I mean pony would take care of lesser sentient animals. Kinda kicks "das Uber race" Idea in the face with this fact.

"Thanks." the blonde Pegasus blushes.

"Now how about-" The bubbly pink blur appeares next to me again.

"I'm in charge of an adorable little place called the sugar cube corner here in ponyville." Pinkie Pie began as she wrapped an arm around me once again, "gesturing" with the other fore hoof; "I mean sure Mr. and Mrs. Cake are the true owners but I'm the head baker, best stuff around if you ask me (Tee Hee)!"

"Aaand I can guess that you sample your work-"

"Oh every time I just can't help my self ya know? Noteveryponywouldknowgoodhoofworkunlesstheytrytheirmasterpiecesthemselves!"

That's when I believe part of her brain is part flesh and part sugar.

"Hmm, Nah, but at least three fourths sugar."

"Wait what?"

"Oh nothing." She grins with a shrug, a glint of mischief twinkled in her eyes.

Shaking the confusion away, I looked at the rest, "Never mind her randomness Jeffy." AppleJack joined in, "We tend to naught to pay attention tah some of her jibber jab from time to time."

"Of course," I gave myself a mental message as I tried to not let it crash from failing to understand any of this, thankfully the eight mils helped numb the confusion, or headache, trying to take hold.

"Now, if anypony would mind I would like to say my part as well." She gave the others a glance before clearing her throat before continuing, "So, if anypony had told ya yet, but I live outside of town on an orchard farm, SweetApple acres," At first, I thought that there accent was faked but now I'm convinced that she is genuine; great, even my thoughts are starting to catch that accent too.

"Tha finest apples you'll fine anywhere in Equestria." She boasts, "When ya'll walkin' fine again, feel free ta come by and I'll intraduce ya to tha rest of the Apple family; hardest workers ya will evar meet, naught ta mention the longest line of apple recipes to cook it up with such as-" she was interrupted by the sound of Rarity clearing her throat.

"I believe that will take till sun down to list everything."

"Well, what ya'll heard bafore was just what I can memorized."

"Right, anyways darling, I think we should move on before we get to caught up in family secrets." AppleJack gave the fashionista a glaring frown but shrugs it off shaking her head with a slight smile since that maybe she too was interested in what I have to say.

“I could tell you about me, but I think there will be time later for that, so, now to you, Jefferson.” Rarity gestures to me.

I pause for a second then shrug, well, got no choice now do I? "Aside from being released from the hospital here in, ponyville was it? I was originally from a no-namer town called Merlin. Located in the Rouge Valley of Southern Oregon." I nod trying to answer as best as I could, "But I moved up the I-5 into a nightmare of a city called Medford for better work but even then, It was difficult since the Economy had to kick us all in the nuts when they pulled the stamps program."

"Wait, What?" Twilight had been obviously copying everything down since I started, "Hold on, where is this Oregon you mention, and these towns-"

"What's a stamps program?" Pinkie tilted her head to think at first then melded into a look of a concentrated researcher as she stroked her chin as if she had a beard.

"Such words to describe something like the economy." Rarity quipped rolling her eyes at the choice of language.

"Well, Twilight and friends," I raise a hand to them, call for silence and their attention again, "Oregon is one of the West Coastal states of a Country called the United States of America." I explained with a hint of sarcasm when the name of my country came up, "As for the stamps program, I was mainly referring to a governmental control SN-"

"Kinda like a food-for-all kind of gig right?" The pink mare interrupted cheerfully, "I mean, no one would let their fellow ponies starve no matter the walk of life they trot."

"Uhhh, yeah, thanks." I then force my brain to pull itself back together, "Right, so, like she said, the stamps comes from that and as of late, by some ungodly decision to save money, it was pulled." Thinking about it, politics shouldn't stick it's nastiness into this conversation. "Anyways, long story short, I live in a world decaying into chaos, a shadow of it's former shelf. What I was doing during this was, well after riding out of the storm of the December food riots, me and a few neighbors decided to take matters into our own hands and try to provide food for ourselves."

"Oh, you're going to answer one of my questions!" Flutter shy perked up.

"Riots," Twilight ponders, "Sounded like everything just fell apart during those dark times."

"That they did, so," I continued, "what we did was go out into the mountains, set up camp somewhere and just hunt for whatever we can find."

"Whaaat? H-Hunt?" Flutter shy suddenly looked like she was regretting her excitement, "You mean-"

"Yes, We hunted down animals for food, not just for the few us but for whoever needed it."

"Those, poor little things." she paled as she sank in and slowly out of her seat.

"Come on Shy," Both rainbow and AJ gave her a hoof back into her seat, "We know that anypony would do anything to survive if there was a famine."

"But hurting animals-" She quietly whines.

"Settle, Settle, we did our best to not waste anything when we gu-" Twilight clears her throat noisily,

"Jeff, shall we?" she butts in giving me that move along look.

"Right, Right, Sorry; anyways, when we all had our share and determined that we did find enough to bring back, we loaded up and headed home." I continued, dropping the detail that every animal we hunted was cleaned and smoked at the campsite. "We stayed close for a ways but after we ventured down off the mountains, that's when, well-" I drift off, "-we got separated." I felt a cold knot in my chest as I tried to remember the events following after that.

"And," I pause, I felt my nerves starting to act up, "An-" I couldn't speak, something was wrong, really wrong. Like something was yanking on the emergency breaks to shut me up.

"Jeff? are you okay?" one of the girls asks, couldn't tell who it was as their voices started to swirl into a muffled hum.

"And, that's, well-" My chest felt heavy; I try to take another sip of the drink but as the glass touched my lips- I was twitching, no, shaking. Why where my hands shaking? Then my mind started to replay fragments of the whole ordeal that occurred while out there in the forest. "The rest is history." I force out of my mouth as breathing was getting heavy, "Excuse me-" the glass fell from my hands as I shot out of the chair.

I think it hit the floor but did not shatter.

"Jeff?!"

"Oh buck-"

"Whats wrong?!"

"Are you ok-"

The bathroom was easy to locate and their voices were silenced with the door slamming behind me. I found the sink first, I force my hands to cooperate as I turned the water then started splashing my face with cold water to maybe snap myself out of it. Boy that didn't work, every time the water connected with my face, I felt the warm murky rain. I quickly turn the water off; looking up- oh god, my face was pale, my eyes dilated and were wide.

My breathing started to drop into a panic state.

I look back into the bowl of the sink, averting my gaze from looking at my petrified self. My mind was racing with a mash of thoughts, my heart pounded, my lungs heaved. Every time I tried to blink, close my eyes or even rub my face, images of muzzle flashes, glowing eyes and large beasts blurred by with each blink.

I felt weak, I felt everything as if I did before, in that fucking forest: racked with starvation, wrecked with pain from barely recovered injuries.
Those, those beasts, the hybrid that almost broke my back. The hydra that almost saw me, then that fucking river snake thing that tried to pull me under.

I felt only one familiar sensation in my stomach that caused me to bend over the toilet. As I spilled my gut's contents into the ivory's bowl water, I heard what sounded like thunder to my left before I saw something move in my peripheral. As I look I saw the world change in an eye blink.

The badly made barricades I threw together where almost destroyed aside by half of one that stood standing after those dogs attacked me again.

I was back in the Everfree Forest, it was dark, cold and I had lost my weapon with only an empty pistol to my name. I ran hard and they just kept chasing me. Those glowing red eyes peering into me.

Their Smokey exteriors encasing skeletons that I could see under the pulse of lightning.
I simply forced all into my weak legs and ran for it.

But here, somehow they found me. " stay back!" I shout at them. I grab the dropped high power then leveled it at them, however when I tried to fire, the pistol clicked on empty. "Stay back you fuckin' monsters!"

"..ff!" I thought I heard something under the crackling snap of thunder, those skeletons blinked through their translucent bodies.
"Nononono. D-Don't!" instead of surrounding me, they remained in a loose single file formation as one of them swapped places with another. This one looked different as it had the body of a unicorn.

"J.ff!" muffled off in the distance, "Ca.......d..wn.....y.....re.....seeing-" my ears pinpointed the source of the noise from the smoke horse that now stood before me.

"Calm d....yo....jus...."

"D-Don't, stay back...."

"Jeff, c..m......Dow......wha...."

"GOD DAMN IT LEAVE ME ALONE!!" I threw the pistol at the horse with a wild burst of strength. The object glanced off the horse's horn. As it backed up, I thought I saw the horse's image flicker before it raised its head, some sort of magic emanated from it's horn.

"Oh shit, don't you dare!" I scooted back until my back bumped into something. Now, it seemed that I'm stuck, trapped. Gotta get out of here! I forced myself to my feet, I grabbed for the nearest branch off from one of my barricades and snapped it free.

"I, I will not die here!" I seethed before taking a swing at my adversary.
The horse dodged back then flicked it's head towards me. A burst of energy shot towards me.

"No-" was all I could manage seconds before the magic struck me in the face.

I watched as my spell connected with Jeff square in the face. I had little idea on how much ommph was put into the stun spell as the impact alone knocked the poor human off his feet and into the guest bath tub behind him.

He mumbled inaudibly as his eyes rolled gently as they closed; my chest heaved slowly as my breathing regulated back to normal.

As I slump onto my haunches holding my horn as it stung tenderly from the spray bottle he threw at me. For someone that seemed to barely had any strength in him, he had one mean toss. Aside from that, what the hay just happened to this human?

"What in tartarus was that all about?!" Rarity was the first to speak after the dust had settled. I refused to reply at first for I focussed on Jeff even though He was now unconscious (regrettably) thanks to me.

"I haven't the slightest idea sugacube," AJ replied probably as dumbfounded as the rest of us, "but he was wild mad like a bull in a red paint shop!"

I look back at my friends, each of them, aside from Flutter Shy, who's wide eyes peeked out from under one of the chairs; were in shock from the sporadic change in the human.

"I-I wouldn't nor couldn't be able to explain what happened." I then shook the after shock off and stood up, "But, come on girls, we can't leave him like this." I grab him by the shoulders of his shirt with levitation and slowly lifted him out of the tub. By Celestia's mane he is heavy when unconscious!

Trying not to drop him, I ease him up and over the tub before my grip slipped and he thunder face first onto the rug.

"Sorry!" I cringe as I grip the collar and tried to at least get his already hurt face off the floor. As I struggle with the body, I saw Rarity's light blue magic grip the shirt.

"Let me help you with that darling."

"Thanks." we hoisted the human off the floor and inched him out of the bathroom, I can hear the faint tearing of his clothing as we carried him. As we came further out with him, Rainbow and Applejack helped us carry him over to the lounging sofa; all the while we could hear inaudible mumbling and he would twitch in his restless sleep.

When we laid him down, "Please tell me he isn't anymore hurt than he is." Flutter Shy's worried voice came from behind us as the little pegasus nudged her way up to the sofa.

Aside from me and shy, everybody else had backed up. I took this chance to examine the extent of his condition:

His breathing was shallow but rapid, he would twitch and flinch with weak groans. It was like he was having a terrible nightmare. The black mark on his face from were my spell had connected with the right side of his entire face emitted the faint scent of singed hair.

"Poor guy, he looks like He is having a rather had dream." Flutter Shy places a hoof on his forehead to only retract it quickly, "and he is burning up!" she exclaims worriedly.

"The doctor hadn't mentioned any poisons in his body," I muse partly aloud, "you said he is hot to the touch?" I watch Shy not only check his head but his arms and wherever his coatless skin was exposed.

"Very," she looks at him then to me, "D-Do you have any idea what could be causing this?"

"No." I stare at him while I mulled over who can help us with this problem. He seemed to writhe in pain as he squirmed on the sofa, "But we need to start somewhere, starting with Doctor Horse, who originally took care of him when he first emerged from the forest."

"But didn't ya mentioned that he had a sour attitude towards the human?" AppleJack recited our previous conversation about my first encounter with the hum-I mean Jeff.

"Yes, but at least it'll be a start, Pinkie, do you have-" As I turn to Pinkie Pie, I notice something off, "-Wait, Where did she go?" Everypony else noticed that she wasn't in the room anymore, usually typical Pinkie pulling the vanishing mare act but instead of reappearing to cheer us up, she seemed to just left. In her place, in the chair, was a note or more like one of her trademark envelopes.

"Pinkie," I sigh as I went over to the chair, "What got into you this time?" I pick up the envelope and, with all caution, opened it then braced for it; however, when I opened it completely, it didn't explode like I would expect in a hidden confetti bomb letter, instead a simple letter was inside.

"What? Where's the kaboom?" Rainbow Dash hovers over to me, "Normally there would be a Kaboom of some sort when it comes to Pinkie Pie's trick letters." I remove the letter as I listened, even though it was random to be concerned of a prank not going off when expected, but it can't be the pinkie we knew to just leave a normal letter like this.

"Odd, she wouldn't leave something so generic if she did left to do something else." Way to sum up my thoughts Rarity.

"But she can't just disappear like this," Rainbow gestured towards the door, "if she did leave, we would have noticed it."

"Girls, shouldn' we remember that it's Pinkie we're talkin' 'bout here." Applejack pointed out, "I reckon she can be the most quiet when she needs ta be."

"True, but let's not get overworked about her vanishing on us like this." I spoke up after finally speed reading the letter for the third time, "For now, we need to keep track of getting Jeff some help."

"Very true Twilight," Applejack nods, "We should get the doc, like you said it'll be a start to figure out this crazy conundrum."

"I'll stay with Shy incase he comes to." Rarity volunteers with a raised hoof before turning to Flutter Shy "No offence darling, but you'll need somepony that can handle the human encase he tries to get out."

"None taken Rarity." Flutter Shy peeps in reply.

"Right, and as for you Rainbow?"

"I ain't goin' nowhere, I'm not passing up the chance to buck the human in the face if he tries to fight any of us."

"Okay, looks like it's just you and me, lets go Jack." I let the letter fall from my magic as we hurried out the door down stairs. As we hurried down the stairs my mind mulled over the words of the letter:

I couldn't figure out why the rest of the letter was smudged in an illegible smeer of ink...

Author's Notes:

Another chapter down in my trek of revising this story.

Thankfully, not much has changed other than perspective wording and a few additions here and there.

Still remember this chapter as a hard one because the order of appearance of the mane six kept changing constantly.