Saitama waited until the mare in the bed stopped screaming to pose the obvious question.

"What's wrong with you?"

"What's wrong with me?! What's wrong with you?! You're a human!"

"Yeah, and?"

"And you're speaking!"

Saitama scratched his head in confusion, unable to grasp what was wrong with that.

"Of course I talk, why wouldn't I?"

"Why? Why? Because humans are animals! Animals don't talk! It's not scientifically possible, you are not scientifically possible!"

Saitama felt a frown cross his face at the mare's words.

"That's kinda mean isn't it?"

"I-You-ARGH!"

--

Twilight Sparkle hadn't felt this enraged since the Pinkie Sense incident. In fact she could feel a few sparks dancing around in her mane as it prepared to light itself on fire. This thing, this supposed human, was just sitting there like nothing was wrong in spite of the fact that it defied every logical piece of scientific evidence that humans were no more intelligent than dogs.

Recognizing the first stages of her descent into madness Twilight took a few moments to remember what Cadance had taught her. Twilight closed her eyes before bringing a hoof up to her chest and inhaling, then she extended her foreleg and exhaled. She did this a few more times until she felt herself calming down to a more reasonable level.

Opening her eyes Twilight focused on the creature staring at her with a look so blank that had he not talked she was sure she'd have pegged him for a normal human.

"Okay, let's start over. My name is Twilight Sparkle, and what did you say your name was?"

"Saitama."

"Okay, er, Saitama, what are you?"

"I'm a human."

"But that's not possible! You can't be human!" Twilight said a bit louder than she meant to.

"Twibright."

"Twilight."

"Twilight, you might not believe me but I'm just a human."

Twilight felt her mane begin to frazzle before she fixed it and took another deep breath.

"Okay, assuming I believe that you are human, which is a little hard, then what is it you want? Why are you here?"

"I just want to get home." he said simply, "Can you give me directions."

Twilight was starting to think that she had gone crazy. This talking human, this scientific anomaly, was only here to get some directions?

"Ugh, you know what? Fine, whatever, so long as it'll get you out of here faster then I'll help you. Where is it you're trying to go?

"I'm looking for the Hero's Association"

"Hero's Association? I've never heard of anything like that before."

"Then Z-City is fine. I just need to get back before the sale is over."

"Sorry, never heard of that either. Hold on, let me go get a map, maybe that'll help."

"Ok."

--

As Saitama patiently waited for Twilight to get back he could only think about one thing.

I really hope I don't miss the sale.

With nothing else to do Saitama used his pinkie to pick his nose. Taking a moment Saitama inspected his finger to see if anything clung to it. Upon confirming that there was he flicked it away before resuming waiting. After a few minutes, just as his patience was beginning to run thin, she returned with a parchment in her telekinetic grasp.

Pulling over a table she set the parchment down on it and rolled it out.

"There, that's a map of the world you should be able to find whatever you're looking for on there. Or at least you should be able to find the general area."

Saitama bent over and studied the map for all of three seconds before he realized something was wrong.

"Hey, are you sure this map's right?"

The mare huffed indignantly.

"Of course it's right! This is the latest edition with all the current continents, countries, and capitols."

"Eh? But it's supposed to be one big continent isn't it?"

--

Twilight couldn't believe the nerve of him, suggesting that her knowledge may be outdated. She always made sure to keep up to date with any and all new findings each and every year. Then what he had said hit her.

"Wait, what did you say?"

"I asked if the map was right."

"No, after that. What did you say after that."

"Hmm? Oh, I said that it's supposed to be one big continent. You got a really weird map."

Twilight felt her heart skip a beat at his words.

It's supposed to be one big continent.

Never in the history of the planet Equis had there been a time when there was one massive super-continent. That meant.

Twilight Sparkle inhaled sharply at the realization that this talking human may very well be from the future.

"Saitama how long have you been here?"

"About two hours I think?"

"Oh."

Twilight sighed sadly, the only method of time travel known to her was Star Swirl the Bearded's spell and that only sent you back for a few minutes at most. However that meant that if he wasn't from the future then he had to be-

"Oh my gosh! You're an alien! I have so many questions! What planet did you come from? How did you get here? Why do you look so much like our humans?"

--

Saitama felt overwhelmed by the mare's sudden rush of seemingly endless questions. Unable to get a word in edgewise he found himself growing more and more impatient as he had to listen to the mare ramble on. Finally he'd had all he could take and he slammed his hands onto the table.

"I'm not an alien!"

Twilight tilted her head to the side in a fashion similar to that of a dog.

"Not an alien? Then if you're not an alien and you're not from the future that must mean you somehow came from another dimension."

"I don't care, can you help me or not?"

"Hmm, theoretically if you are from another dimension then I should be able to pinpoint the location with a bit of work. Luckily I have a spell that'll help me with that."

The mare's horn glowed and he noticed himself be enveloped in a similar light before it dissipated.

--

Twilight stared in confusion as her spell merely vanished after a few moments of contact with Saitama's body.

What the?

Lighting up her horn again she poured  a bit more magic into her spell than last time before shoving it onto Saitama. This time the spell stayed up for half a second longer before dissipating. Focusing she forced as much magic as she could into the spell before releasing it only to watch it fade after a few seconds of contact with the creature.

How in the world is this possible. Even hydras and dragons aren't this magic resistant.

"Bad news, my magic doesn't seem to work on you which means I can't use the spell I needed. However I should still be able to get you home, it'll just take a bit longer."

"Ok. Can you get me home before today's over?"

Twilight shook her head.

"Sorry, but it's going to take at least a month for me to work it all out. Possibly longer since you're resistant to magic."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Twilight's ears splayed back, her heart racing from the sudden cry of anguish from the being in front of her.

"What's wrong?!" she questioned, fearful of the answer.

"I'M GOING TO MISS BARGAIN DAY AT THE SUPER MARKET!"

This time Twilight had no time to calm herself down before her mane and tail burst into flames.

"That's what you're worried about?! Of all things you're worried about a sale! I-"

Twilight suddenly felt all her emotions drain away leaving her tired and unwilling to argue.

"Alright, fine, look since you're from another dimension the time streams may differ. That means that even though a month may pass here in your dimension only an hour may have passed."

The look of hope that made it's way onto his face reminded her of that of a foal's. Seeing that almost made all the trouble she had just been put through worth it. Then a look of contemplation crossed his face before he spoke.

"Know anywhere I can stay at? Preferably for cheap?"

Oh yeah, he needs somewhere to stay while I work out the spell. I can't just let him walk around though, imagine the panic it could cause. I can't just keep him cooped up though, that wouldn't be right. I know!

"You can stay here, free of charge!"

"Ahh, really? Awesome!"

"All you'll need to do is pretend to be my pet for a little while."

"No."

No?

"No?"

"No."

"What do you mean no?"

"I mean no."

"Why?"

"I'm not into that kinda stuff."

"I, wha-"

It took Twilight a few moments to process what he had meant by that before she flushed beet red in embarrassment.

"That's not- I didn't- I mean- that's not what I meant at all!"

"Huh? Oh."

"What I mean is that you literally have to pretend to be my pet."

"Why?"

"Because humans are animals here."

"That's kinda mean."

"No, I mean humans are literally animals here. They're barely smarter than the average dog and they're mostly seen as pets."

"Oh, I see, you always wanted a pet but didn't want to have to take care of it so you never got one."

"No! That's not it either! What I'm saying is that if you go around outside without anypony else they're either going to think of you as a stray and try to capture you or they'll find out about you being intelligent and it'll cause a panic."

"Ah," he slammed his fist into his open palm, "I get it."

"So you'll do it?"

"Sure."

"Great! I'll get a room set up for you, tomorrow we'll go out and get you some things from the store."

"Ok."

"Stay right here while I get your room set up."

--

Saitama found himself alone once again as the mare dashed out to prepare him a place to stay.. To be honest he didn't really care much about all this, he just wanted to get back home and get to the sale. However if playing along got him free room and board he was happy to oblige.

"I wonder if they have any monsters for me to fight."

Honestly being bored was nothing new for Saitama, since he had gotten strong his entire existence had pretty much revolved around trying to sate his boredom. Maybe something in this world would be able to challenge him, though more likely than not it would go the same as in his world.

"Woah! Since when did we have a human?"

Saitama looked up to find a purple scaled lizard standing on two legs in the doorway.

"Hi." he said, waving at the lizard, upon seeing this the lizard's eyes opened wide.

"Twilight!"

"Yeah Spike?"

"Did this human just talk?"

There was a flash of light as Twilight appeared in the room.

"I completely forgot. Spike, this is Saitama, it seems as though he's from another dimension. Saitama this is my number one assistant Spike. Saitama's going to be staying here with us for a little while while I try to figure out a way back to his home."

"Hey." Saitama spoke.

"Hi." Spike said, waving back.

"I'm surprised that you're not more freaked out about this." Twilight said.

"Meh, when you live in Ponyville you get used to all kinds of weird stuff happening. Knowing you though you probably fainted right?"

Twilight's furious blush answered his question better than any words.

"That's what I thought."

"Anyways your room is set up now. Follow me and I'll show you to your room."

Saitama nodded and followed her out of the room and through the castle halls until they reached another door that swung open to reveal a room almost exactly similar to the other one..

"It's not much right now, but we'll get a couple of thing to spruce it up with tomorrow."

"Thanks." he thanked her.

"No problem, it's what friends do right? Now I recommend getting some rest. It's pretty late and we've got to get an early start tomorrow."

"Ok."

With that Twilight left, leaving Saitama alone in the room. As he laid down he let his mind wander to Genos and his world.

"I'm sure they'll be fine without me."