"Forever..."

***

This was Jonathan's first party in his lifetime. As such he had absolutely no idea what to do in a party. "Have fun!" Pinkie Pie had said to him, as if she had read his thoughts after the late guests entered the bass-heavy dance music filled library. "Have fun, huh? Wonder what that means." The only thing he had considered fun in the last few years had been video games and good TV-shows, having fun with others was unknown to him.

"Hey guys!" Spike hollered as he squeezed through the party-crowd. "Pinkie Pie is starting 'Pin the Tail on the Pony', wanna play?"

"Sure, why not. It's not like I know what to do around here." Jonathan answered, feeling a bit out of place in the party. Even though he was glad he was in friendly company, he didn't feel at home in a party. Too much noise and, well, ponies.

He glanced over the crowd to see Pinkie Pie waiting at the other side of the library. The pink pony seemed to shake violently, like as if she was having shudders.

Trying to make his way through the mass of guest-ponies to get to Pinkie's game, Jonathan was having very mixed feelings. He was puzzled how Pinkie had managed to invite and fit so many ponies in the library. There had to be dozens if not a hundred of them here.

The deeply horrified feeling was caused by the familiar ponies he kept seeing among them.

A very bright, light turquoise mare with a lyre for a cutie mark.

"H-Heartstrings..."

A pale-cream coated pony with a distinct dark blue mane with pink highlights, three wrapped pieces of candy as her cutie mark.

"B..Bon-Bon..."

A plum pony with a mulberry mane, having a bunch of berries and a strawberry as a cutie mark.

"B... Be.. Berry Punch..."

A white unicorn with a neon-blue mane and wearing a pair of sunglasses, bobbing her head to the music's beat behind the DJ's desk. 

"Vi.. Vinyl Scratch..."

A grey coated pegasus with a light yellow mane, her cutie mark consisting of a group of bubbles. Her eyes seemed to be misaligned.

"D... Derpy... Derpy Hooves."

"All.. All these ponies.." The horrified human started to panic, frantically looking around. "How.. How I.. I know t-them?" Everywhere he looked, he kept seeing familiar ponies, colors, cutie marks... "H.. How can this be possible?" His brain started to get overloaded by the sheer amount of confusion and panic. "What is going on?" His breathing frequency began to reach dangerous levels. He was hyperventilating. "Why do I..."

"Jon!"

***

"The fire of friendship lives in our hearts, as long as it burns we can not drift apart."

"The querrels arise, their numbers are few! Laughter and singing will see us through.. Will see us through.."

"We are a circle of pony-friends, a circle of friends, we'll be 'till the very end!"

***

"..an!"

"Jonathan!"

"Jonathan!"

Opening his eyes, he stared into a pair of worried purple eyes. She was standing over him. He had lost consciousness and was now laying on his back.

"Oh thank god you are alright!" She said, relief escaping her voice. "You kept looking around like a lost foal and you looked so horrified!" Twilight exlaimed, not taking her eyes off from him. "Then you just fell down!" Her voice almost cracked at the words. "What happened Jonathan?!"

Jonathan now understood everything. The sudden naming of Rainbow Dash. The feelings how Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie felt so familiar. The feelings like he knew them. The feeling like he knew this place.

The feeling like he knew Equestria.

They all locked into place, like the last piece of the puzzle.  There was no going back. He had lived for three days in this world. For three days, he had felt more happiness and love than he had felt in years.

He had lived in the world of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

"Jonathan!" Twilight broke Jonathan's thoughts. "We are worried about you!" The crowd of ponies, including the friends of Twilight; the Elements of Harmony, were standing around him with worried and concerned emotions.

How was he going to break this to them? Should he keep it for himself and just live along like he didn't know anything? No, he couldn't hold such a lie. Should he just tell them, rip it off like a bandage? But how would they react to it? They would banish him somewhere and...

"Jonathan!" Twilight pushed him with a hoof, breaking his thoughts again. "Answer me! What happened?!"

"I.. I don't.. know." His mind disagreed. "Don't go this way Jonathan.."

"I.. I..." He desperately tried to look for words. "I don't know how to explain this to you."

"Explain what?" She looked confused.

He took a deep breath, and braced for what ever was going to come after the next words. "That I am.."

"A brony."

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A/N:

1.1: Fixed Vinyl Scratch's name, was accidentally DJ-P0n3 and a few more fixes.

21.1: DERPY IS CANON! (name changed from Ditzy Doo to Derpy Hooves)