WARNING grammar maybe terrible any grammar nazi comments hating on this story will be removed. I'm open to any advice anypony gives me.

Our story begins with a young stallion by the name of Brawny Boulder. He was a rather tall stallion with an orange coat and black mane with a blue spot. he was a simple pony living out a some what normal life. There was one thing even he never understood though. He had never got his cutie mark. Here, so many years later he never found what it was he did best. He never talked to many other ponies except for his friends, which he didn't have very many of, they were enough for him though. He enjoyed some alone time every now and then. He was an intelligent one at that but some how he never really found out a lot of things until he was older. He moved from Canterlot to Ponyville to get his peace and quite and be able to see his friends more often and so our story begins.

As he got off the train he took a look at his surroundings and took a deep breathe of fresh air. The first thing he noticed was a large tree house he did could see in the distance along with what he could make out to be a boutique. He got off the train and onto the platform as he did he could hear a few mare's voices behind him. He turned around to see who it was. He watched he saw six pretty mares get off the train behind him carrying what looked like wedding dresses inside suitcases?

Two Earth ponies got off, the first one had an orange coat with blonde mane and a cowcolt had. The other had  a pink coat and mane and was hopping along. The rest began to get off the train, he saw two Unicorns get off, one with a purple coat and mane with a pink stripe that he recognized as twilight sparkle. The other had a  white coat and a kind of dark purple hair. Then two Pegasus flew out one with a rainbow mane, that he had never seen on anypony before, and a bright blue coat. The last one was yellow with a pink mane who looked like she was barely staying afloat with her suitcase.

"Again, I am very sorry that I didn't believe you Twilight." the orange one said.

"We all are." said the white one.

He thought while he was new and needed help finding where he could get a job. He may as well make some new friends, he was curious to see weather it was or not twilight as well.

"Hello." said the purple one. He realized that he had been starring the whole time.

"Um hi," he started to turn away, but he remembered. "Hey um don't mean to be rude, but aren't you twilight Sparkle."

"The one and only and these are my friends." She replied.

"Hi I'm Applejack." said the orange mare as she tipped her hat.

"And I'm Rarity." said the white unicorn as if everypony knew her.

"I'm um Fluttershy." the yellow mare said in a low tone of voice.

"And I'm the one, the only Rainbow Dash." said the rainbow maned Pegasus, sounding full of her self.

“H my names brawny boulder”he answered. Brawny noticed that the pink earth pony was missing when.

"Hi I’m Pinkie Pie!" he jumped and fell on his back as she flew out from behind him. They all tried to help him up

"No thanks I got it, you guys must be the spirits of The Elements of Harmony too?"

"Yes we are, you must be new here?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah I am actually would you gals happen to know where I can find a job here?" he also needed a house. He could last a while in an alleyway he had done it before, but that was when he met...

"Yeah just go to town hall in the center of Ponyville, or you could always come to my farm and help out? Why not give you a tour while were here." said applejack.

"No you don't have to really, but thanks for the offer," as he was walking away Applejack grabbed his tail.

"We insist." he just smiled and was at least happy that someponies were friendly.

All seven of them were walking down the main road. They were telling him about all the buildings along the way like Twilight's library, Sugar Cube Corner, Sweet Apple Acres which they couldn't see at the moment, and Rarity's Boutique.

"So why were you guys on that train were you moving here or just coming back from a celebration or what?" Brawny asked.

"Well actually we were coming back from my brother's wedding." Twilight replied

"Really what was his name?"

"Shining armor."  Brawny's eyes began to widen.

"He's your brother?"

"Yeah do you know him from somewhere?"

"Yeah actually he helped me when i was young and lost in an alleyway in an older area of Canterlot."

All of them just stared wide eyed at him for a few seconds. He remembered it like yesterday it was a snowy night in Canterlot around holiday time. He was only a very young colt at the time he had spent most of his life on the streets in old Canterlot. His parents were one of the most well known couples in Equestria and had disowned him when he was young. They thought he would never find his cutie mark, he thought the same thing for a while. In the alleyway A few guards had come and told him to clear out, for what reason he didn't know. Shining came in behind the guards and pretended to be an older brother and that he was lost, Brawny himself was lost. He walked with shining completely confused, shining asked him what he was doing there and on the streets. Brawny told him about his parents. Shining took him to his house and he waited outside and shining came back with food and water. He told him that if he ever needed help again to just knock on the back door.

"Really, thats amazing he never told me about you were you really young?" Brawny nodded. "That maybe why, well here is town hall just walk in and ask if there are any jobs open we can talk later ok?" Twilight asked.

"Sure." He walked into the hall and saw a clerk at the desk. He started towards her and then noticed a list of open jobs he turned to read the poster. The first job that he noticed was one for construction. but he had already decided that he wanted to check out applejack's offer first. As he was walking out of town he could see rainbow dash practicing to fly way off in the distance she was really good too. He could see her doing flips and tricks and all sorts of cool things he would have to tell her later she of all ponies would soak it up.

He began to make out whet he thought was Sweet Apple Acres on the horizon. He got closer to it and saw Applejack near the barn.

"Hey Brawny long time no see." Applejack said, he just smiled "I imagine you decided to take up my job offer?"

"Yeah I did and I was wondering..."

"What we do here?" he nodded she turned and headed towards the nearest apple tree."We do whats called apple bucking to harvest the apples to sell em'." seemed simple enough to Brawny. She bucked the tree, all the apples fell into buckets below the tree. "Now you try." Brawny moved down to the next apple tree. When he tried to buck he missed with one leg, but hit the tree decent with the other. He was only fortunate enough to knock a few down. "Its not all about strength it's about knowing how hard to hit and where, here I’ll show yo again watch closely." He did so and got the main idea what to do. He landed it on his second try.

"Wow, nice job Brawny you got it on your second try." he just scratched the back of his head. He thought of his cutie mark and looked towards his flank, it was still blank. Applejack seemed to have noticed.

"Well looks like you've got the job." Applejack congratulated him.

"Good when do i start." He replied happily.

"Ya just did go down this line and do a few more. I’ll come back in a while and we carry the baskets back." He nodded and started to buck trees.

He was bucking like no tomorrow before he knew it he was already finished with them. He was extremely tired though he couldn't imagine doing it everyday like applejack. She must have gotten used to it. She came back a while later to start taking back the apples.

"I was watching you buck apples there you seem to be able to defend yourself there." he blushed.

"I had too, I was on the streets most my life."

"Why would anyone like you be out on the streets?"

He began telling her about his parents and some of the adventures he had. The trouble he got out of while he was living on the streets. How he learned a lot about ponies that he ever knew that were possible. Ponies had become violent and abused their freedom in Equestria, at least in the old areas of Canterlot.

"Thats amazing Brawny and here you are, I’m glad you didn't turn out like those other ponies."she replied.

"Thanks Applejack." She blushed.

"I guess I’ll see you tomorrow, oh when do i even start?"

"Just be here at sunrise."

He started his walk back into town he ran into Fluttershy on his way he said hello she just did her own way of saying hello she blushed and just waved nervously. He saw Rarity and some small unicorn filly with purple and pink hair and a white coat arguing so it was probably best if he didn't say hi. That she kept calling Sweetie Belle. He was walking around town he decided to stop in at the library and pop his head in and see what it is that Twilight does exactly.

He knocked on the door a small purple dragon appeared, "who are you?"  

"you must be spike," he nodded. "I'm brawny, I met Twilight yesterday and her friends," he just gave him a look. he saw twilight in the back. "hey twilight." She waved and came to the door.

"Twilight are you sure you know this guy," she nodded. "alright sorry about that we got off on the wrong hoof nice to meet you...?" he rolled his eyes.

"Brawny,"

"Right I'll have to get to get back to you later I'm in the middle of something," he bolted off to the bathroom and slammed the door.

"Don't mind him he's always like that, so what did you need?" Twilight asked.

"Nothing I just wanted to stop in and see what you do here at the library?"

"Well come in by all means"

  He walked in obviously the first thing he noticed was the walls and walls full of books that look like they haven't been organized in a while. He saw a staircase to the right going up the wall to two different rooms and under the stairs was a door way that lead to what he thought might be a study of some kind.

"It's not all that I know I’ve been meaning to reorganize but spike has been doing something all week, I never got the chance too."

"well i could if you want? Two unicorns are better than one and a dragon." She smiled and they started.

She showed him how she would like them organized in each shelf. They started,  there were piles of books in the middle of the rooms and in the corners and just about everywhere. they were books flying to every shelf in library he was surprised that he could still levitate he hadn't done it since he was still with his parents.

"Wow that was fast thanks. Spike would've just been lying around and i would've done it all myself," she realized that spike was standing right there giving her a dirty look, she just smiled.

"No problem I’m willing to help anytime with it."

"Don't even think about taken my job." Spike said.

"He might," Twilight gave him a funny look.

"Well I'd better get going it's getting dark."

"Where do you even live?" she looked at him. He turned and walked out the door.

  He pasted by Sugar Cube Corner and saw Pinkie Pie waving from a window on the second floor.

"Hi brawny what are you doing out there you should be at home, you.." She didn't need say anymore she knew and so did he. "Come on in, you can sleep in the guest room. I’ve already told Mr and Mrs cake all about you they'd be happy to let you stay." she just smiled and closed to window. He felt something pulling him inside as if he didn't have a choice. He knew if he didn't he would be in some alleyway, but that was just him. Well at least until he gets a new house.

"Oh hello dear you must be Pinkie's new friend, she said you didn't have a place to stay your always welcome here just so you know." He guessed this was Mrs cake.

"Thank you Mrs cake."he replied

"No problem at all fell free to wash up as well. You look like you need a warm shower." She was right he defiantly needed a shower.

  He stepped into the shower and felt instant relaxation. When he got out obviously the first thing he saw was Pinkie pop out of no where. This time he didn't land on his back.

"Come on I'll show you to the guest bedroom," he followed her up stairs to a room with a comfortable looking bed, then again he had never slept in a bed in many years. He saw a room across the hall which he had guessed was Pinkie's judging by the bright pink light he saw illuminating from it.

"Here you are," she almost instantly popped down and back up from behind him and waved good night as she walked into her room.

He lay out on the bed and thought over the day's events in his head. Within a few minutes he was asleep and lost in his dreams...