The sun’s bright light began peaking through the horizon, slowly creeping up to reveal its full glory to the creatures of the land who happily accepted its warmth. That is except one human who slept on a moving train, said train moving the quarters in which said human slept to directly position it at direct contact with the sun, shining directly into his eyes, causing him to have a somewhat rude awakening.

“You must do this on purpose, Celestia,” John groaned, rubbing the remaining webs of sleep from his eyes while cursing the sun he now knew was raised by the supposed ancient Alicorn.

“Good morning, sleepy head,” came a cheery greeting from across his seat, where his purple unicorn ‘sister’ of sorts, sat contently reading a book.

“Geez, what time is it?” he asked Twilight, who only raised her brow and her forelegs at the question, instantly causing him to silence himself. “Shuddup… I’m still sleepy…” he looked besides Twilight and found Spike not surprisingly still asleep on the small seat, he chuckled and looked outside only to see rows upon rows of apple trees suddenly appear.

“Well… that’s a lot of apples,” he commented while looking at Twilight. he smiled and moved besides him, in a weird move, she put her foreleg on his shoulder, and made an arc motion with the other as the trees began clearing.

“Welcome to Ponyville!” the trees slowly made way for a farm, which caused John to raise a confused brow. Twilight kept her foreleg up, slightly shaking after just a few seconds of being held in place, though she finally let it down as rows upon rows of medieval looking homes came into view. John just stared in awe, taking his new surroundings in, and was seated as a voice called out.

“We will shortly be arriving in Ponyville, please, return to your seats.” The rest of the ride was spend in silence, the train chugging along until it finally made its stop five minutes later. “Last stop, Ponyville!” a new voice called out from the outside, and the door to the small cabin opened up by itself, giving them all the appropriate wordless 'get out'. Twilight picked Spike up in a magic field and put him on her back, surprised by the sudden movement, the dragon was unable to keep his balance, and fell flat on his behind.

“Aww, he so tired he can’t keep his wittle walance!” Twilight teased, and both her and John laughed, while Spike gave the pair an annoyed glare.

“And I was having such a good dream too…” he said, looking slightly teary eyed.

“Did this dream happen to involve Rarity in some way?” Twilight said with a snide remark.

“No…! Who told you? Was it John!?” Spike asked looking at John with a stare that he easily read as ‘traitor’.

“Spike, he doesn’t even know her yet, and in case you don't remember, you told me that a long time ago,” she sighed as they got off the train and into the station. As expected, John drew stares from all around, causing him to shift uncomfortably in place at the sudden attention.

“H-hi?” there was an awkward silence and then, the surrounding ponies ran away from the place, all except the conductor who chuckled at the sight.

“They always do this, Ponyville folk, but who can blame them? After all the craziness that happens around here it's to be expected. Don’t you worry though, they‘ll grow on ya, they did with Zecora,” he gave John a pat in the back and made his way inside the station’s main building, leaving John confused at his words.

“Craziness? And what the hell is a Zecora?” he asked all at once getting a chuckle out of Spike.

“Yeah, craziness! You should have seen the time a dragon nearly put Ponyville in a state of eternal darkness!” John stopped in his tracks and dropped his bag.

“D-dragons? You mean, there are more of you?” Spike grinned slyly at John's fear.

“Oh yes, I’m actually the nicest dragon in ALL of Equestria. Now the others though, oh, are they a doozy!” John gulped and shrank behind Twilight who rolled her eyes at her assistant’s words.

“Spike, don’t scare him, he is having a hard time as it is!” she told the dragon whose mouth drooped sadly, he walked towards John and extended his claw.

“Sorry about that… Are we… Cool?” John looked at his claw and took it as a peace sign. John grabbed it and vigorously shook it, shaking the dragon as well.

“Eh… Sorry about that…” he apologized, though Spike looked back at him from the ground with a smile that was enough to appease him.

“I guess we can call that being even,” he shrugged as he got on his feet, Twilight nodded approvingly and the group resumed its journey. They walked along a few eerily quiet streets, not a single sign of life was visible in the vicinity, though John could easily guess he may have had something to do with that.

Except when they finally noticed a pony, merrily skipping. John stared amused at the way the pony did so, reminding him of those cartoonish characters from TV; further helping his argument, was a silly umbrella hat resting upon her head.

“Pinki-” Twilight began, and stopped nearly instantaneously when giving ‘Pinki’ a good look, her face draining of color. “TAKE COVER!” John turned to give Spike a quizzical look, but found that the dragon was no longer at his side, he looked to where Twilight had run off to, and noticed both of them hiding under a table outside a restaurant.

"What?" was John's simple question to the event.

“John! Hide!” Twilight shouted, and confusion would be an understatement at the moment, but of course, he didn’t have time to remain confused, as he barely had time to turn his head to see something yellow before everything went dark.

“Can you PLEASE leave the books? At the very least while we eat.”

“But Bon Bon, I just begu-”

The blue/pink maned mare shot out a piercing stare at her partner who sat across the table, holding a book with the help of a greenish aura. The mare holding it sighed and dropped the book on the table with a thud, revealing her mint colored mane and aquamarine coat.

“That’s my Lyra!” the earth pony teased, bringing a sigh of defeat from the unicorn.

It was yet another boring day in Ponyville for the pony named Lyra, she had given herself the day off from lyre playing, to instead get herself a well deserved rest. That had only been an excuse to get herself back to her studies, however.

But her partner Bon Bon would not have it.

Ever since her rude awakening that morning, she had been pushed around by her mare friend who had successfully kept her away from her notes and books by forcing her to do mundane tasks such as shelving her scattered books, or even helping with breakfast. Despite doing her best, when she thought she had gotten away, Bon Bon was there in time to stop her.

“I love that mare, but sometimes she just gets on my nerves,” Lyra thought annoyed. She never mentioned it to her, of course. Death wasn't something she longed for..

“Eat!” Bon Bon finally ordered.

“Yes, ma’am!” Lyra returned to her plate of hay pancakes and quickly dug in, not even properly savoring its delicious chocolatey contents. Thanks to her rush, the pancakes were soon gone, and she was now free to resume her reading.

“Hey, Lyra dear!” Bon Bon called out while washing the dishes used.

Or not. "Yes, dear?" replied Lyra with mock interest.

“Can you go to Sugarcube Corner, please? I need you to buy some sweets for me,” Lyra grinned pleased, she was not going to fall for that one.

“But we just ate, Bon Bon,” she retaliated, causing her partner to flinch, but she quickly come out with a retort.

“Eh… I’m still hungry… Pleeeeease?” she pleaded, nuzzling her side in that one way Lyra enjoyed, and before she knew it, she was out the door with a saddle on her back, well on her way to Sugarcube Corner.

…

“How does she do THAT!?”

Sighing in defeat, she began walking towards Sugarcube Corner. It was a place she knew full well, but one she didn’t go to often, not because she didn’t have a sweet tooth, but more due to the one pony she actually disliked tended to hang around the area. An outsider would have guessed Pinkie Pie, but that was just not the case.

No, she in fact, did not want to come across a certain ‘lavender unicorn’ who usually visited the hyperactive pink mare at Sugarcube Corner. It was a grudge she would keep, and one that she further deepened as the memory replayed in her head.

“But Twilight! It’s not just a myth, there is proof that they existed in the pa-”

“Lyra, I know you are passionate about this, but we don’t even have any sort of evidence to their existence, and crazier ponies than you have tried to find them!”

“Crazy!? Is this what I’m coming off as…?” Lyra backed away from her ‘friend’ as the words sank in.

“No! Lyra, listen!”

“I’m not gonna work with a pony who thinks I’m a loon for believing something they don’t!” she yelled at Twilight before dashing out of the library.

The memory kept replaying in her mind as Sugarcube Corner came into view, anger building up as she did, but that was soon removed from her thoughts as something else had made its way into her path.

Or rather, nothing, as nopony was in sight.

“Okay, what’s going on?” she didn’t wonder for long, instantly seeing the reason.

"Could it be?" she wondered. She rubbed her eyes with her hooves once, twice, then a third time, and after aptly deciding she wasn’t insane, she said the words out loud.

“It’s… A human…?” she stared at it for a few seconds, at least until her view was soured by the appearance of the lavender mare, and at the other side of the human, a dragon whom she assumed to be Spike.

“No… Please, don’t let it be her,” as if Pony Luck herself was against her, she noticed that the pony besides the human, was no other than Twilight Sparkle, the one pony whom she disliked.

The one who claimed humans weren’t real.

The one who seemed to have custody of the ‘human’.

Raging thoughts filled her mind, and she barely had time to notice Twilight running off and leaving the human alone. She wasted no time, and as soon as the subject of her hate went out of her sight, she took the chance and rushed in, trying to come into contact with the being; questions piled up in her mind with excitement and relief at actually seeing one. he began sweating as she got closer, but was stopped by a very loud scream.

“John! Hide!” she managed to hear as she stopped midway there, she looked up to the sky and managed to see a grey-ish blob coming down at full speed, though she didn’t have time to realize what had happened when the blob crashed with the human, sending both flying forcefully to the side, she cursed to herself for not intervening as she noticed Twilight galloping at full speed towards it.

Without realizing it, Lyra was well on her way home, ready to tell her partner what had just occurred, her mind racing just like she was.

“Finally! I’m not crazy! I knew I was right!”

Such thoughts filled her mind as she increased her speed, nearly tripping a few times due to her own carelessness.

“Pain and I sure have getting to know each other well…”

Even with his eyes closed, he could hear the panic in Twilight’s voice as she came closer, he tried to move, but his body wouldn’t respond, and intense pain shot up from his leg as he strained, causing him to yelp in visible pain, and getting a reaction from Twilight.

“John! Are you okay?

To say that was a bad question was an understatement.

“REALLY!?” John said out loud, pain this time running through his whole body thanks to his efforts. “FUCK!” Twilight recoiled at his tone, but a wide grin showed her relief despite the situation.

“Don’t you worry, we’ll have you fixed up in no time! Come on, Spike,” he felt himself being lifted into the air and going opposite from their original direction, he felt relieved as the pain became barely noticeable, so he had decided not to question it.

"I'm not complaining," he thought.

“Ugh… Where are we going now?” he asked, and grabbed his head as dull signs of a headache begin to build on his forehead.

“The hospital, of course!" Twiilght turned her view to the road and growled. "Grr… I didn’t see who it was, but I swear, when I find the pony who did this to you, I’m gonna give them a piece of my mind!” her sudden anger brought John to silence himself all the way to the hospital.

“Well, I sure wasn’t expecting my first day in the town to turn out this way,” John thought amused.

The hospital looked like a slightly smaller version of a hospital back on Earth, the doctors even wore clothes, which was a very strange occurrence in and of itself, the contrast between the outside houses and the building itself bringing confusion to John. The lobby was devoid of any life, except for a brownish looking mare in the counter who kept her eyes on a book, and a few seconds passed before she finally spoke.

“How may I help y’all,” she greeted the group.

John couldn’t help himself, as soon as he heard the voice, he busted out laughing, pain ran through his leg, but he did not care for it, it was simply too perfect for him to let it go.

“What in holy Celestia is that thing!?” the nurse said in that stereotypical sassy black hospital lady tone John had grown so used to, which only brought another burst of laughter from him, causing the nurse to cringe at the horrendous sight of John’s laughter combined with his pained face.

“Just get the doctor, please! I'll explain later,” Twilight hurried the nurse. She only nodded and galloped to a nearby office where a white mare wearing a nurse cap followed behind the brownish mare, she raised a brow at the sight of the human but quickly recovered and wore a poker face as she approached them.

“Good morning, my name is Redheart, and I will be your nurse today. If you would please follow me,” her voice came out in a rather soothing tone, instantly bringing John down from his giggling fits and back into the pain.

“Damn it!” the nurses’ ears picked up the sound and shifted directions into a room, Twilight following behind while carefully getting John into the room, where he was put into the bed inside as softly as Twilight could possibly muster.

Unfortunately, as soon his body touched the bed, a build-up amount of pain suddenly hit him fully, causing him to twist around, which only brought him more pain. Surprisingly, such pain suddenly began dulling, and soon, found he found himself falling into a deep slumber.

~~~~~

“What’s going on?”

I woke with a throbbing feeling in my leg, and a sudden chill hit me as I became aware of my surroundings, I looked to the side and found the window open. Not having the strength to move, I decided that I would need to call a doctor.

Was this all a dream? A game that my mind had played on my head? Well, if it was, it certainly was a very convincing one. I looked around and tried to gather my thoughts, but nothing came to my head as my mind felt like lead, I waited for a few minutes without talking until I heard a sudden noise coming from my side, I turned my head rapidly, and heard a crack as my neck popped, bringing a new jolt of pain to my throbbing body.

“Damn it…” I complained out loud and closed my eyes momentarily, but as soon as I opened them, a pair of yellow eyes came upon the path of my sight.

“WOAH, W-” before I could call out, my mouth had been covered with what I felt to be a hoof, and just like that, the morning’s events came back to my mind.

“Please! Don’t be scared! I’m not gonna hurt you!” a female voiced said. “I’m gonna let you talk, please don’t yell, okay?” I nodded my head in agreement and the hoof was quickly removed, I turned my head to the side and was surprised to see a couple of mismatched eyes staring at me.

“Wha…?”

~~~~~

John could only give a quizzical stare at the mare by his side, she seemed to be a grey Pegasus with a blonde mane, her mismatched eyes being the most prominent thing about her.

“C-could you please stop that? You are weirding me out…” she said, shuffling uncomfortably on her hooves.

“Oh, I’m so sorry!” he changed his perspective and stared at the side of the bed, focusing his sight there instead of her.

“So, can I help you? You really scared me there, and honestly, I thought I would be…” ‘raped’ he finished in his mind, but didn’t dare tell that to the shy looking pony. It would be the most extreme thing to come up to someone he had just met.

“You would be what…?” she asked with a curious expression on her face.

“Nothing…” he waved off the question and waited for her to resume, seeing that she hadn’t he decided to break the ice. “Sorry if I have to be rude here, but, who are you, and what are you exactly doing in my room?” she seemed taken aback by the question, but her brows furrowed and she gave out a determined face.

“My name is Der- No... I'm Ditzy, Ditzy Doo, mister…” she introduced herself.

“John, the name is John Pennick, and you‘ll have to pardon me, as my arm can‘t seem to be able to move…” he tried extending his arm, but his body wouldn’t budge.

“That’s fine…" she took a mouthful of air and resumed. "You see, I just came to apologize…”

John raised his brow wondering what a random pony he had never met would apologize for, he looked back on the three days he had been there, but did not recall a pony like her.

At least not from the group that already hated him, that’s for sure.

He stared back at her and focused on her features, she seemed like a relatively normal looking pony (eyes notwithstanding) he specially stared at her mane, and as it finally clicked, his eyes widened in realization.

“You are the one who crashed into me, aren't you?” he asked, verily holding his anger in check.

“Y-yes… I’m so sorry, please… I didn’t mean to…” she said and her ears drooped and her eyes began tearing up. “I always do this…”

John could not take the sight, and would have probably given the mare a hug, he was glad he couldn’t move, or that would have brought an awkward moment.

“Listen, you are sorry, right? No harm d-… Hey, I’m not dead, am I?” he said laughing at his own grim joke. Surprisingly, Ditzy didn't laugh with him.

“I have to make it up to you.” she said and her head went down to the side of the bed, where she picked up a basket full with what seemed to be sweets.

“This is only a start, but I promise, I’ll help you get better! I’ll even visit you… If you’d like, that is…” she finished awkwardly, bringing a smile to John’s face, but it also brought a question that he imagined he needed to ask.

“Why are you being so accepting of me? No one else has been, I mean, I’m a creature from who knows where, and what if I was dangerous?” she stared at him with an understanding look, she was deep in thought and one of her eyes moved down as she finally got herself ready to respond.

“Well, I guessed that, but I felt horrible for what I had done, and I mean, Twilight was practically in tears when she saw you, I managed to get away in time… But I just couldn’t live with myself if I had hurt somepony…” she was now crying as she finished her short tale, John couldn’t help but be oddly grateful to the strange mare. “Besides, if I managed to break your leg, I don’t think you are fit to be a dangerous creature in my book.” she said giving him a sly smile.

“Wow! How rude!” John replied mockingly, causing the pair to burst into laughter, after some more small talk, Ditzy apologized once again and waved John goodbye, then, made her way out of the window, closing it on her way out, to John’s silent gratitude.

“I see you already made a friend,” John quickly turned his head to find Twilight standing on the other side of the bed.

“T-Twilight! How long have you been standing there?” he asked already coming up for a way to get Twi to forgive Ditzy.

“I’m not mad.”

“Come on! She apo-Waitwhat?” he finished rapidly getting Twilight to chuckle.

“She apologized, and you forgave her, so if you did, I should too, besides, she left you sweets, I enjoy sweets,” she levitated a cupcake from the basket and begin munching on it.

“… That’s mine, you know…”

“Consider it my payment for bringing you to the hospital and…” she grabbed a muffin this time “This for dulling the pain when the accident happened.”

“Well, that answers that… But wait, what about me falling asleep…” he thought

“The nurse gave you a shot as you were twisting, no easy feat, I must say.” she said, surprising John, she bit into the muffin this time and rejoiced on the sweetness of the treat.

“That answers that too… So, what time is it?” he asked.

"I'll just show you," Twilight laughed and pointed to the outside, where she opened the curtains revealing a slowly darkening Ponyville.

"Woah... That long, huh?”

“That long,” she moved to him and put a muffin at mouth’s distance, he stared at her confused, and she rolled her eyes amused. “You can’t move, can you? So I’m feeding you,” his stomach growled at the sight of the muffin, and without a word, bit into the tasty treat.

“Where is Spike?” he asked in between bites.

“At the library, I told him to check the place, and that we’d be there by morning,” she said taking a bite from her cupcake.

“Oh… Wait, I can go home tomorrow already?” he asked incredulous.

“Of course! It’s just a broken leg and a few scratches, you’ll be up and about in 3 days,” John turned his head to face the mare.

“Surely, you jest.”

“No. You forget we have magic here,” John opened his mouth in astonishment, revealing a half chewed muffin to the magenta colored mare who cringed at the sight.

Nurse Redheart was heading to the room as Twilight began.

“Eww, John!”

“Things will certainly get slightly more interesting around here,” Nurse Redheart chuckled as she walked towards the pair, ready to scold them for eating outside food.

Author's Notes:

And here it is!

Sorry if it's shorter than the others, I really have no excuse, I guess it's laziness from opening Word. >.>

In any case, enjoy Chapter 4, I promise I will get to working on the next one sooner.

I hope...

Notes 4
Okay, I'll be honest... This is where I started winging the FUCK out of this story, and how the rest of the story started to get shaped... Mind you, it still had a main focus, but everything here began in a whim...

Either way, I introduced Derpy here! Which in case you didn't know, it's my favorite character WINKITY WINK WINK.