How the Mighty Can Fall Chapter 1
Forced into a situation which he has no control over, a human desperately attempts to return home after being tricked into Equestria by a great power. But can he get back, or is he being lead into a destiny that he is desperate to avoid?

Chapter 1: We are all Equals in Death

It was very dark. Not cold, it was the wrong time of year for cold. But it wasn't supposed to be dark yet either. Musing over this unusual change of surroundings, Josh trudged along the road towards his house.

Everything was going downhill. He was mere weeks from taking his GCSEs (and had trouble concentrating on revision), he'd only recently got a girlfriend, and was already having trouble hanging on to her, and he was freaking out over his current amount of homework, which didn't even include the revision he was supposed to be doing. Shifting his bag onto his other shoulder, he sighed and continued trudging up the hill to his house.

Even so, he was on-route to a perfect life. Guaranteed, he was having trouble with his girlfriend, but they were already making up (and making out). His grades would make most people envious, even if he thought they were sub-par, and he wasn't anywhere near the amount of trouble over work that he had been before. Yep, like was good, he mused, and he wouldn't want it any other way.

What he didn't realise was that fate had another plan for him, and it did not involve a cushy pension and secure job. Fate was, at this very moment, barrelling towards him in the form of an alicorn with a mane like the northern lights, and a two-tonne lorry laden with explosives.
Fate is a cruel mistress, and a worse wife, and that is why it had chosen this unusual and relaxed human to be its instrument.

Josh, of course, knew nothing of this, and began walking faster towards home with every intention of living life to the full.

The sound of the lorry was unique in Josh's otherwise linear life. It involved the crushing of cars, screams, and perhaps most importantly, a sudden blast from its horn, which almost managed to root Josh to the spot...

Almost...

Sprinting towards the upcoming bend, he suddenly realised that his life depended on being able to outrun a lorry, and though the idea SOUNDED cool, it was almost impossible, but for the fact that the lorry was still too far away to be guaranteed to crush him, and he nearly slowed down. He would have sworn he heard beating wings, but he was probably imagining things.

Risking a glance behind him, he realised that the lorry was travelling at a speed which defied physics, and probably the law in most major countries, though he had more worrying things to think about. Mainly that the lorry was about to crush him, but also that he was hallucinating. After all, a draconequis: a) Couldn't drive a lorry, b) Didn't exist, and c) Probably wouldn't be aiming for a single person in an entire city, let alone him. But mainly that they didn't exist. They were, after all, a figment of Lauren Faust's imagination. It was ironic that he was thinking at speeds which shouldn't have been possible, but should have been running faster.

He ran faster.

Even so, he reckoned that he was going to die at the hands of an insane HGV driver, even if he was hallucinating that creatures out of a TV show for young children were driving it.
He realised that he was about to run into a pony, one that looked like Celestia. Unlikely, but it's best not to take chances when it comes to these things. Moving to duck under the outstretched wing, Celestia stepped forward, and moved to shield him.

Time slowed down.

In the lorry, Discord, spirit of, well, Discord, hit the side of the driving wheel in frustration. He might not have been able to save (from his point of view) the instrument of fate that both he and Celestia wanted so badly, but he could kill a few humans. There was nothing wrong with that, after all, it wasn't like most of them did any good.

Celestia looked around at the human. He was breathing heavily, and seemed to have a Cutie Mark, but she felt satisfied that this was the right species, and the right individual. Looking at the, now stationary, lorry, she spoke to the creature.

"A great responsibility has been placed on your shoulders, child. You must now make a decision. Come with me, and save many, or stay here, and let even more perish."

Pausing for breath, Josh nodded, hoping Celestia would understand.

"I only wish," his treacherous thoughts brought up, "That I was wearing something cooler than my school uniform."

With a flash, he and Celestia disappeared.

Almost simultaneously, Discord disappeared. A moment later, the bomb in the back of the lorry exploded. The news would state that the act was committed by terrorists with backing from a hostile state, but only three people knew the truth.

To most of the world, two had never existed.

To those who knew him, the third was dead.

Oooh, suspense! Well, not much. Normally these things show someone in a bad situation, or who wish to come to Equestria, ect, and the intro explains this, but it's my first fanfic, so I'm drawing some of the outlines on my own, so to speak. What I've probably done wrong is miss out the explanation of how the main character knows about MLP FIM, but it's not affecting the story at all.
Like I said, it's my first fanfic, so constructive criticism, not pointless ramblings. Probably won't update too much either, but hey, I AM doing my GCSEs, so sue me if I take too long (not really, I'm already skint).