Ponyville's New Mayor

Rainbow just waited there in the roof, wondering what in Equestria that new creature was.  There was something so odd about him, but his smile was so heartwarming.  The pegasus decided to go tell her friends of the new arrival, hoping that one of them could figure it out.

"He's right over there," Rainbow said while flying in the air pointing her hoof to the creature, who was still just standing in place on the platform, smile still intact.

"What in tarnation is that?" Applejack asked.

"Oh oh oh!  Pick me, pick me!" Pinkie Pie shouted with her hoof raised.

"Um, yes Pinkie?" Rainbow responded.

"He's a human.  I've seen many of them on my trips to different worlds," Pinkie responded.  The four other ponies looked at each other in confusion, but then again, it was Pinkie Pie, after all.

"Well, what do you think he wants?" Rainbow asked Pinkie.

"I don't know, but he seems really happy," the party pony responded.

The five friends looked back over to the creature, who was still just standing in place.  His face remained the same- just a smile.  His only action was just moving in place, as if he was dancing to a certain degree.

"Maybe we should go see what he wants.  He seems kind," Fluttershy suggested, to which the others agreed that they would at least welcome him to the town.

"I'll go grab my welcome wagon," Pinkie said.

As the five of them made their way over to the creature standing at the train station, they noticed that he didn't even glance over at them.  He just kept staring in place, looking off into nothing.  But that didn't stop the five from greeting him.

"Howdy, Ah'm Applejack," the earth pony greeted while reaching her hoof forward.  The creature turned his head toward her, but just continued to smile.  The only thing he did was tuck his butterfly net into his rather small pocket.  The mare looked at her friends as if to say 'Ooooo-kay?'

"I know what will get him to say something," Pinkie said.  She reached over off-screen and pulled out her welcome wagon.  With the press of a button, instruments and flags popped out of the wagon.  Pinkie sang, "Welcome, welcome, welcome, a fine welcome to you.  Welcome, welcome, welcome, I say 'How do you do?'  Welcome, welcome, welcome, I say 'Hip, hip, hooray.'  Welcome, welcome, welcome to Ponyville today!"  She finished her song with a hoofball goal style slide celebration towards the creature.  "Wait for it," Pinkie finished.  A shot of confetti filled the sky and a cake popped out.  She seemed to have finally mastered the routine.

The reaction of the creature was simply priceless.  Actually, no it wasn't.  He didn't even flinch, or blink.

Rainbow Dash went up to the so-called 'human' to see if she could provoke a reaction out of him.  She yelled, "Hello?" into his ear, but there was no response.  She then took her hoof and slapped him across the face.  He then turned his head only to look straight at Rainbow in the face.  Rainbow, for once, actually had a look of fear.  She was scared because the creature still just stood there with a smile.

Rainbow quickly backed off and pulled her friends to the side.  "Nothing seems to faze this guy," she said in the circle with her friends.

"He seems happy," Pinkie replied.

"Yes, but darling, if you are not that happy all the time," Rarity pointed out.

"And why is he here?" Fluttershy asked.  "Does he not have anywhere to go?"

Their discussion had to be put on hold at that moment.  The mares noticed that the creature was on the move, heading towards the town.

"We have to follow him," Applejack said.

"I'm on it," Rainbow boldly replied while taking flight.  She flew atop of the creature at enough altitude and distance away that he didn't notice her.  The creature walked towards town hall, and he drew quite the crowd.  Everypony whom he passed stopped what they were doing.  They were intrigued by this new kind of animal, who was just walking down their streets with nothing apparently on his mind.

Rainbow continued to fly above him as he made his way to town hall.  By that time half of the town's ponies were closely following him and discussing who or what he was and why he was even there in the first place.

When the creature finally made his way to town hall, he stood at the front and turned around to see all of the ponies around him.

"Whoa, look who just got to town," Bon Bon said.

"That is definitely the person we've been waiting for," Lyra added.

"Hey everyone, we should totally say hi," Derpy suggested.

"Okay everypony, from those of us in Ponyville, we say," Cheerilee said.

All of the ponies in the group yelled out, "Welcome!"

Lyra, who was the secretary at the Ponyville town hall, approached the human and said, "Mayor!  We are so happy you're finally here."  The creature just stared back with his usual smile.  "Oh, come on.  Quit joking around.  We know exactly who you are.  You told us exactly which train you'd be arriving on."  The creature continued to stare with no change in emotion.  There was just something not normal about him.  Lyra continued, "Oh no, you can't fool me.  Things are just as you said they'd be.  All is well, there is no mistake.  You're a real jokester."

Rainbow, who was watching from the roof of the building, was so deeply confused by this.  She scratched her head with her hoof.  "How are the ponies communicating with him?  He hasn't even said a thing yet."

"Let's continue this discussion in the town hall, shall we?" Lyra continued.  She handed him a map of Ponyville.

The creature went inside the town hall with Lyra, and Rainbow hovered outside one of the side windows to see what was going on.  The green-ish unicorn showed the creature the town hall and gave a quick explanation as to what the mayor of Ponyville's duties actually were.

"Hey Rainbow, what in tarnation is going on?" Applejack asked from the ground as the others caught up to Rainbow.

The rainbow-maned pegasus flew down to them.  "I'm not too sure, but I think the ponies just chose this thing as our new mayor."

"Oh good heavens!" Rarity exclaimed.

Just then, the creature and Lyra came out from the town hall.  "Let's plant a tree for the new mayor!" she yelled out.  The ponies all cheered in excitement.

"What in Equestria is going on?" Rainbow yelled out.

"Yeah, even I am confused," Pinkie said, "and I never get confused.  Except for the time that I was actually confused, and that other time when I was confused."

The five of them closely followed the crowd around the mayor.  They were led to an area in town where there was a small dirt area with a hole in the ground.

"Please take this sapling, mayor, and plant it in the ground," Lyra said while pulling out a baby tree in a pot out of thin air.  "Put your heart in it."

The creature stepped forward and planted the sapling, pot and all, in the ground, and buried it by patting dirt to cover the remainder of the whole.

"This doesn't make any sense," Rainbow said to her friends as they stood watching from a distance.

The whole group of ponies around the mayor began to stomp their hooves on the ground.  "Presenting: the new mayor of Ponyville," Lyra exclaimed.

The five friends all turned to each other in a look of shock.  "What the buck just happened?" Applejack bluntly asked.

"I think our job was just done for us," Fluttershy answered.

The creature, while the crowd was celebrating the new mayor, turned his head ninety degrees toward the five ponies.  He smiled, and there was a slight twinkle in his eye.