Awkward Situations

Although the time I'd spent with the CMC was good and all, I really had to... I didn't know what I was doing.

"Where are we going? And why?" I asked my cute talking hat.

"To my house! I thought I told you that.." The last few words are much quieter than the rest.

"You did, but I didn't realize that you lived in a tree." I said, looking up at the huge thing in front of me.

"I don't."

"Why are we here?"

"I wanted to show you to Twilight first!"

"I am not a toy." My tone goes flat.

"I know, but you're really neat!" Her voice squeaks for the last words.

"I'm not some 'big cool looking thing' that you can just show off to all your friends." I feel her rest her chin on my head.

"But, you're neat..."

"I know, but still."

"Just Twilight and we can go to my house! Please!?" She squeezes her hooves around my head.

".... Just Twilight. That's it!" I say sternly.

"YAY!" I open the door on the side of the tree. Doors do not have trees, so I was a bit hesitant. I don't know why. But once it's open, I'm greeted with the sound of a bell ringing and the sight of a purple unicorn with wings talking to a white unicorn. They look like they're having a happy conversation until they see me.

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Twilight and Rarity were in the library one day, telling each other about some of the things they had planned for the Grand Galloping Gala.

"Oh! I also took the liberty of designing us all brand new gowns for the party!" Rarity said excitedly.

"That's perfect, actually! You see, I had this plan here," Twilight whipped out her notebook. "Where we have different clothing from last time, so as not to be recognized. That's taken care of. Then, we enter the party at different times so it seems that we're not part of a group. Finally, we all-"

Ding Ding

The two girls turned their gazes to the door at the same time, and at the same time, they dropped their smiles. Before them stood a giant something. It was completely barren of any fur except for on its head. It walked on two legs and wore gigantic clothes, much bigger than that that anypony they knew could where. A black, long sleeved shirt and navy blue, jean pants. Lastly, the two unicorns spotted none other than Sweetie Belle riding atop its head, smiling hugely.

"Hi Rarity! Hi Twilight!" She said with a squee.

"............." The two of them said. Jack looked around the room; they seemed to be in a library now, with hundreds of books lining ever wall of the place. The tree looked alot smaller on the outside. A long, uncomfortable silence filled the air as the alicorn and unicorn and giant with unicorn atop its head simply stayed in each other's presence.

"Alright, this feels weird." Jack said.

"What are you?" Twilight asked. Jack noticed that she seemed far more intrigued than afraid, unlike her friend.

"I am a.... Something-er-other. I don't know." Jack replied.

"I've never seen anything like you in my life.I haven't even read anything about you in any anatomy books! What could you possibly be?" Twilight asked again. This time, she walked to and around Jack, inspecting him.

"I honestly have no idea. Wait! Zecora, said she found what I was in one of her mythology books! She said I was a 'Human'."

"Homo sapien." Twilight said. "That's the scientific term for what you are. I remember looking through a mythological book once, myself, and stumbling upon a few different things that where believed to have lived here once." Jack became enveloped in the conversation.

"What else did it say about me?"

"Uh, little to nothing." Twilight gave a disappointed chuckle. "Sorry." Jack was gloomy looking for all of two seconds before looking back up with a smirk on his face.

"It's fine. At least I'm not one of those mysterious creatures you read about that has to be dark and depressed all the time because they 'don't know who they are' or whatever." He smiled. "And who are you young lady?" Jack asked towards Rarity. The white, unicorn mare still stared blankly back at the human.

"Uh..."

"Just answer. He didn't kill me when I spoke." Twilight said nudging her friend.

"Rarity. I-i'm Rarity." She finally managed to say.

"Hey there, I'm Jack!" Jack gleefully said.

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So after introducing myself to the mares, I was invited for dinner. Rarity was still reluctant to have me over at her house with Sweetie Belle, but Twilight wanted to give me a chance. I thought it was nice. The four of us sat at a table in the upper floor of the library. We were having a lasagna with extra veggies. It was gross to say the least. I was used to at least some meat. Beef or something...

"So... Jack. What does a normal day for you consist of?" Twilight asked me.

"Well, each morning I usually wake up on my own, which happens to be around sunrise. I'll head out into what I call the living room of Zecora's hut and she usually tells me of what we'll be doing that day. If we need to go get supplies for something such as toothpaste, she'll give me these really thick gloves and then we'll go looking for things in the forest."

"I see." She was writing notes down. "I can't believe Zecora would keep something like you from me."

"Whatever were the gloves for, dear?" Rarity asked with a curious smile.

"Oh! They're so I don't cut myself if I have to lift something or kill some animal." Rarity's smile immediately dropped. "They actually come down to about my elbows. That way, if something with claws swipes at me, I can defend."

"Wow..." Sweetie Belle said. The little filly at my side had stopped eating her meal in order to focus more on what I said.

"So, Zecora has you around for protection during her expeditions? Or does she have other uses for you?" Twilight asked.

"Well, I'm not exactly flattered by the the word 'use', but yes, I'm pretty much protection. I'm pretty much the biggest thing in the forest." Twilight stopped writing and looked back up to me in confusion. "Oh! Sorry, no I'm not. There was this one creature... A Hydra! Oh, that was challenging. But I still slaughtered it!" I leaned back in my chair, smiling.

"How?" Twilight asked.

"I'm by myself at home a lot and have a lot of free time. I learn how to do things. Such as fighting. I'm always training, man."

"But you surely couldn't have killed it with your bare hands."

"No, I used my gloves." Twilight tilted her head to the side. A confused look spread over her face. "I've been finding things and hooking them up to my gloves for awhile. Call me a little tinker. That's what I've been doing."

"I don't suppose you have them with you?" She seemed a bit excited.

"Actually, I do." I pulled the backpack off of my shoulders and unzipped it.

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Twilight, Rarity, and Sweetie Belle all watched as Jack pulled two large metallic gloves from his backpack and strap them to his arms. As Jack had said, they did cover from his finger tips to the ends of his elbows. The gloves seemed to be made of both a thick cloth and different metals. The knuckles were spiked and the palms were made more of the cloth than the metal.

"Alright. These are they." He said with a smile.

"How did you kill the Hydra?" Twilight asked again. Jack replied by thrusting his arms upward.

SHINK

A large blade exposed itself from the wrist of each of the gloves. Making everyone there jump.

"I've got a bunch of different gizmos in these things. Basically prepared for anything that comes my way."

"You are pretty good at hiding those 'gizmos'. I couldn't even see where the blades came from." Rarity said out of what sounded like a bit of fear.

"Well, thanks. I don't really even know how I was able to do this. It just made sense to me. But just in case you were wondering, these weren't the gloves that Zecora gave me. I did have some thicker gloves, but they were more or less gardening gloves. I just started picking up different things. I don't know how I made these work." Jack said, waving his arms.

Rarity looked out the window and found that the sun had already begun to set.

"I think it's time that Sweetie Belle and I head back home. Good night, Twilight." The white mare and smaller white filly headed towards the door.

"Can Jack stay with us? Pleeeeaaaaase???" Sweetie Belle asked her sister.

"No, Sweetie, dear. We don't have enough room for him. He positively gigantic! No offense."

"None taken." Jack said.

"I can have him stay here for tonight." Twilight volunteered. Everyone turned their attention towards Twilight. "If he's not wanting to go back to Zecora's house. He can sleep on the couch downstairs. Is that alright with you?" She asked looking up to Jack.

"Well, if I'm not imposing. Yes!" He said happily. Jack grabbed Twilight and tossed her into the air then caught her, then did it again and again! "Thank you, Twilight! This'll be the first time I get to stay in a house not surrounded by forest!.... Although it is a tree..." Rarity nudged her sister out the door.

"Come along, Sweetie Belle. You can come visit tomorrow." A long and cute sounding 'Awwwwww!!!' followed soon after.