The Last One

The Mane Six had gathered around the huge piece of metal that had landed in the middle of the Ponyville Nature Reserve Park. (What ponies were doing with a nature reserve, I have no idea but bare with me here.) Along with the princesses. The large piece of metal was obviously not naturally made, for it was smooth and symmetrical, and had been using some sort of strange magic to fly.

Suddenly, a panel on the side of the metal object opened, and a small ramp came out, along with with a seemingly endless amount of steam. After a couple of seconds, a shadow moved behind it, and it seemed to be over six feet tall! And then came the voice.

"God fucking damn it Chase! I said plan Delta ELEVEN, not seven you damn idiot! You could have burned me to a crisp!" This was followed by a series of hacks and coughs. "Just download into the database," the voice finished off wheezily.

"Maybe if Sir would have not slurred his voice when he had said it," a posh second voice replied. "Transfer Complete."

The steam had dissipated enough, that they could seed the figure walking off the ramp, and he could see them. "Chase, analysis of sentient beings within a 20 meter radius."

"Very well sir, 46 chromosomes almost identical to that of a human, breeding between species possible. One heart. Herbivore. If I had to say so sir, their physical appearance would be that of a horse, or pony. Count, 8, two that vary very differently form the others. I may also note that two have wings, and a bone structure built like a bird's, but with bones made out of material I have never seen before, will require further analysis, two with a bone protrusion coming out of there heads, made of the same substance, two with just the substance in their bones, and finally the two that stand out have all the aspects of the winged ones, and the ones with a bone protrusion, only the bone structure is built of that of the ones without either."

"So, I'm looking at pegasuses, and unicorns, and horned pegasuses, or would that be winged unicorns?"

"The term would be pegasi sir."

"Okay, so how do I go about doing anything with them surrounding the shuttle?" James asked his companion, who's voice was now coming from a rather bulky watch.

"Unknown, I would say your best bet would be to make yourself seem as nonthreatening as possible, and walk east. I detect very efficient shelter there. There is a ninety percent chance that they are just a herd of equines, startled by the sudden landing."

"Okay then."

It was then that Celestia started to walk forward, and James stopped moving entirely. Celestia started backing him up against his own ship, until he was cornered. "I'm only going to ask this once, and you better answer correctly, or I'll send you to the sun, are you a threat to us?" She said dangerously.

James on the other hand, was having a slight bit of a mental breakdown. So many things were just thrown at his face, one, this equine like creature just spoke, so that meant it was far more than just sentient, and two, the talking pony in front of him had a sharp and deadly looking horn on her head. What would come out of his mouth next could mean the difference between his life, or his death. He would have to use his quick thinking vast intellect that had been used to get him his huge paying job, that helped him discover that the sun was going to blow up, and helped him escape.

He would have to be quick, clever, cunning.

"How do you fly with such a heavy bone structure?" James asked derpishly.

Celestia emotionlessly stared at James.

James emotionlessly stared at Celestia.

Celestia stared at James.

James stared at Celestia.

Celestia stared at James.

James stared at Celestia.

Celestia stared at James.

James stared at Celestia.

"..." James said.

"..." Celestia replied.

"Can I have a do-over?" James asked sheepishly. Celestia raised an eyebrow, but nodded. "Now that I can focus and prioritize my thoughts, no, I am not a threat to your kind, and I would be very pleased if you would point that really sharp horn somewhere else. Just a suggestion. Heh." Celestia took one step back. "Chase, best course of action?" He asked quietly, even though Celestia could obviously still hear him.

"Unknown sir. perhaps you should just hide in the shuttle for a while?" Chase said, just as quiet.

"I like that plan," and within the next minute, James was cowering in a corner. But not as alone as he would have liked. there was a sudden movement off to his left, but he couldn't see what it was. He looked around, but after seeing nothing he let out a sigh of relief. A moment to soon, unfortunately.

"HIYA!" He heard, and his vision was suddenly pink. Very, very, pink.

"GAH! CHASE FORCE-FIELD!" James yelled in fright. A light blue field of light surrounded him, and expanded slightly, and pushed the pink back slightly. James could now see the source of the pink. It was a very pink pony, with a VERY large smile on her face. "How did you get in here?" James asked.

"I don't know, but that's not important at the moment, because you're new in town and that means that you don't know anypony, and if you don't know anypony, that means that you don't have any friends here, and having no friends must be a real bummer, so I would like to offer to be your friend, OH that means I get to throw a 'welcome to Ponyville party' for you, and I never get to throw those anymore, except for that one time Twilight came to town, but that was like a whole two years ago, and I haven't been able to throw one since, not that I haven't thrown any parties, cause that would be BOOORING, cause I throw lots and lots of parties for my friends, and that's a lot of parties since I'm friends with everypony, and I mean everypony, in Ponyville, so that brings me back to the point I was trying to make originally, asking if you would like to be my friend, because--" Pinkie was finally cut off as the force-field went down, and James had stuck a hand over her mouth.

"God Damn, shut UP." James said firmly, but not like he was trying to be mean. Pinkie nodded happily. "Okay, I am going to remove my hand from your face, and when I do, I want you to calmly, in twenty- five words or less, explain what you just said again, am I understood?" Pinkie nodded. James put his hand down.

"I'm going to throw you a party later to welcome you to Ponyville, and so that you can make friends! Also, would you like to be my friend?" Pinkie said at a normal speed. James was surprised that the pink pony could actually talk at a normal speed.

"I, uh, I guess Pink Pony?" James replied questioningly.

"Oh, I haven't given you my name, sorry James, I'm Pinkie." Pinkie said, still talking at a normal speed. James nodded.

"Uh yeah nice to meet you, wait, how did you know my name?"

"I know a lot about you, but that's not important, what you need is a tour of Ponyville! Come on!" Pinkie said, zipping away.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!" James yelled at the top of his shuttle.