What you call "Ponies" I call "Tuesday"

Chapters

Chapter 1: Of all the things...
Chapter 2: Shut up, Navi!
Chapter 3: I dream of Pink Ponies.
Chapter 4: The Elements of WHAT-ony!?! Pt. 1
Chapter 5: The Elements of WHAT-ony!?! Pt. 2
Chapter 6: Step One, Location!
Chapter 7: Blushing Feathers?
Chapter 8: Of Rainbows and Bunnies
Chapter 9: Step Two, Presentation
Chapter 10 : Step Three - Stress Test
Chapter 11 : What the Hay?
Chapter 12 : Afterthoughts
Note to the Readers
Update : Apologies

Chapter 1: Of all the things...

“Coooooooome ooooooooooon!”

“No, Harry, I refuse.”

“But David, you stay home most of the time; you need to get out more!”

“I know, but you can’t just randomly show up and take someone out against their will, that’s called hostage taking.”

Okay, I’m sure by now, you’re wondering: what is going on, who are these two, and why should I care. Well, for starters, this was me and my friend Harry during our last day on Earth. It was spent in the way we always did; Harry coming up with some goofy idea, and me usually poking enough holes in it to deflate it to nothing. It was a vicious cycle in this case as he tries desperately to get me to go to a karaoke bar.

Sounds like fun, right? Well, normally it would, but I know the place he was talking about, and it didn’t have any good music to select. It was all country songs, save for the infamous Rick Roll. Anyways, I didn’t feel like going simply because it was a 25 minute drive out on a back road next to a river, and it had rained the night before. Pick one of those reasons, I used all three.

Now, as for whom we are, that’s the easy part. I am David, and my friend here is Harry. In a town of less than 2,000 people, we are the last 2 who haven’t changed at all. Since we met, we have always been the inseparable pair of pranksters that did everything in good taste. We made everyone laugh, whether it was a well-placed joke, or one slap stick gag that no one expected, we got everyone to lighten up.

Harry is a young man, 19 years old, lean, muscly build, brown hair, green eyes, and stands about 5’ 9”. Standing about 5 inches taller is me. I also have brown hair, blue eyes, about 20 years old, and sporting a broad, husky build. Okay, when I say husky… yes, I’m fat. Problem? Good. Now, on this particular day, I was wearing a grey t-shirt, my trench coat, blue jeans, and boots. Harry decided to wear black jeans, a white muscle shirt, tennis shoes, and his wool jacket.

Over the 9 or so years we’ve known each other, we have yet to really change. We’ve gotten jobs to help our respective families, and we always make time to hang out together, no matter the gaps between them. We just make the time we spend together more memorable by being ourselves, and doing what we do best. That is, to say, make everyone around us fly around in a tornado of laughter!

Now, I think you get an idea of who we are and where we come from, I think we can continue the story. Oh, am I forgetting something? No… I don’t think so… Right well, on with the story!

“*sigh* Fine, lets go to Dairy Queen. I will convince you to go with me, it’s only a matter of time,” Harry said, trying to impress me with his grimmest look of determination. He was gathering his money off the table as he said this, and stuffed it in his pocket. After letting him past me to start heading out to Dairy Queen, I shrugged and followed him.

“Just think, women, free snacks, and karaoke! How can you not jump on it?” Harry inquired, trying to make the bar sound more and more exciting.

“Easy, I make this face and flatly say ‘No.’” I said, while making a frowny face, with my right eyebrow perked up just so. Harry caught a glimpse of the face, and busted out in a cacophony of chuckles and snortles, and I followed shortly after. After about 5 minutes of walking to the sound of each other’s laughter, we got to Dairy Queen.

“Ohhhh, yeah, you should totally come with me, come on!” Harry said, as he tried to sway me with the infamous puppy dog eyes. Ah yes, the puppy dog eyes, everyone’s natural enemy, but I know a way around it!

“I said no,” I said plainly, and quickly after before he could make any kind of reply, I stuck my index fingers in my ears and started going ‘Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah’ for a good 3 minutes. Harry just stood there and timed the whole thing.

Meanwhile…

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

“Hold on, Rarity, I’m comin’!”

Without a second to spare, the rainbow maned Pegasus took off towards her friend, trying to close the gap that gravity has put between them. Desperately flapping, wishing her wings to go faster, she started the formation of a mach cone. Focusing on the falling unicorn in question, she closed her eyes, and the cone shattered, and an explosion of color filled the sky.
However, while all the ponies were watching her display of the so-called “Sonic Rainboom,” Something was happening, a small gap in reality. A break between dimensions, I don’t know how to describe it. I only have high school chemistry under my belt, get off! Anyways, something happened that moment, that no person, or pony, could predict…

Back on Earth…

“Hey Harry,” I said as I opened the door to Dairy Queen. “Does DQ look different to you?”

“Hmm,” He said, bringing a finger up to scratch at his chin. “Well, how about we scratch it and go get a pizza or something?”
He shrugged, trying to sound like he wasn’t the one who wanted to come here in the first place.

I rolled my eyes, and said in a rather annoyed tone, ”Harry, you’re the one that wanted to come here in the first place, now, are you coming in to order, or are you going to make me wait here for the rest of the day?”

Harry sighed and just nodded his head. And, with an ever increasing amount of reluctance, we stepped through the door. Now, you know that feeling that you might have seriously fucked something up AFTER you do the thing that everyone was skeptical about from the start? Yeah, I started getting that about now, because me and Harry essentially went from on the ground, walking into a dairy queen, to falling through a rainbow streak in the sky.

As our descent started, we paused for a minute to look at each other, and after a bit decided to yell in unison.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

My eyes shot from Harry, to the sky, to the ground, and back to harry… wait…

“Harry, don’t look now, but you have wings,” I said as I reached out to grab him. “Harry, snap out of it, you have wings start flapping them, NOW!”

Harry didn’t say anything, his eyes were focused on me. I couldn’t understand his thoughts, but at this moment, I had bigger things to worry about. Somehow working my way through the air, I got behind Harry, and tried to manually flap his wings. It seemed like it was working, our descent was slowing. But, just then, I realized that we were in a bubble. How? I don’t know. What was a bubble doing some 200+ feet of the ground? Not a clue. However, as it seems like it was saving our lives, I decided to count this as a blessing.

“Oh wondrous god of bubbles, I shall pray to you every night for a week for this,” I said, fighting back tears of joy.

“Well now, how did you two get here?”

Oh. Shit.

The voice was feminine, obviously, and I thought for a moment there was a legitimate god (goddess?) of bubbles. After imagining what such a sight would look like, I snapped back to reality and decided to see if I could get some answers.

“Hey, ehh… bubble goddess, could you perhaps answer a few questions for me?” I said aloud, not realizing Harry was still buffering, so to speak, right next to me.

“Possibly, depends on the questions, and how I feel I should answer.”

Oh, fair enough. When a god/goddess says they’ll answer your questions, no matter how its worded, you pretty much have to accept it and move on.

“Okay,” I said scratching my head. Man, my fingers feel a bit stiff, like they’re stuck into a permanent fist. Pulling my hand around, I learn that it was no longer the 5 fingered limb I was accustomed too, but rather a stump, like someone cut off my hand and cauterized my wrist. Eyes growing wide, I now know why Harry was staring at me… oh shit, HARRY!

I spun around to see what became of my best bud. He was no longer human, but a…a… horse with wings? Hmm… Pegasus I suppose. Anyways, now I wondered what became of me. Oh, if I’m a unicorn, I will kick the nearest tree when we get to the ground! I began to take note of my appearance. Front legs, Back legs, tail, muzzle, mane, coat…coat? Feeling a familiar cloth over my torso, I looked down to see my trench coat, now colored navy blue from its usual black. Whatever, color didn’t matter, as long as I had something covering me.

After examining my body for any special growths that could be counted as wings or horns, I sadly lacked both. I was just a boring old horse. A boring horse, with green fur… and a silvery grey mane, blue eyes, and a coat, which I would assume would be the only of its kind in this place we now found ourselves…

After taking a deep breath to reorganize my thoughts, I then looked up and proceeded to address the Goddess of Bubbles.
“Hey, you still there?” I yelled, not sure if she was still listening.

“Hmm? Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.”

Fantastic… “I have some questions, so, let’s start with…”

What was Harry thinking?

After stepping through the portal, Harry covered his eyes from the bright lights. He had been to this particular DQ before, but never once had they brought in rainbow colored lights, not even to promote the rainbow sherbet blizzard. If you have to ask, then you can’t afford it, Ba-ZING! Anyways, after getting used to the lights, Harry turned to look at his friend, wondering how he was coping with the light show.

He didn’t see his friend. He did, however, see a green pony in his place, surrounded by a rainbow background. The horse seemed to be trying to talk to him, but he couldn’t hear him. The sound of wind rushing past his ears drowned him out. He wasn’t entirely sure how to handle a situation like this. Suddenly, the horse started making his way through the air (somehow). Once the horse got to him, he moved around to his back, and he felt like someone was taking his arms and making flapping motions.

“Well, at least it can’t get any weirder…” Harry resigned. Just then, him and the equine in question were caught by a bubble, and were now floating gently to the ground. Well, about as gently as it could be, until the green horse let go of Harry’s arms. He had spun around to look at the horse, only to hear him speak in his friend’s voice.

Harry rubbed the back of his head, slightly confused. If this pony was anything like his friend, why was he shouting at the sky, and did he really just use the term “bubble goddess?” Deciding that while they were safe for the moment, he would just relax and let his mind wander. Then, he came upon a startling thought. “What if he wasn’t the only one changed?” Harry then snapped up, and quickly looked himself over. He was right to worry, for in place of hands and feet, he had hooves, and his skin was covered in a layer of white fur. He couldn’t quite tell what color his mane was, it was too short to tell.

He then proceeded to look his body over with greater detail. Turning his head as far as he could, he saw 2 good sized wings gracing his back. His eye twitched as he began processing the amount of shenanigans he could perform with them. After stopping at around 130 different scenes he could perform, he turned to the rest of his body.

His eyes widened at his flank, which had a picture of a laughing smiley face. He continued to stare at it for the longest time. Contemplating how something like this could get on his body without him knowing. Then, after losing the staring contest with his tattooed flank, he proceeded to mess around in the bubble, by doing zero gravity flips and rolls, while he listened to me talk to an imaginary “bubble goddess” He still snickered at the fact that his friend used those words in a legitimate conversation. No matter how one-sided it appeared to be.

What could happen to make it worse?

“Okay… so, lemme see if I got this right, we’re in a place called Equestria, we’re called ponies here, clothing is optional, and you’re not a bubble goddess, but the goddess that raises the sun each and every day, and your sister does the same thing with the moon. You are currently in a place called Cloudsdale, and you somehow heard my thoughts as we were falling, and decided to shield us from crashing to our deaths because something happened that shouldn’t have and we’re going to have to figure out what, how is that, am I in the ball park?” I said, taking a deep breath after giving my monotonistic speech of our current situation.

“More or less, I suppose. A crude oversimplification, but it should suffice for now, anyways, here is the ground, I’ll send somepony down in a bit to make sure you two are taken care of.”

I glanced down, and noticed that the bubble has stopped its descent and is now hovering about 4 inches from the ground. And, shortly after, the bubble dispersed, and I fell to my feet… hooves… which buckled and brought me to my knees. I looked over to see Harry, flat on his back, with his wings spread out and legs stiff in the air, like he was a stuffed Pegasus and someone knocked him over by accident. I snickered, but eventually asked him if he was alright.

“Yeah, no I’m fine, just a bruise,” he managed to groan out. I chuckled and steadily got up. Now comes the fun part. Ever go from a 2 legged up right walking creature to one that walks on all fours? Didn’t think so. Let’s just say that the few feet between me and Harry seemed like an open field, which I had to cross. After stumbling around for what seemed like hours, I finally got over to Harry and helped him up.

“Okay, so, considering that I just fought with gravity, we should probably take a few minutes to learn to walk on four legs,” I said, giving my friend a blank stare. For once in my life, Harry was speechless. I mean legitimately speechless, usually he has some kind of witty quip that he likes to pull out, but he just couldn’t bring himself to do it.

Shortly after the news clicked, he gingerly took his front hoof and tried to place it in front of him. What happened was when he placed it down, he did so at just an angle that spun him around and planted him on his back again. I was not crying… I was laughing so hard it was hurting my ribs.

“Yeah yeah, help me up will ya?” Harry said, slightly irritable. Dialing back my laughter, I helped the poor Pegasus back up on his hooves… feet? No hooves. Man that still feels weird. Anyways, after many failing attempts at walking, we eventually figured out how each of our leg joints moved and shortly after got used to walking.

“So, now that we can walk, I wonder how I can use these,” Harry said, gesturing towards his wings.

“Umm… Harry, Two things. One, I don’t have wings, and two, You might wanna take a look behind you,” I said, my eyes growing wide at the sight.

“Yeah and then you’ll plant a sign on my back that says “Kick Me” or something, I know you’re game,” Harry said smugly. I rolled my eyes, walked up, and twisted his head far enough so he could see what I was talking about.

In the clearing next to us were 2 guards, and a chariot. The guards were adorned with gilded armor, and they were hooked to the chariot. One of them turned their head slightly to address us.

“Princess Celestia sent us to retrieve you two, come with us, now,” He said, in a very serious tone. Princess Celestia, huh? Hmm… Doesn’t sound like a very threatening monarch… but then again, we’re in a magical land of talking ponies, so I shouldn’t be so surprised.

“Right then, what’re we waiting for,” I said, perking up and starting to trot over to the carriage. Chariot? Chariot… whatever.

“Hey man, why should we go with them,” Harry asked, which stopped me dead in my tracks. Oh right, I suppose he was left out of the whole conversation.

“Nothing, I just… well… Just come on, I’ll sum it up on the way.” I said, rolling my eyes and beginning my trot towards our chariot. Harry sighed and followed, grumbling.

Once we got on board the chariot, the guards took off, pulling us into the sky. And while they focused on pulling us to wherever it was that we were going, I turned to Harry, and began telling him what I knew of our situation so far.

Chapter 2: Shut up, Navi!

“So, basically,” Harry began, hesitating slightly, allowing me to continue his sentence for a few words.

“We are in a world of ponies,” I said, motioning him to continue the explanation.

“And in about 40 seconds of our coming here,” He said, his head bobbing slightly.

“We attracted the attention of,” I said, again motioning him to continue, giving a slight eye roll at how much I got dragged into this bit.

“The president of pony land?” Harry said, grinning sheepishly, and almost causing me to fall off the chariot from laughing at what he said. Well, despite his political incorrectness (yes, it’s a word, look it up!) he basically summed it up, and in a shorter explanation than I could do.

“Heh, yeah, well think of it this way, at least we don’t have to vote now,” I said, regaining my composure. Harry gave a slight chuckle at the thought. Voting for a princess? That would be a sight to see. I mean seriously, who ever thought of voting for royalty?

Anyways, after a good few minutes of poking fun at pony politics, we caught a sight on the horizon. A very large, and very… bright city. Honestly, how can a place so big stay clean enough to reflect enough light to nearly blind anyone if they decided to fly in? Anyways, this was obviously our destination because the guards started angling us for a landing somewhere in town. Hard to say exactly where, it was all one big sun splotch to me.

How was Harry coping with this? Hard to say, he was speaking so quick I couldn’t begin to try and quote him on it. However, I guess he was mystified by it judging by his tone. It was something like a school boy getting to meet his hero.

During which…

“Do you really think this is wise, sister?” Asked a deep blue alicorn, her starry mane shifting with what one would assume to be concern, if an emotion could be seen in that feature.

“Relax, Luna, I spoke to one of them, and I think they should at least get a chance to plead their case,” Said a vibrantly white alicorn, with a gentle smile gracing her face. Her rainbow mane drifted gracefully around her head, flowing on an imaginary breeze.

“Hmph, very well then, we shall hear what they have to say,” Luna said plainly. She turned to face the door, making a slightly pouty face at her sister’s explanation of what transpired during the “Best Young Flier Competition.”

“Hehe, lighten up, Lulu, at least we get to show off a little now,” Celestia said, winking at her little sister. Luna stiffened, she hated that Celestia still remembered her pet name after all these years. She shuddered to think of what she remembered on top of her pet name. She was snapped back into reality when the doors to the throne room swung open, revealing an earth pony with a rather poofy cap, and a ruffled collar.

“Your Highness, the guards have returned with the ehm… ‘guests,’” He said, giving a slight bow.

“Ahh, excellent, send them in, when they are able,” Celestia said, reminding herself of the odd conversation she had with the one called David, an hour or two ago. Considering that he didn’t even know who she was or anything else that is “common information” such as terminology and geography, she figured it’d still be a few minutes before they made their way to the throne room.

So, she relaxed and took a deep breath. Letting her thoughts wander, she began thinking about how best to present herself, as first introductions are very important. Luna, on the other hand, decided now would be a good time to stretch her legs, so she began to stand up, and stretch every muscle in her body. After holding the pose for a good few seconds, she settled back into her seat, next to her sister’s throne.

Meanwhile, in the courtyard…

“Ooohhhh what’s this,” Harry said, eyes shining on the large marble door in front of us. Okay, yes, he is marveling at a door, a very large, hand crafted, marble door. With a gilded frame, and very nice err… knobs? Ugh… dirty jokes… Moving on.

“That is a door, Harry, you know that because we have them back where we come from,” I said, in the nicest possible way. However, when you’re pointing out that something like that door is just a door, you will always come off as slightly… arrogant? Right, well, in any case he didn’t seem bothered by it. In fact, he decided to test the waters by saying that every time we passed something on our way through the palace.

Following the guards to wherever they decided to take us, I decided to try and keep a mental note of the dimensions of the castle. Easy in theory, but after the 12th turn, I gave up. Honestly, if this was just one possible way, trying to map out an entire building like this by memory would be like trying to take notes on Stephen Hawking’s physics class in Russian with no abilities in Russian speech. I was just about to bash my face into the wall after Harry asked me for the millionth time what one of the stained glass windows were, when we came upon a large set of doors.

“We’re here, now it would be best if you didn’t keep the princess waiting,” Said the guard in front of well, me. The other one just nodded. I suppose he didn’t have much to add to his partner’s line.

“Alrighty… well, let’s go in and say ‘Hi’” I said, trying to straighten my posture. After all, we’re meeting royalty. Harry just sighed, and waited for us to be lead into the room.

“Well, what are you two waiting for?” Said the guard in front of Harry. He turned around to flash us an intimidating look, to be stopped by the sight of the Pegasus behind him having his wings stretched out to its full span. His eyes grew wide, and he stood there, mouth agape. Harry flashed him a puzzled look, before the other guard turned to get a look at the scene.

“Yeah what are you-OH SWEET CELESTIA! Sir, make yourself decent!” said the other guard, trying to cover his eyes. At this point, I decided to ask what the problem was, however, it came out as something like…

“What’s wrong with you two, you’re acting like he’s running around without any pants on?” I said, turning my head to see my buddy with his wings stretched out. And it was hilariously at this point that I realized, he wasn’t wearing ANY pants! He had nothing! Nada! I was mortified. However, it seems the guards and I had two totally different reasons to be the way we were.

“Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to keep your… wings… under control,” chimed the guard, snapping out of his stupor, and fighting back a blush. Harry still looked puzzled before he realized that he had his wings standing on end. He still didn’t understand what had the guard so embarrassed, but he began to try and fold his wings.

After watching him flap, rotate, and otherwise move his wings to everything but a folded position, I decided to get involved. Much to the guard’s umm… displeasure? I get the feeling they weren’t telling us a very important detail, but I didn’t feel like asking.

“Okay, hold still,” I said as I made my way over to the struggling pegasus. He stopped moving his wings so I could get a better look at the bone structure. After toying and moving his wings around in quick motions, I proceeded to fold them in a way that I would assume be a “folded” position for them. During which, I guess Harry decided it would be funny to make moaning noises to try and get me to laugh.

After about 3 or so minutes of messing with his wings, we finally get them tucked in and the guards just proceeded to stare at us, their faces pink from the sight they just saw. Seriously, I don’t understand the joke. But, at least it’s over and done with.

“Ehh, right, forgetting what we just saw, this way,” The guard said, reluctantly. His partner just nodded, and they both went to open the door to the throne room. The room itself was done entirely in pristine white marble, with a few pillars down the sides of the path of red carpet. The carpet was literally the same exact look as the red carpet we see during the Grammy Awards. I think it’s the Grammys anyways… The pillars are done in the same white marble, but the base and top were ornamented gold bases one would see in perhaps a temple of some kind.

The room was beautifully lit by the sun pouring its light through the windows on the far end of the room. And I thought the town was bright, this place alone is like finding a lone diamond in a pile of coal. It would be breathtaking if I wasn’t being nearly blinded by it as the doors were opened in front of us.

Lifting a hoof to cover my eyes, I turned my head to see if Harry was doing the same, and it turns out, he had sunglasses… I was about to question where he got them, but then remembered that we had a meeting to get to. So biting my tongue (literally and metaphorically) I decided to start making my way down the clearly marked pathway to the base of the throne. Now, this wouldn’t have been an issue if the sun wasn’t blinding me from every possible angle… however, since that IS the case, it goes without saying that I was staggering and stumbling much worse than I thought I would.

We got about halfway before I messed my step up and stumbled onto my face. Ouch, not my brightest moment. Well, unless you count the sun lit marble room we were standing in, then I guess it was… However, my face would beg to differ that viewpoint… After woozily getting up, I noticed that the light as dimmed enough that I could actually SEE!

“Heh, sorry about that,” came a voice from in front of us. Me and Harry looked at the source of the voice to see not one, but 2 absolutely stunning horses on a raised section in front of us. We glanced at each other, then back at the 2 horses. One was pure white, with a gold crown, necklace, and bracelets around her forelegs. She had a sun mark on her flank, and a rainbow colored mane that seemed to flow freely even though there wasn’t any wind. The other was a smaller, dark blue version of the first, but with a starry mane, also moving in an imaginary breeze, and what appeared to be an onyx version of the other one’s jewelry. Her mark was a crescent moon.

We stood there, stunned. It seemed like time stood still, just dragging this moment on… and on… and on… until…

“See anything you like?” Me and Harry jumped. We literally tried to pull a Scooby-Doo onto each other, colliding in mid-air, and falling flat on our rumps. The white one let out a small giggle, while the other one just gave us a blank stare.

“Sorry, didn’t mean to scare ya, I’m Princess Celestia, but I’m sure you know that by now,” said Celestia. Why do I get the feeling we spoke before? I kept wondering that while she was making their introductions.

“AND WE ARE LUNA, PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT,” Said the blue one, in an almost otherworldly yell. Seriously, how is the small one louder than the big one? I barely had time to gather myself before she gave us another line in that unbearably loud voice. “NOW, WE COMMAND YOU TELL US, WHO ART THOU?”

Harry was the first to speak up, I guess more to save us from being yelled at some more.

“Well, my name is Harry, and the large, bumbling jacket with legs here is my friend, David,” He said, giving a smug grin and a wink from behind the sunglasses. “And I have one question for the both of you, do you two know karate, because your bodies are ki-“ He almost got the last word out before I managed to thump him in the back of the head. Honestly, hitting on royalty you just met. I mean I know you don’t lack for confidence, but this is just ridiculous…

“Sorry about that, ignore that last bit,” I said, putting on a sheepish grin, and trying to play it off as one of those newcomer quirks. Celestia was chuckling to herself, but her sister just looked confused. She tried to ask us what Harry was talking about, but I had to cut her off.

“Ahhh! Please, No offense to you, but can we just use our indoor voices?” I asked, trying to be as polite as I could while trying to get an answer in a reasonable volume level.

“BUT THIS IS OUR INDOOR VOICE, WE ALWAYS ADDRESS OUR SUBJECTS WITH THE ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE!” Luna said, using a face that screamed “As a matter of fact, sir, no we can’t.” Great, one is laughing at us, and the other is basically going to deafen us.

“It’s okay Luna, I’ll talk to them, I don’t think they’re used to your voice, yet,” said Celestia. Thank gawd, because I think my ears are going to be ringing like church bells later.

“So, I think we’ll begin with, what are you,” Celestia said, beaming a look down on us. And for a moment, it seems like all the rays of light shining through the window focused on us, too. Creepy. Anyways, I did what any sensible person would do in that situation, step fourth and let the panel commence.

“Well, we were humans a…” Blah blah blah blah, I began answering their questions in as professional a manner as possible. However, as all things go, Harry steps in a few times and cracks a well-placed joke in between my explanations. Sure, a few of them were funny, even got Luna to smile, but it made it go by longer. Eventually, Celestia noted that it was evening…

“Oh my, Luna look, its evening! We’d better get out there and cycle through!” Celestia said, rather alarmed that something like time could sneak up on her like that. Luna just nodded and got up to follow her sister.

“Oh, and steward, show these two to one of the empty chambers around the castle, we aren’t finished with them yet, but it’s been a long day,” Celestia said hurriedly to one of the nearby horses.

“As you wish, your majesty,” said the steward, taking a bow.

“Thanks, and take care of our new little ponies, they have a long day tomorrow,” Celestia said, flashing us a wink as she marched out the door, with Luna right behind her. Me and Harry sat stunned in their wake, we actually… did we just… whuh? We snapped out of it when the steward walked up and motioned for us to follow.

“This way, sirs, I’ll show you to your chambers,” He said without opening his eyes. Oh, this guy is gooooood, well two can play this game. I closed my eyes and began to follow our leader to our room. It turns out, walking blind isn’t my strong suit, because on the way out of the room, I slammed muzzle first into one of the pillars on the way out. OW! I grabbed my muzzle and flipped down onto the ground, rolling in pain. Harry saw this, and fell to the ground, doubled over in laughter.

After getting up, and not deciding to close my eyes this time, we eventually made our way to our room. The steward opened the door and backed away, letting us walk in and get a better look at our quarters. It was similar to the throne room, but it wasn’t as bright. And there was a bed, and only one window, and a door to the bathroom was on the far end, and there was an armoire (closet for you unsophisticated types out there, you know who you are.) and next to that was a dresser, with a vase on top of it. In the vase was a small bouquet of purple flowers… not sure what kind, but they were purple… and flowery shaped…

Hey wait, there was only one bed… Uhh… Hmm… did they expect us to really share the thing? I couldn’t begin to think of how this would work. No matter which way we sliced it, it was going to be awkward. I took another look see around the room. In the blind spot, in one of the closer walls was a mid-sized couch, red cloth with gold stitching, and had a couple red and gold pillows on it.

“Perfect!” I said aloud, and ran over to it. Jumping a short bit in the air, I landed on the couch, to test its sturdiness. It held me up with no trouble at all! Haha, just perfect, Harry can have the bed, give me a couch any day. I began trying to take my coat off, and use it as a blanket for the night, when I caught Harry staring at me. What? Did I have something in my hair? Is there a spider on my face? So help you if there is a spider on my face and you don’t tell me…

“Uhhh, David, you have something on your leg…” he said, pointing to my flank. I glanced down to see what he meant. I was graced with the oddest thing. My mark was a large eye with the pupil redone to look like one of those swirlies you see in anime.

“I certainly don’t remember having this a few minutes ago,” I said, still staring at my eye flank. I couldn’t help it, I started poking at it, like if I made it angry enough, it might go away.

“That’s because you had that coat of yours to cover it up, you silly goose,” Harry said, rolling his eyes at me. I couldn’t help what came out next, it just flowed out of my mouth… muzzle? No mouth.

“Hey, I’m not a goose, I’m a pony, dammit, and don’t you forget it,” I said, raising an eyebrow, in a serious tone. There was an awkward silence for a bit as we processed what was said, we then proceeded to give a furious uproar of laughter that I’m sure everyone in the castle could hear. I’m sure this was about the time the steward left, because I saw the light from the hallway slowly shrink and then disappear.

After a few minutes of laughing freely, we then proceeded to get ready for bed. It was late, and I’m sure tomorrow is going to be a very, very, VERY, strange day.

Chapter 3: I dream of Pink Ponies.

It was dark. Dark dark darky dark dark dark… Light was absent in this place that I was, which means that it was shrouded in shadow… Yes, I am describing a dark room to you. Only because this is the weirdest thing that has happened to me since I was chosen to play a white trash elf in our school play 4 years ago. That is a story for another time.

I stood there for the longest time. Honestly, it seemed like ages before anything happened. And what would happen decidedly freaked me the hell out. A spotlight, out of nowhere, turned on, and swiveled around to focus me. At least it wasn’t focused on my eyes, so I could at least look around without covering my face. Shortly after getting my bearings, I heard… giggling?

“Who’s there?” I asked, getting ready for almost anything. Almost anything, not the soon to be barrage of hyperactive sugar speech that was to come. And now we get to the highly unexpected intruder to my mind.

“Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie, I bet you’re new here, because I know eeeeeeverypony here, and I don’t know you, so you must be new, tell me, what was it like coming here, what’s your favorite color, why are you wearing a jacket, who’s your friend, what’s your name, what kind of food do you like-“ began a small pink pony who seemed to have come out of my coat pocket. How such a thing was even possible, I won’t even ask. And for her questions, I couldn’t answer her if I wanted to, she was speaking so fast that I couldn’t get a word in edge wise.

I merely looked on in horror as the pocket pony talked, and talked, and taaaaaaaaaaalked… This was the first time I thought my dream was going to talk me to death, which would be a first. Usually I’m being chased by some face eating super alien or something like that, not being talked at by a pink pony half sticking out of my coat pocket like some small lap dog celebrities carry in their purses and junk…

“He-llooooooooooooo, anypony home?” said the pink pony… Pinkie Pie I guess her name was? Finally thinking about it, I took a deep breath and began to answer her first few questions. Answering all of them in one go isn’t in the budget.

“Well, let’s see, My name is David, my friend’s name is Harry, my favorite color is green, I guess, this jacket was a present from my dad, and I wear it every chance I get, my favorite food is a nicely prepared chili, and uhh, I guess our trip here wasn’t so bad, except for the almost falling to our deaths part, that coulda been a bit better,” I said, exhaling the excess air, which wasn’t a lot given I don’t speak like that, normally.

“Teehee, what’s chili, what’s your dad like, where are you from, and what’s your friend like,” Pinkie said, tilting her head to the side, expecting a similar answer to her questions. I shook my head, I wasn’t going to play the 'spill my guts to an imaginary pink pony' game.

Who are you calling imaginary?

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

~We are experiencing technical difficulties~

Okay, I think that’s taken care of… I don’t know how that happened, somehow she broke through my one way 4th wall… Anyways I guess back to my freaky dream…

“I don’t think I know you well enough to answer that,” I said, flashing her a nervous grin. Honestly, I was still a bit freaked out that she was in my pocket. Literally.

“Okie dokie lokie,” she said, giving me a big grin and hopping out of my coat pocket. She then clapped her forehooves together and said two words that again, blew me away. “Hit it,” she said, and she looked over to a DJ table, where… she… put… a…re…re…. WHAT!?! I double-taked, she was not only standing next to me looking at the DJ table, but she was also AT the DJ table, putting a record on. My mind snapped. It was something like a dam being smashed and the waters of insanity started pouring out.

“Right, here we go,” said the Pinkie at the table, giving the Pinkie next to me a quick wave, before putting the DJ headphones on. And the song she chose, surprisingly was one I was quite familiar with, Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO, now hold on while I shuffle.

Well, other than physics being thoroughly smashed to oblivion, and sanity being dealt with in such a way that Cthulhu himself would back away slowly at the sight, I had a fun enough time. After a while though, it felt like something was slowly heating my head up. Seriously, it was getting warmer, and I know it wasn’t my imagination, I was sweating! I mean really really sweating. I eventually couldn’t take it, and well… I woke up.

I awoke to the sun beaming on my face, threatening me with promises of making me very uncomfortable, no matter how much I tried to hide under my coat. I eventually rolled off the couch, and made my way to the bathroom. Good thing Harry was still sleeping, I didn’t feel like fighting for a shower this morning…

Retract to earlier last night

Celestia had just finished setting the sun, and Luna was working on raising the moon. She sighed, and made her way over to her den, which had a cozy little fire in a fireplace, and a neatly placed pillow on the floor. She walked over, and gently laid down on the pillow, and levitated a parchment and quill over, she always kept a small bottle of ink nearby, just in case. She dipped her quill in, and started writing a letter.

My Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle

I have a matter which requires the attention of you and your friends. Come to my palace at Canterlot, and I will explain this matter in detail upon your arrival. Since this is on such short notice, I am sending the train tickets, free of charge. Come at your earliest convenience.

Your teacher,

Princess Celestia

As the finished the letter, she laid the quill down, and rolled it up. After which, she proceeded to stamp it, and burn it with a magical green flame. The smoke of the scroll flew over, and out the chimney. She grinned, and proceeded to relax, enjoying the peace and quiet. Today was rather eventful to say the least, but its these moments that she loved and cherished.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a cloud of smoke that flew in front of her, and hovered for a minute before turning into a scroll, similar to the one she sent. She used her magic to open it, and its content read…

Dear Princess Celestia,

Of course, I’ll send a note to everypony, and we’ll be up there first thing in the morning. I don’t think Rainbow Dash is going to be able to make it, however, as she has that date with the Wonderbolts tomorrow. However, the rest of us will be in attendance, and I’ll bring Spike. He’s been begging me to bring him back up to Canterlot, says he forgot something important up there last time he visited. Anyways, can’t wait for tomorrow, it’ll be nice to see you again.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle

She almost face hoofed. She had completely forgotten about the first prize from the “Best Young Fliers Competition,” that prize being a day with the Wonderbolts, Equestria’s best aerial acrobatics team. She then let out a light sigh, scrawling a quick note on a small scrap of paper, basically stating “That’s fine, we’ll fill her in later.”

She then got up, and levitated her quill and put the stopper on her bottle of ink. After she got everything set the way she always does, she walked over and started getting into bed. “If these two are this weird after what they just went through, I can’t wait to see them in the morning,” she thought.

She slid into bed, and levitated the covers up, and slowly drifted off to sleep. Yes, tomorrow is going to be very interesting…

Back to morning time

I had just stepped out of the shower before I heard a series of loud knocking at the bathroom door. Ugh, of course, well, at least I finished washing up. I reached over to the rack and pulled a towel off with my mouth. Why my mouth? Well, kinda hard to pull something like a towel off with no fingers. Anyways, I flicked it up, and draped it perfectly around my neck.
The knocking intensified. I could tell because the door was actually moving this time.

“Alright alright, settle down, don’t get your feathers ruffled, I’ll be right out,” I said, walking towards the door. I managed to barely open it, before a certain blue maned, white coat pegasus squeezed in, shoved me out, and slammed the door shut. I blinked, not knowing how to rightly respond to being shoved out of a room in quite that manner.

With a resigned shrug, I began toweling off, which proved easier than I thought. After I was nice and dry, I wandered over, and slid into my coat. Ugh, these sleeves, I am gonna have to see if anyone can help with these, later. For now, however, I decided to walk over and open the window. The sun was just past the horizon, and was shining its bright yellow face at me. I would’ve said hi, but I was stopped when I felt a light tapping on my back. I wonder who that could be.

I spun around to see… nothing… huh, that’s weird. I looked around the room again, and didn’t find anything out of the ordinary. So, I slowly turned back to look out the window again. I felt that tapping again and I spun around, only faster this time. A-HA! Gotcha, I caught a glimpse of a single white feather drifting down from somewhere right above me. I look up to see Harry, flapping his wings, snickering quietly to himself.

He was distracted a bit so he didn’t see me look at him. I then decided to pull one on him, and spun around looking out the window again. This time, though, I focused on the reflection instead of the scenery. Once I saw he was getting ready to tap my back again, I jumped up, and got him in a headlock.

“HA, GOTCHA,” I shouted, ruffling his short blue mane up.

“Ahh, hey, QUIT IT,” Harry shouted back, trying to get loose from the grip I got around his head. After holding his head in the vice grip for a few seconds, I let go of him, and gave him a smug grin.

“And that, sir, is why you don’t mess with me,” I said, ending it with a quick wink. No homo.

Harry just rolled his eyes, and dropped out of the air, landing abruptly on his hooves. I hate my luck, of all the things I would like to do, flying would be the one thing my friend gets. And what do I get? A jacket. Well, in its defense it IS a very nice jacket. Well, more of a coat.

My thought were interrupted by a very beet red unicorn. Beet? Beat? Beet? Beat? I think beet, anyways, this guy was red. After about 3 seconds of thought, I realized we might’ve been a tad loud, and out of context, it could come off as a tad… dirty… Ugh, so far, not the best impression to put out there. I guess it can’t be helped now.

“Umm, sirs, the princesses require your presence in the dining hall,” he said, being careful not to look us in the eye. I tilted my head, trying to get him to look me in the eye, however, every time I almost succeed, he juked me and kept his eyes from mine. After a good 30 seconds or so of playing Curious Pony/Awkward Pony, I turned to Harry and shrugged.

“Well, I guess we could go see what these princesses want to talk about now,” I said, turning my head and raising a brow at the steward.

“And maybe they can show us where we can get something to eat, I’m starving,” Harry groaned, and almost as if it was queued, his stomach let loose a cavernous growl. Huh, interesting, I’m going to have to ask him about that when we get a break from this pony business.

“Well, lead the way, my good pony-sir,” I said, trotting over to the now recovering unicorn. Harry followed, and soon, we were on our way to the banquet hall.

On the way to breakfast, la la la~

“By the way, Harry, I have a question if you will indulge me,” I said, keeping my head focused straight ahead of me. I remembered yesterday, every time I didn’t pay attention to where I was going something bad happened. But not today, YOU HEAR ME, NOTHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME TODAY!

“How did you learn to fly like that?” I questioned. I guess he was expecting me to ask that, because he didn’t even hesitate with his answer.

“Heh, funny you should ask, I basically had a dream where this blue and rainbow colored pony taught me how to fly,” Harry said, letting a slight flush touch his face. Huh, so he had a weird pony related dream.

“You don’t say, well, I had a dream too, except the one I was talking to was pink and managed to be in two places at once,” I said, letting out a small yawn, like it wasn’t anything major. Honestly, I didn’t feel like a weirdo considering I wasn’t the only one who had a weird dream.

“Really? Oh, does that mean you can clone yourself,” Harry said, turning his head and facing me, stars shining in his eyes. Can I clone myself? What the heck kind of…

“No, we basically spent the entire night dancing to Party Rock Anthem,” I said, and I glanced over to see him deflate rather quickly.

“Aww, well if that’s all, then I guess that’s alright,” he said, all sad and everything. My word, was he really expecting me to clone myself after one dream? I rolled my eyes, and turned my attention to the front. After following the steward through the castle, we eventually came across two large doors, similar to the doors for the throne room.

The steward’s horn lit up, in an orange glow. The two of us practically tipped over, trying to get a better look at the glowing protrusion from the pony’s head. The doors started faintly glowing orange, and opened slowly.

“Whooooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh,” Harry and I gawked in unison as the dining hall was slowly revealed to us. It was amazing to put it lightly, pillars were placed as far from the center of the room as possible, and were evenly spaced. The room, like the rest of the castle, was marble white with gold ornamentation on the pillars. There were windows spaced on a good fourth of the wall on the right side of the room, whereas the left side had a smaller set of doors, possibly leading to a kitchen area of some kind.

Harry wasted no time, and promptly took off, giving a quick once around the room with his new wings. Jerk. I seriously think he did that just to spite me. While he was enjoying his new talent of flight, I surveyed the rest of the room. There was a large rectangular table, where the two princesses sat opposite of each other. Cute, sun and moon, and they can’t sit next to each other at a table. After noting the princesses, I brought my attention to the six bits of occupied space in between them, on one side of the table.

Going from left to right (Celestia to Luna, if you will), sat a purple unicorn. Her mane was a darker shade of purple, with a middle shade of purple and pink highlights in in her mane. She seemed to be enthralled in a book at the moment, and didn’t notice me, or my buddy circling overhead. Next to her was a purple and green lizard. Ehh, I was about to say he was cute, but when I thought it, he brought a gem up to his waiting mouth, and bit on it, with a startlingly loud crunch. Okay, so he was officially on my “Watch what you say around this one” list. Anything that can do something like eat gems, could probably chew through bone.

Next down the list is another unicorn, this one had a white coat, and a stylized dark purple mane. She had her eyes closed and was drinking from a tea cup. Her horn was glowing light blue all the while. Right, next one down the line vanished before I could get a good look at them. Moving on, there was a brown pony, wearing a cowboy hat. This one had a long blonde mane pulled into a tail… a pony with a pony tail… that is a good one, I have to write that one down.
Anyways the last one was a…oh…

I found myself instantly staring into light blue eyes, and all I heard was a voice talking to me, and it said.

“I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT! I knew I would meet somepony new today! My Pinkie sense was a-twitchin’ and a-itchin’ and when that happens, it means I’m gonna be meeting somepony new!” said the bottomless bowl of sugar that was Pinkie Pie. She threw her arms around my neck in a rather strong hug. Yes, I knew this one’s name, because she was exactly the same way in my dream.

“P.. pin… air…” I choked out, snapping back into reality. Yeah, oxygen deprivation does wonders to help you sober up.

“Oh, hehe, sorry,” she said, releasing her vice like grip from around my neck. I flopped on the ground, gasping for air. Harry finished his aerial laps about this time, and started laughing at the sight. I don’t blame him, but seriously, if he knew how surprised I was, he’d be laughing even harder.

“Ohhhhh boy, this is gonna be a looooooong day,” I muttered to myself, closing my eyes while trying to gather my thoughts. Pinkie began introducing herself to Harry, and I guess Harry was managing to keep conversation with her. How? I don’t know. I wasn’t gonna ask.

This morning, I was certain something was going to happen.

Boy, you can say that again, teehee!

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How do you keep DOING that!?!

Chapter 4: The Elements of WHAT-ony!?! Pt. 1

After picking myself up, Harry landed, and the three of us made our way over to the table. Harry and I sat opposite of the other 6. I was amazed by the spread laid before us, a variety of different foods. I really didn’t care about variety, I found a few pieces of fruit, and some kind of pastry, with what I assumed were apples inside.

After placing my newly acquired food on my plate, I turned to Celestia, and was about to ask who these new faces were before I heard her beat me to the punch.

“David, I bet you’re wondering who these ponies are, in front of you,” She said, giving me one of those “I knew you were gonna ask that” smiles. I hate it when people can read my mind.

“Ehh, yeah, I am, and I’m sure Harry is as well,” I said, turning over to see my friend already stuffing his face with some of the bounty spread before us. I sighed and turned back to Celestia, and flashed an uneasy grin. It wouldn’t take a mind reader to know why, Harry was chewing as audibly as possible, so everyone in attendance could hear him.

“Yes, well, I think I’ll let them introduce themselves,” Celestia said, levitating a cup of tea up to her mouth. She had just started to take a sip when the purple unicorn spoke up.

“Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle, it’s a pleasure to meet you two,” she said, giving a warm smile. Honestly, I was about to take a bite of one of the pears on my plate, but I retreated and let out a snicker when I heard her name.

“What’s wrong, was it something I said,” Twilight asked, a worried look now gracing her face.

“Oh, nothing, back where we come from, there is a book series about a vampire, but instead of having the usual weakness of burning in the sunlight, he sparkles, and the first book in the series is called ‘Twilight’” I said, letting out another small snicker. She didn’t understand, and I never read the series, myself. I only know that it was in production to be made into a movie back on Earth.

After her, the little lizard was the next to speak up. You know, other than the fact he was eating gems like hard candy, he woulda come off as almost cute. Almost, not quite, but almost.

“The name’s Spike and I’m a dragon,” Spike said, puffing his chest out. Okay, so he’s a dragon. He looks like a lizard, so sue me if that was my first impression. I decided now would be a good time to get a quick bite in, while we wait for his ego to deflate.

“And I am Rarity, and I must say it is an honor to meet one with such an… interesting sense of fashion,” said the white unicorn, gesturing at my coat with a hoof. I honestly couldn’t tell if she was being serious, of if she was trying to not offend me.

“Uhh, thanks, I guess…” I managed to spit out, swallowing down yet another bite of my pear. I honestly didn’t think I’d get any mention about the coat.

“It’s definitely unique, to say the least,” she said, giving me a forced smile.

“Dude, she’s totally hitting on you,” Harry said, loud enough for everyone to hear, and it brought an awkward silence, followed by Rarity splashing the rest of her tea on Harry, and storming out of the room.

“I think you made her angry,” I whispered to Harry, stifling my laughter for later.

“I…” Harry managed to get out before Spike got up, and ran after her, after giving my tea stained friend a very angry glare.

“I apologize for my friend, in advance,” I said, motioning for Harry to dry the tea up before it becomes his new coat color.

“Heh, it’s fine, I’m sure she woulda got all bent outta shape about somethin’ else, ah’m sure, th' name’s Applejack, and I run Sweet Apple Acres,” said the brown pony with the cowboy hat. She was smirking at us. Well, less at “us” and more at the tea coated pegasus currently dab-drying himself.

At this point, I saw a little yellow triangle on the edge of the table, where the empty chair was. The triangle slowly rose up, revealing part of the head of yet another pony. Her coat was a pale yellow, and her mane was pink. I almost thought she was hiding behind it because it was covering most of her face. The only part we saw clearly was her right eye, and it was on the verge of being covered by the mass of pink.

“Uhh… mm… y-you s-s-should go apologize, if you don’t mind, t-that is, umm,” she stammered out. Barely audible, especially in the room we were in.

“Say again,” Harry and I said, leaning across the table. This was the last straw, because when we did that, she immediately dropped down and started hiding under the table again. We sat back and I sighed. Harry shrugged, unsure as of what to do.

“Wait here, I’ll be right back,” I said, and before anyone could ask what I was gonna do, I dropped under the table, and started crawling over to the scared yellow pony. On my way over, I noticed she had wings, and her flank had a mark of 3 butterflies.

“Hey, what’s the matter, is it something we said,” I questioned, trying to invoke an answer from the cowering pegasus. She wimpered, and didn’t even look me in the eye.

“Come on now, it’s not like we’re going to chew your face off or anything,” I said, giving her a quick smile. Wrong choice of words, as she immediately backpedaled away from me, and ran behind one of the pillars. I looked around, and had 3 sets of eyes looking at me, under the table.

“Oh, don’t mind her, Fluttershy is always like this around new ponies,” Twilight said plainly. Well, it would’ve helped to know that earlier, oh well, guess I’ll have to add that to the list of things I have to apologize for later.

I sighed, and decided to climb back into my seat and resume the meal. However, something didn’t feel quite right. I couldn’t place my hoof on it. Something was… missing…

“PINKIE PIE, AWAY,” Harry and I spun around to see the pink mare loaded into a cannon, just as the fuse finished burning. In the next instant, she was launched out of the cannon and landed right into us, laying us onto the table, and into a good portion of the food.

“What just happened,” Harry said, turning to look at the pink pony, whose right foreleg was wrapped around his neck (guess where her other leg was, and no, not anyplace dirty. Rule 34 can bite me, we aren’t running that kind of show here.)

“Hee hee, well silly, it’s not every day we get to meet somepony new, and I figured that you were a prankster of some kind, and if you’re a prankster, that means you and me might be able to hang out, and if we hang out, we can definitely play some awesome pranks on everyone,” she said, taking a quick bite out of one of the pastries that she didn’t absolutely destroy.

I was too stunned to say anything. Not only did she just choke me out a few minutes ago, but she just shot herself out of a cannon at me AND my friend. This was just a bit too strange for my tastes. Also, how did she get the cannon?

I never leave home without my party cannon, silly.

You don’t say.

I don’t?

Do you?

I do?

…

Yeah, anyways…

In the hallway

“How dare he make such an assumption,” Rarity fumed, storming up and down the hall. “How dare he, of all the accusations I’ve had to suffer through, his was just the most infuriating, insensitive, and flat out rudest of them all!”

“Oh, it’s okay, Rarity, I’m sure he’s regretting it right now, and is just trying to find a way to apologize to you right now,” Spike said, trying to comfort the distraught mare.

“I doubt it, but it’s nice of you to think so, Spike,” Rarity said, relaxing her posture, some. She took a deep breath, before turning to look at the baby dragon. Spike gave her a reassuring smile, and she just couldn’t stay mad. Reluctantly, she decided she would head back to the dining hall, and join her friends there.

“Spike, I’m heading back to the dining hall, I suddenly have a strong need for a cup of tea,” she said, turning to head back towards the very room she wanted to get away from.

“Sure thing, Rarity,” Spike said, and without losing his grin, followed the unicorn down the hall.

Back to the breakfast

“Well, I suppose that’s one way to introduce yourself,” I said, giving Pinkie a nervous look. She nodded vigorously at me, before bouncing around the table, somehow shaking off all the bits of food that clung to her mane and body.

Harry leaned in close and whispered,” She scares me, is she always gonna be like this,” I turned to look him in the face. He wasn’t joking, his face had a mask of pure terror as his eyes followed the pink mare on her path around the room.

“Uhh… I think it would be safe to assume ‘yes,’” I said, remembering how she was in my dream the night before. Honestly, I think she might’ve had too much candy this morning, but I don’t see how anything can eat that much before noon. I rubbed my head with my hoof before turning to face Celestia.

Her eyes were wide as they followed the hyperactive pink mare’s bouncing. Obviously whatever Pinkie does, worries her to some degree.

“Hey, Celestia, I have a question,” I said, thrusting my hoof into the air, like we used to do in school. It was a habit I couldn’t drop since then. Yeah, you can only imagine how awkward it gets at social gatherings. Anyways, she snapped out of her trance, and turned to me, trying to forget the random display that had just happened moments before.

“Ehh, yes, what is it,” she replied, trying to find the strength to smile, but having it come up short as her eyes kept flicking back and forth from Pinkie to me.

“I don’t think you brought these ladies here for our benefit, at least not entirely, so if you don’t mind me asking, and I don’t mean any offense by this, but, who exactly are they,” I stumbled over the question, I didn’t throw enough thought in it to make much sense, as she then focused on me, ignoring the pink pony as she made her 6th or so lap around the room.

“What do you mean, my little pony,” she asked, worry on her face replaced by confusion. Yeah, this is gonna take some rewording… Also, 'my little pony,' something like that didn't sit right with me, but I couldn't place my...hoof... on it at the time.

“Well, I mean no offense by this, but this is the strangest group I’ve seen in ever, and I have to ask, what brings them together and why bring them here, to meet two complete strangers,” I said, hoping that this one made a bit more sense. Luckily it did, as she regained her posture.

“Well…” she said.

“Oh boy, story time!” Pinkie shouted abruptly from across the room. She then sped around the room, rearranging the seats, and moving the table aside. We now caught ourselves sitting in a circle, with Celestia and Luna sitting at the head. Following around it from Luna’s side, sat Applejack, Fluttershy, Harry, Myself, Pinkie, Rarity’s empty chair, Spike’s empty chair, and Twilight. Pinkie then took her seat next to me, and pulled a bag of popcorn out from under her seat.

“Okay, continue,” said the hyperactive pink mare, tossing a couple pieces of popcorn into her mouth. Okay, that was the coolest thing I’ve seen yet.

About this time, we heard the doors open, and everyone turned to see a certain white unicorn, with a small purple and green dragon next to her.

Ahhhhh crap, just when it was settling down, too…

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Author’s Note: Okay, this chapter was a tad hard to write. Now, be gentle, I tried to get everyone’s personality right, but I had some real life stuff going on that kind of distracted me. Instead of having this as one big chapter, I’ve decided I’m gonna make this a 2 parter, or maybe 3, I don’t know, we’ll have to see. Anyways… I hope you all enjoy, and if you don’t at least wait until about noon before you show up with the torches and pitchforks.

Chapter 5: The Elements of WHAT-ony!?! Pt. 2

“Uhh, Harry, did you think of an apology, yet,” I inquired, curious as to if he was going to do something I would never expect.

“Uhh, no, no I haven’t,” Harry said, eyes still glued to the unicorn standing in the doorway.

Ahhhhhhhh, well, it was a nice thought while it lasted. However, I doubt we were going to last long if someone like Rarity stayed mad at us. Well, him specifically, I didn’t do anything wrong that I know of. What to do what to do, I could let her chew him out, and be done with it like that, or I could apologize for him… hmm… I dunno, which would work better?

Ohh ohh, pick me!

No.

C’moooooooooon, pick me pick me pick meeeeeeeeeee!

Absolutely not.

Pickmepickmepickmepickmepickmepickmepickmepickmepickme.

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“You owe me big for this,” I whispered to Harry, and before he could ask why, I slid out of my chair and started making my way across the room.

Okay, now, how best to break this to her… I doubt she’d believe poetry would come from him, seeing as the last thing she heard wasn’t very… subtle. I could note her looks, and somehow link it to his behavior. That might actually work, but what if she calls me on it? No no no, can’t think like that, besides, I’m sure I can come up with something on the spot if she were to try. How to present it? Easy, she obviously thinks herself nobility, judging from her mannerisms. I got it, now to reveal my master plan.

I stopped right in front of her, and without hesitation, I bent one of my legs, and rested my knee upon the floor, while at the same time lowering my head, and closing my eyes.

“Lady Rarity, forgive my friend’s earlier rudeness, he was struck by your beauty so bad, he lost all rational thought, and began blurting out any random thing that would pop in his head,” I said, trying to sound as respectful as possible.

Everyone behind me gasped. Rarity didn’t say anything at first, however, I had the feeling she was boring a hole through my head all the while. It took every ounce of my willpower to not break this pose.

“That, makes sense, however, why doesn’t he just say this himself, if he were truly this sorry,” Rarity said, skepticism dancing heavily on her words.

Oh crap, think think think… I got it!

“He was afraid that if he were to try to apologize, he would lose control of his thoughts and say the wrong thing, again,” I said plainly. Come on… take it…

“I… suppose that makes sense, just make sure he controls his tongue, I might not be so understanding next time,” she said, letting out a brief sigh.

YES! You sir, deserve a cookie! Now, bring her on, home!

“That is very generous of you, now, I’m sure you have questions, if you come this way, we have your seats ready and waiting,” I brought myself up from the floor, and side-stepped, revealing the circle of chairs. I caught a glance in the corner of my eye, everyone was staring at us.

“Why thank you, sir,” Rarity said, giving a slight bow, and trotted off to join her friends.

I was just about to turn to follow her, when I felt something kick me in the knee. OW! Okay, that actually kind of hurt. I glanced down to see a very upset dragon fuming at me. Puffs of smoke escaped his nostrils, and it suddenly got 20 degrees warmer in this part of the room.

“You better watch yourself, buddy,” Spike said, before storming off to join everyone else. Honestly, I didn’t expect that to happen. I felt like there was a story I wasn’t quite reading, but I shrugged it off, and walked across the room, taking the last open spot in the circle of chairs.

While David was apologizing…

“What do you think he’s going over to say,” a curious Twilight asked, not sure of David’s motives.

“Ah’m not sure, sugar cube,” Applejack replied, tilting her head in thought was what the green earth pony could possibly be thinking of.

“Shhhhhhhhh, it’s coming,” Pinkie said, waving her hooves in their direction, but not taking her eyes off the scene in front of her. Everyone poked their heads up and tried to listen in on the conversation. They strained their ears to hear what was being said.

They gasped, this couldn’t be the same pony they had met just a few minutes ago, could it? He sounded different. His voice, his vocabulary, everything they thought they knew about him changed in the short time it took for him to cross the room. Even the princesses were shocked at how fast he gathered himself.

“Wow, he is goooooood,” Pinkie said, leaning on the back of her chair. Everyone else was just too stunned to speak.
They listened to the conversation, taking in every word that was said, but paying special attention to the stallion showing the best manners that anyone had seen from the two new ponies. When he turned and let Rarity pass, to get to her seat, they all blinked, and sat back down.

The princesses were the first to regain their composure, followed by Twilight and Applejack, and finally Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Harry. By the time Rarity got over, everyone had gathered themselves, and tried not to stare at the now smiling unicorn.

Spike and David followed shortly after, a trail of smoke following them across the room. Spike jumped into his seat, and crossed his arms, letting a huge puff of black smoke blow out, before calming down enough to stop the haze from escaping. David just slid into his seat, and began rubbing his leg.

Anyways, Story time!

Celestia cleared her throat before looking to see if she had everyone’s attention. Everyone broke their attention from Rarity, Spike, and David to look at the awaiting princess.

“Now, I think in order to answer your question, we must go back into our history,” Celestia said, giving a slight pause to glance at her sister. Luna nodded, and Celestia turned back, and resumed her explanation, story, whatever you’d want to call it.

“This story starts over a thousand years ago, Luna and I ruled over Equestria,” She said, puffing her wings out for emphasis.

“Whoah whoah whoah, hold up a second, you mean to tell me you’re over one thousand years old,” Harry asked, obviously not buying the whole immortal goddess shtick. I face palmed… err, hoofed…

“Well, yes, you see our lives are tied directly to the sun and the moon, and as long as they exist, so do we,” Celestia said ‘as a matter of fact’-ly… Great, he goes from hitting on them yesterday, to putting them on the verge of making us combust, or send us to a dark horrible nightmare world, or both…

“Yeah, well-MMPH!” Harry got out, before I crammed my free hoof in his mouth.

“Not now, anyways, please, continue princess,” I said, looking up from my hoof and giving her a ‘please don’t hurt us’ look. She nodded, and continued the tale.

“Anyways, about one thousand years ago, Luna became corrupted by jealousy and neglect, and became a dark entity known as ‘Nightmare Moon,’ and tried to bring about eternal night,” Celestia said, keeping her tone serious, and holding her gaze to focus the story to me and my friend. I was almost spellbound by it, Harry, less so…

“So, this ‘Nightmare Moon,’ I guess she didn’t succeed, right,” I asked, inadvertently swallowing from suspense.

“No, she didn’t, because I harnessed the Elements of Harmony, a powerful artifact that sealed her away in the moon,” My eyes widened. Okay, so they have two goddesses that move the sun and moon, and an artifact that can pretty much lock you into a spot for a century… umm… wow?

“But, the legend around her went that on the thousandth year of her imprisonment, on the longest day, the stars would aid in her escape,” Celestia’s tone turned grim. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. There’s always a catch, isn’t there?

“And that day was the day of the Summer Sun Festival,” chimed Twilight. Harry and I glanced over to her, nodding in unison.

“Uh-huh… so what umm… what happened then?” we asked in unison.

Sparing you the details, they recounted their meeting one another, and the journey to the old castle in a place called the “Everfree Forest.” Twilight, AJ, and Pinkie told of the various trials that they went through along the way. I would never of thought that Fluttershy would have the courage to stand up to a manticore, when she ran away from me just a little while ago. But who am I to question what did and didn’t happen then?

“And then we all got there, and Dashie and Fluttershy flew up and got the orbs, and Twilight was all “I’m gonna use mah magic” and we were all like “okie dokie” and then Nightmare Moon came and we were all *GASP!* and then her and Twilight disappeared in a flash of light like all “poosh” and then we all ran to one of the towers where we heard Nightmare Moon laughing, and then when we got there, we were all “Grr” and then the orbs flew up and were all “pewewewewew” and then we had these necklaces, and then Twilight went all glowey and was all “Pooooooouuuwwwwww” and then we all shot light from our necklaces and it was all “Pooooosh” and then it hit Nightmare Moon like “BOOOOOFFFFFF” and she was all “Noooooooo!” and we were all like “Yay, we did it!” and then Celestia came out and her and Luna hugged and we were all “Awwwww” and we went back and had a big PARTY!” Pinkie said, acting out every little detail as she hit them. Really nice touch, even making sound effects! I give her an A+ for presentation AND going the extra mile for sound effects…

We all sat there, that is until I decided to get up and start clapping. Everyone looked at me with the biggest wave of confusion on their faces. After a few seconds of being stared at, I stopped and sat back down.

“Sorry, but that was a very good story, and assuming it’s all true, that is,” I said, giving a small smile.

“Well, believe it or not, it happened,” Twilight said, rolling her eyes at me. By this time, Spike had changed his posture completely. What had begun as an angry, cross armed, glaring demeanor quickly changed to one of amazement and wonder as the story was told. He was there for some of it, but when it went into the forest, his face wheeled and changed drastically.

“I hope that answers your question, David,” Celestia said, offering me a warm smile. I couldn’t really reply, my brain was still trying to fully wrap around the whole thing. Eventually I nodded, and almost shut everything else down to think.

“David, I have a question, if you don’t mind,” said a slightly concerned Rarity. I snapped back to reality and whipped my head back and forth a couple times, getting a quick look at my surroundings. Same as it was.

“Oh, right, yes,” I stumbled on my tongue as I was overloaded for a moment. After calming down, I gave Rarity a quick nod and listened for her question.

“Well, it’s just that, you don’t seem like you’re from around here, where do you come from,” Rarity beamed at me. Oh boy, here it comes. I opened my mouth to speak before someone cut me off.

“He doesn’t have to answer that, just know that they come from very far away, and they’re stuck here for the time being,” Celestia told everyone.

“Oh my, you poor things,” We heard Fluttershy chirp out. However, it still sounded like she was whispering. Oh well, as long as she wasn’t cowering from us, I guess that’s a start.

“Yeah, and we don’t have any money on us,” I said grinning sheepishly and patting my coat pockets. I looked around to see some confused faces staring back at me. What did I say wrong now?

“They don’t understand the word, you see, our currency here is ‘bits’ and we don’t usually call it money, we just use its name,” Celestia said, telepathically. Okay, that was just not fair, I don’t know how to thank her back without looking like one of the crazies you’d see arguing with an orange slice.

I looked at her and she gave me a sly wink back. Wait, did she hear my thoughts? That’s all I had to do? Ugh, now I feel like a total dunce.

“Just relax, you’re handling this better than I would expect,” I heard in my head again. Thanks, I guess? Oh well guess I got some confusion to clear up.

“Did I say ‘money’, I meant bits, yeah, we’re kinda dirt poor at the moment,” I said, rubbing the back of my head. Well, we just changed one set of problems for another.

“Well we can’t just send you out into the world, without anywhere to go, and without a bit to your names, come, we shall let you stay with us down in Ponyville, until you get a place of your own, and a job, of course,” Rarity offered, instantly getting up, and making an offering gesture with her fore hooves.

Wait, Ponyville? Did she really just say Ponyville?

Yeah, don’t worry, everypony down there is super-duper nice!

No, it’s not that, it’s just, the name sounds pretty funny, hahaha!

What’s so funny about it?

Hahaha, ahhhh, don’t worry about it.

Ooooookay… OH! You know what this means right?

What? What does it mean?

If you come down to Ponyville, that means I can throw you a super duper huge “Welcome to Ponyville” party! I’ll invite everypony in town and it’ll be great!

Oh. Joy.
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Author’s Note: Pinkie scares me. Anyways, sorry about the end. I would’ve had it go longer, but these two chapters were really just supposed to introduce our main characters to the mane 6… err mane 5/6’s. Anyways, the next chapter will be coming along shortly, and will be longer than these two were.

Chapter 6: Step One, Location!

“Uhh… I guess that works, I mean, I honestly don’t know how Celestia and Luna would feel having two strangers running around unchecked but if it’s alright with them,” I said, unsure of how the whole thing is going to play out.

“Nonsense, darling, you haven’t anywhere else to go, and you can’t stay in the castle, I mean no offence, but you aren’t exactly nobility material,” Rarity remarked. I should probably be offended, but right now, I was overwhelmed by her offer of letting us stay with her. I looked to the princesses, who shrugged it off.

“It’s fine, you won’t be that far from us, and Twilight is a student of mine, and we keep in touch so if anything goes wrong, we’ll be right there,” Celestia said, flashing me a big smile that screamed ‘haha, you’re gonna get it now.’ Oh god help me, if I get out of this, I am going to get you back for this.

“But ah, you’re a lady, I wouldn’t feel right taking advantage of your ahem… hospitality,” I stammered, please, something, anything, get me out of this! I looked over at Twilight. She had found her book and proceeded to read it, while we were sorting out this not so minor detail. Pinkie was just giggling to herself, and Fluttershy was nowhere to be found. I assumed she was hiding again, but I had no clue as to where. Applejack was my only hope. Pleeeeeeaaaaaaase, help me!

“Ah’m sorry, pard’ner, but Rar’ here is right, it wouldn’t be decent of us to have you roamin’ the streets without anyplace to say,” Applejack said firmly. I wanted to just curl up in the corner and hide, this possibly couldn’t get any worse.

“David, we honestly have nowhere else to go, I say we stay with them, at least until we can get a place of our own,” Harry offered. Crap, three to one, not the best odds…

“Fine, fine, we’ll play your game,” I said, slouching in my seat. I was at a loss, I’m not used to this kind of hospitality. Then again, that wasn’t the only thing I wasn’t used to, I heard them use words I had never experienced before.

“But, we aren’t playing a game,” I heard suddenly. I snapped my head around to see Twilight staring at me from her book. She was listening in? That is some serious multitasking.

“I know it’s just an expression, Twilight,” I said, rolling my eyes and turning back to Rarity. “Fine, but now I have to ask, can we get back to breakfast,” I asked, realizing I haven’t had anything but a few bites of fruit so far.

“Here ya go,” Pinkie jumped out of the corner of my eye, holding a plate with an apple fritter, and a few apple slices.

“Oh, thanks,” I said, perking up slightly, accepting the plate of food with a small smile. Hey, it’s food, and everyone knows food makes everything better.

Yeah, especially cake!

You know, you’re right, cake makes everything better.

“Well, when you’re finished, you all are free to go, I just wanted to let you lot in on our new guests,” Celestia said with a wink. She then proceeded to get up and make her way out of the room.

“Princess Celestia, where are you going,” asked a slightly confused Twilight. She had closed her book again, but kept it nearby.

“Oh, running a kingdom is busy work, I’m actually surprised our time together didn’t get interrupted,” Celestia sighed, and her posture slacked a bit. Huh, guess it isn’t easy to rule a kingdom anywhere. She turned to Luna and, wordlessly, Luna got up, and made her way over with her sister.

“Well, I bid you all farewell, and you two, try to keep out of trouble, okay,” Celestia asked, beaming a look back at Harry and me. I stopped halfway through my fritter, and just stared back, not sure entirely what she meant by that. I didn’t get a chance to ask before they left the room, and shut the door behind them.

I slowly proceeded to finish my breakfast for the second time now. Harry managed to strike up conversation with Applejack, something about one of the ponies mentioned in the story, Rainbow Dash. He might’ve been asking where she was, but I was too engrossed with my food to catch every word. Pinkie had a length of paper, and a quill, and was making a list of some kind. This was the first time I saw her doing something other than talk faster than the speed of sound.

Rarity and Spike had started talking about gems, and something about clothes. I didn’t think anything about it at the time, but with hindsight, I probably should’ve asked. Twilight went back to her book, and Fluttershy made her way back, and now sat nervously in her chair.

This scene played for at least a good couple of minutes while I finished my breakfast. Yeah, I know, relatively uneventful, but I was hungry, and we already had story time.

A few minutes later…

“Okay, so, where to now, ladies,” I said, walking over to the table and setting my now empty plate down.

“Now, we catch the train back home,” Twilight said, closing her book once more, and sliding it into a bag, which she then secured around her torso.

“There’s a train,” Harry asked, almost in disbelief. I couldn’t blame him, I had a hard time imagining a bunch of ponies trying to make a train.

“Oh yeah, don’t worry, it isn’t so bad once you get used to it,” Spike said, standing up and giving a nice big stretch. I got up and shuffled in my coat, trying to get it to rest comfortably on my body. After making sure my coat wasn’t causing me any discomfort, I did a quick lap around my chair, making sure my legs weren’t asleep. Fortunately they weren’t, and I couldn’t have been happier. That is until Harry decided to do the same thing, but flying.

“Show off,” I muttered under my breath. Apparently this was loud enough to illicit a giggle from Twilight, who was now next to me.

Applejack and Fluttershy came over towards me and Twilight, stopping right in front of us.

“Right, well if we’re gonna git back ‘fore lunch, we’d better be on our way,” said the cowgirl. Harry must’ve keyed in on the word “lunch” because he stopped halfway around the room, and bolted straight for us.

“Did someone say lunch,” he asked, making his landing right in front of us. I couldn’t help but laugh, of all the things he’d have to key on, it’d be about food.

“One thing at a time, sir, we still have to get back to town,” Rarity said, making her way over, with Spike happily trailing behind her. Once he got over, he walked over, and hopped on Twilight, like how you’d see cowboys do in rodeos.

“Well what’re we waiting for, let’s get going,” Spike said enthusiastically, pointing to the door. I saw Twilight shake her head before we made our way out. Well, at least we’re getting somewhere.

At the Train Station

“What what what WHAT,” I exclaimed in disbelief. I caught a glimpse of the train we were taking, and didn’t like the look of it. It looked like a candy train, held together with icing… How did this work? Are we going to eat the train when we get off?

That’d be de-LICIOUS!

Yeah, but not very safe. What if it rains?

That isn’t gonna happen, rain isn’t scheduled until Friday!

Oh, well if that’s the case then… Wait a minute…

“Don’t worry, it’s safe, I promise,” Twilight said reassuringly. She then proceeded to show the pony in the ticket booth her round trip tickets, and purchased two one ways for Harry and myself. Great, another thing I’m going to have to make up to her.

“There, whenever you guys are ready,” she said, turning and boarding the train. Everyone else immediately followed her. I, however, was the only one who didn’t jump at the chance to ride the candy train. I, eventually, worked up the nerve to board, and sit down between Harry and Applejack. The ride was relatively quiet, which was fine by me, but I was worried because Pinkie hadn’t said anything in a while. And it was frightening for me, because she was talkative not too long ago.

I was about ready to check and see if there was anything I should know about Ponyville beforehand… or ‘beforehoof’, i don't know, seems kinda punny… That is, until we came around a bend, and gave me a view of the valley below us. It was breathtaking, great big open fields, and a great view of the town that was to be our temporary home. Even from this far away, I could see movement in the small town below. Breaking my sight from the town, I saw what looked like a forest, but more spread out and calculated, like someone intended on growing the massive stretch of trees.

Dancing around the sight some more, I noticed a few other places of interest, a mass of clouds, which I later learned was the house of Rainbow Dash, and a real forest, the Everfree, I guess… unless there was some other forest I wasn’t told about. It was all just stunning, well, until night I guess, but I don’t intend on spending time out at night in the woods.
Ponyville Train Station

When we got there, I gave silent thanks that nothing bad happened. As we got off, however, Pinkie just exploded.

“OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHSOMUCHTODOGOTTAHURRYGOTTAHURRY,” and about as quickly as she spewed that one line out, she was gone in a pink blur. Harry sat there stunned in her wake, I however, was expecting something like that to happen, and let out a light chuckle.

“You gonna be alright there, champ,” I asked, smirking at his still reeling form. He just nodded, before he came to, and realized his jaw was on the ground. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

“Don’t worry ‘bout her, she’s prolly off plannin’ a big welcomin’ party fer the both of ya,” Applejack said, before turning away from us. “Anyways, ah’d better be getting’ back to the farm, y’all take care now, and welcome to Ponyville,” Applejack said, as she began making her way through town.

“Right, well, where do we go from here,” I asked the remaining ponies.

“Well, I have to get back to the library, its over near the edge of town, stop by if you get the chance later,” Twilight said, before thrusting a hoof at a tree near the edge of town. Upon closer inspection, I sat that it had windows, a balcony, and possibly a telescope? Interesting, I’ll have to remember where it is so I can visit later.

"R-r-right, well, I-I’d better get b-back, I’m sure Angel is worried sick,” Fluttershy said in her whispering voice. Wait…

“I’m sorry, who’s ‘Angel,’” I blurted out. Oh crap, I just said the in my head thing out loud.

“Oh, Angel is my pet bunny, you’d like him, he’s really sweet,” Fluttershy said, perking up a bit.

“Maybe later, right now, I’d like to see where we’ll be staying for a while, umm, where do you live, exactly,” I pondered, before getting a yellow hoof in a direction away from town. Off in the distance, I could see a small cottage with little bunnies and stuff runnin’ around, oh it was sooooo cute. I mean uhh… whatever.

“C-come by whenever you want, umm, I mean, umm,” Fluttershy said, suddenly stumbling over her invitation. Harry chuckled, before moving over right next to her.

“Don’t worry, we’ll knock first,” he said, giving Fluttershy a sly wink. I facehoofed, what in the world Harry, that didn’t even make any sense. Fluttershy just gave a quick yelp before backing away from him, earning another light chuckle.

“Right, well, we’d best get you two situated, before you frighten her all the way home,” Twilight said, rolling her eyes. I nodded, and gave Harry a quick, but light punch to the shoulder.

“C’mon Romeo, we’d best get you inside before you somehow make someone else mad at you,” I irritably said to the playful pegasus. I know I’m going to regret that later, but for now, I’m anxious to see where we’ll be staying.

“Yes, if you two will kindly follow me, we’ll be back to the boutique in no time,” Rarity said with a flourish.

“Alright, well, see you later, Rarity,” Twilight said, giving a quick wave goodbye to the hoity toity unicorn.

“Yes, umm, goodbye Rarity,” Fluttershy said, more a squeak than a sentence, but still somewhat audible.
And just like that, we were off into our first great adventure, TO THE… wait, did she say we were going to a boutique?

Beds, Baths, and Boutiques

We arrived at a place called “Carousel Boutique.” It was… well… not unexpected given that its owner is Rarity. Still, it was just so…… girly… I felt my eye twitch just from looking at it.

“Yes well, please excuse the mess, I haven’t had a chance to tidy up,” Rarity said, opening the door, revealing a large room that was full of pony shaped mannequins, and bolts of fabric strewn about like kids on the last day of spring break. Everything was in disarray, at least to me.

I saw something dart at me from the corner of my eye. Instinctively I closed my eyes, expecting something to hit me, claw me, rush past me, or make me fall on my face. Instead, I felt a gentle rubbing against my legs. I slowly opened one eye, and glanced down to see an obscenely fluffy, white cat brushing against my legs. Upon closer inspection, I noticed it had a purple bow in its hair, and a collar with 5 gems in it, 2 smaller gems on each side of one larger gem.

“Opalescence, these are our guests, contain yourself,” Rarity said, shocked at the display of affection between the walking pillow, and one of her new acquaintances. The cat responded with a quick hiss, and resumed stroking herself against me legs. I had cats back home, and they all loved me to death, but this… I don’t even.

“Aww, c’mere you,” I heard Harry say, before he tried to pick the cat up. What came next was inevitable.
The cat saw his advance, and proceeded to lunge at him, and latch onto his head, and scratch furiously at her would be assailant. Harry reeled back and tried to pluck the cat off, but every time he did, he earned more swipes from Opal, and this continued for a good 10 seconds before Rarity decided to put a stop to it.

“Opal, no,” Rarity cried out, quickly lighting her horn in a light blue aura, and making the cat levitate off of the now scratch covered pony. “Are you alright,” Rarity said, convinced that Opal wasn’t going to hurt Harry anymore.

“Ow, why did he hurt me,” Harry said, examining and massaging some of his wounds. I snickered quietly to myself, Harry finally ran into something that didn’t quite agree with him.

“Well, SHE didn’t mean to, and she’s SORRY, isn’t that right, Opal,” Rarity said, now looking sternly at the cat. This earned her a huff and a disinterested look.

I trotted over, and brought a hoof up to the floating cat. She seemed to approve of me, and let me stroke her coat a few times, before deciding that it was enough. I then proceeded to enter the large main room of the shop. Whoah, this seemed a lot smaller from the outside. I heard hoofsteps coming from behind me. Shortly after, Harry and Rarity stood next to me.

“Yes, home sweet home, let me show you two where you’ll be staying,” Rarity said, before turning to lead us up a flight of stairs. I nodded and began to follow. Opal was put in what appeared to be a cage on the other side of the room.

“Uhh, do you have something for these cuts,” asked a slightly concerned Harry.

“I believe I have something in the bathroom upstairs, come, I’ll get you fixed up after we show you your room,” Rarity said, without even breaking her stride. That was some trick, talking to someone without even slowing down.

“Oh, okay then,” Harry said reluctantly, before sluggishly trailing behind us.

Once we got upstairs, she began showing us the floor. Simple layout for the hallway, first door on the right was hers, first one on the left was the bathroom, second on the right was a spare bedroom, the one she was letting us use, and the second on the left was a laundry room.

“Here is your room, you may take a moment to get situated, I’ll tend to your friend’s ahem… wounds,” she said, stifling a laugh. Harry just rolled his eyes, and they both went back to the bathroom to get him fixed up. I took this time to examine the room. Simple enough layout, a window, a bed, an armoire, and for some reason a pony mannequin in the far right corner.
I took my coat off and placed it on the mannequin, figuring it was there for just that reason. I proceeded to sit on the bed and look out the window. Silence fell over the room, I took a deep breath, relaxing knots I didn’t realize I had. I had just begun to close my eyes until I heard a familiar voice.

“OW, hey, watch it, that hurts,” I heard Harry cry from the bathroom.

“Oh relax, it’ll feel better after a bit,” I heard Rarity snap back at her ahem… ‘patient.’

I let out a light chuckle before getting up and walking over to open the window. Ahh, such a nice breeze. You know, I wouldn’t mind spending at least some time here, something just… I don’t know.

“Hey, mister, what’re you doing in my sister’s house,” I heard a voice call out from outside. Whuh? Sister?

I glanced down to see another white unicorn, similar to Rarity, but instead had a set of green eyes, and pink and purple mane. Oh, and she was smaller, but that could’ve been from my point of view from the second story window.
I eyed the unicorn suspiciously before calling out to Rarity.

“Hey Rarity, someone’s here to see you, something about a sister, I dunno,” I said, keeping my eyes locked on the newcomer.

I heard something crash in the bathroom, before I heard some strange yelping noises. I imagined Rarity dumping a bottle of disinfectant all over Harry, and him rolling around on the floor from the overwhelming burning sensation that would come from it. I chuckled, before disregarding my situation and falling over, grabbing my stomach, laughing uncontrollably.

Shortly after my cackling crusade had ended, I heard a pair of hoofsteps coming up the stairs… down the hallway… and stopping at the still open door. And there stood one Rarity, and one little white/pink/purple unicorn.

Oh, this is going to be fun.

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Author’s Note: Sorry this chapter took so long, had a bit of writer’s block, and couldn’t think of how to proceed. I’m going to start introducing some plot twists for our 2 humans, and one will involve the 3 fillies we know and love as the CMC. Anyways, let’s make 3 lines now, one for Angry, one for Livid, and one for “Those who want to wring my neck.” Please stay with your line and wait for your number to be called. (Brian Regan said that, if you recognized the joke.)

Chapter 7: Blushing Feathers?

“Uhh, hi,” I managed to spit out.

“Who is he,” the smaller unicorn said, turning to Rarity with a suspicious look on her face.

“He is a friend that’s going to be staying with me until he gets a place of his own,” Rarity said, giving me a subtle nod. Ohhhhhh right, this must be where I come in.

“Yes, that, umm… yeah, well, you see,” I couldn’t quite get the words out of my mouth. They sat there on the tip of my tongue, mocking me, I could feel them there. It wasn’t long before I just gave up and shrank away in frustration.

“What he means to say is, we’re new in town, and we’ll be out of your hair in a jiffy, riiiight,” said familiar voice. I glanced up to see Harry standing behind the 2 unicorns. When they realized this, they both jumped and dashed into the room with me. Harry flashed me a mischievous grin, to which I just rolled my eyes.

“Ahem, yes, that, we don’t plan on staying for very long anyways, but in the meantime, I think we might want to look into getting jobs or something,” I said, shrugging innocently.

“Yeah, that might be a good idea,” Harry said, giving a quick shake off before coming into the now crowded bedroom.

“So is there something we need to know,” I asked Rarity, gesturing towards the… what’s the word… filly? Ugh, I really should’ve paid attention during that stupid agriculture presentation.

“Yes, I would like you two to meet Sweetie Belle, she is my little sister,” Rarity said, almost clenching her teeth shut on the words ‘little sister.’ Ahhhhh siblings, the kind of thing that brings families together. Good thing I’m adopted, or so the internet tells me. Okay, not really adopted, you know how people on the internet get, though.

“Hey Sweetie Belle, my name is David, and this pony here is Harry,” as I said this, Harry giggled when I said her name. It was everything I could do to not facehoof.

“What kind of names are those,” Sweetie Belle asked, knocking me off balance with the bluntness of her question.

“Ah ha ha ha, well, we aren’t from around here, so sorry if our named sound a bit weird,” I replied nervously. Harry just couldn’t contain himself and fell over on the ground laughing.

After 20 solid minutes of awkward conversation and Harry splitting his sides from laughing so much, we decided it would be best to leave the sisters alone and go get a look around town. Against my better judgement, I left my coat on the mannequin. What was the worst that could happen?

While we were going through town, I couldn’t help but feel like someone was avoiding us, couldn’t place my hoof on it, though. Anyways, we decided to introduce ourselves to some of the residents, leaving out the fact that we were from another dimension obviously, wouldn’t want to cause a scene, now. Everyone was really nice, and were very patient when we asked them directions around town.

After making our fifth or so pass around town square, we decided we might hit up the library. After all, Twilight said she’d be there, and we could stop by if we had the time. Did we have the time? I say we do.

“Hey Harry, wanna go to the library,” I asked my winged companion.

“Why,” he replied with no hesitation.

“Because we don’t have anywhere specific to go and I think we could go hang out with Twilight and Spike for a bit,” I said, giving him my best serious face.

“Why,” he asked again, giving me a mischievous grin.

“Because walking around has lost its pizzazz,” I said, giving a light shrug.

“Why,” he replied once again, this time widening his smile.

“Okay stop that, let’s go to the library,” I said, spinning to start heading towards Twilight’s library.

“Hey David,” I heard Harry ask, as I started making my way across the square to our destination.

“Yeah,” I replied, giving no real mind to it unless it’s really shocking, which is rare.

“I think you’re going the wrong way,” Harry said, unusually serious.

“What makes you say that,” I inquired, worry beginning to show in my voice.

“Because I can see it over this way,” he answered, flying up off the ground shoving his hoof in the direction opposite of the way I was going.

“I…b … whatever, let’s just get going,” I mumbled, stupid pegasi and their wings… I could be a guide too if I had wings, a pair of wings so I could fly up and find things… Whatever.

As we approached Twilight’s library, we heard the sound of crashing books. This, of course, was followed by muffled voices, arguing or something, I don’t know, it was too muffled to make out. Harry and I stood on the doorstep listening to the ruckus inside for what seemed like a good 15 minutes before I knocked on the door.

For a few seconds, everything went quiet. I knocked again, still nothing. I knocked once more, this time a voice called out.

“Gimme a sec, just hang on,” said a voice from inside. It sounded like Spike, and he didn’t seem too happy. I got ready to jump to the side in case we were greeted by a gout of fire from the other side of the door.

A few seconds and loud thumps later, the door opened, revealing a disgruntled looking Spike, with mountains of disorganized books behind him.

“Oh, it’s you guys, come on in, I guess,” Spike sighed, and motioned for us to come in. Harry didn’t need to be told twice before he barreled in, almost making the mess worse. I hesitantly glanced and the baby dragon, and then back to the mess. Wordlessly, I made my way in, carefully as to not make a bigger mess of things.

“Spike, who was i-Oh, hello guys, didn’t expect to see you so soon, I thought Rarity would be helping you settle into her place,” said the purple unicorn, now peering out from the other side of one the book piles.

“Ha, yeah, about that, her sister came and visited her, so we thought we’d let them have some alone time and take a stroll around town,” I said, grinning nervously and rubbing the back of my head.

“Oh, well that was nice of you two, if I’d have known you’d be coming though, I would’ve rescheduled my reorganization of the library until tomorrow,” Twilight said, now giving us a worried look. I almost felt like we kicked Spike the way she was looking at us.

“Don’t worry about it, we didn’t know we were coming either,” Harry chimed in, going through books in one pile. I snickered at the sight, I didn’t expect Harry to really go through books like that.

“Yeah, besides, we might be able to help you,” I said still grinning at the pegasus sifting through books.

“Thanks for the offer, but I don’t think that’ll be necessary,” Twilight said, waving a hoof at me, and focusing back to the pile of books in front of her.

“Oh, okay the-“ I managed to get out, before Harry chimed in.

“OH OH, What’s this,” he said, dashing across the room and shoving the book he had in his mouth in Twilight’s face.

“That is… oh my,” Twilight said, turning to get a better look at the book Harry was holding. She blushed and started sweating.

Spike snickered when he caught a glimpse of the cover, knowing exactly what the book was. I made my way over next to him to try and keep this quiet, don’t want Twilight to be even more embarrassed than she probably already is.

“What is it, what is in that book,” I whispered to Spike.

“Oh, it’s one of Twilight’s romance books, it’s kinda on the steamy side from what Twilight’s told me,” he replied between chuckles. I covered my mouth with a hoof and started quietly laughing also. Of course Harry would find the one thing in a pile of books that would turn the purple unicorn bright pink.

“Harry, I think you might wanna put that down,” I said, stifling my laughter long enough to hear a reply.

“Why, it looks neat,” Harry said, now flipping through the pages. What came next was inevitable, his expression changed from happy and excited, to shocked, to nervous and blushing. Spike and I burst into laughter. Before Harry could read anymore, Twilight yanked the book from his grip with a spell and tossed it across the room. Needless to say Spike and I were just rolling on the ground, laughing.

“Umm… yeah, sorry, I don’t know how that got down here, usually that’s up in my room,” Twilight said, with a blush.

“Right, umm… David, I think we should go, and let her get back to what she was doing,” Harry said, turning to head out the door.

“But we only just got here, besides, I have some questions I wanna ask Twilight,” I told Harry, clearing my throat and standing back up.

“Well fine, you can stay here and hang out with her, I’m gonna go fly around town for a bit,” Harry said, before quickly making his way out the door, and slamming it shut. Hmm, normally he isn’t like that. He’s usually the one making everyone else storm out. Could he be… embarrassed?

Let’s Follow Harry

Harry took a deep breath and looked around. There were a few clouds in the sky, but otherwise it was a clear day.

“Hmm… maybe a quick go around town would do me some good, and give me a bit of practice with my wings,” Harry said, flexing his wings. Without wasting another moment, he took off into the sky, shakily at first, but leveling out and gaining speed. Once he was steady, he began heading towards town, which looked a bit different from the sky.

He started seeing places they haven’t gone yet, and even saw a familiar pink pony dashing around town. He was about to spin to go see what she was up to, when he felt something crash into him broadside. He was sent tumbling down into the nearest cloud, which supported him, and stopped him from crashing into the town below.

“Oww,” was all Harry could get out before he was assaulted by a voice he wasn’t familiar with.

“Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t see you there, are you okay, ohhh, please be okay,” Harry turned to see a gray coated pegasus, with a light yellow mane and tail, and a cutie mark of a stream of bubbles. Harry was just about to use a clever pick up line, when he got a good look at her face. Particularly the eyes, one of which was trained on him, and the other was trained on the cloud.

“I’m… fine… umm,” Harry said, words lost on him.

“Oh, my name is Ditzy Doo, but everyone calls me Derpy Hooves, or Derpy for short, though I’m not sure why,” Ditzy said, putting a hoof to her chin in contemplation. She snapped out of it when she realized what she was doing in the first place.

“OH right, the package, I gotta get it to Cloudsdale, and be back so I can make dinner for Dinky, I better get going,” Ditzy exclaimed in a panicked tone.

“Oh, is that all, well, I’ll be more than happy to come with, if you want,” Harry said, trying to calm her down some.

“That’s nice of you, but I really gotta get there and go, no time for dawdling, besides, you must’ve been there at least once, all pegasi have,” Ditzy said matter of factly before taking off in the direction of Cloudsdale. Harry wasted no time, and followed her, even though he was new to flying, he kept pace with her, but couldn’t quite catch up. After a while, he gave up, and flew back to town.

“Man, I really gotta work on my flying, even that cross eyed girl was faster than me,” he said, before slumping down on a cloud to watch the ponies scurry around in the street.

Back to the Library

“I’m sorry, I didn’t expect him to find it,” Twilight apologetically said for the, oh I don’t know how many times, more than 10 I know that much.

“Twilight, it’s fine, he get embarrassed, and he goes on jogs, he’s done it before, he’ll be back in a few minutes or so, and if not, I’ll find him eventually,” I replied, facehoofing. She’s nice enough but she likes to worry, it’s cute but not when she’s apologizing for something she didn’t mean to happen.

“Yeah, calm down Twilight, it’s not like he was angry, he was probably just overwhelmed,” Spike said, rubbing the unicorn’s back.

“No, but it’s my fault, if I had been more careful with my books, this wouldn’t have happened,” Twilight said, blushing and burying her face in her hooves. I rolled my eyes before turning to look through a random pile of books, on the other side of the room. A lot of them looked like guides to different things, like how to have a sleep over, how to run a race, what to do in case of a zombie pony attack.

“Wait a moment,” I exclaimed, picking up the Skeptics Guide to Defend Against Zombie Ponies.

“Hmm, oh, that’s Spike’s, I got it for him for his birthday a year or so ago,” Twilight said, noticing the cover from between her hooves. Huh, zombie ponies, never would’ve thought I would be so glad to hear the term.

“You don’t say, well, we have a similar belief, back home,” I said, shrugging and opening the book casually to the table of contents. I was amazed to find out that the author took the time to find out every little detail. How to avoid zombies, where to find food and water, what necessities you need to bring with you to survive, and not overburden you, it’s all here.

I got halfway through the introductory chapter before I felt a light tapping on my shoulder. I sighed and closed the book, turning towards the tapping.

“Hey, shouldn’t you go look for your friend, it’s been almost twenty minutes now,” asked a curious Spike.

“Hmm, oh, you’re right, time flies when you’re reading, I guess, well it’s been fun, but I gotta go, take care everyone-err pony, everypony,” I said trying to correct myself, this new lingo is gonna take a while to get down.

“See ya, bro,” Spike said, waving a claw.

“Goodbye,” Twilight said, poking her head from out of her hooves.

On that note, I dashed out the door, and collided with something on the other side, head first. I fell over to the side and landed on my back with a loud thud. Oww. Who put whatever was in the way there, I’m gonna have words with them about that.

“Oww, I didn’t get hit that hard since, well, since ever, really,” said a slightly bubbly voice that was all too familiar to me. I managed to roll my body and lift my head high enough to see a certain 4th wall breaking pink pony rubbing her head and lying on her back.

“Oh, sorry ab-OW,” I managed to get that, before Pinkie inadvertently kicked my head. I curled up and covered my head with my forehooves.

“Huh, OH I’M SORRY, are you okay,” Pinkie said, bolting upright and appearing at my side in an instant.

“That REALLY hurt, you know, but I’ll be fine,” I said, rubbing my head. I managed to get up and was being stared at by a small crowd, Pinkie on one side of me, then 2 pairs of eyes at the library door. Twilight and Spike had witnessed me collide into their friend, fall over, and then get kicked, I can only imagine the joy they were getting out of it.

Spike was snickering lightly, but Twilight looked concerned.

“Are you two okay,” she asked, leaning forward a bit.

“I’m fine,” I muttered, rubbing my head with a hoof, it was still kinda throbbing, but fine otherwise.

“I’m okay, oh hey Twilight when will you be… OH DAVID,” Pinkie said, before plating her hooves over my ears, muffling the world. I groaned, and slouched some. Before I knew it, though, it was over, sound was returned, and the first things I heard were…

“Great, I’ll see you two there, and you, sir, need to quit being nosy, you’ll spoil everything,” Pinkie said, chastising me, and before I could ask what or why, she vanished in a pink blur. It’s like trying to keep up with pure caffine.

“Ooookay, anyways, I’m off to find Harry, I’ll see you two later, I guess,” I said shrugging and making my way towards town.

“Oh, that’ll be sooner than you think,” was all I heard from Twilight, before her and Spike retreated back into the treehouse library. What did she mean by that? Haven’t even been here a week and already I feel like something is gonna blow up. Oh well, off to town.

Into town, once again

I wandered through the town square, it was still busy, even though it must’ve been about 12:00 or so. I asked a few of the pegasi around if they’ve seen a white coated blue maned pegasus, which they haven’t. I sighed every time, but thanked them. I kept an eye to the sky, in case he was up there doing something.

Harry was staring down at the square, nothing was really happening, just everyone hanging out, buying things, same old same old. He yawned, and stretched out a bit. He didn’t remember being this tired when he left the library not so long ago.

“Maybe just a quick nap, then I’ll head back over and find David,” Harry said, curling up on the cloud and drifting off to sleep.

Dang it, who knew finding someone like him would be so frustrating! He’s gotta be around here somewhere, I know it.

“Mark my words, I WILL find you,” I said, raising a hoof to the sky.

“Uhh, you alright there, pard’ner,” asked another familiar voice. I turned to see Applejack, wearing her hat, and an added apron. I tilted my head at the sight, she didn’t seem the type to wear anything more than necessary.

“Hi Applejack, umm… why are you wearing an apron,” I asked bluntly.

“Oh, this, shoot, I’m here sellin’ today’s haul, Big Mac’s back at the farm gettin’ more,” the orange pony said, with a smile and a nod. I tilted my head again, but this time to look at her stand, it was full of apples. Big, red, juicy, apples. I grinned, and turned back to her.

“Okay, that’s cool, but I’m tryin’ to find Harry, have ya seen him anywhere,” I asked, unwillingly sliding into a southern accent similar to her own.

“Hey, are ya makin’ fun o’ me,” Applejack replied, giving me an evil eye stare. Oh crap, worst possible time for this.

“No no no, sorry, old habit of mine, not important, I apologize, anyways, have you seen my friend, he’s been missing for a few minutes now, and I can’t seem to find him,” I said, nervously taking a couple of steps away for fear of being hit.

“Hmm, no ah haven’t, but might wanna keep an eye to the clouds, I reckon he might be nappin’ up there,” explained the cowgirl. “Oh, and if you mock me again, I will hit you,” she said, taking a step closer, to me. I took a step back and felt a bead of sweat trail down from my forehead to my muzzle.

“Got it, anyways, gotta go, see ya later Applejack,” I said, quickly spinning around and taking off in the opposite direction. As I made my way from her apple stand, I swear I could hear her laughing. Oh well, no time to stop, I gotta find a pegasus to help me check the clouds for my wayward pegasus friend.

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Author’s Note: I apologize for the time it took to get this chapter out, real life stuff happened, and it got delayed. Anyways, here is where my weird narration might come and bite me in the ass, but I’m going to find a way to make it work. It has to. I hope…

Chapter 8: Of Rainbows and Bunnies

I ran through town, partially out of fear of Applejack. But my main goal right now was finding Harry. If he was flying though, I’d be hard pressed to get to him. Wait, I know a pegasus, maybe she can help.

“But wait, where does she live,” I said to myself, grinding to an abrupt stop. I rubbed the side of my head in thought, trying to map out the town. Let’s see… I know she doesn’t live IN town, and I think she said something about being close to the forest. Well, time to get over to the forest and see if I can find her place.

I glanced around quickly to find the Everfree off some ways to my right. Well then, better get goin’. I took a deep breath and sprinted off towards the edge of the Everfree to find Fluttershy’s place.

Back in town

Applejack was tending to her goods, making sure they were in top condition to be sold. It was a slow day, not that she was complaining. This gave her a bit of time to relax before the big Applebucking season that was coming up. She gave a big yawn and and looked up at the sun, covering her eyes from the majority of the rays. “Ah reckon it’s about 2:00, I wonder when-“ was all she managed to mutter before an explosion of pink, sugary energy surged in front of her.

“Hi, whatcha doin’ Applejack,” Pinkie exploded, unable to contain her excitement.

“Oh, hi Pinkie, I’m just mindin’ th’ stand here, it’s been a slow day so I was thinking of packing up and heading back to Sweet Apple Acres, soon, why,” the cowgirl responded, curious as to what the hyperactive Pinkie Pie was going to do with this information.

“Oh, then you can help me get everything ready,” Pinkie said, bouncing up and down happily.

“Ready, what for,” AJ asked skeptically. She didn’t know why she asked, because it was no doubt something for a party.

“Why, the ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ party for David and Harry, silly,” the pink mare answered bouncing in a circle around the stand now.

“Raight… well gimme ‘till about 3:00 and I’ll help however I can” Applejack said, with a nod.

“Okie dokie lokie, I’ll see you at 3:00 then,” Pinkie said, before whizzing away in a pink blur. Applejack rubbed the side of her head, she learned not to ask, but was still amazed at the energy and speed of her pink friend.

Off to Fluttershy’s

After walking the edge of the forest near Ponyville, and almost tripping on 3 bunnies, 2 meercats, a badger, 2 skunks, and almost being pecked to death by a wayward duck whose nest I almost stepped on, I finally got to Fluttershy’s cottage.

“Well, that was about as fun as the ACT,” I said, heaving out a large sigh. I sluggishly made my way up to her door. I glanced around and saw a lot of little animals scurrying around. Rabbits, cats, puppies, and all other kinds of animals gathered here for what I could only guess at was either attention or medical help.

Giving a light shrug, I knocked on her door. No answer, seriously doesn’t anyone answer the door on the first knock? I knocked again, a bit louder this time. The door swung open abruptly revealing… nothing at first. I looked behind me, and then back into the house. I was greeted by a rather loud *AHEM*, followed by rhythmic tapping.

I looked down to see a rather irate white bunny staring at me, tapping his foot. I stared back, processing the sight. A small white rabbit opened the front door, and is now staring at me…

“AHHHH, OH GOD THEY CAN OPEN DOORS NOW, NOONE IS SAFE, RUN AWAY!!!,” I shouted, spinning around and running to hide behind a nearby tree. The rabbit sighed and facepalmed when I took off. Shortly after my outburst, I heard a quiet voice coming from inside the cottage.

“Oh my, Angel, what did you do,” said a bewildered and slightly upset Fluttershy. Angel, as I heard his name called, shrugged and made a bunch of complicated gestures to try and tell his owner what happened. I peered out from behind the tree just as he was finishing his pantomimed explanation. Wonderfully done, for a rabbit…

“Oh, well then, I umm… oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t see you there, are you okay,” Fluttershy said, turning and slowly walking towards me.

“H…he can open doors, why didn’t anyone tell me,” I said, staring at Angel, who began chuckling at me.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t think it would scare you, nopony else seems to care that much either,” she replied, turning her head away from me. I shifted my gaze from Angel to the pegasus that was now in front of me.

“No, it’s fine, but a warning would’ve been nice,” I said, remembering back to the Monty Python and the Holy Grail bit with the killer rabbit. I glanced back at Angel, who had stopped laughing and was heading back into the cottage.

“Yeah, don’t worry, he won’t bite, or kick, well, won’t USUALLY kick,” Fluttershy said, turning her head back to me and giving me a nervous smile. I chuckled, yeah of course he doesn’t bite, then 5 om noms later I’m a headless man-pony and Angel has a belly full of my head.

“Heh, right, well I came here to ask a favor,” I said, focusing my gaze on Fluttershy. “I need you to do a quick flyover of Ponyville, Harry went missing and I think he might’ve flown away or is flying now, but I can’t see him so I need someone who can fly to go up and see if they can find him,” I blurted out in one big breath. Fluttershy took a small step back before answering.

“Umm… yeah well you see… I’m not a str-ong flier,” she said, turning into an inaudible mumble at the end.

“Please, I really need help with this,” I said, placing my forehooves on her shoulders. We didn’t get much longer in this conversation when we heard a voice shouting at us from the sky.

“HEY CREEP, LEAVE HER ALONE,” was all we heard before I took a blow to the forehead. This sent me spinning back down the hill in a ball.

“Whoahoahoahoahoahoahoahoahoa,” I moaned out each rotation before I hit a small bump in the field. This sent me flying a good couple of feet or so off the ground and I crashed back first into a tree, with a loud and very audible THUD! This bit wasn’t over, because gravity decided to show up, and bring me head first to the ground. I twitched in pain, which sent my body flying from against the tree to flopping on the ground.

“YAAATATATATATATATATATATATATATOWWWWWWW, WHYYYYYYYY,” I said, writhing in agony at the base of the tree. I was confused, and didn’t know which part of me to grab first, my back, my head, or to just curl up and wish the hurt away.

“Are you okay Fluttershy, what did that freak do to you,” said a cyan pegasus, and she landed by her friend.

Fluttershy gasped. “Ohh my, why did you do that Rainbow Dash, he was just asking for my help,” Fluttershy managed to speak up, though I imagine it wasn’t louder than her friend, whom I could hear all the way down here.

“Help? I just gave him some help, I gave him a lesson that he shouldn’t mess with the best flyer in all of Equestria’s friends,” Rainbow Dash said, puffing her chest out and making a heroic pose.

“Okay, oww, a little help here,” I yelled up at the 2 pegasi up the hill. They didn’t seem to notice me. Fantastic, one likes to kick others down a hill, and the other is too shy to do anything. I sighed before trying to get up. OW! Okay, bad idea, I guess I’ll just lie here until one of them comes to help me.

“No, he needed help finding his friend, he was practically begging me to help, but before I could answer him, you came down and knocked him down hi-,” Fluttershy went wide-eyed, and took off to go help the possibly injured stallion lying at the base of a tree at the edge of the forest.

“Huh? Diiiiid I miss something,” Rainbow Dash wondered to herself as she took off behind her flying friend.

“Oh dear… oh my… are you okay, are you hurt,” Fluttershy asked me nervously, landing right beside me.

“Well other than being hit in the head, sent flying down a hill like Sonic the Hedgehog, hitting a speed bump, being sent flying into the air, crashing into a tree, hitting my head on the ground, and belly flopping, I think I might be fine… ow… okay, not fine, pain, lots of pain,” I said, as she poked and checked for any broken bones or bruised ribs or anything else that might need attending to.

“W-well, I don’t feel any broken bones, probably some bruises in a bit here, we might want to get you up to my house, so you can rest a bit,” Fluttershy concluded, she tried lifting me on her back, but that didn’t work out to well. All that did was get me up off the ground far enough to hurt me if I got dropped, which I did.

“Ow, okay, new plan, just help me up,” I groaned out. She reached down and helped me to a standing position, which hurt more than I thought, but at least I was up off the ground.

“Okay, so what were you saying about him losing his friend and asking you for help,” said the cyan coated, rainbow maned pegasus that dropped out of the sky in front of me. I shook my head, and stifled a chuckle. “What’s his deal? Did I knock one of his screws loose or something,” Dash asked confusedly.

“Heh, it’ll take a bit more than that to make me crazy, no, I’m trying not to laugh at your hair color,” I said, biting my lip to stop a laugh from getting out.

“Oh, a wise guy huh? Would you like to take another trip downhill, mister,” the pegasus snapped, throwing a couple impromptu jabs.

“Wise guy? Possibly, but let’s not get too hasty, My name’s David, and you are…” I said, motioning for her to introduce herself.

“My name is Rainbow Dash, and I’m-“ I had to interrupt.

“The best flyer in Equestria, blah blah blah blah, I’ve heard,” I said, rolling my eyes.

“I see my reputation has preceeded me,” Dash quipped confidently.

“Only by seconds, I could hear you all the way down here, which by the way, the fastest flyer in Equestria? That seems a bit… excessive, don’t you think,” I inquired. Dash deflated and shot me a particularly seething glare.

“And who would be faster? You? You’re an Earth pony, you can’t fly,” the mare fumed menacingly at me. Whoah, seems I struck a nerve. Fluttershy shrank away, afraid of what was going to happen next.

“I never said I could fly faster, I only asked how could you be sure YOU were the fastest? Surely there must be other equally fast if not faster pegasi out there,” I replied, trying to defend my reasoning.

Dash huffed at me, then lightened her glare up a bit. “You know, you remind me of someone else in Ponyville, her name’s-“ I interrupted again.

“Let me guess, Twilight Sparkle?” I smirked, my turn to be confident.

“Yeah, how did you… never mind, you’d like her, she’s kinda the town egg head,” Dash said, her venomous glare lightening off her face almost entirely. Her expression was now changing to one of suspicion as she wondered how I knew her friends and not her.

“Oh yeah, I actually came from her place not too long ago, she lives in a tree-brary,” I said, chuckling at the poor wordplay.

“Yeah, anyways, you alright? You must’ve hit that tree pretty hard,” Rainbow Dash asked, motioning at my now bruised back. Oh crap, when did that show up!

“Oh dear, this is just what I fear, come on, we’ve gotta get some ice on that right away,” Fluttershy began almost dragging me to her house. I did my best to keep up, but now the pain flared up whenever I made any quick movements.

It wasn’t long before I was lying face down on a table with a rather large ice pack resting on my bruised back. It felt really cold, but nice as the pain went away and a refreshing coolness went in its place.

“So, who is this friend you’re looking for, Dave,” Dash smirked, somehow resisting the urge to pat me on the back.

“Oh, well, he’s a pegasus, about your height, white coat, dark blue mane and tail, and has a smiley face on his bum,” I crudely threw together a description of him. Yes, I know it’s a cutie mark, but somehow it just doesn’t sound right coming from me.

“’Mark on his bum,’ you mean his cutie mark,” Dash asked, wondering if I knew what it was.

“Yes, his… cutie mark… yes I know what it is, no I don’t feel comfortable saying it,” I said rather irritably.

Dash just shrugged before smirking at me. “Don’t worry, I’ll find him for ya, or my name isn’t Rainbow Dash,” said the pegasus, flexing her wings.

“Really, that would be so nice, I’d go with, but ahh, I’m rather… tied up at the moment,” I remarked, partially to remind her that she put me in this condition. She chuckled nervously.

“Yeah, sorry about that, but don’t worry, I’ll make it up to ya by finding your friend and bringing him here,” and with that, Dash walked out the door, and flew off towards Ponyville.

Back in Ponyville

Harry woke up, with a loud sneeze. He gave a couple alarmed blinks before rubbing his nose.

“Whew, well, when people are talkin’ ‘bout ya,” he said with a shrug. He stretched and let out a big yawn before flying down to the ground. “I wonder where David could be,” Harry pondered, looking around for any familiar faces. It didn’t take him long to find the ever familiar cowgirl. He grinned, and made his way over to Applejack.

“Hey Applejack, whatsa goin’ on wit choo,” Harry said, trying to pull off a fake Italian accent. It didn’t work, but Applejack didn’t know who he was at first.

“Now look here, pard’ner, I don’t know why you’re here but… wait, don’t I know you from somewhere,” AJ said, squinting at the pegasus.

“No, I don’t think so, you see I’m new in town and-,” Harry was cut off before he could put his fake backstory in view.

“Right, you’re that new boy, whats-‘is-name… Harry?” AJ said, giving brief thought to recall his name.

“Dang, okay, you caught me. Anyways, have you seen David anywhere?” Harry asked, not showing any sign of concern.

“Oh right, I think he was headed towards Fluttershy’s place, I reckon ya’ll might find him there,” AJ said, pointing towards the shy pegasus’ cottage.

“Cool, thanks,” Harry said with a smirk.

“Don’ mention it, hope ya find him, he seemed a might troubled when he couldn’t find ya,” AJ added.

“He does that, anyways I’ll see ya later,” and with that, Harry took off towards Fluttershy’s place. However, when he hit a certain altitude, he was greeted by startled yelling to move. This was followed by a pegasus crashing broadside into him, again, and the two of them tumbling off of a cloud, a roof, and finally to the ground below.

“Oww, sheesh, hey watch where you’re going, there are some of us who DON’T want to end up as a crater in the ground, y’know,” Harry said, rubbing his head.

“T’ch, me? I told you to move, it was your fault that we crashed into each other,” said Rainbow Dash, throwing Harry an accusing look.

“You could’ve swerved to miss me,” Harry threw out in his defense.

“And you could’ve flew up out of my way,” Dash countered. Harry’s eyes shot open in shock.

“Okay fine you win, my fault, sorry,” Harry said, hanging his head in defeat. Rainbow Dash grinned in self-satisfaction. She then got a closer look, and realized this was the stallion she was sent to look for.

“Hey, you’re Harry, right?” Dash asked rhetorically. She already knew the answer, she just wanted to cover all the bases.

“Yeah, why, wait, how do you know who I am?” inquired a rather lost Harry.

“Your friend is up at Fluttershy’s place, come on I’ll take you there,” Dash urged, before getting ready to fly away.

“Wait, which one was Fluttershy again?” Harry asked again, putting a hoof on his chin.

Rainbow Dash sighed. “Yellow pegasus, pink mane, butterflies for her cutie mark, quiet,” Dash said, rubbing the side of her head trying to describe her friend.

Harry shrugged. He didn’t recall who Fluttershy was, because he never really spoke to her. Dash facehoofed when she saw he was drawing a blank. “Ugh… this is gonna take a while…” Dash thought to herself, before walking off towards Fluttershy’s place, motioning Harry to follow. Harry took a quick look around and decided to follow the cyan pegasus.

Back at Fluttershy’s

“So… Fluttershy… Nice uhh… weather?” I tried to start a conversation, too bad I’m terrible at small talk.

“Umm… yes, it’s a nice day,” Fluttershy quietly responded, glancing out the window quickly.

“So… what do you like to do?” I doubled back and decided to try a different approach. It was met with some success.

“I umm… take care of the little critters around here, either with medical attention or anything else they might need like food or shelter,” Fluttershy spoke up a bit louder, but was still quiet. I wish I had a volume switch so I could turn her up to regular volume.

“Oh really? That’s actually pretty cool, I have quite a number of pets back home,” I smiled. I remembered all of the dogs and cats I had at home. It was frightening, because every time we gave one away we somehow found two more.

“Oh? What kind of pets?” Fluttershy leaned closer to me from her spot on the chair next to the table I was on.

“Let’s see, I believe we are at 2 dogs and 5 cats at the moment. We have one Siamese, two tabbies, a Persian, and an Aegean cat. And both dogs we have are German Shepherds.” I concluded with a nod. Fluttershy was speechless. “What?” I asked, breaking her trance on me.

“Oh, umm… it’s just that I didn’t know anypony else could care for more than two critters at once. You must’ve been very busy.” She was finally speaking, which was a start.

“Not really, but you shouldn’t get too attached to your clothes, they’ll get coated with fur in about two days’ time,” I snickered, which caused her to giggle quietly. It felt nice having a conversation with someone that didn’t break topics every three seconds. But before we could get any further, the front door swung open.

Fluttershy and I both turned to see a pink mare in the doorway.

“Fluttershy, thank Celestia you’re here I need you to do something for m-“ Pinkie stopped mid-sentence when she realized I was laying on the table next to her friend.

“Oh, don’t mind me, please continue,” I grinned at the now sweating mare.

“David! Quit trying to spoil it!” Pinkie yelled before dashing out the door in a pink blur. Oh no, not this time.

“Alright, play hard ball,” I quickly got off the table, dropping the half melted ice pack to the floor. My bruise was still visible, but it didn’t hurt as bad as it did earlier. I got ready to chase Pinkie when I heard a timid voice squeak out behind me.

“You s-shouldn’t umm… be up and running yet… y-your umm…” She was stuttering, I guess shocked from how things are unfolding in front of her.

“What? Catch Pinkie Pie? You got it!” I said. Not intending to make fun of her, but more to motivate me to run as fast as I could after the hyperactive pink blur. I crouched down, and sprinted as fast as I could out the door.

“I’m coming for you,” I started chanting, as I picked up speed. One good thing about following a blur is the trail leads you straight to where they’re going. And so, pushing myself to the limit, I made my mad chase, straight into Ponyville.

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Author's Note: You might've noticed the lack of Pinkie Pie narration. For obvious reasons, she's withdrawn from 4th wall breaking until after the party. Which by the way I happen to be inadvertently, and now determined to be spoiling. You might've noticed a time lapse between last chapter and this one. It will be explained next chapter, unless something comes up. Also, Rainbow Dash hits like a truck. End of conversation.

Chapter 9: Step Two, Presentation

It was a frantic chase back to Ponyville. All I could hear is my heart pounding, my hooves clopping, the wind rushing past my ears, and occasionally Pinkie shouting back at me to stop following her. I ignored every one of her warnings, and if I knew what was gonna happen next, I probably would’ve stopped.

The running continued for a good 15-20 minutes until we got to the edge of Ponyville. Once we crossed the bridge, there were a pair of familiar pegasi walking towards us.

On their way out of town…

“Hahaha, that’s hilarious, into a tree you say?” Harry said, staggering a bit from laughing so hard. Rainbow Dash had just told him about literally running into his friend. She had just gotten to the part where I had been kicked down the hill, and started rolling her eyes. This was the third time he had interrupted her and it was getting old.

“Yeah, pretty funny, anyways, after Flutter-“ Rainbow Dash was interrupted by a voice off in the distance. When she looked up, she saw a pink blur coming at them, followed by a green blur. It didn’t take long for the cyan pegasus to put together that the pink blur was Pinkie, and she was being chased by something. Although, who or what remained a mystery.

“AHHHDASHIEDASHIEDASHIECODEGREENCODEGREEN,” Pinkie shouted almost incoherently. Rainbow Dash was able to make it out, and gave a slight nod. She counted to 3, which gave Pinkie Pie enough time to pass her and her current companion, and she stuck her hoof out to the side.

As I trailed behind the speeding pink mare, I suddenly found my legs swept out from under me, and my body falling forward. I believe at this point, my mind focused on one thought… Am… I going to do a face plant? The answer to the question was yes, as my body sped up to real time, crashing me face first into the ground, and skidding to a stop from my mad sprint.

I believe we have met my one word last chapter or so. Ouch. I groaned, trying to get up without making any sudden moves. It didn’t take long before Dash and Harry came over, asking if I was alright.

“Hey, you alright there champ,” Dash asked putting a hoof on my shoulder.

“Mmph phhmmmlllmmm phhhmmmrrrmmm…” was my response.

“What was that,” Dash asked, moving a bit closer to hear me better. I lifted my head up a bit and spat out the bit of dirt that wormed its way in my mouth.

“Why… do you… hate… me,” I mumbled out, a bit more audible for the others trying to make sure I was fine. Dash tilted her head and gave a light chuckle.

“I don’t hate you, you’re just stuck at the wrong place at the wrong time,” she said, giving me a faced smile and put a hoof down to my level to help me up. I rolled my eyes, and wrapped my hoof around hers, and she helped me up almost effortlessly. I shook myself off a bit more thoroughly and brought my extended hoof up from hers to my mane and quickly brushed it off.

“Well, doesn’t seem to be anything serious,” I said before feeling something drape across my back and wild laughter coming from behind me.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA, I can’t believe it, even after last time, you still land a face plant like a pro,” Harry said, before letting out even more uproarious laughter. I rolled my eyes and tried my best to look serious, but no matter how hurt or upset I am, I can’t help but laugh when he starts laughing.

“Hehe, well when you got it, you always have it, like boiling a bicycle, it lingers,” I said, before letting out a quiet laugh of my own. Dash tilted her head in confusion at the sight of the 2 stallions laughing randomly. It was… weird for her. Especially since she’s only seen a couple stallions at any one time, mostly the pegasi in the weather patrol. But again, even they didn’t talk for very long.

When our laughter began to die down, she posed a question.

“Hey, umm guys, what are you two laughing about,” she inquired, tilting her head to the other side. We wiped the tears from our eyes, and began telling her the rather brief story of how the legacy of the face plant came to be. We acted out every bit, our walk down to the part, the various stunts off the swing, and my rather humorous latch on and drop down to the ground, face first. It definitely didn’t help that I left a face shaped imprint on the ground.

Once she was told and shown what had happen, she had begun to laugh a bit herself.

“Hahaha, well, it seems you can take more abuse than I give you credit for,” Rainbow Dash humored, playfully punching my fore leg.

“Oh more than you know,” Harry chimed in, trying to push me towards the cyan pegasus. I rolled my eyes and locked my legs in, stopping his attempt of trying to pair me up with the athletic speed demon.

“Hehe… ahem, would you excuse us for just one moment, I have something I’d like to discuss with my friend here,” I said, flashing Harry a serious look.

“Oh sure, don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here,” Dash said, before trotting off towards the hill. Once I was sure that she couldn’t hear us, I turned to Harry, and my smile instantly dropped from my face.

“Harry, no, for lots of reasons, no,” I said, shaking my head lightly.

Harry dropped his expression and looked me dead in the eyes. “Why not, she obviously likes you man, you need to quit wussing out and step up,” he said, puffing his chest out to make his point.

“She isn’t my type for one, and two, up until yesterday we weren’t even the same species,” I said, glancing around. There wasn’t anyone else around, but I wasn’t going to chance moving this conversation anywhere else. “Besides, we also don’t know anything about their culture or their mannerisms,”

“I know they use ‘pony’ a lot, and why wouldn’t she go for a guy like you, she’s an athletic type, you’re a sensible intellectual type, the perfect counter balance,” He said, giving me a light nudge.

“No, trust me, she’s not just athletic, she’s a jock,” I said rolling my eyes. “She would sooner make fun of me than think me attractive, you’d have a better shot,” I said, now giving him a nudge. He snapped his head back up and lightly blushed.

“Wait, what, no no, I can’t, I couldn’t possibly-“ Harry stammered out, flustered. Oh my goodness, he IS embarrassed!

“What, yes you can, what was all that a moment ago about stepping up and not wussing out,” I said, now trying to fight back a condescending smile. This might be one of the few times he might be embarrassed, but that isn’t any reason I should be an asshole about it now. Granted I’m going to blast him with it later, but not now.

“N-no, it’s just, well yes, she is cute, but I…” Harry glanced down at the ground and started making circles with one of his hooves. I sighed and put a hoof on one of his fore legs.

“Yes you can Harry, you got more going for you than you realize, just act natural, and don’t try to pawn her off on me,” I said, trying to boost his confidence up. He looked at me, and his expression when from shy and nervous to confident and psyched.

“You’re right, its time I did step up, I’m gonna ask her to be my girlfriend,” Harry said puffing himself out and getting ready to take off to go talk to her.

“Whoah, calm down there ace, we just got here and once more don’t know their customs,” I said planting my hooves on the bases of his wings. “Besides, we don’t have a penny to our names, and we’re slumming it out with Rarity at the moment,” Harry deflated at the words and slumped back down.

“Make up your mind David, go or stay,” Harry said in a rather flat tone, which is unusual for him.

“I’m saying go if you want, but it would be best if we stayed for a bit and got to know more about this place before we did anything rash,” I explained. He perked up a bit and shrugged it off.

“Whatever you say,” he said, before we heard hoofsteps coming from behind us…

Meanwhile, In the Legion of Awesome…

“Huh, wondered why they wanted to talk by themselves,” Rainbow Dash wondered to herself. She was on the other side of the hill, before a thought occurred.

“Oh sweet Celestia, they could be SPIES!!!!” She said, bolting her head upright and quickly looked around to see if anypony else was watching her. Luckily, she was alone, and with a quick breath, she took off, right up to commandeer a cloud. She made sure she was completely hidden before inching the cloud towards where the 2 stallions were last at.

“Try to get the best of me, we’ll see about that, quite convenient new faces come around and win over Fluttershy, but not me, not THIS pony,” she said before coming to a stop. She looked over to the sun. it hang lower in the sky than she last remembered. It must be around 6’o clock she figured. Just then, she remembered where she was and what she was doing.

“Dang, almost forgot, alright then spies, tell me your secrets,” she whispered to herself, peering over the cloud to better hear the conversation below. She listened for a while, and it seemed suspicious, but who were they talking about? Rainbow Dash scratched her head, trying to make sense of the conversation below.

It didn’t take long for her to get bored, and decided to look around for something to do. It seemed like forever in her mind. She almost started to doze off before a familiar voice broke through the silence of boredom…

Back to our comedic duo

“Howdy, I do believe you two have a social gatherin’ to be attendin’ to, if y’all’ll follow me, we’ll get ya there, lickety split,” came a southern accent from behind us. I wheeled around and stepped to my left to give Harry the sight of Applejack. Still wearing her trademarked wide brimmed hat and loose pony tail, she gave a light smirk to the 2 stallions, and glanced up to see Dash’s face poke out from the cloud overhead.

“Hey Applejack, how ya been,” Dash yelled, giving a wave.

“Oh, I’ve been better, slow day in the market, anyways what’re you doin’ here RD,” she asked the pegasus. Rainbow Dash was about to tell her, but then facehoofed to herself as she was technically spying on the 2 new faces of Ponyville. She sweated quickly before coming up with a quick lie to cover for herself.

“I was uhh… sleeping, yeah, they needed to talk about something so I decided to catch some Z’s while they did that, but I guess somepony moved the cloud,” she said, trying to ride it out nonchalantly. It seemed to have worked as Applejack just shrugged it off.

“Well, yer welcome to come too if’n ya want, I’m sure there’s gonna be plenty of snacks at the hodown we’re goin’ to,” Harry and I looked at each other before turning to the cowgirl mare.

“Hodown…” we inquired in unison. It was really a side to behold as it doesn’t happen often. Applejack shrugged it off.

“Hootinany, shindig, party, whatever y’all be wantin’ ta call it,” She explained, a bit frustrated at having to spell it out for them.

“Is it a Pinkie Pie Party,” Dash asked from the clouds.

“You know it, an’ she throws some of the best in all Equestria,” Dash was on the ground and eager to get to the party.

“Aww yeah, nothing beats a Pinkie Pie Party, come on guys, you’ll regret it if you don’t go, for more reasons than one!,” Rainbow Dash hyped up, eagerly beckoning for the 2… dare I say… Bronies… to follow them.

Hehe, you definitely like playing to a fandom, don’t you, Davie?

Why yes, it seems to be one of my more favorable talents…

Really, as compared to what?

Well, you’d rather not know. Anyways, I think we’ll save what happens next for later. After all, what good is the hype if we expend it all now?

But isn’t that foreshadowing?

Have you been talking to Twilight again?

No.

I think you have.

I think you need some cake.

Maybe later.

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Author’s Comment – So sorry for the long wait. So many bad things happened. Some good stuff too, but mostly bad. Rather than go into detail, I will just say that work has almost destroyed my will to do much else . I will try and update the story as often as I can, however I’m not sure how consistent it will be. This wasn’t the best chapter I have written, and I am not confident in how I can get it to play out. Let me know how you like it, and if you think we should have some romance in this story. Obviously hinting at the pairing of Harry and Rainbow Dash. Please try to enjoy, again, if you didn’t like this chapter, I will take it under advisement and either re-write the whole thing, or make it a plot device later on.

Chapter 10 : Step Three - Stress Test

“What is a Pinkie Pie Party?” Harry and I asked in unison. Applejack and Rainbow Dash just looked at us and started giggling.

“You’ll see,” was all we got from Rainbow Dash, Applejack just wordlessly turned and motioned for us to follow. We looked at each other and shrugged before following the 2 mares to where ever the party was being held. It was getting pretty late, the sun was setting, and with the exception of us it seemed everything was getting ready for bed.

“Pssst, Dave, what do you think will be at the party,” Harry whispered, trying to be as exclusive to me as possible.

“I have no idea, possibly a few games, some snacks, and some music, why do you ask?” I replied in a hushed tone. Harry just shook his head and wordlessly focused on our destination. I gave him a suspicious look and shrug, turning to get a better view of our surroundings. It looked like we were heading to the edge of town.

Meanwhile...

“Hey, get that banner up, and Lyra, quit sampling the frosting wait until the party starts!” Twilight shouted trying to coordinate the last minute arrangements for the party. Pinkie had snuck back to her library earlier and asked for help in setting up the last minute details. Twilight just couldn’t say no, she had already made a list for things t the party, it would’ve been a waste if she refused to help.

Pinkie was in the back making sure the entertainment was all set up and ready to go. Twilight didn’t know who that could possibly be. But right now, she didn’t have time to-

“Bon-bon, I swear if you even think about dipping your hoof in the punch, I will tape your hoof to your mouth and leave it there for the rest of the night,” Twilight so rudely interrupted my voice over. As you can see though, everything should be read-

“They’re coming!” Yelled a black coat and grey maned pegasus.

“Darn it, I thought we had more time, get that banner up, and everyone get to your places!” Twilight instructed everyone to get to their hiding spots. She spun around to make sure the banner was up and smiled before ducking behind
the stage that was setup. This was quite possibly going to be the best party ever.

“Shoot, gotta let Pinkie know!” Twilight said, before getting up and dashing to the back of the barn.

“Is everything set up?”

“Yeah, it’s all set up, all you have to do to bring it out, is push this button,”

“Really, that’s so cool!”

“Yeah, believe me, you have no idea how hard it was to set it up,”

“I appreciate it, Pinks, and I will do everything in my power to make this be the best party ever toni-oh, looks like we have company,” Pinkie turned around to see Twilight standing there, surprised.

“Pinkie, is that-“

“TWILIGHT, What’s going on, wait, don’t look, close your eyes!” Pinkie said before jumping over and placing a hoof over each of her friend’s eyes. She then motioned for the entertainer to hide somewhere. When she was sure Twilight couldn’t see the surprise guest, she took her hooves from Twilights eyes and grinned innocently.

“W-was that… never mind, they’re almost here, Pinkie,” Twilight said shaking her head slightly and giving a quick turn to head back to the main room.

“Already, that’s pretty fast, even for me,” Pinkie said, before pushing Twilight back out. Once she was gone, she went to talk to the entertainer again. A few last minute tweaks, but everything will be perfect. It had to be. She turned to her guest and smiled.

“I hope you’re ready, because it’s about show time!” Pinkie said excitedly before dashing out to go hide with the others.

“Yeah yeah, I’m ready…”

Back outside the barn…

“So, how big is this party?” Harry asked, trying to get a feel of how popular they can get tonight.

“I think just about everypony in Ponyville showed up,” Applejack said, trying to think back.

“Huh, that’s a pretty big party then, isn’t it?” I inquired, my nerves a bit on edge.

“Oh you know it, Pinkie throws some of the best parties, and ones like these, she makes sure everyone gets involved!” Dash exclaimed, trying to hype us up for it. Harry was all on board for it, I however, was not so built up for it.

We kept our pace up and soon we came up to the barn. It was fairly large, and if you listened closely, you could hear the hushed murmurs of the ponies inside. It sounded like a surprise party, but they weren’t doing a very good job keeping it quiet.

Applejack went to one of the large doors, and Rainbow Dash went to the other. They took hold and pulled them apart, revealing a large, dark room. We couldn’t really see anything until we could get something lit inside.

“Where is everyone?” I wondered. I turned to Harry who just shrugged. I turned my gaze back to the dark room and took a deep breath. Well, now or never. I started to make my way in, and Harry started following me.

The lights came on, and everyone jumped out and yelled, “SURPRISE!!!” which quite frankly scared the heck outta me. I almost instantly fell back and started hyperventilating.
Harry just jumped up and yelled, “AWSOME!”

It didn’t take long for me to recover, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t startled. Everyone there had mixed expressions of worry and elation towards us. It was… well… a bit weird for me. I think Harry was too hyped up to really pay attention. After glancing around the crowd, I carefully made my way to my… hooves… and gave a quick stretch, popping various points in my back and neck.

There was a silence among the crowd, and I wasn’t sure why. No one there was even whispering to one another. The silence was eventually broken by the familiar voice of Pinkie Pie.

"Everypony, please help me welcome Harry and David, they're new here in Ponyville," She said, somehow holding a megaphone. I was just about to ask how, where, and why... but before I could, murmuring sprang up, and we eventually had a few voices from the crowd gave a warm hello or welcome.

"They're going to be at Rarity's until they get set up with their own homes, and I'm sure they'll help if you ask because they're super duper duper nice!" Pinkie said, before barreling from the top of what looked like a stage, and grabbing my pal and I in a double side headlock.

"Ack, um... h-help... A-Applejack? Rainbow Dash?" I pleaded for help from the vice grip of the pink pony. It didn't take long for them to snicker and nudged Pinkie, who reluctantly released her grip. I gave a quick cough and took a deep breath. I looked over at Harry... who just flopped onto the ground, breathing for dear life.

This made a few of the ponies in the crowd chuckle lightly. I rolled my eyes... he was always such a drama queen...

Oh hush Davie, you like to exaggerate some too!

Point taken.

Oh, but here comes the best part!!!

And... the best part is...?

"Everypony, come inside, we're going to get this party started!" Pinkie said, before vanishing in a pink blur into the barn. Harry, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and myself all looked at each other briefly before trailing into the packed building.

Everyone glanced around trying to find the hostess. when a few of them gave up, they came and introduced themselves to us. There was one named Lyra, who when she isn't working part time at the bakery on the other side of town (owned by her friend, Bon-Bon), is busy composing works on a small harp, or Lyre as she calls it.

Another, named Cheerilee, works at the school. She sounded very nice, but something told me that she isn't lenient if you do anything she doesn't approve of. Then another one, Berry Punch, she manufactures bottles of wine, jelly, juice, anything that can be made with fruit. However, due to the lack of any fruit farms other than Sweet Apple Acres, she has to order her ingredients from other parts of Equestria.

There are a few more whose names escape me at the moment, but after about 20 or so minutes of meeting and greeting other residents, the party eventually sparked up when we got an earful of something with a microphone.

"Fillies and Gentlecolts, if I may direct your attention to the stage, I would like to once again welcome Harry and David to Ponyville!" a very bright and bubbly voice said over a large speaker system. A spotlight eventually came on, and quickly moved over to where we stood, and there was a light applause. Harry gave a big wave, I grinned sheepishly and fidgeted lightly.

It eventually spun back and pointed at the stage. On top of which, stood Pinkie Pie, wearing 3-d glasses, and had a few glow sticks strung around her neck.

"Now, one and all, put your hooves together, than stamp them on the ground for the one and only, Vinyl Scratch - DJ P0n-3!!!" she bouncced once and pulled the plug on the mic, causing a bit of feedback. there was a quick second spike of feedback as the speakers changed feeds to what I assume was a personal mic.

"Hey one and all, lemme hear ya if you're ready to get loose and get this part-ay really started!" came a voice from the speakers. The entire room came alive in an uproarious cheer.

We heard a beep, and all of a sudden, there rolled a low cloud of fog. First on the stage, but it slowly billowed out and covered the floor of the entire room. Everyone began chanting something, not entirely sure what though. I don't visit a whole lot of raves, so pardon if my chanting translation isn't up to snuff.

Then the stage seemed to come to life, and something started rising out of it. Everyone started cheering again, however, Harry and I just gave a blank stare before it started poking out of the low rolling fog. It looked... like a table of some kind.

How very astute of you, David.

What the... GET OUT OF MY NARRATION!

Sheesh, stingy...

Nosy...

We were beginning to get lost again when a bright flash of light appeared on the stage. It flared up and vanish, and the spotlight went ffrom a standard white light, to a magenta light. In place of the flash of light, stood a white unicorn with a blue mane and tail, and a cutie mark... in the shape of a musical note. She had a headset with a mic that reached around to near her mouth, and a pair of steam punk glasses. The glasses were a red frame and a greenish-blue shade of lenses.

"Now, lets get things kickin'!" she cheered, as her horn lit up. the aura reached out and shifted something on the table, which made the speakers come to life with music. Strangely enough, it was techno... Everyone in the room started dancing and bouncing to the beat.

The music and dancing lasted hours. It was a real blast, however nothing really got accomplished other than we learned that everyone loves this DJ P0n-3. She was alright, but techno is techno, after awhile it meshes together. I eventually got sore enough from the dancing that I decided to go bum around the snack table for a bit.

I wasn't the only one as there were a few others hanging around. Lyra and Bon-Bon were chatting under the music, and Twilight was at the other end, enjoying a cup of the punch that was sitting near her. I tried giving a light wave to her, but she wasn't paying attention. Figures.

I started glancing at all the different foods on the table. There were cupcakes, cookies, and gum drops, oh my! Slices of pie, and cake, and cups of already poured punch. I glanced at everything for the longest time, but I eventually just settled for a cup of punch and a cupcake I snagged on the way over to an empty corner. I slumped down to enjoy my snack in peace before I heard an all too familiar voice over the music.

"Sooooo, how ya likin' the party, isn't it awsome?" Pinkie said, still hyper, but a bit out of breath from nonstop dancing.

"Eh, its alright, not much of a rave lover myself," I said, before tossing the cupcake into my mouth and chewing it slowly, savoring its flavor. It turned out that this particular cupcake was chocolate, with a custard cream topping. It was mind-blowing to say the least.

"Well, you like the food at least, right?" Pinkie said, taking a seat next to me. I kept chewing slowly, savoring every bite into the succulent snack.

"Pinkie...thish... thish cupcake... ish... AMASHING!" I said, not even swallowing to give her an answer. It was that good! She lit up at that, and her eyes shone like the night sky. I hadn't noticed before swallowing the food and taking a sip of the punch. It was like someone took apple juice, mixed in blueberry, and a bit of strawberry and... something more...

"And how do you like the punch, I mixed it myself," She said, her face now shifting into a rather sly look... uhhhh ohhhh...

"P-Pinkie... what did you put in it?" I asked, a bit shaky now.

"Oh... just a few different juices... and... some... w-well..." She said, turning her gaze to the ground and giving a giggle. Oh dear sweet mother Mary, I think I just got drugged by a pink pony...

My eyes windened and my mouth dropped open... Pinkie used this to take my cup of punch, and pour the rest of it down my throat. I began tearing up and coughing. Pinkie blushed a bit, and giggled. My vision blacked out and the world fell into confusion once more...

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Author's Note : Sorry for the wait on this one as well. I kept getting home late and someone always beat me to the compuer. I decided to just continue this on my laptop. I will try to bring a new chapter in every week or two, work permitting. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter, and if you have anything constructive to add, please feel free to let me know.

Chapter 11 : What the Hay?

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, ponies, and pets of all ages, this is Harry here! And David, well... he's kinda out at the moment.

Hey Har, who ya talkin to?

Huh? Oh, well uhh... this is the narration device David uses.

A what?

I dunno, I snatched it from him when he was dancing to one of the songs earlier. Anyways, lets get on with the show, shall we?

Rewind to just after the party started...

"Hey Dave, what do you think would be the best place to hang out?" I asked barely audible over the thumping bass of the speakers. Thump thump thump...

"How should I know, we've only arrived today," David said, giving a quick roll of his eyes before returning to his ridiculous dancing. It was like a cross of the head bob from A Night At The Roxbury, and Jay's dance from Clerks 2.

"Right, well if we we're to hang out somewhere, where would you think we would go?" I asked again, trying to get some kind of answer out of the green stallion.

"Asking again isn't going to change my answer, Harry," David sighed, giving his head a quick shake. Before I could ask again, David and I got seperated from eachother. I looked around, and even went through the crowd to try and find him, but I felt like I was moving around in circles.

Resigning the search, I went back to dancing. Breaking out moves like the jitterbug, and thriller, I eventually ran into Rainbow Dash again. She was just doing a head bang timed to the rhythm of the music. I made my way over to her, and continued dancing next to her.

She noticed me and turned to ask ," Hey, how ya likin' the party? Pretty crazy, huh?" She grinned wildly and and leaned slightly towards me. I glanced around, getting a good look at the whole shindig. Ponies were dancing, eating snacks, and otherwise just cutting loose and having a great time.

I glanced back to see the eager pegasus locking eyes with me for the first time since we met. For a moment, and yeah I know this is gonna sound sappy, but time seemed to stand still. The music slowed and my breathing seemed to have vanished.

"Uhh... y-yeah..." I finally managed to spit out. Sweat began to form on my face. Dash chuckled and took a glance around the room. She saw a a few ponies there that she recognized, some from the weather team, some from other events that Pinkie had hosted in the past.

Then she locked on another face, over by the snack bar... then she locked on the snack bar. I folllowed her eyes over to the same spot, but she seemed to be staring at something I couldn't quite see. I sighed and leaned in close to her.

"Hey... what uhh... what're ya starin' at?" I asked her, then turning to give her an inquisitive look.

"I was just eyeing the-" she turned her head towards me at the same time and we uhh... accidentally... umm...

Oh come on, just say it, you two kissed.

I know we kissed, but by accident!

Ha, you know what's even more believable? Being friends, with benefits!

Keep laughing, I'll make sure to get you back down the road.

Harry, last time you said that, I got punched by a biker chick and you got yelled at by a gang of latin american activists.

Oh yeah...

I think we got of topic.

What? Oh right, yeah, why don't you finish?

Because its your chapter, you finish it.

Things got quiet, and very wierd after that. We didn't make eye contact after that, and we eventually split up. She went somewhere off to the other side of the room, I desperately tried to find a bathroom. Something told me I needed to splash some cold water on myself before things get rather embarrassing.

Over by the snack table...

Because Harry couldn't keep his composure through this chapter, lets get back to David... me, or something, I dunno.

"Hey, pssssst, David, are you okay?" said a worried Pinkie Pie. She tilted her head, and began examining me closely, not that I would know at the time. Every inch of me that she looked at hinted at nothing, but then again, she wasn't a doctor. She inched closer, trying to get a better look at me in the dim lights of the party barn.

Ha, party barn, that's a new one!

Yeah, well I work with what you give me.

Anyways, it stilll didn't show anything before someone... pony... somepony bumped into her, sending her into me face first. I was too out of it to feel it, but she tried to recoil away from me. Now, mind you, I was under, and had no control of my actions, and I cannot stress that enough.

But... when she was bumped into me and when she tried to push away from me, I uhh... kinda... wrapped my arms around her and... well... pulled her closer to me. At least that's what Pinkie said happened. Apparantly I held her like a kid would a stuffed animal, which quite frankly confuses me, since I never had any stuffed anything.

What!?! How did you get through childhood without a stuffed animal of some kind?

What do you mean? My life wasn't bad at all until about high school.

High what?

High... nevermind, just know that its a bad bad bad bad very bad place to go to. Think having one embarrassing event in your life follow you for years day in and day out, that's high school.

That sounds...

Right-ONWARD!

"Oof!" grunted the pink mare. She struggled against the grip of the stallion, but eventually gave up when she couldn't get anywhere. She took a deep breath and put her head on mine. I began mumbling at this point, but she couldn't hear it over the music. She wasn't too worried, she would just wait until either I woke up, or let go.

But something urged her to listen, that something would warrant her attention on this moment.

"mmm... n-no... s-someone..." she managed to make out over the music. To her it sounded like a call for help.

"I'm here, how can I help?" she whispered in my ear. When she said that, something happened. She noticed something happened, but couldn't figure out what. She put an ear closer to my mouth and listened for a second... then two... then five...

"Oh sweet Celestia, he isn't breathing!" Pinkie exclaimed, worry clear in her tone. She instantly broke from my grasp and dashed over to the snack table. She didn't have time to get help from anyone, she needed something to wake him up now! She glanced around the table and almost all of the refreshments were gone at this point. But she managed to find one last cup of punch, which she picked up and dashed over to me.

"Here we go, now-WAKE UP!" she said, splashing the room tempurature punch on me. No good, I just laid there, motionless. She gasped and went to me, putting a hoof on my chest. I wasn't breathing still, but my heart was beating. It was labored, and getting weaker, but it was still beating, which gave her a bit of hope.

"That wasn't enough, gotta get something bigger..." she said, looking around the room. First, she saw a bucket, but then thought no, it was too small. Then she saw a trough up on the wall, but then thought it was going to take to long to fill. Then... she eyed the bowl of punch.

The punch was still half full and had some ice in it to keep it cold. Perfect! All she had to do was go get it, bring it here, and drench David with it. It was foolproof! She sprang into action, heading straight for it when a cyan pegasus she knew all to well unknowingly stepped in her way.

"What the-DASHIE MOVE!" she exclaimed, trying to move out of the way of her friend. Dashie barely had time to see Pinkie sprinting towards her. Instinctively, Rainbow Dash ducked down a bit, making herself more of a speed bump to the charging pink pony. PInkie, however, couldn't get out of the way and wound up tripping over her friend. This caused her to fly off the ground just enough and with enough velocity hit the end of the table at such an angle that it turned the snack table into a catapult of psychotic sweets.

Cupcakes, cake slices, various apple treats, and some of the plates that didn't get used were tossed through the air, creating havoc and sugary mayhem wherever they landed. But the payload, the bowl of punch in question, was set and aimed straight for me. The contents were already going faster than the actual bowl, so when it it, I had just enough time to realize I was being hit with something.

Once the punch hit me, my eyes shot open and I took a deep breath. Then the bowl hit me, and shattered over my head.

"Ow... Say, is that how you wake everyone up or am I just that special?" I grumbled, not to anyone in particular, but I was flustered. I mean, first I was drugged, then it felt like someone gagged me, then I get woken up with ice cold... punch... with the ice still in it... and then its topped off with me getting emphatically stamped in the forehead by the punch bowl and having it break into pieces.

I looked around, trying to figure out just exactly what happened. What I saw was a trail of floor and ponies covered in various... well what looked like snacks. I was about to mutter something under my breath before something pink dashed down the line of ruined snacks and dove right into me. I couldn't hold up against the sheer force and got slammed against the wall and got a pair of pink forelegs wrapped around my neck.

I was speechless. Partially because once again, I got manhandled-

Colt-handled.

What?

The word you're looking for is colt-handled.

I... okay...

Colt-handled by a pink pony. But mostly because of the rapid explanation of the situation by Pinkie. I only caught punch, sleep, breathing, and launched.

"Okay okay, whoah whoah whoah... before we get into ANYTHING... is there a bathroom somewhere?" I said, gently pushing Pinkie back a bit to try and calm her down. She was reluctant, but she released her grip and looked me in the face.

"Oh, hehe, right, umm... I think there is one over in the house." Pinkie said, putting a hoof on my punch soaked mane and giggling like none of whatever happened had even occurred in a dream. I rolled my eyes and turned my head to the left, to see not only the cowgirl, but a familiar pegasus following her.

I sighed, and got up from the spot, giving a quick shake before making my way over to the door.

"Hey, mind if I come along?" I yelled, giving a quick wave to the 2 ponies near the door. They looked up and nearly busted out laughing. Probably because I was covered in punch.

"Haha, what' happened to ya pard'ner?" Applejack said, chuckling in between breaths.

"Yeah, hahaha, you look like-" Harry couldn't finish because Applejack gave him a quick elbow to the shoulder. Harry shut up, but kept snickering, which made me roll my eyes.

"Yeah yeah, I know I'm wet, that's why I need to go wash up real quick," I explained, although rather irritably. Applejack nodded, and motioned for us to follow her. We wandered through the dark a short distanced before coming to a two-story house. There was one light on inside and the rest was dark.

"Alright, now before we go in, I need y'all ta be quiet as a couple a church mice, Big Mac and Applebloom are sleepin' an' they don' take kindly ta' bein' woke up," Applejack explained, turning to Harry and I and giving us a very serious look. We looked at eachother, then back to Applejack and gave her a quick salute and nod.

She sighed, and turned to lead us into the house. Creeping up the porch, we were careful to make sure we didn't make any of the boards creak. Applejack opened the door slowly, and lead the way in the house, with Harry and I following close behind. It really didn't seem like anyone else was up, but the light was coming from a candle in what looked like a living room.

She led us to a short hallway and gently kicked open a door. We peered around the corner and got a look to the farm house bathroom. It was larger than we thought and we looked at eachother. Wordlessly we made gestures and eventually came to the understanding that as long as neither of us had to relieve themselves, we were gonna both go in.

"Thanks, we'll be out shortly," Harry whispered before dashing through the doorway. I just nodded and followed suit. Applejack tilted her head in confusion, but before she could ask, the door was closed.
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Author's Note : Ladies and Gentlemen, Mares and Gentlecolts, and pets of all ages! 'Tis I, David, author, co-star, and cynical green earth pony. I have come from the verge of my drug induced coma to reveal a very odd second point for this party. Yes, it is a rather long party, and I'm not going to highlight every point of it. Anywho, stay tuned for the next installment.

Chapter 12 : Afterthoughts

So there we were... in Applejack's bathroom with the rest of her family sleeping just above us. We quietly shifted our positions in the bathroom, putting me closer to the shower, and Harry closer to the sink. Harry ran a bit of cold water and splashed it on his face... somehow...

"Well that was wierder than our moms telling us your mom jokes in public," Harry sighed, staring in the mirror.

"You could say that... jeez, I'm so sticky..." I said, checking to see if there were any towels in the room. There was one on the towel bar next to the shower. "Hey, Harry, I'm gonna take a quick shower to get this punch off me," I said, pulling back the shower curtain (which had apple print on it.) and climbing in.

"Yeah, I meant to ask you, what's with that?" Harry inquired, shaking the water from his coat. "Wait, if you're gonna shower now, at least wait until I leave, the last thing I want to see is you naked, cleaning yourself," Harry turned his head away, shielding his eyes from my direction.

"Harry, news flash, nobody here has been wearing clothes, so you won't see anything you haven't seen all day," I rolled my eyes and pulled the shower curtain between us.

"How do you know, are you a pony?" Harry asked, giving a a sly grin.

"Let's see... four legs... tail... mane... nagging obsession to eat hay, apples, carrots, and assorted vegetation... I dunno, what do you think?" I said, turning the water on. My eyes shot wide open as the water hit me.

"GY-mmmmphhhhhhh!" I said, feeling a hoof being forced into my mouth.

"Shhhhhhh..." Harry hushed me, but I couldn't do anything to push the hoof from my mouth, and the cascading cold water did nothing to help. My eyes darted over to the tempurature control and it was simple, one knob marked "C" for cold water, one "H" for hot water. I reached out and turned the knob for hot water turning the icy cold stream into a lukewarm rain. I sighed, and the hoof in my mouth removed itself.

"We good?" Harry asked.

"I suppose... don't ever stick your hoof in my mouth again, I have no idea where its been." I sighed, and began scrubbing the punch from my coat. This might take awhile, so lets shift the focus to the two mares we were just making awkward scenes with last chapter.

Back to the party...

Pinkie was dashing around, trying to clean up the mess she inadvertently caused while trying to snap David from his spiked punch induced nightmare. Rainbow Dash, wasn't doing much dashing. Instead, she was leaning against the table (now standing upright on its legs like it should be) trying to piece together what had just happened.

"Okay... One minute, I'm walking to the snack table..." Dash mumbled to herself, mentally marking her path her mind. "Then I look to the right... and Pinkie Pie was running at me... I ducked, and the turned the table into a-"

"Hi Dashie, I'm sooooo sorry about earlier, I didn't see you until it was too late but I couldn't stop because Davie drank some punch and fell asleep and stopped breathing and-MMMPH!" Pinkie was not only next to Dash, but was talking in a feverish pace which would be wierd... if you weren't Pinkie Pie that is. She was stopped by her slightly annoyed friend in the classic manner of covering the mouth with her hoof. This time, though, her friend was so hype, when Dash went to cover Pinkie's mouth, her hoof actually went IN her mouth.

"Pinkie, if you want to slow down, that's fine, I'm not going anywhere... yet," Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and slowly withdrew her hoof from her pink friend's mouth. When Dash's hoof was removed, Pinkie took a deep breath and, as calm as she could, told Rainbow Dash about what had happened.

"Well, me and Davie were over here hanging out, when he took a drink of punch and fell asleep-" Pinkie was interrupted by Rainbow Dash right at this point.

"Just one drink? Ha ha ha! What a lightweight!" Rainbow Dash chuckled, which brought an unexpected glare from Pinkie. Dash stopped chuckling, and motioned for her friend to continue.

"Right, anyways, he fell asleep, and someone bumped me into him," PInkie said, taking a deep breath.

"Oh? You sure it was a bump and not something else?" Dashie nudged her friend, who turned to give her friend an innocent, if not concerned look.

"What do you mean, Dashie?" Pinkie said, giving her friend an inquisitive tilt of her head. Dash rolled her eyes and smiled.

"Nothing, I'll tell you later," Rainbow Dash sighed, and patted her friend on the head. "Anyways, you were saying David wasn't breathing, he seemed alright when I caught a glimpse of him, although he did look... stickier than usual..." Dash said, remembering what little she did of the situation.

"Oh right, so he wasn't breathing, so I went and got some punch, and dumped it on him." Pinkie said, imitating her mad dash back and fourth between the table and where David was when he was sleeping. "But he didn't wake up, so I tried finding something that had more water to dump on him, and the closest thing was the bowl of punch, which got launched and dropped on him, waking him up."

Rainbow Dash just nodded and rubbed the back of her head.

"So, how was your night, Dashie? Meet any cute stallions?" Pinkie Pie leaned in close to her friend.

"I... what?" Rainbow Dash was taken aback by the question. Pinkie's smile widened just a bit.

"Ohhhhh... so there is one, isn't there?" Pinkie slyly remarked, nudging her friend suggestively.

"Wait, no, it's not like that!" Rainbow Dash tried to explain the situation to her friend, who politely listened in, but kept that sly smirk on her face during the whole bit. Pinkie giggled as Rainbow Dash finished her story, and reassured her that all was well. Rainbow Dash didn't quite agree with her friend, but relaxed some, and the two began discussing the rest of the party.

[center[bBack at the Farm House]]"I didn't even think it was possible..." I sighed, my right eye twitching slightly.

"I know, she didn't hit me or anything!" Harry exclaimed in a hushed tone.

"No, I mean I didn't think it was possible that it took you so long to find Applejack," I rolled my eyes. I had stopped my shower after getting the punch out of my coat, and was toweling off when Harry told me about his kiss with Rainbow Dash.

"I mean, she didn't really respond, but we split up right after," Harry said, panic starting to show in his voice. I finished drying my mane and moved over to him, placing a hoof on his shoulder.

"Harry, relax, things happen and while I don't know how you... accidentally lock lips, there isn't anything that can change it," I replied, trying to calm him down. It had some effect, but he was still a bit... jumpy, shall we say? "Right, anyways, we should probably get out of here, before something... happens..."

Harry wasted no time and moved to the door, opening it and stepping aside. "After you, mon ami." I shook my head and started making my way to and through the door. I got halfway out before running into something... hard...

"Ow, he-" I said, getting a clearer look at what looked like a horse-shaped battle tank. "Ohhhh..... hey... am... am I in your way?"

"Eeyup." was the response. I felt my eyes start to twitch and, very carefully, I maneuvered out of the small space. I took deep breath before hearing Harry run into the same problem I did. He said something I didn't quite catch, but made his way towards me.

"Hey, David, did you see that guy back there? he was huge!" Harry exclaimed. I heard a quiet chuckle coming from behind me and I whirled around.

"Hehe, met Big Mac' did ya?" a smug Applejack asked.

"Ye-"

"Is that his name? How did he get so big? He's not gonna beat us up, is he?"

Applejack stared blankly at Harry before snapping out of it.

"Uhh... no, he isn't gonna do nothin' like that, an' as far as I know, he's always been that big. Could be all th' farm work he does." Applejack said, giving us a straight-faced nod. Harry glanced nervously over his shoulder.

"Hum, right, well it's getting pretty late" I said, looking at Harry who glanced at me, smiled, and then turned to look at the farm mare in front of us.

"Yeah, I think we should get you back to Rarity," Applejack stated and proceeded to lead us out of the farm house and back towards the barn, where all but a few of the party goers were already on there way home. Rarity, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, and Vinyl Scratch were waiting for us outside. Once we met up with them, we were introduced more formally to Vinyl, the DJ.

Nothing much was said as she left shortly after, something about another gig and a 5 hour flight. I dunno. Afterwards though, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie decided to head home, leaving Harry, Rarity, and myself there.

"Ahem, right, well gentlemen, shall we proceed home?" Rarity asked, but didn't wait for an answer. Harry didn't waste a second before trailing her. I smirked, and gave a quick look around before taking after the others. Whatever waits us tomorrow is sure to be crazy.

Author's Note

Alrighty guys, here's the skinny on this.

I believe we all don't want to wait for individual chapters to come along, seeing as this one took the better part of a few months due to laziness on my part. Instead of chapters, I'll just do whole short stories. Also, might change the POV on them, while it was fun doing it this way, it gets pretty hard sorting the ideas out on paper.

I apologize for the extreme laziness and procrastination on my part, and do remind you that I have work in the morning. so please keep the nighttime raids on my house between the hours of 6pm-10pm. Thank you.

Note to the Readers

To my readers:

I hope this finds you well. I am currently working on the sequel to "What you call 'Ponies' I call 'Tuesday'." I'm doing this in an easier to read POV and I'm outlining everything so it's easy to understand. While I like how my first story started, it turned to be much to difficult to commit to the chapters in the same style after a bit. I hope you all understand, and don't be afraid to send a note to me with any requests on what you'd like to see me write. This story is free and more for you all to enjoy.

Also, don't think for a minute anything's going to change with my characters. Harry and myself are still going to have some wacky adventures, just in an easier to write setting.

I look forward to hearing from you all! And remember, friendship is magic!

David (Serothi)

P.S. I will release the title of the new story in this note, so keep an eye on this, if you aren't already following me.

Update : Apologies

Dear Readers,

First, I would like to apologize for the wait for the next chapter. I have recently started writing it, and it has taken me this long due to family problems and my new job. Everything seems to be settling down, so I will be writing the chapter over the course of this week.

Second, I would like to say that against my better judgement, I have fallen behind on the series. I have just watched the season finale, and will currently try to go back and fill in the few episodes I missed. Yes, I have brony friends, but they kept trying to spoil the finale for me, so I haven't been online in awhile.

I promise once the chapter is out, I will push the story fourth faster and with much more of the hilarity and just plain wierd experiences that me and my 'bro' would be a part of in the world of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Please sit tight, chapter 9 should be on its way...

C-can I go to bed now, Pinkie?

Not yet, now GET TYPING...

But.... I have work....

Are... you saying... you're going to break a Pinkie Promise?

N-no...?

...

Bad news everyone
The desktop where my story was stored died. Since I have it all uploaded, I have up to chapter 8, but all the work I had for the 9th is gone. Apologies, I will try to get it typed and out this weekend.