Equestria; a journey with equines

Chapter 8

Signal Spike

I cannot believe what I am seeing, and quite obviously, neither can the audience.

The audience consists of a couple hundred ponies around the stage, except in the centre of the crowd, is something shocking. A big ass cake! The cake is absolutely massive and layered higher than a house. Pinkie is stood on the top layer with a smile that could rival the cake itself. This cake looks more appetising than Captain Diabetus! Oh god, I hope I get some before Pinkie devours it whole.

Around the cake, members of the audience are holding a variety of coloured banners. The most prominent banner is held aloft by four ponies: Lyra (figures...), Bonbon, Carrot Top and Derpy Hooves. The banner reads 'Welcome to Ponyvill', it seems like they couldn't fit it all in.

The shock on my face at seeing such a sight is rivalled by the absolute shock that the audience is showing, well, apart from a few smiling faces. It is perfectly clear that the majority of the ponies before me were not expecting a being of such strange form. Then again, if that's so, then what the fuck was Celestia talking about! I mean, she was introducing me publicly wasn't she? And somehow she managed to miss out the part that I'm human!

The crowd is absolutely silent. Deathly silent. Even I am, despite my internal argument.

I step forward, next to the Sun Goddess. She flashes me a warm smile. Between us is a microphone, perched on a stand. Hmmm...

I use my magic to hover over the mic, such a display caused gasps in the audience. I thought they were accustomed to magic, seeing they live with it. I raise the piece of electrical equipment over to my face. I open my mouth to speak, I've never been much of a public speaker, so this is going to be difficult.

My phone rings. The ringtone filling the silence with loud music.

The audience shuffle around and look at each other nervously, even a little confused. However, they probably expected less than I did. I have to say, that timing is incredible.

I take the phone out of my pocket, it's still playing music. I float the mic back over to its stand and excuse my self from the front of the stage. Celestia has a look of worry, probably because the last time it rang, a deranged Lyra broke down a door.

"Hello?" I answer the phone. I can hear Celestia in the background addressing the crowd of confused ponies.

"Michael! Where are you?"

"Daddy? Is that you?"

"Yes! Now, where are you? I've been waiting in the airport and your plane never arrived." Strange. I been here for more than a day.

"It crashed."

"What?"

"The plane, it crashed."

"Fuck. Are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm okay. But, I was just in the middle of something really important and I need to get back to it. Sorry for any inconveniences, I'll contact you again shortly. Bye."

"But..." I hang up. I hate to leave him like this, he's probably very worried right now. But, this is important, you never get another first impression. I check the signal, full bars. How very peculiar, I wonder what's causing the sudden signal spike.

I return to the front of the stage, where the Princess is trying to buy me time. How kind. I retake my position alongside her, floating the microphone back over to my mouth, much to the surprise of Celestia, who didn't even notice me return.

"Fillies and Gentlecolts, I am truly sorry for this sudden delay. But you must understand, my father just contacted me. He was really worried. The reason being that my appearance here was a accident, that saved me from death. A transport error, that caused me to be with you now. I arrived here, on a planet that is not my own, and only seek your friendship. I wish to live alongside you in harmony. And I am thankful, to have a few among you that have already accepted my friendship. Namely, the princesses, Twilight and Fluttershy. I sincerely hope that you can show me the same level of kindness and hospitality to a lost and lonely traveller. My name, is Michael. I'm a human and it's been a pleasure being in Equestria so far. Finally, from the look on Pinkies face, I think I could safely assume that it about time to cut the cake." Wow, that was really hard, especially since it was entirely improvised. I hope I will never have to do it again. Ever.

The crowd bursts into applause, Pinkie and the surrounding ponies dive into the cake. Celestia smiles.

"That was pretty impressive, I think they like you."

"Yeah, I hope so too." I depart into the crowd of ponies to get some cake.

I'm absolutely swarmed by ponies introducing themselves and asking me simple questions about where I come from and stuff. So many questions, but I manage to get to the cake eventually.

The cake looks even bigger up close, enormous. I reach for a slice, only to see it disappear before my very eyes. What? I reach for another, only for it to disappear also. I reach for another, and another. To no avail. They all disappear in a cloud full of crumbs. Fuck, and that cake looks so delicious.

"Michael!" Twilight bounds over to me, closely followed by 5 other ponies.

"Oh, hey Twilight."

"These are my friends..."

"Yeah, Twilight, no need for introductions. I already know the names of the elements of harmony. That, and I really need some cake." I reach for another slice of cake, it disappears too. "Damnit!"

The elements look at me confused. I knew they were the elements, I said I knew their names and I'm being plagued by disappearing cake. If I were them, I would be pretty confused too.

"Problem?" Oh no, could it be? Trollestia!?

I turn to the sound of the voice. Nope, it's just Luna, with the cake that had mysteriously vanished.

"Why?" I say, rather melodramatically.

"Because you funny when your angry." Wait, what.

"And you look funny covered in cake." Her face contorts into a look of confusion because, of course, she wasn't covered in cake.

Click!

I click my fingers with a flash of darkness. Magic. All the stolen cake decides to dump itself all over the princess of the night. She's absolutely covered.

Twilight and her friends gasp at the scene before them, I had just humiliated the princess. Well, really I would call it playful revenge. Because revenge ends in suffering, and there was no suffering as both me and the princess are laughing our asses off. Or flank in her case.

It seems me and Luna are getting along nicely, if only I could shake the feeling of being watched. I need to get out of this crowd. Anyway, I said I would contact my dad again.

"Right. Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash and Princess Cake, I'm off to the library. I have some stuff I need to do." I depart towards the library, I make sure to grab some cake before I go.

The cake is amazing, better than I ever could of imagined. It's so good. I'm sad that it's gone.

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