Welcome to Equestria, Please do not Wrangle the local Wildlife

Lonestar had absolutely no idea where he was going. Upon landing in the middle of a forest on some planet he didn't recognize, with no signs of civilization in sight, he picked a random direction and set off, hoping that he would find some kind of intelligent life. However this strategy was turning out to be unsuccessful as he had been walking for about eight hours straight now, his genetically engineered body required very little sleep so he was able to keep trudging all throughout the night. The sun had finally started to rise, and he was glad for the extra warmth it provided as he quickened his pace.

Twilight hadn't slept a wink all night, she had been completely restless thinking about that close call they had had with the meteor. She got up from her bed and trotted downstairs to get a small glass of water. When she arrived at the bottom of the steps she found spike, asleep and snoring in his basket. She smiled fondly at her number one assistant and carefully stepped over him. She walked over to her shelves and picked out a book called [Asteroids, Meteors, and other astronomical Objects and began to read through it.

A few hours later she was finding that what looked like a meteor most likely was something completely undocumented by science. The color and brightness of the burn it had when flying overhead was completely off for normal meteors entering Equestria's magical atmosphere. She pondered this information over in her head, if it wasn't a meteor, what was it?

The next day the six ponies and spike had gathered in the library, they were discussing the mysterious object and the reply letter Celestia had sent to them with instructions.

Dear Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Spike,

In regards to the letter you sent me informing me of the mysterious object that crashed into the Everfree forest, I believe that the best course of action would be to investigate the crash site and see if you can discern what the object is. Upon doing  so, please immediately send me a letter detailing your findings. I would love to be there with you for this but several other strange objects such as this have been reported across the night sky and I am trying to keep the press from causing a panic.

Princess Celestia

Rainbow Dash gave the group a smug look, "See! I told you we should've gone and looked at that thing, even the Princess says so."

Rarity gathered herself up, "Well if the princess needs our help then we shall do all in our power to help her!" She was met with a cheer and they began to plan out their search into the Everfree in way not-at-all-exactly-like-in-Dragonshy.

A ways into the forest they began to find traces of the object. Traces such as a section of trees in a ten foot radius that were completely burnt down with a large crater in the center.

Fluttershy gasped upon seeing this, "Oh my goodness! What if there was anything living here?." she flew over to the charred husks to check for any signs of life.

"Umm Fluttershy? I think we have a bigger problem to worry about on our hooves." Rainbow dash said with a worried tone. She pointed to the edge of the burned foliage, "Look, there's tracks leading away from it." They all looked at the strange tracks and then began to quickly run after them talking to each other with emotions ranging from excitement to terror as they ran.

"I wonder what it looks like? Maybe it will have a bunch of eyes all on the same head! and then it will have another head with all of its noses!" Pinkie Pie rattled out as she bounced alongside Rarity.

"Uurgh Where do you come up with these things Pinkie? That just sounds dreadful." Rarity replied with a disgusted look on her face. She then promptly ran through a patch of mud and was splattered from hoof to mane. She gave a look of complete irritation in no real direction and continued on with the others.

The sound of galloping hooves reached Lonestar's ears as he plodded along, much of his motivation gone.  He began to think about what situations this might lead to, "Well, this ain't any planet I recognize so I doubt its a posse after me, it sounds like a lot of whatever it is though, better be ready. He quickly un-holstered his rapid-fire blaster and began to finger his dynamite and Hyper-Bull generator as they closed in on him. A cacophony of bright pastel colored ponies burst through the undergrowth and right into his line of sight, he cautiously kept his blaster held downwards in case they were intelligent and friendly. This didn't seem very far fetched to him as he had been created by a semi-sentient race of cow people. He decided it would be best to wait for them to make the first move

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The purple pony which appeared to be the leader by her position in the front of the group spoke up, "Uhhh, hi?" Lonestar was relieved, they spoke Inter-Galactic Basic which was the standard language that was used across the majority of the universe. He decided that the best course of action would be to introduce himself and not immediately lasso all of the Horse-like species like every fiber of his cowboy body was urging him to do.

"Er, Howdy, I don't suppose you folks would happen to have any kind of food would you? I'm starving and the squirrels that got cooked in my landing didn't taste very good." He thought that seemed like a peaceful enough thing to say but he was surprised when the yellow one with a pink mane and what appeared to be wings just passed out completely. "What's wrong with her?" he looked at her prone form with interest.

Aother winged one with the mane that looked like an insane hippie had dyed it rose off the ground, "If you think you can just come to our world and kill animals to eat them, you've got another think coming!" She raised her front hooves in what appeared to be a boxing stance, although it looked so ridiculous that Lonestar couldn't help but smirk. "Lady, if you wanna take me on feel free, but its gonna end up with you hogtied on the ground looking awful stupid."

Twilight butted into the conversation before it could escalate into a fight, "EX-cuse me but I don't suppose that we could take this conversation back to the castle? These woods aren't safe and we'd like to be able to talk to you with more pleasant surroundings."

The cowboy looked at her suspiciously, "you ain't gonna try and trap me or nothing are ya? 'Cause that ain't gonna end well."

Twilight's eyes widened and she hurriedly explained what she wanted, "Oh no no no, we just want to ask you some questions about who... and for that matter what you are, we've never had contact with your species before."

Lonestar sighed, "Well fine I guess, but I'm watching you." and with that they began to make their way back to Twilight's castle.