Meeting Ponies is Magic

That took forever! Thought Evan as he exited the cottage.

He managed to have Fluttershy let him go by telling her it was getting late and no pony knows where he is. Luckily, she had patched him up well enough and the food that she feed him did all right to fill him but he was starting to get hungry again. He looked at his watch and his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

“5:10!?” it was WAY late, “how could I have spent so much time!”

He needed to get back to the farm, and fast! He ran into the woods and made sure he wouldn’t be watched then flew up into the closest cloud. The flying wonder took a more direct rout then he had earlier to get back to the farm as quickly as possible. As he passed over the mane road out of the small village he looked to his left and froze where he was. The scientist saw something he thought to be impossible. It was a house made of clouds in the sky.

Ok, things have gone from weird, to just plane freaky.

He stared at the impossibility for a while. How did something that a magic bean owner would be mortally afraid of, pass from fairy tail, to reality? The seeker of knowledge wanted to study the fascinating anomaly but he recalled his earlier hast.

I’ll study it later, hopefully it won’t move to far, thought Dr. Kelly.The hell bound human sped toward the farm to try and save himself from any repercussions for his recent actions. As he was speeding he looked back to see that something blue was trying to follow him through the clouds.

“What is it with me and being caught today?” thought the frustrated human.

Then he saw it more clearly when he noticed the multicolored hair. It had wings just like the yellow equine he had met earlier. “If only Fluttershy would have let me get a question in edgewise I would have known there were more of them,” Evan fumed. He assumed that she was a shunned freak because she lived so far away from society. He would have felt ashamed for the assumption, but he had more important things on his mind. Like getting away from a pony that might be out to kill him.

He picked up the pace flying as fast as he could to loose the blue rainbow, but she matched him speed for speed, gaining all the while.

He saw that they were over the forest that he had been in just yesterday morning. “let’s see if you can follow me through trees.” He dove into the forest to escape his pursuer, slowing down to avoid hitting trees. He thought that any living thing that could fly would NEVER follow in a forest at such speeds. But somehow, these ponies keep throwing him curve balls. She followed in and not only kept pace, but never slowed down, gaining distance evan faster.

“What the hell! Does it have a death wish… gota’ give it props though, it’s got guts,” Thought the man. He started to get a lump in his throught at the thought of what would happen if he didn't out run it. "Or maybe I'll out smart it", he thought.

just before she reached him he stopped behind a tree.

“Whoa!” Evan heard from the passing blue blur.

He flew strait up through the trees into a cloud, did a 90-degree turn, and flew within the cloud to escape. “Sorry, not in the mood to be caught flying today,” he chuckled to himself. He reveled at his great escape until the cloud came to an end. The sky spread arose the horizon without another cloud in sight. His mind came up with the worst possible outcome before he made the rash decision to peek over the top of the failed get-away. The view before him told the escapee that his pessimistic predictions were correct. The entire sky was clear with the exception of the cloud he was hiding in. The trapped lab-rat ducked back down in the cloud as he saw the cyan nightmare emerge from the top of the fluffy looking substance.

“Oh, what do I do, What do I do, What do I do?” There was no escape.

He would surely be seen if he were to leave the view obscuring cloud. But if he stayed, she would find him eventually.

“I Know your here! There’s no were to go!” unfortunately she wasn’t stupid too.

Evan did nothing to answer the winged pony but instead thought of different options he could take. Panic made him work overtime for a solution to his problem.

“Not talkin’ huh? Well I can fix that.” *POMF*

A piece of the cloud got dispersed to the wind to which the man of physics gawked. “Everything I know is a lie.” This went against all what he had learned about cloud structure.

*POMF* “I can do this all day!” He shook his head to clear his muddled mind. There was no time to come up with another plan.

*POMF* another large piece of the cloud was removed which made Evan jump before returning to his thoughts. “Come on, how can I get out of this.” The frantic scientist kept reaching for ideas but it was like trying to catch sand with a sieve. The white haired man looked up to see the shadow of the cloud-kicking pony. He moved as quickly away from the soon open area as he could. *POMF* the bit of cloud behind him disappeared and caused his shoes to be revealed for a fraction of a second before he tucked them into the cloud left. Now there was nothing but a small patch of cloud to keep him covered.

Rainbow Dash was sick of this thing. At first she thought it was some perv stallion that had tried to stalk her. But now after getting closer to it, she knew it was no pony. She was tempted to knock out the last bit of cloud to get a better look at it and know what it was she was dealing with, but she knew that if she did, the whole chase would start all over again. It was better to get her questions answered at to what it was doing snooping around her home then to sate her own curiosity.

She puffed herself up to look intimidating as she said, “alright no more messing around now tell me what it is your doing here an-“

"Holy crap! what is that!?" Evan exclaimed.

The cyan pegasus turned to look the other direction to search for what it was that was so deserving of such surprise. "where? what is it? I can't see it!" she then realized it's potential trickery as she turned around to buck the last bit of cloud to find nothing in it. "Horse feathers."

There was a road that linked a large apple farm from the main part of town. Many ponies traveled it because it was the best place to buy grand bushels of apples. However, the only one on this road at the time was one of the farmers that worked there. The orange pony warring a Stilton hat trotted along making happy hoof clops on the dirt road as she returned from a hard days work. The cause of her good mood was that she had sold over half of her cart and gained quite a few bits in the process. Not only that but her brother was about to loose another family bet because there was no way that her older red brother could do the paperwork AND clear out a quarter of the south field by himself.

The calibration would have to wait though, because just as she arrived to the farm home, she saw a creature enter the barn in a somewhat rushed fashion.

“That must be that varmint from this mornin,” she said out loud “Oh, that things gona pay fer messen with the apples!”

Evan ran from the trees franticly getting to his barn-home. He closed the door, hoping that the pony wouldn’t follow. He breathed slow and deep breaths to calm his nerve’s which where going haywire.

“Okay,” he said to himself. He was pacing back and forth around the barn while muttering to himself. “I can’t believe that worked. There is no way that he… she… It should have been fooled by the oldest trick in the book.” Taking a few more short breaths the previously chased one calmed his mind.

His problems would seem to only get worse, as the barn door flung open exposing the scientist to the orange and blond pony he had seen earlier this morning. He froze from his pacing to see the intruder of his given barn-home. she just stood there not making a sound while staring at him. Her green iris’s where shrunk and the size if pins as she stared, giving away the emotion she felt. Evan slowly and calmly moved to calm her.

“Now, let me explain.”

“You won’ take me or ma family!” she screamed as she charged him. He was able to side step her but she seemed just as resilient as her brother, and with his luck just as strong. Thankfully he remembered the rope that was among the tools and made a dash for it as she turned to charge him again. He was able to narrowly doge the other charge as he dove for the rope. He turned to see that she was coming full circle. He ran for the hay and saw there was nowhere else to go. He franticly looked for a way out of the pummeling pony that was rocketing straight for him. His fear grew as the orange missile almost reached its target. It was the white haired one’s fear that saved him as he jumped, sailing over the female farmer causing the orange one to land head first in a pile of hay with her rear end sticking out. Evan quickly tied her rear legs and pulled her out to hog-tie her as she was still disoriented.

Evan started pacing again, trying to regain his wits and hopefully salvage this situation when she came to her senses. “Please don’ hurt ma family!” she begged, “if’n ya take only me ill help ya all ah can!” tears streamed down her face as she tried to beg for the lives of her family.

Evan took a large breath to try and catch it. “Not this again.” He breathed.

Then he heard a familiar voice, “Applejack! You wont believe what I saw!”

The voice was not a welcome one. The pony herder spun to see cyan and other prismatic colors emerge from the side of the barn.

The wigged pony’s rose-red eyes narrowed at the view before her. “You!”

“Why me!” the human groaned as the pony flew to charge him.

She flew low on the ground to knock him off his feet, but that fear returned, causing the human to do a front flip to avoid it. As fate might have it, he was still near the hay bail and the cyan one fell for the same trick as her blond friend becoming disoriented. The human managed to hog-tie the stunned pony with the rest of the rope that still held the orange one. He managed to finish the last knot as the spectrum haired one regained herself and started immediately to struggle free.

“Why you! Let me go right now! I’m going make sure your mom doesn’t recognize you!” all kinds of slurs started to come from the cyan mare as only pleas came from the other.

The noise was not allowing the scientist to think and all this excitement had gotten him a little confused and annoyed. So he did the only thing he could think while under the stress of the noise.

“SHUT! UUUUUP!” he screamed at the top of his lungs as both ponies shrunk and huddled next to each other in fear.

Evan sighed at the sad scene as he calmly said, “I am not here to kidnap or enslave anything.” His temper started to rise again at just the thought of himself doing such a thing and his next words came out a little more irritated then he meant them to sound.

“So Please! Stop trying to knock me senseless so I can explain myself!”

“And then you can take us in our sleep! Do you think we’re foals?” Came the accusations from the winged one.

“If I wanted to kidnap anyone I would have done it already and been on my way!” he sighed as he realized from the now shivering ponies that that didn’t help the situation. “Here, let me get Big Mac and he’ll explain.”

“Evan, who the hay you talkn’ to?” the human turned to see the burly pony.

The mares looked at the red farmer as they said in unison “Macintosh help!”

Big Macintosh glared at the human as hands waved in front of the red farm pony. “I had no choice! They charged me without a word edgewise!”

The red pony stared on for a small while. But slowly, he cracked a smile and stared to laugh out loud as the mares looked on in confusion. “Ah bet those two gave you ah run fer yer money.”

The scientist sighed with relief as it a bomb was finally defused. “Luck seems to have a love hate relationship with me,” he said and joined in on the laughter.

“Will someone explain ta me what in tarnation is going on?!” came the orange farmer.

“Yah,” came her rose-eyed support, “what’s with this buddy, buddy business?”

“Whell ah was hopn’ ta tell ya bout this after tha field was cleared, but someone finished early,” he said as he raised an eyebrow in the direction of Evan.

The human’s shoulders rose, as he said, “not my fault you didn’t believe me.”

“Explain!” “Now!” came the corresponding replies from the tied up glaring mares.

“Well now that your tied up let me explain,” Evan said chuckling a little as he proceeded to explain the situation with Big Mac to back him.

“… And that’s when I came in the barn and you two ambushed me.”

Evan told most of the story, as Big Macintosh was rather silent because he wanted to know where the human had run off too. He had started to look for him when lunch was ready and couldn’t find him. He did however, find the empty apple field and full mill which brought around a pang of guilt of having told him off. He had thought that the poor thing had left forever without seeing true Apple hospitality so he was glad to hear the noise and sounds of him arguing when heading to the barn.

“I don’t believe one bit of this story!” came the now untied cyan pony hovering in the air a safe distance from the biped. “There is no way Fluttershy would act like that! She’s way to shy. And I saw you flying!” she stubbornly stated.

The man had covered the flight over saying that he had “snuck” over to Fluttershy’s to learn more about this world of equines. Since he hated lying he replied with a lifted eyebrow, “does it look like I can fly?” A cold chill crept down the white haired mans spine as daggers flew from rose-colored eyes.

“Rainbow, he’s got ah point,” came the Stetson warring one. She turned to the yellow-eyed man with her eyes aimed toward the ground, “sorry ah attacked ya Evan. It was wrong of me ta make assumptions.”

The human smiled, “no problem. You were protecting your family. Big Mac did the same thing, and he caused more damage.” Evan lifted his shirt to emphasize with the wrapped up patchwork that the butter mare had so kindly provided. As he replaced his shirt he said, “I’ll even do you a favor and leave what you said between us. It was very touching though.”

Applejack blushed, “ah mightily appreciate it.”

“So what now. You can’t possibly want this thing around the house; it will make all kinds of problems. Not to mention that if the town were to find out, there’d be mass panic! It's gotta’ go.”

Evan’s eyebrows came together at being called an “it” and “thing”.

“Ah think that we should talk ta Twi on this one. After all he’s been honest, and I feel he’s sincere about not wantn’ ta hurt any pony.”

“Applejack, come on! This thing is a disaster waiting to happen!” rainbow seemed to be more offended then angry as she flared her feathers at the blond mare.

“Rainbow I’ll hear no more ah this. We’re goin’ ta Twi’s and bringin’ her back.”

“Lets at least get Rarity and Fluttershy. I don’t believe that he went anywhere near Fluttershy, and Rarity can bring some sense to this argument.”

“Fihn, I’ll get Twilight while you get the others.”

“Got it!” the cyan pony turned to the young scientist “Don’t YOU go anywhere.” And with that she was off in a spectrum of color.

Evan sighed, “like I’ve got anywhere else to go.”

The blond one wore concern as she said, “don’ worry. Ah’m sure Twilight will think of somthin’.”

She trotted out the door leaving him and the first pony he ever met in the red barn.

“Now, how did you say you harvested those apples so fast?” the red pony asked

Coming up with no other answer the man simply shrugged and said, “It’s a secret?”

Evan sat on the hay bail, waiting for the inevitable meeting of this Twilight that the two female ponies talked about. Big Macintosh was just as quiet as ever which was a relief for the man as the silence was relaxing, rather then awkward. It also made stretching out his mind much easier. The silence was soon to be broken though, as the minds of five ponies where felt approaching.

“Hay Macintosh, can you get the door?” The farmer got up from his place and moved toward to door.

When Evan was sure he was out of the red pony’s view, he started digging in the hay bail to hide himself. As Big Mac opened it Evan could hear the conversation of the five friends.

“…seem likely. Humans are just from folklore. Oh, hi Big Macintosh.” Said a purple pony to which the red one gave a sagely nod.

Wait dose that pony have a horn… my god I’m going insane.

“… I don’t see anything here girls, are you sure that you didn’t see things.”

The rest of the party including the red apple farmer entered the barn, but none with more gusto then rainbow dash. She flew around the room looking for the proof of the human’s existence. When she found nothing, she flew strait into the large farmers face.

“You lost him?!”

Big Mac shrunk at the mare’s invasion of personal space. “Eeupe.”

The yellow eyed one almost laughed out loud in his hiding place in the hay bail. He entertained the idea of letting them sweat a little but thought that would only make things worse. So he decided now was a good time to speak up.

“Geez Rainbow Dash. I didn’t think you would fall for me that hard.” All the equines jumped from the noise.

Dash was about to give a rebuttal, but Applejack silenced her with the first to reply, “Why are ya hidein’ behind the hay Evan.”

“Well, lets see." The hay stack replied sarcastically "every encounter I have ever had with you ponies so far has either been intense fear, or led to fighting for my life. So as you could guess, I didn’t want a repeat.” All but two of the ponies gave guilty looks, Rainbow being one amongst them.

The canary colored one poked her head from her hair and blushed. “Hi Evan, was your trip home good,” came the soft voice that was Fluttershy.

Evan smiled from behind the hay and replied, “I would like to say it was, but thank you for the gesture anyway Fluttershy.”

“You said you didn’t know it!” came Rainbow’s annoyed reply.

“Well um, I promised him I wouldn’t tell anyone. Sorry Rainbow.” She said as she hid behind her hair again.

“I can’t tell why any pony would be afraid or want to harm you, Darling. You seem like a perfect gentle colt,” came the refined voice of a white pony with blue eyes and a horn.

“Well I thank you for your complements, but I am sorry that I hadn’t introduced myself. I am Evan. A scientist that lived in the country of America on the planet earth.” Came the haystack.

“You’re a scientist!” came the voices of all mares except fluttershy and Rarity.

“Girls! Manners!” scolded the refined voice of the white pony.

The purple one gave a sheepish grin as she recomposed herself, “I am Twilight sparkle, Personal student of princess Celestia, this is Rarity, and I believe that you have meet all my other friends.” She seemed really fidgety through the whole introduction.

I… I think she’s excited thought the white-hared man as he stared from a gap he had created in the hay.

“Why don’t you come out darling I’m sure that Twilight and I won’t harm you in any way,” Rarity said, trying to ease the human out of hiding.

“Yes. I actually want to ask you a lot of questions about where you come from and your species.” Came the purple-coated mare.

“Are you sure? And did they tell you what I am and what I look like?” Evan was able to keep the sound of shuffling hay down so the ponies couldn't hear as he repositioned himself behind it.

“For Celestia sake just come out so they can see you!” came the annoyed cry from Rainbow.

“Fine. I’m coming out.” Evan shuffled a bit more loudly then slowly came out from the pile of hay, revealing himself completely to the pony party. There where two audible gasps as he picked bits of straw out of his clothes.

After brushing all the clingy hay from himself he walked over to the purple mare he knew as Twilight and knelt down to get to eye level with her and hold out his hand. The pink-strip-hared pony showed no sign of fear to Evan during his advance. In fact, she seemed to be squirming with excitement. When his hand was extended she extended a hoof to which Evan grabbed “It is nice to meet you Twilight sparkle. As I stated, I am Dr. Evan Kelly, prier apprentice of Dr. Lenard Cooper and high-ranking scientist of the DOD in the United States of America. It is nice to formally meet you.” He said which seemed to make Twilight go even giddier with excitement. Due to this his theory of this being an underground bunker of some kind was out the window... but it was pretty much gone after he knew that there was no painted roof.

He then turned to the one known as Rarity and gave a slight bow, “you as well Rarity.” She seemed to appreciate the gesture as she gave a warm smile.

However, it was immediately replaced with disgust. “Dear, what are you wearing?! Its positively in tatters and smells like wet manticore!”

Evan laughed “Well, I haven’t had a shower in…” the human tilted his head, “… A week?”

All but Big Macintosh gave sounds of disgust and disapproval. “Do humans usually go that long before bathing?” Twilight said.

“Oh god no. I was…” the scientist chose his words carefully so as to not tell them to much. “…In a bad spot. Humans usually bath daily.”

Sighs of relief where heard as twilight said, “well you can shower at my home. After, you can tell me a bit about yourself.” She started to pull the human by the arm and drag him out the barn.

“OH! And I can make you some new cloths. I’ve always wanted to make cloths for a different spices.” Came the blue eyed unicorn.

“HOLD IT! You can’t bring that thing into town. The town is goanna freak! And how do you know this is not a part of his plan?” protested the rainbow haired one.

“Um… she does have a point. My species seems to be largely feared in this world.” Came the reply of the human.

“Oh nothing a little invisibility spell wont fix.” Said the purple pony.

Evan scoffed at the pony, “ha, good one.” All the ponies gave him a blank stare. “What? I thought it was kinda’ funny,” no response, “you know, magic not being real and all?” Now they all gave him stares like he was a moron. “What? What am I missing here?”

“Um… don’t you have magic where you’re from?” the purple pony questioned.

“No such thing.” The mares laughed at the human’s blunt fact. Evan scowled at them for there WAS no such thing as magic. And he would prove it, with logic. “Magic is nothing but a circumstance of ignorance, in which, an individual has insufficient data to propose a hypothesis to an occurrence, elucidating it scientifically. Therefore there is no such thing as magic.” The ponies stopped there laughing to stare on at the intangible tongue-lashing they received.

One instead, had her jaw drop at the unbreakable logic that the man had brought forth. When Twilight gathered her lower mouth from the floor she said, “Well… Yah if you define it like that, then there is no such thing as magic.” The human folded his arms and smiled in victory.

All heads now turned to the purple one and looked at her as though the human’s crazy was contagious. “But, magic is defined as a circumstance in which one precipitates a desired result by means of the vitality of psycovolition.” All heads turned to the yellow eyed one to gage what it was there friend said.

Evan was impressed to say the least. He didn’t expect the equine to understand, much less respond to his definition. He smiled and shrugged as he said, “looks like we’re both right. After all, we come from different worlds, perspectives, and definitions. So how does it work?”

The purple-eyed mare smiled back, “I think it would be best to show you.” Evan was going to inquire further but as she closed her eyes he saw her horn glow and then himself.

When the glowing was finished Twilight opened her eyes, “so, can we go now? I have many more questions to ask.” She turned and trotted out the door.

Evan looked down at his body, or lack of it because it had completely gone invisible. If any pony could have seen him, they would have seen him gather his jaw off the floor as he walked to the door stating, “So do I.”

Author's Note

I wanted to do another chapter with Fluttershy but there weren't enough questions for me to make a new chapter on it. however, for those that did ask questions I did make references that they where asked or asked them in the next chapter which I will be posting sooner then usual.

The reason that is, is because this chapter does not help my case of this not being a Gary Stue story and I am to lazy to change it. >_>

P.S. Now it is changed so that he is not a Gary Stue. I'm making his mental abilities only effect one person at a time with the exception of surface thoughts and emotions. So I'm throwing the whole invisibility thing out the window. (unless there is only one)

I hope this doesn't disappoint. ^_^