Convenient

by shpoople

Chapter 11

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-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck." Finishing my moan, all five ponies rushed Rainbow Dash to give her a hug.

"We thought we would never get to see you again!" Fluttershy cried, abnormally loud.

"Are you alright? How are you feeling, darling?" Rarity asked.

"I'm fine, really." Dash confirmed. Her eyes then laid on me, across the room. "What's with that though?"

Every-pony then turned to me, with hate filled stares in their eyes.

"So how are you guys?" I asked sarcastically.

Surprisingly, Rarity started them off. "Lying scoundrel!" She shouted.

"Ah knew we shouldn't have givin' him a chance!" Applejack hissed. "He was lyin' from the start!"

"There is a great deal of animosity in your voice right now." I commented.

"You were right, AJ." Twilight said, she turned to Spike, who was at the bottom of the stairs. "Spike, send for the princess, immediately." She demanded.

Spike disappeared up the stairs to get, what I assume is paper, to send to the princess to inform her of my presence. "Dash, com'on, you remember me." My voice turned into more of a plead.

"I don't even know what the hay you are!" Rainbow Dash replied. She looked over to her friends. "Why's it talking to me like that?"

"That's the thing that took you, silly head!" Pinkie yelled cheerfully. "You don't remember anything, Dashie?" I remembered that I recently read My Little Dashie with Rainbow Dash. Awww, now i'm sad. At that moment, I observed that Rainbow Dash's face depressed a little bit too, then returned to normal. She remembered everything.

"No, not a thing." Dash announced.

"LIES!" I shouted. "I know that you remember!"

"Hey, Twi? Bring yer fancy spell down a little bit, so ah can have a little buckin' practice." Applejack requested with a devious smirk directed to me.

"I actually have no problem with that." She said as I loss altitude.

"I DO!" I shouted, trying to gain lost height by kicking my legs. Dash broke into a fit of laughter. "Not the time for a joke, you jerk! Call off your friend!"

"Applejack, heel!" Dash joked, treating her like a dog. The other five ponies in the room gaped at Dash.

"Wait, so you do know him?" Rarity asked.

"Yea, I do." Rainbow Dash was still chuckling. "So Jack, how do you like Ponyville so far?"

"Not very good hospitality, despite it's reputation." I reported. "You got knocked out again, I got flash-banged and then punted by your friend here."

"Yea, she does that." Dash smiled to Applejack. They were processing the information.

"Do you care to explain things now?" Twilight asked. "Dash, and... Jack, was it?"

"Sure, but can you let me down?" I requested. "My legs are asleep." Twilight glanced over to Rainbow Dash to make sure it was OK. Dash nodded in reply. Twilight's horn lost it's luminosity, and the purple haze dissipated. I fell to the ground like a bag of rocks. A loud thud shook the tree shaped library. I laid on the ground for a few moments, failing again to land on my feet. I sighed. "Why am I always falling in this place?" I sat up to face them. "Seriously, this was what, the fifth time today?"

Dash chuckled again at my misfortune. "Your in my world now!"

"Please, Dash, Jack, we would care very much to know what's going on." Twilight begged.

"Well, to be perfectly honest, I have no idea how I got into his world." Dash admitted. "I actually don't remember that at all. But I do know that Jack saved my life." The five ponies looked at me, who was giving a smug grin. "He gave me a place to stay when I was there."

"I guess we owe you an apology, there." Twilight looked away, trying not to make eye contact. "We shouldn't have jumped to conclusions."

"It's fine, I can't hold a grudge." I beamed and observed my surroundings again. "Especially when i'm in Equestria..."

"Sorry about buckin' you and all." Applejack said. "But what do you mean, especially when yer in Equestria? ah'm still confused about this whole thing."

"Shocker." Dash said sarcastically. "I somehow fell into his world, don't know how, but I did."

"That's pretty much all we know." I said. "How long has she been missing from here?"

"About... Um... Four days." Fluttershy squeaked.

"I guess that means time is the same then." I announced. "That's convenient."

"So I guess that thing worked, then." Dash summed up.

"I would say so..." I confirmed.

"What worked?" Twilight asked.

"We made a potion that brought us here." Dash told her. "By the way, get used to seeing him." She motioned over to me. "He'll be around for a while." She giggled.

"What sort of potion did you two acquire?" Rarity asked, with curiosity.

"It was a thing that let us teleport here." I said with a ever growing smile. "Pretty awesome right?"

"How exactly did you make this?" Twilight asked. "I'v never heard anything about this kind of thing in my entire life!"

"It was in a book I had to deliver, it came with me when I fell, apparently."

"How did you make it?" Twilight's interest was more focused on the potion, rather then Dash and I. "How did you use it?"

Both of our faces turned crimson. "It was pretty easy to make..." Her voice trailed off.

"It was different to use..." We avoided eye contact with each other, remembering the method of harnessing the power of the elixir. "We won't be talking about that. ever."

Twilight and Applejack exchanged a look, then shrugged. "Alright, so i'm assuming that Dash told ya about us, and that's how ya knew our names?"

"Not exactly..." I looked over to Rainbow Dash, to see the best way to go about doing this. "You want to tell them?" I asked her.

"Nope!" She shouted. "You go ahead."

"They might get angry again and punt me!"

"Tell us what?!" Pinkie asked, only half paying attention.

Rainbow Dash was about to start, but then she remembered how I showed her things. "Oh, hey Jack, you got your phone on you? That might help a bit."

"Oh yea!" I pulled my phone out of my pocket and loaded up a episode that I downloaded onto my phone. I got up off the ground, only to sit back down by Rainbow Dash. Watching the first part of it, she nodded.

"Still is weird." She tapped the screen to pause it, she looked up to me. "Show them."

"Show us what?" Twilight asked.

"This. Its a-" I was interrupted by a loud crash outside.

A few moments later, Princess Celestia barged in with her glowing horn. "STOP!" She commanded.

The next thing I knew, I was waking up from the ground. My head was throbbing, and I was cold, freezing cold. Sweat was seeping through my clothes, even though I was shivering. "You have no idea what he's capable of!" I over heard their conversation while I was on the ground. "He could have just used you to get here!"

"I only got here because of him! I wouldn't even be alive if it wasn't for him!" I rubbed my aching head and slowly began to sit upright again. Six ponies, a dragon, and a full grown alicorn were talking, waiting for my return. They were now focused on me, who was propped up against a wall.

"You know, for a place that's known for love and tolerance, your pretty violent." I said as I cradled my head. "What happened?"

"The princess thought that you were going to try and take Dash again." Twilight revealed. "She is protective of her subjects."

"Ah, I see." There were books scattered all around me, I guessed that they fell off the wall when I was launched. "Why is it that i'm being thrown around like a rag-doll?"

"It's fun to watch..." Applejack smirked.

"That's cute." I said sarcastically. "So what's going on here now?"

"Hello, Jack." Princess Celestia said in a very noble tone. "I'm truly sorry that I did that, but you understand why I did though."

"Yea, I understand." I said. "You thought that I was going to do something negative to your denizens here?"

"yes. I'm grateful that you helped Rainbow Dash while she stayed in your world." She stated with a blank expression that emphasized her nobility. "But i'm going to have to ask you to return form where you came."

My eyes widened at the request but then returned to their normal state, while a grin appeared on my face. "I'm sorry Princess Celestia, but I couldn't even if I wanted to."

"What do you mean by that?" She asked, narrowing her eyes.

"He can't go back unless I go with him." Dash announced. Everypony in the room looked to Dash.

"Why do you want to return with him?" Rarity asked, frowning.

"Well, a lot of the time it's fun there." Dash said with a smile. "But we actually have to be in the same world since we drank that potion thing. So as long as i'm here, he's going to be here too!"

"Why would you agree to something like that, Rainbow?" Twilight questioned.

"Cause I wanted to come back home, and the fact that he would come too wasn't really a bad thing either." Dash explained.

"Thanks buddy." I said back.

"No problem." She replied.

"But your not meant to be in this world." Celestia said coldly. "And yours is not meant for her."

I looked down and picked up a book that was laying beside me. I held it out in front of me and dropped it. It landed on the floor of the library with a flat smack. I looked back up to them. "I don't think that it will be a problem. The universe didn't imploded on itself when I got here, so I don't think it will."

"How can you talk to the princess with such a lack of formality?" Rarity asked.

"I mean no disrespect, i'm just not very good with conversing with royalty..." I told them all.

"I actually like that your casual around me, it's a nice change." Princess Celestia said with a warm smile that quickly faded back to expressionless. "I will let you stay. The first notice of any sort of change though in this world, or if you harm my little ponies in any way, you will return without Rainbow Dash."

"I understand." I complied. "But still, I'm not going to hurt anything. I'm more sophisticated than Rainbow Dash over there!"

"HEY-... yea." She halted her argument before it started. "You still have your moments that are pretty weird though..."

"Yea, but I do it for funsies." I snickered.

"Jack was about to explain to us how he already knew our names!" Pinkie pie reminded us.

I hate you so much pinkie.

"Care to resume your explanation, dear?" Rarity said.

"Ugh, fine. It's probably a good thing that you are here to see this, Princess Celestia." I picked myself up off the floor and walked over to pick up my phone from where it landed when I was blasted by Princess Celestia. "Here, I thing the best way to explain it is to let you just watch it."

"Watch yer weird box thingy?" Applejack asked, while cocking her head witch a skeptical expression.

"Also one more thing you should know: My civilization is a lot more advanced." I told them "There is a time and a place for humble, and this is not one of those times." I pressed the round button on my Iphone and it lit up to display the lock screen. Everypony gasped except for Dash and I.

"You are able to use magic?" Twilight eyed me up and down. "You don't have a horn though. How is that possible?"

"I'm not using magic." I revealed. "We need to find a way to somehow get you into my world for a bit. We learned things that will blow your mind."

"That there box doesn't have a thing for power. Yer usin' magic." Applejack protested.

"I'm not using magic, as I said before." I told her. "Here, drag that little box on the screen over to the other side of the screen." I held out my phone to see if she would accept my challenge. She plopped her butt down in front of me, and held up a hoof. She gently glided the tip of her hoof over the screen. The box followed her hoof and reached it's destination with a click. My phone opened the home screen to show all of my apps. "See, if it's magic, how are you able to do it?"

"It's mighty spiffy alright." She admitted. "But how's that gonna explain how you knew us already?"

"Oh yea, here watch this." I opened my videos and played and episode of My Little Pony. I handed it to Applejack, who was then surrounded by all the other ponies as they tried to get a good view of the screen. Dash and I took a seat on the ground, across from them. "This is going to be funny..." I whispered to her.

"I know, it's gonna be awesome!" She giggled. "They were pretty mad at you."

"Yea, cause your like a freaking fainting goat!" I joked back. "It would have been hell of a lot more painless if you didn't go into unconscious mode again!"

"Where's the fun in that, Jack?" She relied.

We then sat there quietly, observing their faces as the watched themselves go about their business in the episode. One by one, their eyes expanded and their jaws dropped. We could see the shock in their eyes, even Princess Celestia had a expression that I didn't even know she was capable of making. Dash and I were trying our hardest not to laugh at their first time exposure to the show. We watched them for about ten minuets before Applejack set it down on the ground and looked at us. "Y'all been filmin' us?!" She shouted with growing rage.

"No, I didn't" I said to the orange pony. "I'm still confused about it too, honestly."

"Your kind spy on Equestrians?" Princess Celestia asked, also developing anger in her eyes.

"No. Well, not really." Rainbow Dash spoke up. "They for some reason watch us for fun."

"Why would they do that?" Rarity questioned, staring at me cautiously.

"Really, no one knows that either..." I admitted. "It was originally for little children. But for some reason, it was mesmerizing and a lot of adults started watching it too... Not quite sure how they filmed you all though, let alone without you knowing about it."

"Have they been doing secret tests on us?" Twilight asked with fear.

"No. Not that I know of at least." I said with a weak smile. "To tell the truth I had no idea that this was a real place until I met Dash. I thought it was just some cartoon show."

"You were watching it right in front of your face!" Twilight raged. "You knew this was real!"

"No he didn't!" Rainbow Dash defended me. "Humans can make pictures of fake things. I have no idea how they can do it, but they can make anything happen in a movie!"

"How do they do that." Princess Celestia questioned.

"I don't know how exactly." I admitted. "But they literally can make anything happen in a video. It's not real, as Dash recently learned." I motioned to her. "So yea, I thought that this was fake too. makes me wonder how many other things are real." I got lost in my thoughts thinking about all the movies i'v seen.

"I know that your confused right now, but just focus on the main point of what he's saying: They make fake things happen in movies." Rainbow Dash emphasized. "Most of his kind don't know that we are real."

"Are we... being filmed right now?" Fluttershy squeaked. That thought snapped me out of my day-dream.

"That's a good question." I wondered. "Chances are that they probably are, but aren't going to show it to the public."

"Is there anyway we can get them to stop?" Twilight asked. "I don't like this, not knowing if i'm being watched or not. It's really creepy."

I thought about this for a while. Thinking of a way to shut down a T.V. show..."I'm here, so that will give them a lot of problems right there. Either Dash will be missing or i'll be here." I said. "Either way people will get angry."

"So... what, go about our business like everythin's normal?" Applejack asked. "That's your plan?"

"They are either going to take the show down, or try and say that i'm a character on the show." I said. "So yea, that's my plan. Can't really do anything about it now."

"I vote for not doing anything!" Rainbow Dash voiced her opinion. My knuckles tapped her hoof lightly. "Love that plan."

"Yea. So don't worry about it." I assured them. "They will probably find me soon, then i'll talk to them about it."

"Alright. I guess I do not have any more business left here to attend to, then." Princess Celestia concluded. "Jack, it's been a pleasure meeting you, but I must return to Canterlot. " With that, the princess said her goodbyes to the rest of the group and exited the library.

"I... um, should get back to my furry friends." Fluttershy whispered. "They'r probably hungry." She then tip-toed out the door to fled home.

"That shipment of dresses has to be done by morning, so I shall have to say my farewell also." Rarity said as she trotted out the door with a aura of class.

"Ah'm gonna stick around a bit more..." Applejack gazed at me.

"What about you Pinkie?" Twilight asked with no response.

"Pinkie?" Rainbow Dash called, but only silence came. "Where'd she go?"

"It's Pinkie, shes everywhere." Applejack joked. We all snickered at the comment.

"I would like to know more about how you two got here." Twilight asked us.

"We've said pretty much everything. Thought of here, I poked her knee, and then bang!" As I informed her eyes widened.

"You never said anything about physical contact initiating it!" Twilight shouted.

"What does that change?" Dash asked.

"By that logic, you two could make a circuit!" Twilight stared off into nothing. "You might be able to transport other things or ponies!"

I mulled it over in my head for a while. Makes sense. I then got an amazing idea. I turned to Dash, she looked back. "Jeremy." I stated.

She cocked an eye brow, then gasped when she understood my plan without me verbalizing it. "Celestia, YES!"

"He might already be asleep now, though." I muttered in disappointment. "It's like what, nine now? He's already in hibernation mode."

"Even better!" Dash proposed.

"Oh, my, GOD!" I realized what she was saying. We bring Jeremy here while he's sleeping: best plan ever. I turned to the other two ponies in the room, accompanied by their baby dragon. "Who would like to test this theory? Twilight? You love science and experiments... Applejack? You are tougher and could probably not faint..." I shot a look to Dash, who just chuckled.

"Sure! I would love to test this!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Ah couldn't let y'all do this without me!" Applejack said.

"What about you Spike?" Dash asked the purple dragon. "You want to do this?"

"Nah, I'm fine." He said as he walked up to his bed. "You have fun with that though. I'll be here when it goes horribly wrong."

"A sarcastic dragon. I love it." I snickered. "I got up off the floor with dash and walked over to the other two ponies left. "So you want to come to my world for a bit?"

"Yes." They both said in unison. Dash and I shrugged and got on both sides of them.

Applejack put her hoof and Twilight's back, while Rainbow Dash touched Twilight's shoulder. I laid my hand on Applejack's shoulder as a point of connection. "I still can't get over how damn soft you all are." I felt her coat on my hand. "It's like the really soft fur on a puppy's ears."

"Uh, can we hurry this up?" Apple jack asked, freaked out by me.

"Don't worry AJ, he's acting like that on purpose." Dash pointed out. "He likes to make everypony feel uncomfortable..."

"You love it." I told Dash.

"It's pretty funny, when it's not me." She giggled. "OK, Jack, think of your room." She became semi-serious.

"Alrighty then." We closed our eyes and thought about our destination. A few moments later we still haven't moved.

"When's this suppose to happ-" Applejack was interrupted by a blast of high pitch ringing.

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