Convenient

"That was disappointing." Spike said gloomily. "I was expecting more noise."

"I'm sorry." I said sarcastically. "Next time i'm stabbed with a giant needle i'll yell really loud in agony for you. I never thought that ponies from Equestria would laugh at me getting a huge, knife-like needle thrust into me."

"Because it's for your own good, and that we know that you can take it. You also seem like a little bit of a mean person." Rarity said. "Which hurt more, our dear Applejack, our this?"

I had to take a few moments to think that out. "I have no idea, I would have to guess her." I replied. "Being kicked is worse then shot."

"That's right." Applejack said proudly.

The ponies chuckled again.Then her other words sank in. "How do I seem like a mean person?" I asked.

"Your awfully sarcastic." Rarity said.

"That deems me a bad person?" I asked again.

"No, but it't just enough to make this a little humorous." She giggled. "If it was somepony else it probably wouldn't have been funny at all."

"Did it hurt?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yea, it hurt like a bitch." I answered, still angry at them for strapping me down. "Can you all let me up now? I'v lost feeling in all my limbs from being strapped and my side because of the needle."

"What's a bitch?" Fluttershy whispered over to Rainbow Dash.

"Don't worry about it." She replied to avoid an awkward explanation.

"Alright, i'm done with everything." Twilight said. They undid all the different straps around my arms and legs that were restraining me. "Feel any different then you normally do?"

"Not really." I replied. "What's it suppose to feel like?"

"I don't know." Twilight said. "It was suppose to make your heart stronger to try to relive some stress of the transition of our worlds; So it wouldn't shoot blood out your nose every time you take another pony with you two."

"Test it?" I proposed.

"Test it!" Rainbow Dash agreed.

"Okay," I sat up on the bed and looked at the room full of ponies. "who wants to be a guinea-pig?"

"When you say it like that, no one wants to do it." Rarity said. "Makes it sound like something can go wrong."

I turned back to Twilight for confirmation. "It's only suppose to affect Jack. If anything goes wrong it's going to be something with him."

"Wait, hold up a second. Is there a chance that my head is going to explode or something?" I asked her. "That would be less then desirable."

"Shouldn't." She answered.

"That's good to know, it shouldn't go wrong." Rainbow Dash said. "What if it makes it worse?"

"It's fine, I want to try it out." I stated. "BigMac, you want to help us test it out? You seem like the strongest here." I suggested.

"Nope." The red pony replied.

"Well said." I retorted. "Twilight? You've done it before, what to see if there was a reason to stab me?"

"Is it going to blind me again?" She asked, cautiously. "That was not fun."

Dash and I looked at each other. "I don't think it should be as bad as the first time. It seems like the more you do it then the less it hurts each time."

"Okay then. Only fitting that I see the result of my experiment." Twilight said. "Do you want to try it with two ponies? I'm sure Applejack would love to go again."

"What?" Applejack asked, half paying attention. "What's goin' on now?"

"NO!" I shot down that idea. "I'm fine with just trying one first."

"Was it bad when you brought us both last time?" Twilight asked.

"It would have been funny," Rainbow Dash said, "if I didn't think that he was going to puke up a kidney."

"Okay..." She replied. "So how does this work again?"

"Your room." Rainbow Dash said.

Dash trotted over by me and Twilight. We both touched her shoulders, and then we were flashed by our normal flash of light. We were in my bedroom. Twilight still was not as used to it as us yet, I think that she could see, but it was blurry. Dash looked at me and a smile broke out on her face. "Your not bleeding!" She pointed out.

I wiped my nose on my hand to see that nothing was there. It had worked. "He's not bleeding?" Twilight asked as she squinted her eyes, trying to get a good look at me. "It worked?"

"Yea! Way to go, egg-head!" Dash said, patting the dazed Twilight on the back. "Ya fixed him!"

Twilight shook her head and observed me with clear vision. She instantly pulled miscellaneous medical equipment from what seemed like nowhere. "Open." She ordered as she shoved a thermometer in my mouth. I gagged a little on it. She quickly hopped around and looked inside my ear. Then hit my knee with something that resembled a hammer. Satisfied after a few more tests she back off. "All your vitals seem normal. I think it may have worked!" She said proudly.

"Thanks for helping me with th- HARRUUUMPH..." My sentence was cut off by a violent cough. I covered the cough with the back of my hand.

"Guess not." Twilight stated.

I pulled my hand away from my face, with a blood spot in it's place. "Guess not." I agreed, I grabbed a sock off my dresser and wiped my hand off. "I think it's better, though."

"Less blood is always good, but no blood is best." Twilight said. "Ill have to try some more things out..." She said as she was lost in her thoughts.

"Is it worse that your coughing it up?" Dash asked. "I don't know, it seems like it's worse to me."

I pondered this. "Hmmmmmmaybe." I answered. "Maybe not though. It's a whole lot shorter then before and it's less blood. I dub it better then before."

Twilight snapped out of her mind and returned to us. "Is that one guy still here? Didn't you leave someone here when you took us back last night?"

Dash and I snickered at the thought. "Probably. Let's go see."

"That's not very nice to leave your friend behind."Twilight said. "He is your friend, right?"

"Kind of, it's different here then it is in Equestria." Dash told her. "They are always just doing things and messing with each other here. I kind of wish it was more like this place in Equestria sometimes."

"Doesn't sound like a good friendship." Twilight said. "Are they ever really serious? His friend didn't really keep your guy's secret at all."

"Yea, that was because that jerk didn't want to keep it a secret." I sighed.

"Then why are you friends with him?" Twilight asked, cocking her head to the side.

"Just because he's a jerk doesn't mean he's bad all the time." I told her. "I kind of deserved it too, I did somethings to him too."

"Like what?" Dash asked.

"I may or may not have rubbed habanero peppers in his underwear..." I admitted with a grin, Dash giggled. "I should have got out a camera when he found out...It made my week to see his face when he realized what I did."

"Do it again?" Dash proposed."

"I'm pretty sure we have to do it again." I said. "For telling them all about the book. That made it really uneven, that was overkill."

"It was funny, though." Twilight said.

Dash and I looked at each other, then to Twilight. "We thought that you, of all ponies, would see that we had to do it!"

"I understand completely that you had to do it." She said. "But that's not the whole case, was it?" She smiled. "I also understood that you two got aroused by it. That was not a necessity at all. That was just you two."

"What are you getting at?" Dash asked her, narrowing her eyes.

"I saw that Fluttershy had that smile of her's." Twilight told us. "She only has that smile when she knows something good, and when she's exited about something. I also know that she always gets that smile when she gets those strange romance novels in my library." Her grin was growing as she came closer to her point. "She didn't have that smile when she left to get you two. So I assume she adopted her little smile when she saw something at Dash's place."

"Your point is...?" I asked her, cautiously.

"What did she see you two do?" Twilight questioned.

"Nothing." Dash replied.

"I don't believe you." She came back.

"Nothing happened." I stated.

"Liar." Twilight accused. "I think that you two like each other a bit more then friends." She said.

Rainbow Dash looked at me and we both blushed. She sighed. "So much for keeping it a secret."

"So you admit it?" Twilight asked.

"Can you just not tell anyone?" I requested. "It's been harder then we thought to keep it from you ponies so far."

"I'll try, i'm not the best at keeping secrets..." She agreed. "It's not my place to tell. Although, I think that you shouldn't keep it a secret though."

"Fluttershy tried to make us tell everyone too." Rainbow Dash told her. "We will if we want to."

"Jack?" We heard Jeremy call from down the stairs. "You up there?"

"No." I shouted back.

"That's a nice friendship right there." Twilight said sarcastically.

Jeremy came up the stairs and entered my room. "Take me back home!" He demanded. "We were suppose to go to school today."

"I'm fine with skipping, I was in Equestria while you were here." I told him. "I'll bet that my morning has been a bit different then yours."

"Yea, I bet! At least take me with yo- your nose isn't bleeding." He noticed. "You fixed it?" He looked at the two ponies in the room. "Twilight fixed it?"

"Kind-of." She replied.

"It's better, but not gone all the way." Dash said. "He coughs blood now."

"Is that better?" Jeremy asked.

"I think so." I said.

"How'd you do it?" He asked Twilight.

"I made a formula that we gave him." She answered.

"Through a huge needle." I said, rubbing my still sore side. Jeremy laughed at the thought.

"Good, that pleases me." He said with a smirk. "If one made it like halfway better, why not just do it again? So that I can watch this time."

Dash and I looked to Twilight to see if that plan would work. "That wouldn't work, it stays in his system. I'm pretty sure that it would be too much for him."

"I see, says the blind man..." He mumbled.

"What was that?" Dash asked.

"Nothing." He replied. "By the way, Jack, where's your mom? I haven't seen her since I came here."

"I have no idea." I said. "I'm a little grateful, though. I don't feel like explaining more crap to anyone."

"That's nice." Twilight commented.

Jeremy just smiled. "I never thought that I would get used to seeing you ponies." He said in amazement. "I never even though that you were real."

"Thanks, that's like a big hug with words." Dash said.

Jeremy shrugged. "So can you and your little girl-friend take me home or with you?" He asked. "It's really boring here."

"If you keep saying that, then no. your going to be here a while." I told him. I turned to Twilight and Dash when I remembered something. "Are they still waiting on us in the library?"

"Oh yea, that's right." Twilight said, slapping her forehead with her hoof. "We should probably head back now."

"Jack, please let me go too. I'll try and stop making jokes about how you two made-out." Jeremy cackled, Twilight chuckled. "There's nothing to do here. At all. I'v been watching re-runs of South-park and poking your fat-ass dog with a stick, trying to get her to sit up. I'm so bored!"

"What do you think you'll do there and not here?" I asked him.

"I'm pretty sure I will find something to do in a new world." He answered.

I sighed. "Do you two care if he comes?" I asked the two ponies.

They both shrugged. "It won't bother me." Twilight replied. "As long as he doesn't do anything stupid."

"You can count on that, though." I told her. She glared at Jeremy.

"Hey! If I do anything, then the only damage will be to me. Maybe Jack too, we'll see how it plays out." He said.

"Sound... Fun." I hedged.

"So... We going or what?" Dash said, impatiently.

I put my hand on Twilight's back right next to Dash's wing. Her library's basement appeared around us, along with seven more ponies. "Be right back." I ended the sentence with my new cough. Rainbow Dash and I returned to my bedroom where Jeremy was waiting. "Com'on if your coming," I ordered him. He walked over and I poked his stomach as my point of connection with Dash, who chose to slap him in that face with her hoof. Jeremy fell to the floor of Twilight's library.

"What the hell was that for?" He cried.

"For funsies." We bro-hoofed, for her use of one of my favorite phrases.

"How many of these things are there?" Bonbon asked the group.

Everypony in the room shrugged. "You don't seem very graceful, dear." Rarity said to Jeremy. "It seems like your the first to fall during whatever brings you here."

"You need to get your sea-legs!" Pinkie Pie said, cheerfully.

"What? That doesn't make any sense! And I didn't fall-" My cough interrupted his excuse. Twilight handed me a rag to wipe some of the blood off with.

"Thanks." I said to her.

"So I'm guessing that it didn't work right?" Applejack said.

"It made it better, but it's not fixed all the way." Dash answered.

"Meh, it's good enough for me right now." I said. "I'd probably be fine with it like this."

"No your not." Dash said. "We're going for no blood."

"Aww, that's sweet." Jeremy said. "She cares about you."

"I swear to god, Jeremy." I muttered.

"Hey, why are there so many of you in here anyway?" He said, scanning the room full of ponies.

"We were asked to help restrain that one." Lyra pointed to me.

"Restrain him?" Jeremy asked. "Why?"

"Did you already forget about the needle we were just talking about?" Dash questioned him.

He turned around to me. "They had to hold you down to give you a shot?" He snickered with amusement. "What a baby." I pointed to the syringe on the counter that he had not noticed yet. His eyes grew wide when he saw it. "They put that inside of you? How do you not have a hole in you?" He cackled with every other pony joining in.

"How often you you use syringes like that anyway?" I asked them.

"About as often we get visitors from another world." Twilight said.

"So not often." Applejack said. "It's about time we got to go. It's applebuck season and Bigmac went and got himself hurt again."

I leaned over to the side to get a better view of Applejack's brother. I saw that he was wrapped in bandages. "Oh, I didn't notice that before..."

"I can tell your species are known for their ability to observe their surroundings." Lyra said sarcastically.

Jeremy just maintained a beaming grin. "I'm loving this place more and more with each snarky comment." He said. "Do you need help with the farm Applejack?" He asked her.

"Really? Now's the time you develop feelings?" Dash said to him. "Why would you work for her?"

"Because i'm not a lazy douche." He replied.

"Flattery will get you nowhere." I told my friend.

"Ah appreciate the offer, but ya don't seem like ya can do much." Applejack examined Jeremy. "Let alone buck apples."

"Are you kidding? It looks really easy." Jeremy said.

"Have y'all been watchin' me, again? Cause ah tend to make things look easy." Applejack snorted.

"Oh, it's on now." Jeremy challenged her. "Jack, you coming?"

"Nah, you two have fun kicking trees, though." I passed.

"Yea, I'm stronger then you anyway. I don't think that your presence would change anything." Jeremy poked, my eye twitched with the challenge.

"Fine, I'll go then." I accepted. "I'll play along with that fan fiction cliche."

"That does seem to happen is every story I read..." He agreed

"What are you talking about?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"Nothing, forget about it." I told her.

"Already did!" She did a cartwheel away.

"Sounds like a party." Rainbow Dash commented.

"Sorry Dash, I have to teach Jeremy his place." I told her. "Are any of you coming?" I asked the rest of the group.

"Nope!" Bonbon declined.

"We already did our kind deed of the week." Lyra said as they started for the door.

"Hold me down was a kind deed?" I cocked my brow.

"Hey, It fixed your nose, didn't it?"

"Fair enough." I said. They exited the basement of the library.

"I'm afraid I can't go either." Rarity told us. "I have an order of dresses I must fill." She was the next to trot up the stairs and out the door.

"I have to feed my animals." Fluttershy whispered. I then noticed her weird smile that Twilight was talking about; It was wide, but it barley showed any teeth. She bypassed the stairs, using her wings. Before she left, she looked back to Rainbow Dash and me. She giggled and her smile gained intensity as she glided out the door.

Jeremy saw this and looked back at us. "What was that about?"

"I don't know." Dash lied.

"She's a lot different in the show." I informed him.

"Pinkie pie, are ya com-" Applejack stopped her sentence halfway when she observed that Pinkie Pie was no longer in the room. She sighed.

"I see that she isn't though." Jeremy said.

"Nope." I answered. "She's the same."

"Are you coming Twilight?" Dash asked her.

"No, I'll stay here and look up a few more things." She replied.

"Am I going to have to worry about waking up, strapped to that table again?" I leaned away from her.

"Depends if I find something that I want to try out." Twilight reported with a devious grin.

"That sounded... Suggestive..." I backed away to the stairs, slowly.

"Keep pushing me and you'll find out if i'm joking or not." She warned.

I stated up the stairs, walking backwards. Keeping my eyes on the purple unicorn. Dash took to the air and beat me to the top of the stairs seconds later. "See ya!" Applejack, Jeremy, and Bigmac followed us out of the basement.

"Rainbow! Jack!" Twilight called us back down. "Come here, I need one last thing." We looked at each other and then turned back around. I passed the other three on the stairs as they exited. Dash was already at the bottom with Twilight.

"What do you want?" Dash asked her.

"Does Jeremy know about..." Twilight hedged, "You two? It seems like he already knows."

"No, he doesn't know." I told her. "He still thinks we're denying it."

"You are, though." She remarked.

"You know what I mean!" I snapped. "He thinks that we're in denial."

"You know that he's probably going to find out, eventually." She told us.

"Maybe. Maybe not." Dash said.

"More like: ninety percent chance, he will." She warned us. "I don't know how long I would be able to last if he asks me about it for some reason. I'm not good at keeping secrets from others."

"I'm really just worried about my people finding out about it. My culture would be a lot more... Intolerant of our relationship." I told her. "Around here, it's different. It seems like you just care that it's your friend Rainbow Dash."

"True." Twilight admitted. "We never thought that she would ever actually have an interest in anypony."

"I'm right here!" Dash barked.

"Sorry Rainbow, but have you noticed that some ponies avoid you around town?" Twilight asked her.

"No, why..." She replied.

"Some ponies think that you... 'fly south'." She told her. When I finally understood what she was trying to say; I couldn't hold back my laughter completely, A muffled chortle escaped my lips. Rainbow Dash glared at me, wondering why I was laughing. She thought about it for a minuet until she got it, she gasped at the realization.

"What makes you think that?" She demanded with rage.

"Not me!" Twilight defended herself. "The others noticed that you always got extra exited when you saw Spitfire from the Wonderbolts."

"What others? Who else thought this?" Dash questioned her.

"I choose to not disclose that information in your presence." Twilight said with a business-like countenance, probably to help her keep the secret. I wasn't even trying to contain the laughter anymore, my face was turning crimson.

"What's so funny?" She hissed at me.

"Even some of the ponies thought that you were gay." I answered. I turned to Twilight, who had a questioning look on her face. "People on my world have huge arguments over if she likes the girls or not." I filled in Twilight.

She had an expression that showed that she understood and then she started to snicker too. "But i'm not though! Your my colt-friend!"

"For you, I think that it's technically boy-friend." I corrected though chuckles. "Pretty sure it's mare-friend for me... Weird." I stared off into the distance, pondering it.

"Whatever." Dash gave up. She started up the stairs. "Are you coming?" She asked me, I snapped out of my daydream.

"Oh, yea. I'm coming." I followed her to meet the awaiting Jeremy, Applejack. and her brother. I paused and looked back to Twilight. "Thanks again for helping us."

"I'm not done yet." She said back. She used her powers to levitate a few books from nearby shelves. I shuttered at the thought of the needle again and continued to follow my new mare-friend.

When we left the basement, the other three were waiting on us. "Let's go!" Jeremy ordered. "I didn't come here to wait on you!"

"What she talk to y'all about?" Applejack asked us.

"Nothing." I told her.

"Alright, then, let's venture onward to victory!" Jeremy shouted as he charged out the door.

"Are they all like this?" Applejack asked Dash.

"No." She replied with a grin. "Just these two."

***

We were approaching Applejack's farm. The three of them were ahead of me and Rainbow Dash. "Hey, Jack." She whispered while she poked my side with her wings.

"What?" I bent down to match her height while we walked.

"Why is Jeremy offering to help AJ?" She asked me. "It doesn't seem like he would be the one to help anyone."

I smiled, thinking of my friend. "I know what you mean. But he's not as lazy as me, to be honest. I think that he's more cynical, though"

"But why would he help her?"

"I'm not quite sure... I never really know what he's thinkin'" I told her. "Applejack is his favorite out of all of you though. He has a wallpaper of her on his phone."

"Why does he have a picture of her? That's really freaky." She looked at him, in front of us.

"You haven't seen my wallpaper, have you?" I asked her.

"No, why?" She replied.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and turned it on and showed her. My wallpaper was her on a cloud with her feet up with the text 'Fuck it. I'm not doing shit today.' printed below her. She grinned and looked up to me. "I think that's different, because it's awesome."

"I know, right? Plus it's not uncommon to have a picture of someone you're with on your phone." I said with a blush developing.

"Thanks, Jack." Her face was also turning a deep red.

"If you two are done with your little side-thing!" Jeremy pulled us out of our moment. "We can start this." I returned to my normal height and saw that Applejack was motioning to a close tree. I walked up to the apple-tree, which already had baskets ready to catch the apples.

I felt the trunk of the tree. "What's this thing made out of?" I asked the orange, farm pony.

"Uh, wood." She answered.

It brought my hand across it. It felt smooth, and soft. "It feels like rubber!" I told her. I knocked on the trunk to hear a hollow sound emit from it. I shrugged and pulled my fist back. I struck the tree with half my potential strength. The tree vibrated, violently. All the apples that were swinging in the wind were now tumbling down. Strangely enough, every single apple that fell; landed in the baskets around the tree. each of the baskets filled to their maximum capacity. I stared at the baskets filled with apples, then at the top of the tree, which was void of apples now.

"...Huh..."

I looked over my shoulder to see Applejack and Bigmacintosh gaping in astonishment. Rainbow Dash was smirking in their direction. And Jeremy was performing a slow clap.