Intros-a-plenty

'Oh this was gonna fucking hurt!'
"GYAAAAHHOOHHHH SHIIII-!!!"
THUD!!!!
"Ohhh... ooooowwwww... how am i still concious?"
"... ... Okay?!" *Thump!* "EEK!... oh no, I stepped on him! ohhhh, this is completely BACKwARDS!... okay, he looks unconcious, so maybe he at least won't know that happened..."

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Perspective - Unknown Pony

"Ohhhh! This wasn't supposed to happen!"
"Geez Twilight, calm down, you just knocked him out, he's not even bleeding!"
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!... er, sorry spike, but seriously, It was supposed to summon someone from a different world in the library, nice and private, 'Not' turn him into a pony, and Definiately NOT slam him onto his head on my door-step!"
"Or scare you with the noise so you rush out to check on somepony and stomp on his face? - ow!"
"we'renotbringingthatup, everagain! Just pretend it didn't happen!"
*Snck*
"Crap! He's waking up"

I'd actually been listening for a while, a snicker finally giving me away ... Honestly, I thought i had to be imagining those familiar voices, or maybe lost in some dazed daydream from crashing on my face, I've never done that before so i didn't know if it was related. That, and the fact I felt like I was still in bed made me wonder if faceplanting in front of a familiar but supposedly 'ficticious' Library tree had been one of those wierd psycological dreams affected by things that are too frequently fresh in your memory.

Of course, Once I opened my eyes, and saw something I'd only ever imagined before it kindof busted that whole 'dream' theory... I mean, 'my' dreams always shatter as soon as i start to realize it's a dream... ALwAYS! seriously, it pisses me off! But here I was, laying in a no longer familiar bed, staring up at a brown wooden ceiling, book-shelves in the corners of my vision, and, while it all looked much more vivid and colorful than I'm used to, it looked far too 'real' to be a dream inspired by a flash animated cartoon!

This left me somewhere between instinctual freaking out, and bursting with pure joy... I mean, i was never one for especially cutesy stuff, I'm just open minded and all, but I 'have' often imagined ending up in another world, lots of different ones really, but this one was always pretty high on my list... I was so excited I 'must' have had a goofy grin under that fuzzy muzzle i now saw.

"YOU'RE AwAKE!, HI!"
"GYAH!" - BAM!

It was obviously twilight's muzzle who popped up in front of my face, Enthusiastic about her 'potential victim' being okay, but close enough that I could see every little detail, if only for an instant before I launched myself away on reflex, crashing out of bed in a tangle of blanket. The shock and proximity left the image of her face embedded in my vision for a few seconds... Seriously, I could see every little hair of fur and mane and lavender... Huh, not as 'toony' as some might expect, something in my mind thought this world seemed more appealing with a 'realistic' element to it.

"Oh no! Are you alright?"

At that I popped back up, planting my own head on the bed and bursting out laughing like a madman, face clenched up in mirth for a moment before I started to shift around get the blanket loose. "Ohhh, hoho... Yes, Yes I'm fine Twilight... that was just the most fucking hilarious way to wake up I've ever experienced... not even the cat jumping on me was that funny... uh, what's with the face?"

She'd stopped half way around the bed on her way to help, looking with a confused expression... Oh look, 'now' i saw the wings, so it's 'princess' Twilight right now, I never did figure out how they measure time in Equestria, maybe they don't actually need to... I wonder how long after the alicornication this is. She also seemed moderately taller than I recalled, perhaps It's a few years 'after' the show currently.

"Um, how do you know my name already?"

"what, that? I've been awake for a couple of minutes, I heard spike say it, and i heard you say his name too, to head that off. And don't worry, I won't take it personally that you 'stomped on my face', Honestly, I think it was Karma messing up that spell you mentioned, I probably deserved a little Cranial Trauma by now, heheheh." I wasn't actually afraid to mention that there was a 'pony cartoon' where i'm from, but i figured I'd play along for now, I read enough entertaining little fics to know how to feign ignorance of such things... but i have always wanted to see a 'whut face' caused by revealing that kinda stuff.

This earned me a look of greater confusion, mixed with apology and furious blush all in one... I can't really describe how it looks, it's not one of those 'main-stream' facial expressions that everybody knows about... huh, should I say every'pony' now?... oh well, i quickly added on "And yes, I am quite healthy still, no brain damage or anything, at least none that I didn't potentially already have prior to face-planting on your door-step, so don't worry about having caused lasting damage... I'm surprised actually, pony skull's must be tougher than human skulls."

"whu... human? wow, I was aiming for somewhere I hadn't already been..."

"Huh? what, you mean the mirror world with humans? naw, there's more human universes out there than 'that'... more pony-verses too i'd imagine."

There it was! Oh GOD I've imagined seeing that face for so long! I couldn't help but howl with laughter while climbing my way back onto the bed... Her expression could only be described as 'Twilight Brain Error'... Her mouth was stretched open enough I swore i heard her jaw pop, eye's wide and twitching madly, ear's stiff enough I could imagine them creaking, and the most adorkable little squeeks and word pieces popping out while she tried to find her voice amidst the sea of shock... and to complete the look, spike off to the side rolling with laughter at her face, totally missing the fact that a 'new to this world' visitor had just mentioned another different world that only Twilight had visited.

I also took note that spike looked larger than in the show, more evidence of several extra years having passed.

"I... uh-whu-huh... ubbuh... huuuhhwHAT!!? How can you possibly know about that!? I only told the princesses and my Friends!... you'd have to have heard from someone on the other side of the mirror, or or, I don't know, it's not like you're a dimensional traveler with experience... are you?"

Yep, here I go... Another laughing fit... I was gagging on the laughing by now, threatening to make myself black out again from how hard it came out... It'd always been easy to make me laugh, i had to really 'try' not to do it enough to make it hurt sometimes. "Oh... OHHAHAHAHAHA!!!, OH THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE!!... I just... HOOOOOOOOOO" I had to stop laughing... i HAD TO!... Crap, too late! "GACK... HACK...AHUUFF" I broke into a coughing fit from laughing too much, ugh i hate when that hapens... her face tarted turning annoyed and a little concerned... 'Crap! I have to calm down and start talking normal! I don't want to tick her off and get sent back already!'

After a few more coughs and a half a dozen deep breaths, and more than a few laugh tears, I finally took a moment to actually answer "I am indeed, 'not' a dimensional traveler with any prior experience, this is my first... I 'do' however have a wildly active imagination, a dozen multiversal theories and dreams of my own, and of course ample supply of inspiring material to drive my imagination and logical deductions to mind blowing conclusions... Oh god it's true, you really are totally 'adorkable' when confused."

There was another blush! and it was soon bowled over by burning curiosity "That's... Fascinating! A 'different' different world... I wonder if my spell locked onto you for being someone more suitable for handling the experience without freaking out. You know... you're really taking this way better than I ever expected... i mean, I expected interdimensional travel to be Stressful, nevermind waking up in a different body... This really is totally backwards from my preconceptions."

"Oh, that's cause I've imagined stuff like this before, about 'other' other worlds too. Being turned into a pony is hardly a new concept to me 'mentally', even if i've never actually experienced it before, I've imagined and read about it enough to be way more prepared than 'normal' people."

I could see the gears turning in her head, slowing to a grinding halt as they stopped working, along with the occasional sudden twitcha, I imagined for myself what she might be thinking 'wait... imagined... Read about it?... READ!?... I DON'T EVEN HAVE BOOKS ABOUT 'THAT!' and I have access to 'forbidden' books nopony is supposed to know even exist!... I... how could... just... *click... Ffffzzzzzz*'

"Okay, that's unexpected! did I break her?"

She'd just... stopped suddenly... Maybe i really did break her... this would be funnier if I wasn't still riding the crash of coming down from a previous laughing fit... She was staring off into space and not so much as twitching anymore... I sure 'thought' it'd be hilarious.

"woah! dude, I've never seen anybody actually 'do' that before! I mean, The pinkie sense thing was the most un'logical' thing she'd faced as far as I remember tell and even that didn't make her 'short out'."

She 'was' shorting out too, not like, 'actually a robot' shorting out, that'd be a bit dumb, as adorable as Sweetiebot happens to be, but her horn was shooting sparks occasionally like her brain was overloading... with the conversation suddenly slamming to a stand-still a thought hit me and I looked to the not entirely 'little' dragon "Hey spike, do you happen to have a mirror?"

"Huh? oh, yeah, Normally twilight just 'summons' one though, so I don't know where she keeps it anymore... there's one in the bathroom over there." He pointed to a slightly opened door at the back of the bedroom.

"Cool, thanks, I'm gonna get a proper look at myself while she's processing that I just told her there's reading material on ponies in my world, hahah."

"Hey, what about dragons?"

"Yeah, them too, Granted, not a 'lot' about Equestria's Dragons, Though there's Buck-tons of Material on other types of dragons, different worlds, so on and so forth, Dragon's have been famous in human culture more than any other creature far as I can tell." Heheh, That put a gale-force wind in his sails suddenly, heh, dragon pride, I remember that feeling.

I slipped from the bed, Carefully spreading out to balance on 4... hooves... to think I used to absolutely hate hooves, then ponies came along... freakin magical even across different dimensions, made me open my mind and accept all kinds of stuff... 'Alright, lets walk... canter?... trot? I never did look up the difference!' This made me giggle a bit as I took a step.

I promptly fell forward and face planted on the wooden floor "OOF!"

"PFffhahah, You okay man?"

"Yeah, yeah I'm okay, I fell out of the sky ya know, a little face plant isn't gonna be a big deal." I righted myself and took another couple of steps.

POw! "Ouch!" and did it 'again'... welp, I'm nothing if not Tenacious when I want something, so I tried again.

After another half a dozen face plants, thankfully i started getting used to avoiding my 'face' at least, and being much closer to the bathroom i just broke out giggling madly, Spike of course was rolling on the floor again "Geez man! Are you 'sure' your okay? I mean... I know it's a new body and all, but just, wow... It's hilarious!... no offense."

"Nah, nah, it's fine, I think this is probably Karma too... I used to really get a kick out of blooper videos and stuff." The laughter slowed with a confused look thrown in "Uh, things that show off mistakes people made while creating something... There's a LOT of scenes of people falling on their faces, asses, or just planting into the ground in general... It sounds a bit cruel to laugh at it, but they only use 'harmless accidents', nothing that'd actually be really 'cruel' to make fun of, if they did, nobody'd watch em... But this... this just reminds me of something I watched just last week, called 'the flop'... Heheh, I feel like i'm in the flop video suddenly."

I sniggered madly for a moment before climbing back to my hooves, trying to take it more seriously... I'd read enough to know it's not supposed to be easy, though I always found it strange that people turned ponies managed to 're-perfect' walking in just a day, or hell, minutes sometimes... I mean, I'd imagined some of how the legs work, observed enough, I had a good idea, but I wouldn't expect to be stable anytime so soon... then again, magic, instincts, who the hell can tell with ponies?!

I took the next motions slower this time, keeping 3 hooves on the floor for balance as I moved bit by bit "Ah, there we go... Slow and steady." I mumbled to myself verbally as I started a steady, if embarassingly slow, walking... Cantering? I think that's the pony version of walking right?... 'why the fuck would they name their capital the equivalent of 'walk a lot' but with a horse pun?'

Before long I managed to find myself before the bathroom Mirror "Oh... Niiice." I liked what I saw... hey, not in that way!... althoouuugh... Nevermind, i'll leave that to my imagination next time I'm alone! "Okay, lets see here."

I went into a 'check-list style once over' that could've made Twilight Proud.

"Okay, Fur, white, check... huh, i prefer black" I took note that I seemed a bit tall for the mirror, so i could assume I was likely noticeably taller than twilight at least, I wasn't 'huge' but was definitely a 'stallion' "... Mane, black, and red?... oooh, 2 tone, I liiiike." My mane was actually quite long, I always liked the 'mane' look, I could pull it off even as a human, and it actually looked more fitting with all that hair spilling around the shoulders of a pony, the hairs seemed to be a deep red up to the half way point, where they faded into black for the rest of the length... I couldn't help myself, I waggled my eyebrows at myself in the mirror and burst out laughing.

"Moving on, Tail, same as mane, Could probably use some grooming, but i 'did' just spend 5 minutes falling on my face... Huh, I wonder" while I was looking 'back there' i decided to check something else, and whistled suddenly "Ooohhh, Impressive, I always wanted... wait, i shouldn't talk bout that out loud." I quickly shifted my focus else-where "... Cutie mark... huh, would it be more 'manly' to say butt brand? nah, sounds more 'frat boyish' to me ... heh, hearing that the first time was hilarious... anyway... no check... oh crap, I'm gonna have to deal with the CMC... maybe I can hide it with saddlebags or a cloak of something... I 'have' always liked playing mysterious... ah, moving on... Eyes, Ice lbue, check."

I just realized something... too many people associated 'black and red' with mary sueing, crap!... wait... why was I thinking about that now? I shouldn't even give a shit, i'm in a different world and those pansy ass internet jockies can't do shit about it! Yeah, that's how much value your opinions 'really' have!... besides, I like Black and red colors! they're my favorite... it's not like I showed up as an alicorn... wait, the check-list! "wings?... no check, okay." Cool, so no 'sue-icorn'... oh god, don't let me turn into one while i'm here!, I mean, being an alicorn could be cool and all, what with the extra magic and such, but, I don't want everything to turn into 'sir this' and 'your highness' that or getting to a point I can just 'do shit with a thought'... being immortal would be fucking awesome though! even with the nasty bits... ahhh, pros and cons.

"okay, last, horn... check, pointy and dangerous, i like... wait... horn... Equals magic... I can do magic... I... Can do... Magic... MAGIC, FUCKING MAGIC, I CAN DO MAGIC!" It was a realization that struck as suddenly as a train, I'd always adored magic and, odd as it might be to have a horn growing out of my skull, I realized I could do freakin MAGIC now! I could just kiss twilight!... i might have... I hadn't whirled to side in the excitement to run back into the bedroom chanting my excitement, only to slam said horn into the wall next to the door-frame, immediately lodging myself in the wood and earning a momentarily paralyzing spike of pain through my skull "UGH, GYAAAHAHAHAHHAAAA, OUCH!... FUCK!, These things 'ARE' sensitive!... Owwww owowowow! That hurt more than slamming my face into the ground!"

This brought spike sprinting into the bathroom, and immediately bursting out laughing again "Oh hahah, i get it okay? I'm new to this stuff... I totally forgot that having a horn on my head meant I'd have to remember that I now have a foot long pointy protrusion growing out of my fore-head to worry about... Could you just... ya know, give me a tug? It's kinda stuck... I don't even know how i'm actually stuck!" By now I had my front hooves on the wall and was pushing away with no success.

"Oh, that's probably one of Twilight's Reinforcement Enchantment... It probably regrew around your horn while you were distracted with the pain... here." I had actually expected something similar to tail pulling, instead he stood up and wrapped his claws around my head... ooh, look at that, a close up of adolescent dragon claws, note to self, don't piss off spike... And suddenly pulled, the direction a bit different than I'd been trying, and my horn popped right out "There ya go, we've actually had a couple other Unicorns get stuck like that before, Turns out the 'normal pulling' doesn't work so well since it's note centered with the horn, it kinda acts like an anchor and traps ya... works nicely for trapping intruders, heheh."

I, of course, fell flat on my rump with a thump and brought a hoof up to gingerly rub my horn, trying to sooth the ache "Ack, that hurts... Heh, you're a smart guy spike, The vast majority of people I've known up until now would've just completely glazed over trying to think about so much as 'wall regrowing', hahah."

"Heh, thanks... I'm gonna check on Twilight... She's smart, but she has a habit of flipping out if she spaces out and suddenly comes back to find herself alone." Heh, he didn't even blush about getting a compliment, yep, i definatelymust be a few years ahead, he seems a lot closer to grown up... A quick exploratory glance gave me an estimate of being roughly my height standing up.

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea... am I gonna hafta put her in the bed?"

"Nah, I'll carry her downstairs, you're probably hungry after being out for a couple hours, right?"

"Huh, ya know, i wasn't thinking about it, but sure, i could go for that."

"Yeah, then it'll be best if she wakes back up down there, I can fix up some breakfast for us all... think you can handle stairs?"

"well, I handled the ground, so i can probably handle crashing down some stairs, hahah."

"Heh, nice one, we can always use another pony with a sense of humor around here... just don't 'really' hurt your self... you're wierd too, normally it'd only be an earth pony taking a fall with no obvious harm... think it's cause you're formerly 'human'?"

"Hmmm, possibly... i mean, wierder shit has happened! and I was already pretty wierd for a human, tougher than I looked, among other things... hmmm, I'll have to look into my 'wierdness' being intact later."

"I don't think ya have ta worry there buddy, you seem pretty wierd to me already."

A moment later He toddled on over to twilight and hefted her up onto one shoulder... come to think of it, the comparison was much more obvious, she was definitely taller, though spike had a few inches in up-right height at least, she also seemed a bit more sleek... nevertheless, she was still light enough for spike to heft along with mild effort, and surprisingly stiff in her brain blasted stupor.

Oddly enough, noting Twilight's differing proportions to the show made me wonder about the possibilities of other differences... specifically my mind wandered onto Celestia, I'd always thought a bit of a 'motherly proportion' fit her personality more... It's not having a little weight on somepony automatically meant they can't be graceful and beautiful too.

"Oh jeez, I hope I don't slip and get my horn stuck in the 'floor' this time... hey wait, dude, i'm walkin already! ACK!" As soon as i started to think about my face slammed into the floor with a thud "Ugh... nevermind... maybe i should crawl down the stairs and worry about walking while waitin for ya to finish cooking."

"Careful, i might get the camera and collect some comedy material for later."

"Hah, you do that buddy!"

A couple of moments later I had dragged myself to the top of the stairs that lead down, spike waiting at the bottom, having deposited twilight on a couch, eager to see what kindof spill might come next... so was i actually, this was fun so far, being harder to hurt, so I took a step. "Oh fuck..."

I under-estimated the distance, tipped my hoof, moved my balance too far forward, and proceeded to face plant on the next step down... or... not... wait, what?

I actually caught myself with both fore-hooves, preventing a face plant while my rear still rose up in the air from the moment, up and over my head, threatening to turn me over on my back, so i pushed a little 'god that was stupid!'

Or so I thought, somehow i got lucky and the momentum whirled me around for my hind hooves to land half a dozen steps down, that same momentum still carrying me back over and down until I rebounded off the wall, changing directions, and pushing off again, back flipping to land on the flat floor at the bottom of the steps... sharing a mirrored look of dumbfounded shock with Spike "How the hell did I DO THAT!?"

"I DON'T KNOw, But it was 'COOL'! like... a ninja thing... PFFF, HAHAHAHA!" I'd landed and was shaking a little from unexpected physical success, then my legs went noodle on me suddenly and I did indeed 'do the flop', joining the laughter myself.

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About 10 minutes later, which I spent most of Cantering about, introducing the book shelves and carpet to my face, and the table once, but steadily improving my walking experience... I managed some believable facsimile of a natural 'canter' before twilight suddenly sprung back to concious thought with a resounding "wHAT THE BUCK!?" Leading to me slipping up and face-planting into the side of the couch she was standing on, returning to my hooves, while backing away, with all of the grace of somepony who has spent half an hour falling on their face and gained lots of experience getting back up!

"Oh, hi Twilight, welcome back!"

She whirled about on the couch, not so much as stumbling and an instant later 'appeared' infront of me nose to nose, mysteriously seeming 'angry' about something "You! How could you have 'read' about humans turning into ponies? Even 'I' don't have access to books like that! And I have access to EVERY book that even EXISTS"

Not missing a beat, I answered "In Equestria"

She seized up suddenly "say what?"

"In... Eques...Tria... Twilight, I had no idea you never got over that little 'short circuit' thing that happens when you can't understand something... we 'were' talking about different worlds, yeah? and me 'being' from another one? right? well, obviously, you have access to every book in 'Equestria', but not in my world... Oh, hohoho... there's enough reading material there to keep you busy for a millenium at least! OOF!"

I was suddenly bowled over, finding myself on my back staring into the frantic eyes of a purple alicorn, wings flared, practically drooling at the implication I made as she almost snarled out, non threateningly honestly "SHOOOwwww MMMMEEEEEEE!!!!"

This was the moment Spike chose to come in and check on the 'twilight freak out' and found the compromising position we were in "Jeez twilight, I know you don't get much but at least let the guy learn how to walk right before you jump his bit."

Oh thank celestia, he pulled her attention away from me, though from the sudden look of apologetic horror on his face I wasn't sure if that was a good thing, and he added on "Uh... Breakfast is ready!" and he bolted back into the kitchen... I took her momentary distraction as my chance and used both fore-hooves to shove against her barrel, sending her into the air a few feet, leading to reflexive wing flapping that gave me enough room to skitter back and get myself back to standing, soon an angry and embarassed expression turning back to me... holy crap, dat blush.

"Twilight, slow ya roll girl! I 'can't' show you, I don't even know how to use magic yet, 'you' brought 'me' here, remember? and most of what I read is considered 'fan fiction', It's stuff made up by some of billions of humans on my world... of course, I take it as the 'science of group logic', If enough people come up with similar experiences, then it's something worth keeping in mind, and so far that method has worked! I got turned into a pony in a different world and didn't freak out! infact, You freaked out because I 'didn't' freak out! I'm not sure if that is awesome or if I should be worried... beyond that, most of those stories are 'digital' so i can't bring em here anyway, unless of course you invent some spell that can connect the internet across dimensions... don't ask right now, I'm in no state to explain the complex electronic and digital constructs that make up our global communication network... I am very hungry now and would like to find out what pony food tastes like to ponies, i've never been much of a vegetarian but I'm more than willing to adapt for the sake of not freaking anypony out."

with that bombardment of information taking time to be processed again, I sauntered on by twilight, even adding a bit of skip in my step, and headed into the kitchen, promptly face planting on the floor "HEY SPIKE!, I MADE IT A DOZEN STEPS THIS TIME! SKIPPING TOO!"

"NICE!"

After a moment of rest, this was a 'tiled' kitchen floor, so 'ow'er, I worked my way back to standing and used a more leisurely pace to park myself at the edge of the table and wait for spike to server up the grub... It's not like I knew how to do it myself yet, I only have hooves at my disposal right now!

Soon steaming bowls were dished out on the table, It looked like some kind of soup with numerous white and orange chunks in it. "Since you don't know how to use magic yet, and you're still clumsy with hooves still, I figured I'd go with soup so you can drink it without having to fumble with the food... It's potato and carrot, a bit of onion and just a dash of 'special sauce'... I still don't know why, but twilight loves the stuff so i figured I'd head right off and see if the same applied to you." Of course, spike's own soup was decorated with some varyingly small and different colored gems... something caught my eye but i decided to rush right into the soup so I wouldn't have second thoughts... I wasn't joking when i said I'd have to 'adapt', as a human, vegi's actually made me ill to eat too often.

Interestingly enough, it seems the instinctual physical adaptation of being in a pony body worked wonders for making it an appetizing meal, as I leaned down and carefully tipped the bowl a bit so I could sip from the edge without having to 'dog it', completely ignoring how hot it was "wow! I never knew vegi's could be so good!... where i'm from, they tend to take a back-seat to just about everything else.

"woah, dude, that stuff was fresh! you're not even a dragon... that didn't burn at all?"

"Heh, nah, close though, but I've been trying to acclimate myself to eating hot food for a while... OH!, I LOVE 'SPICY'!"

"Oh, Cool... and thanks, I like when somepony compliments my cooking." Ohhhh, lookit thaaat! there's the 'puffing out' I recognize from the show, seems his pride in cooking is certainly intact. "Say, the way you talk about Vegi's... Does that mean there's not that many on 'your' world?"

"Oh, nono, there's 'plenty'... I just always preffered meat, nuts, and dairy... they always said it was unhealthy to focus on just that, but seriously, And I'm exagerating here, I just couldn't stomach large ammounts of Vegitables in my diet, it 'seriously' had a habit of making me feel sick, not even that they tasted 'bad' or anything... hell, Cellery tasted like juicy Pecan nuts to me!... but yeah, no worries, with a new body i don't think I'm going to have a problem adapting... though, if there's a griffon place in town I wouldn't mind experimenting, I do like to use variety."

"woah... yeah, you are totally going to be the new 'wierd new guy' in town... you'll probably wanna keep that meat thing to yourself as long as possible though, I mean, I'm a dragon so... ya know, but a lot of normal ponies will get bad ideas if it's too obvious."

"Heh, I can imagine dude... I'll try, i mean, I usually work at being concious of what's 'intelligent to conceal', but at the same time, it's in my nature to just not give a shit about public opinion unless I 'know it'll come back to bite me in the ass."

That was about the time Twilight suddenly wandered into the kitchen derailing that line of conversation, possibly out of vegitarian courtesy, seeming a bit dazed, found a seat at the table, and looked to me "Sooo, basicly, I can't get those books?"

as if I hadn't even stopped the earlier conversation in the other room, I slid right back into explaining on that subject. "Nope, they're digital, as in, not 'physical' books... i mean, i could save them to something portable that might work here, but i'd have to experiment first to see if our electronic constructs are compatible with your type of electricity, ya know? otherwise battery power will only last a few hours and that can't possible be enough for 'you' ... I mean, i can get ahold of 'books' fine, but there's a good chance most will have content you've already read... most new stuff these days is created on the internet."

"Huh... I see... well, that aside, would you mind answering some questions? I was kindof hoping to learn something about another world, even if I already know about humans, you did say it was a 'different' human world... I'd still like to know how you know that."

"Yeah, i don't mind answering some questions, but honestly, i'm giddy to finish perfecting 'walking' and do a bit of looking around, maybe try a bit of learning basic magic... OOH!, there we go... we can trade, Help me learning magic and I'll trade by anwering questions!"

She brightened up a 'lot' very suddenly "That's a good idea! ... I was kindof worried you might be mad or something about being dragged out of your world... I kindof thought about passing it off as a lucid dream before sending the 'visitor' back, but you're taking to it so well I don't think I have to worry about that."

"Heh, yeah, it is a bit invasive to suddenly snatch me out of my world like that, but I'm not complaining... I don't like my world anyway... It's hard to get by in life without having to be some kind of cruel for your own benefit... I'll explain that later too... I don't want to think about it right now... honestly, I'd really rather enjoy a day away, some 'real' 'peace', ya know?"

"hmhm, that's okay, I can wait, not like you're gonna suddenly run away and hide in a cave or something, or turn out to be a changeling... My friends would probably enjoy meeting you anyway."

"yes, that would be a fun way to see the town... also, just for fun since i've always wanted to test this! ... I predict a Pinkie Pie Party Invitation in approximately 73.5 Minutes!"

"Hahah, you can't predict pinkie pie... it's just not possible... wait, how do you know about - Riiight, explain that later... Maybe I should organize everypony together for dinner and you can share some stories about your world with the whole group!... If that's not an issue of course."

"Oh no, I wouldn't mind that at all... I warn you though, I am 'extremely' easy going when it comes to some things, I may accidentally answer a question with something you might consider disturbing that I got over being bothered by ages ago. ya know, numb from exposure and such."

"Um... I'm not sure what to think about that actually... I'd rather not 'scar' anypony with terrible details... then again, it won't help much to ignore those details, if they're there, they could be important to know too... UGH! I hate conundrums! And Fluttershy could very well seize up from hearing about it if it's bad enough... is it really that bad?"

"Eh, it can be, I mean, earth isn't 'always' a bundle of psychotic mind-fuck, But there's a lot more cut-throat survival stuff out there than anyone wants to admit... way too much value in 'appearances' too... honestly, if even a 'tiny' fraction of what I 'think' i know about Equestria is true, I can honestly say that I am far more excited to be 'here' than 'there'."

"well, I hope you're happy with Equestria, i mean, i didn't plan on summoning a permanent resident or anything, but, things change, ya know? oh, and another things... you're language, you're awfully, er, 'out there' with it."

"Oh yeah, well, back on earth, you'd have trouble goin for a walk down even an abandoned street without hearing somebody cursing... I honestly don't get why the words are taken so hard, Their just words, they have a specific meaning, if it's not being said in a directly insulting manner, I don't give 2 shits about what's being spoken... As far as I'm concerned, calling someone a 'bitch' is absolutely equal in meaning to calling someone a 'son of a dog', because they 'are' the same... that, and I've been around it so long It just 'happens' without thinking."

"Um... yeah, I can see where you're coming from... i guess-"

"Don't worry, i can 'clean it up' some if you like... I prefer to just 'be me' but I try to be accepting of the preferences of others, if I can help it at least... I'll still probably slip up sometimes though, I mean, I've been loose tongued for over a decade, it's pretty hard to stop cold turkey."

"I understand, As long as you try I don't think anypony should really have a big issue, unless you directly insult somepony... or talk like that in-front of foals, or the princesses... er, 'other' princesses."

"Right, Think about who i'm talking to, and don't fuck up in-front of foals or royalty."

"... well, I'll take what I can get, so now what?"

"Now? Now I say we oughta get walkin, the sun's up, the day is young, and I've got a 'real' ponyville to see!"

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