Intros-a-plenty

After spending about 20 or so minutes scarfing down breakfast, and a visit to the bathroom, we were ready to head out.

I was just about to the door when Twilight appeared in front of me suddenly, blasted teleporting, I wonder if I can pull that off sometime. "wAIT! I almost forgot! I mean seriously, I can't believe I forgot something so important... what's your name? and what are you going to go by as a pony, ya know, if you intend to use a different one?"

After the initial Flinch, I did another one... i could hardly believe 'I'd' forgotten to introduce myself too. "Crap! You're right! Hrm, as a human, My name is Sean, S-e-a-n, it's an irish pronunciation I think, I'll explain irish later too! I normally went by 'Shoryu' though, it was sort of a chosen name from a different culture that just 'fit'... In pony stuff, I also went by 'TheBlackPony'... very anonymous... I think... Lets go with 'Midnight Light'... I always liked that name for a pony."

"wow, that's a lot of names... also, you're white"

"I know, i have more but their secondary... And yes, I am, I am 'white' like the 'light' of 'midnight'... Moonlight... see, look closer." I grinned and held up a hoof to look closer at... it was a very slightly blue-ish white, that resembled the color of a full moon.

"ohhhh, I gotcha, ingenius... okay, we'll go with that, I'll just call you midnight."

Official Perspective - Midnight Light, The Oddball Human Turned Unicorn

"I was about to suggest exactly that, now then-*Knock Knock*-Bloody Hell!" I was inches from discovering that I don't know how to grasp door-knobs with hooves yet when somepony else knocked.

A moment later I heard "Twi? Ya alraght in ther? who's shoutin?" a bit of suspicion and worry in the tone.

"Okay Twilight, I think i have a better idea of what 'slip of the tongue' can cause... Oh god, I'm not looking forward to what might shoot from my mouth when Pinkie inevitably 'appears' next to me."

Twilight didn't skip a beat though and hopped forward to pull the door open to reveal a familiar orange farm-pony, wearing an equally familiar stetson, which funny enough i only know is called a stetson from reading about 'her' specifically, and also wearing a not so familiar Neck-tie done up slightly fancy-ish... that's odd. "Sorry Aj! we were literally about a second from heading out, you just startled Midnight with your timing."

"Ohhh, Mighty sorry bout that... who's Midnight?"

I appeared next to Twilight in the door and gave an obvious wave "That'd be me Jackie." Crap!

She looked indignant suddenly "... Nice ta meetcha, but the names Applejack."

"Sorry, i know, It was a slip, heh, i have some 'loose tongue' issues I need to work on, heheh."

"Riiiiight... Twahlight, who is this guy?"

"Oh, um... you remember that thing I mentioned that I was going to try for various scientific and historical reasons as a way to expand my field of study and keep my mind occupied with things that didn't involve dangerous experiments?"

I chimed in suddenly "wait, Dangerous Experiments? like what? I like experiments, long as they're not cruel."

"Uh, yeah I 'member.... wait, this is him? I thought you were gonna-"

"Yeah, I 'was' trying that, and it worked, just, turned him into a pony first... not sure why, it also dropped him face first on my door-step... I was just about to show him around town to settle a bit, then worry about questions later... he doesn't seem in a big hurry to go back, so I figured we have time... I was also considering getting the girls together for dinner where we can 'all' talk about it some, handle introductions too, since I 'know' that's the way it's going to go before long."

"sounds like that hurt, but i don't see any teeth layin around so it musta worked out... Hmmm, I can go find fluttershy, that oughta save ya a couple long trips before dinner to visit her and the farm, she can probably get Rainbow for us, less she drops in on ya while yer out 'n about."

"That's a good idea Aj! I could easily make room on the schedule for lunch and a bit of chatting, maybe introduce him to the mayor or something."

That got my attention suddenly "wait, when did you make a schedule? You were 'brain busted' for most of the time since I got here!"

"Oh please, the better question is when do I 'not' make a schedule" She quickly floated a rolled up piece of paper from her saddlebags... wait... wHEN DID THOSE GET THERE!?... Damn, I knew this girl was efficient but... just, damn. "See?" She quickly unrolled it and floated it in a position for me to get a look "I can move fluttershy to later tonight, we could encounter Rainbow at just about 'any' time, we're handling AJ now, and make room for lunch and other useful introductions... Then we can handle Rarity, check in with the mayor, you'll need to know her anyway if you 'do' decide you wanna stay. Meet with the Local Guard Lieutenant, mostly to make sure they know you're name and face so nopony who doesn't know you yet over-reacts about a stranger being around and sics the guard on you... Ugh, I still hate having to consider it, but being a stranger following a princess around'll get a lot of unwanted suspicion from 'some' ponies... and, well, you know."

"I can imagine at least... I don't like being the recipient of uncomfortable praise either... honestly, sometimes it feels insulting to be praised for something that wasn't all that special to be able to do, granted, turning into an alicorn and becoming a princess is a lot more 'special' than anything I've done, you'd think you have the authority to decide 'not' to get that inherent praise for every little thing, that about right?"

"Y-yeah, exactly right actually... that imagination of yours again?"

"Yeah, pretty much... so." I made a little motion towards applejack to redirect the conversation that way.

"OH!, Right, official introduction time! Applejack, This is Midnight Light, source of information about his home universe and the humans in it, freshly minted Unicorn, and 'temporary' guest resident of the Golden Oaks Library... Midnight, This is Applejack -"

"Hold on, let me try this real quick" There was a moment of surprise when I'd interupted "Applejack, Current Co-proprietor of Sweet apple acres, Bearer of the Element of Honesty, Big and little sister at the same time, walking Lie detector, and probably the 4th to last pony you'd want to annoy into bucking your face, Only behind Big mac, and Princesses Celestia and Luna... am I close?"

God i love those looks... both had totally dumbfounded expressions on their faces, though applejack's had a fair bit of pride slipping through. "Yah... that's exactly right, heh, hate to admit not being the 'best' bucker, but Mac's plain scary if'n ya make 'im angry, so i'm fine takin back-seat there."

"Oh, i can imagine... quick question, and I'm not 'implying' anything, it's just a possibility I heard about and I thought I'd check on... does he turn 'amazing' if he gets drunk?" Oh, that got a bit of reluctant irritation to show.

"Ugh... yes, he does... He tends t'get hi'self hurt too! But-"

"Ah, don't worry, like I said, i'm not implying a drinking problem or something... lets just say I'm a fan of the 'drunken master' style awesomeness... Even though I've never drank anything alcoholic in my life, and i'm quite certain that if I did now, I'd probably try some spell I shouldn't and end up making it back fire and blow up the bar... that'd be just my luck."

Perhaps it seemed like I was getting into wierd territory, or just a desire to push the schedule a bit, but Twilight suddenly jumped back in the middle of the conversation "Hrm, So, AJ, what brings you by suddenly?"

"Oh, Raht! ah was on mah way to a business thing... ugh, I really wish ah didn't need ta, but the apple business is 'still' gettin bigger... I never imagined some fancy pony actually 'liking' mah apple recipes would dump so much fresh work on me, I suddenly gotten work on expanding or... BAH! I don't want no fancy business pony tryin to mess with mah farm, but It's getting 'too' big and I gotta try 'somethin' before we get to that point a 'too much demand and not 'nough supply'... the Meetin's about an hour off still, best to be early... S'why i got this... 'tie'... Ugh, i hate dressy stuff, but so many blasted city ponies won't take ya seriously les' ya at least 'try' and fancy up."

I interjected suddenly "I actually think it seems to fit you, It's not froofy, or excessively fancy, and I could totally see it fitting a cowpony stuck dealin with business stuff."

"Heh, that's mighty nice a ya... Anyway, ah was on my way, headin for the town hall, seemed as good a place as any when we set the meetin up, and outta nowhere pinkie pie appears, bein pinkie pie, and says ah oughta come to the library and borrow a book about business stuff before I go... ah I get the feeling that it's no coincidence I'm also meeting your new friend here at the same time."

"I wouldn't be surprised... from what I know of pinkie, she practically embodies the old saying 'Expect the unexpected'."

"wait, whatcha think you know bout 'pinkie'? Nopony can 'know' pinkie pie."

"Heheh, AJ, He actually acted like he could predict pinkie pie earlier! He predicted a 'pinkie pie party invitation in 7-' oh wait, it's more like 52 Minutes now"

"Hahah, good luck there Midnight, I don't think anypony has ever pulled that off."

"Heh, well i'm not seriously expecting to succeed, but it never hurt no-pony to try... well, except twilight that one time she tried to scientifically explain 'pinkie sense'... then ended up going 'leeroy' on that hydra."

"wait whut? How does he-"

"don't ask AJ... Right now, i'm feeling a bit of 'pinkie' in this one... he says he'll explain later at dinner... aaaanywaaay! go on in, spike's keepin an eye on the library, he can show you where the business books are."

"Um... rahhhgt... Thanks Twi, I'll see ya later tonight, or maybe at Town hall if yer timin hits homes."

"Heheh, sure thing applejack, see ya soon!"

And like that we were off into ponyville... finally...

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we engaged in fairly idle chatter as we walked, drawing some friendly waves and curious stares, broken up a bit by some comical stumbling and my occasional face-plant earning giggles from twilight. I kept fairly frequent attention on the houses we passed, noting what I personally would call a 'medieval yet prettified' style of wooden construction with Thatched rooves, and like everything else so far they looked a lot less cartoony than one might think from simply watching a TV show.

Ironically, it wasn't Twilight who broke out the first tangeant... we had barely spent 5 minutes making our way towards Rarity's before 'I' stopped first, staring at a certain house that seemed 'close' to similar to the rest, but was certainly larger and had the noticeable sign that it was placed farther away from the rest of them... it 'felt' familiar for some reason.

"Um... midnight? Iiiis something wrong with that house?"

"Mmm, I'm not sure... it just feels strangely familiar... hang on." I plopped for a moment, stared a few seconds longer, then closed my eyes and started to think for a moment...

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"Um... Midnight?"

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"Hrm, we should-"
"I GOT IT!"
"KYAH!"

I love surprising ponies, they make sure adorable 'shocked' faces "Twilight, does that house belong to Vinyl Scratch and Octavia?" I took the sudden dumbfoundedly shocked expression as confirmation "HAH!, that's where I recognize it from... Hang on just a bit, I need to check something, I'll try not to take too long!" And like that I was off suddenly, and after a few seconds a certain lavender princess snapped back to her senses and sprinted off behind me... nearly tripping when my rush suddenly found me skidding to a stop on my face "Ah shit! I hurried too hard!"

"Midnight! what in Equestria are you in such a hurry for?"

I quickly climbed back to my hooves for maybe the 50th time this morning, and started towards the house again, at a much more tame pace of course "I just remembered something Related to Vinyl that in turn reminded me of a freaking awesome thing I've always wanted to do... and it's going to drive me insane if I don't check and see if It 's real or just speculation."

I arrived at the door just intime to hear a suspicious hum building up on the other side, and it took no kind of genius to know exactly what that meant was coming next 'anywhere' that Vinyl Scratch was involved "Crap, no time!" in an instant one of my hooves knocked furiously at the door... the sound didn't stop... and after a couple of seconds...

the door opened to reveal a very familiar white Unicorn, her awesome shades, and Totally Crazy electric blue mane, for just a moment I swore I interpreted a bemused expression when she saw her warm up had been interupted by a stranger, then relaxed an instant later as she noticed one of only a handful of locals more famous than herself "Oh! Hey Twilight, what's up? who's this?" Oh cool, I always liked the slightly tomboyish version of voice, over the ones that just sounded like prissy teenagers failing to be epic.

Twilight however, most assuredly looked a little annoyed from the sudden detour, but she sucked it up and played along anyway "Good Morning Vinyl, Not much, just showing a new pony around town and he just 'suddenly' came running over here... This is Midnight Light, he's... 'visiting', from somehere far away" I couldn't help but roll my eyes a little... I'd read a few stories where that was the first thing that comes up as an explanation, so I decided to test out the 'vinyl personality' and fluster Twilight again.

just as Vinyl's focus returned to 'me' I held out a hoof with a slightly manic grin "Indeed, Midnight Light, Visitor from another world, Human turned pony, and knower of things that make Twilight's Eye's bug out trying to figure out how the hell I know them!" A Moment later the DJ Burst out laughing and with a quick glance I found out that my description of Twilight's reaction was almost perfectly accurate, though there was just a bit of teeth grating.

"Oh! HAHAHAHHAHAHA!, Oh, Holy Hay, Middy, You're a kicker... and if it wasn't for Twilight standing next to you I'd think you're insane, But seriously... wierd stuff happens around her, so I can totally buy that... what brings ya here though?"

"Oh, I'm just a big fan of your music, You're actually the only reason I like dubstep... er, dub'trot'... do you call it that here?"

"Yeah, Trot, Guessing you got something similar?"

"Yeah, thought honestly, Humans fucking Suck at it! I mean damn, I thought Death Metal was bad... If it weren't for being relatable to Jumpstyle and Hardstyle I'd never even bother looking at it."

"Oh sweet Celestia, YES! Somepony else around that appreciates me!" In a totally expectable display of Vinyl Scratch informal invasion of personal space, she threw her fore-legs around my neck in a deliberately over-dramatic display of joking affection for a couple of seconds before hopping back, Busting a gut yet again.

"HAHAH!, I know right? Toomany ponies look poorly on 'different' musical talents... Of course, I have to admit there was a bit of a personal idea that inspired me to interupt Twilight's schedule."

"Ya? what's that?"

"I wanted to see if something I'd heard back home might be true..." I waited a dramatic moment before leaning in and talking in a quieter slightly conspiratorial tone "Are you really designing a set of recording/playing devices that can turn musical information from somepony's head directly into sound and visuals?"

Every moment I continued that line i saw bit by bit more and more shock spreading across her features... then suddenly I found myself jerked inside and the door slammed in-front of Twilight. I soon found myself on the floor again, momentarily considering the possibility that there might be a running gag about me innocently ending up under a lot of different mares today. "How do you know about that!? I've been really careful so nopony can steal it!"

I gave a non-chalant smile and a shrug "Exactly, no'pony' can steal it, of course, no human can recreate it either, so you're safe, they already got their own recording crap and it has nothing to do with mental transfer... To put it simply, I heard about it from reading a story that involved you doing that, but it was in 'my' world, so if you've been careful about it, I doubt any 'pony' actually knows about it yet."

"Vinyl... why is it at least once a week I come downstairs to find you straddling a stallion in the middle of the living room?" a Quick glance up from my prone position revealed a familiar Grey pony just coming downstairs, to which a gave a short and innocent wave.

"OCTY!, That's not what this is! This guys like... an alien who knows stuff that nopony's supposed to know! He knows about my secret project too!"

"Oh good heavens... Vinyl, how drunk are you?"

I chose to interupt suddenly before the confusion could progress "Hrm! Actually, She's right about that, Twilight made it happen... though on a side note, I would totally not be against what she was implying you were doing, just, another day... Twilight'd freak if I ditched her to bang, hahah."

"Yeah! And i'm only slightly buzzed right now... wait, bang? Have you already met cloud kicker?"

"Nah, but there's a whole fucking novel on her sexual exploits back home"

Vinyl looked absolutely gobsmacked at that concept "Jeez..."

"Huh... so, an alien that looks exactly like a pony? Are you sure you're not both drunk?"

At that moment a very exasperated Twilight pushed the front door back open, shooting a glare at the DJ who clearly had me still pinned down "Ugh, I wish he wouldn't go spreading it around so freely, somepony could really freak out about it... but yes, it's true, and he was turned 'into' a pony, I'm not even sure 'why' or 'how' yet but it happened."

"Uhhh, huh... If I didn't know better, I might think all 'three' of you are drunk or something... but, I suppose Vinyl has brought much more unusual individuals home before, just don't leave a mess on a carpet or I'll strangle you with my Chello bow." with that she cantered off to the kitchen.

"Huh... Seems like Octy got more mello over the past few years... She usually just leave you with a calm death threat?"

"Yeah pretty much... now where were we... oh right, You knowing about my covert project that I've never shown to anypony but Octy and Twilight!"

"You mean the one you asked me to help you go over a few times to make sure it wouldn't fry anypony's brain using it?"

"Yeah that one"

"Like I said, wierd other worldly knowledge, I think it's amazing though... I know it's a rediculous long shot but I've always been the type of... er, 'stallion' to take pot shots are long targets to see if it's possible... so I was distantly hoping for some chance of experiencing it... If it helps, I've got memories of a metric buck ton of music in my head, and... honestly, If I can help you with something that'll make it possible to take music 'everywhere'... ohh, hohohoho, Being in Equestria'll get suddenly even sweeter."

"Ugh, I can't believe I'm endorsing this wierdness, but given the nature of turning mental data into music, It'll be helpful to have a 'variety' of brains that have tested it... from what I can tell he is 'physically' an average pony, so he'll make a better 'other unicorn' test... And you can definitely trust 'him' not to steal it, beacuse I could just blast him back to his world if he tries it."

I just gave her a comically apalled expression at that "Hey! I'll have you know that I have designed some things myself before, the keyword being 'designed' not 'built' but I most assuredly understand the deep wounding that can come from someone stealing the figurative equivalent of you're mental baby... er, foal."

Vinyl seemed to mull this over for a while... well, i couldn't really be sure, her shades were in place, but If i were in her position I'd probably be doing that... Though I'd hoped something positive would happen, what 'did' happen was a bit more than I'd expected, and left Twilight Gaping in shock.

I quite suddenly Found myself the recipient of a furious and somewhat forceful kiss... it wasn't half bad, but the surprise of it made it pretty hard to notice and enjoy, though i did get to notice an interesting bit of detail about Vinyl that clicked on some lightbulbs in my brain... no, I'm not going to tell you what those are... It didn't last long of course

"Oh! i was really suspicious at first, but if Twilight'll vouch for you, then 'yes!'... I've been freaking out trying to decide on someponies to use as a testing group... Octy'll sure do fine for an earth pony to test, I'm sure Dash wouldn't mind letting me borrow her for a pegasus test... but I couldn't think of any unicorns around with a lot of musical know how to test it with that I was sure I could trust... Rarity is a definite no there of course, and as sure as I am that it wouldn't hurt an alicorn, there being only a few in existence makes that potential consumer type unfortunately useless to marketability... no offense Twilight."

"None taken, Business is a bitch... ... ... AUGH! Midnight! You've Tainted my vocabulary with your exasperatingly excessive expulsions of expletives!"

Holy crap that was funny... Seriously... after a moment of staring dumbly at her both Myself and Vinyl burst out laughing, twilight feeling the need to blush and sink into her wings a little, of course Vinyl 'had' to make a comment "HAHAHAH!, OH! YES! Princess Twilight finally popped her Cursing Cherry!" I choked on a snicker for a moment before powerfully jerking into an intense laughing fit that caused me to twitch madly, consequently rolling Vinyl off of me and into a similar fit.

After about 30 seconds the laughing fit calmed down and vinyl rolled plant a hoof on the end of my snout while making a serious look, woah, when did her shades vanish? where?... oooh, pretty red! "Alright! This is totally bucking wierd, but Imma give ya a chance to test it, I made a couple of prototypes so I can let ya borrow one, I'm guessing you'll be around Twilight a lot so it's unlikely you'll be able to sneak off even if you 'do' plan something, but You're comin back by here tommorrow to give it back, I'll study it a bit and see how it handled it, and Twilight'll probably do some scanny stuff to make sure it's not messing up your brain or anything... we'll worry about an extended testing period after that... and if you break it or steal it, I'll snap your horn off and shove it up your plot 'before' I kick it, capice?"

"Yep, I gotcha, totally, Don't break it or I have to worry about some form of brutal vengeance... if it breaks, it's totally going to be because 'it' did it itself, not because of me! heheh... also, I like your eyes."

There was only a very slight blush before her shades slid back into place, wait, were they in her hair or something? I didn't see em... ugh, Ponies are magic! "Hah, thanks, but flattery ain't gonna save your plot if ya mess this up... plus, I wanna hear some of this music before you leave with it, dig?"

"Yep! I gotcha, though probably best to only do 1 song, don't wanna bust up Twilight's Schedule any more than I already have, ya know? heheh."

"Yeah that works... wait here just a moment."

As she climbed back to her hooves I scrambled up as well, a bit clumsily for my rushing, but managed to pop up to her side and whisper something privately... something that caused her ears to perk sharply and a hoof to cover her mouth, but I gave what I thought was a reassuring smile and whispered something else before playing it like I was shrugging off something unimportant and let her run off.

[More intended for later]