A New MLP Experience

Zak was lying on the couch in the main room. The lights were off, but he couldn't sleep. His world had been crumpled up and thrown away in an hour...and for some reason he was okay with it. He never had anything in his old life, he considered this a new start...or a crazy dream. So he closed his eyes and fell to blissful sleep.

He opened his eyes to bright colors and jolted up. Then his memory of the night came back and he sighed. So...not a dream...he thought. He didn't see Twilight anywhere so he looked around a bit. Rows of books met his eyes and he walked towards them. She lives in a library? He thought, looking at the titles of books. He himself would be considered a bookworm, so when a book about magic caught his eye, he instantly began reading.

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Twilight woke up full of energy. She still had to write a letter to the princess, and then introduce Zak to all of Ponyville. She walked downstairs, expecting to still see Zak asleep. What she saw was Zak reading a book, with a small pile next to him. Zak hadn't seemed to notice her, or the rest of the world. She coughed quietly and Zak's head shot up. “Oh, hey Twilight.” he said. The pile of books at his side were each different volumes of magic studies. “Did you read all of these?” she asked in disbelief. Zak shrugged, “I didn't want to wake you up.”

Twilight pulled out a scroll and a quill and wrote a quick letter to the princess, then asked Owlowiscious to fly it to her. With a 'who' he flew out the window. She turned to Zak, who was putting the books back on the shelf. “I thought we could go meet my friends.” she told him. Zak shrugged, “Well this should be fun.”

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Their first destination was Sweet Apple Acres. On the way there, everypony stopped and stared at them, more particularly Zak. “I feel like a giant.” he said, trying to avoid all of the gazes of the ponies. “Just ignore them.” Twilight said, then loudly, “Applejack? Applejack!” Coming towards them was an orange pony wearing a western style hat. She walked up slowly at first, but then seemed to gain confidence as she came closer. “Howdy Twilight,” she said, then looked up at Zak, “who's yer friend?”

“Applejack this is Zak.” she said calmly. Although nervous, Zak held out his hand, “Pleasure to meet you.” Applejack took his hand Jeez she has a strong grip! And shook it warmly. She's going to tear my hand out of its socket! “Pleasure meetin ya!” she said warmly. Others watching slowly lost interest, probably because Zak didn't try killing anyone.

“Zak's a human from Earth.” Twilight said, “I'm introducing him to everypony.” Applejack smile grew, “That's mighty thoughtful of ya Twi!” she said, then she thought for a moment, “I remember Fluttershy was goin to Rarity's today.”

“Great!” Twilight said, “Then we'll go to Pinkie's first and chances are Rainbow will be there too!” Sure enough, after walking for a bit, two ponies were standing outside the bakery. Upon seeing them arrive they both stop. When you arrive the pink one bounces towards Zak. “Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie! Who are you? What are you? Where you from? How'd you get here? Do you want to be friends?”

“Um..Zak, human, Earth, no idea, and...ok?”

“Yay!!!” Pinkie said, then she jumped into Zak and wrapped him in a hug. Zak, after getting his footing back, laughed and returned the hug. Something about her just made him want to bounce too! The other pony, who was a blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane walked up. “I'm Rainbow Dash, The fastest pony in Ponyville!”

“Nice to meet you.” Zak said, then to Pinkie, “Choking, not breathing.” Pinkie let go with a giggle. “Sorry, I get so excited and then somepony new comes to town then-” Pinkie let out a gasp, “We HAVE to throw A PARTY!!!!!!” Zak was actually stunned silent, so Pinkie continued. “We can have balloons, and cake, and streamers, and music, and I'll invite EVERYPONY!!!” Zak turned to Twilight, “Is she always...?”

“Yes.” Twilight said, smiling. Zak turned back to Pinkie, but she was gone. “That's Pinkie Pie.” Rainbow said, “I'd love to stay and chat, but I gotta race with my name on it!” With that she was gone in a streak of...rainbow. “Actually, I gotta get back to the barn.” Applejack said with a wave, “See y'all later.” Zak and Twilight watched as Applejack walked off, “Well that was...interesting.” Zak said, “But I like them.” Twilight smiled, “Well there's two more to meet.”

After a bit of walking they reached what was probably the fanciest building in town. “This is where Rarity works: The Carousel Boutique.” They both entered and could hear two voices in the back. “Oh thank you again Fluttershy, Opalescence just won't let me near her at times.”

“It's no trouble at all Rarity, you know you can call me anytime.”

“Of course dear, it's just- OPALESCENCE NO!” Suddenly a white streak flew through the hall and jumped at Zak, who instinctively caught it. Zak was surprised that he was holding a cat, who just purred in his arms. A white unicorn and a yellow Pegasus, both of whom were looking at Zak in surprise. Zak began scratching the cat behind its ears, in response it purred even louder.

“Well,” the unicorn said, “that's unexpected. Opalescence usually hates strangers.”

“What? This pretty girl?” Zak asked as Opalescence rubbed against his chest. “Oh! Rarity, Fluttershy, this is Zak.” Twilight said. “Charmed.” the white unicorn, Zak assumed she was Rarity, said, holding out a hoof. Zak, while holding Opalescence with one arm, gently took her hoof and bowed. “The pleasure is mine, my lady.” he said, and Rarity giggled. Opalescence jumped out of Zak's arm and landed on Rarity's back. Fluttershy walked up “Nice to meet you.” she said and held out a hoof. Zak shook it gently, “Same here.”

“Fluttershy, your not usually this open with new people.” Twilight said. Fluttershy smiled, “Anyone who's good with animals can't be bad.” Zak smiled, “That's a great philosophy.” Twilight turned to Rarity, “Zak appeared out of nowhere and has no change of clothes.” First Rarity's eyes widened in shock, then they shined in determination. “Leave it to me dear, “ Rarity said, “I can make him many sets of clothes.” Zak eyes widened slightly, “I don't want to impose-”

“Nonsense,” Rarity said, pulling out measuring tape, “now we must make some measurements.”

A few moments of uncomfortable measurements and questions about his preferences and Zak, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Twilight were going back to the library. “So...why are you two coming again?” Zak asked. Rarity and Fluttershy shared a look and Twilight smiled, “You'll see.”