“So… I was wrong about the fur?” Rarity inquired, taking the final few measurements of the raptor.

“Well… it’s common misconception. They’re feathers. But they do tend to look a lot like fur if you’re not paying close attention.” Einuli replied, almost casually as he stretched his back.

“Thank you for correcting me than. I’d rather avoid of-”

“You won’t offend me. You’d be really, really surprised how hard it is for me to take offence to anything.” He smiled, “I sorta take stuff like calling my feathers, fur, as part of being me.”

“It’s hard to say I’d feel the same in your place, but everyponies’ different.”

“That’s what makes everything so amazing! If everyone were the same the entire universe would be so… boring.” Einuli sighed.

“I can’t speak for very much of it… but, yes it would be, dull if everything was the exact same.” Rarity agreed, “Now, what are your favorite colors?”

“Um, well, red and black.” Einuli said.

Rarity laughed, “I should have been able to guess that.” She smiled, kneeling down in front of him, she started measuring around his crotch when she noticed something odd. “Is um, your penis internal? You’re missing a sheathe an-”

Twilight threw open the door to the room and saw the position Rarity was in.

“Oh! I was actually waiting for that question, um my species is more like birds in the sheer fact that we have a sperm duct in males in ovum ducts in females. There isn’t really any… mating as mammalian species are used to. Just trading of sperm and ovum to produce eggs.” Enuili started, now as everyone was flooding into the room they had just hit a lecture that put any Twilight had ever thought of to shame.

Two hours later:

Spawning off of several questions Twilight had asked she was now intimately aware of most the psychology and culture of the Avali, as well as their breeding and augmentation culture. Everyone else had bailed after the breeding discussion because Twilight’s questions would have lead to them all dying of boredom.

“Any other questions?” Einuli asked, looking at Twilight curiously.

“Um, just what augmentations do you have?” She inquired.

“Oh, several in my brain, mainly allowing for… well translation of verbal language. Which helps me speak with other species, um a neural port to allow me to get in contact with other Avali and see what they’ve been up to. Along with other that allow me to more easily adapt to any other augments I may add.” Einuli tapped his chin, “Then there’s the muscular augmentations, they allow me to lift several tonnes between forty to around 300 tonnes depending on how high I bump up the energy usage of my augments, as well as hit the ground from huge distances without hurting myself. Skeletal reinforcements… general useful augmentations. Things that are necessary for space travel alone.” He shrugged. “I can activate and deactivate them at will.”

“Okay I was just about to ask why you weren’t crushing anyone yet.” Twilight laughed. “What was it like?”

“What do you mean?” He asked.

“Getting the augmentations.”

“Oooh, um, it really depends. The muscular ones weren’t too painful. The skeletal reinforcement however… um, I was crippled severally for several days. Too painful to move, breathing hurt, hell living hurt. But after it was done… well it’d be a major feat if you could break a single one of my bones.” He said, “The neural ones, um you HAVE to be unconscious for that. Thankfully my ship’s AI is fully capable of performing nearly any operation.” He affirmed.

“Hmm…” Twilight tapped her chin, “I can’t really think of any other questions…”

“Alright!” Einuli hopped up and walked out to the balcony, “I’m going to go eat, I should be back down in an hour or so!” He waved as he vanished in bright blue light.

Dash peeked back into the room, “Is it over?” She asked.

“Yeah, he’ll be back in an hour.” Twilight replied, looking to her friends. “You missed a lot of really important things, you know! Now, everyone get in here. Since you left after his reproduction explanation I wouldn’t be surprised if he felt like you only wanted to sleep with an alien.”

“He was using words I doubt any of us could understand besides you.” Dash rolled her eyes. “Please, sleeping with that cute little thing was the last thing on anyone’s mind.”

“She… surprisingly ain’t lying.” Applejack interjected.

“Well, I should really go report what I found out to Celestia.” Twilight sighed, walking past her friends and down to Canterlot’s throneroom.

Meanwhile:

“So, you’re telling my you DIDN’T tell me that there’s an adorably cuddly alien now on our planet?” Cadance started, staring her aunt down.

“Honey, calm down…” Shining said.

“Well, I was trying to make sure he wasn’t here to simply kidnap mares and use them as breeding stock. Though I suspect after further investigation he has little inclination of what breeding even is.” Celestia sighed, “Or… anything really. It appears his only companion was some sort of AI that was open to letting us look around.”

“So, if he isn’t here to harm us why not alert the populace so they can see other creatures not from here aren’t bad or evil?” Cadance inquired.

“Well, we wanted you in particular to make sure he had no ill intentions.” Celestia said, “We figured you’d have the easiest time reading him. But first we wanted to make sure it was safe enough for you to be there alone with hi-”

“Cel-” Twilight stopped as she entered the throne room, seeing Cadance and Shining Armor there.

“Twilight!” Cadence rushed over and hugged Twilight tightly, both Princesses now falling into a fit of giggles and laughter as they hugged.

“Ah just the mare we wanted to see. You’ve been gone for so long? Did something interesting happen?” Celestia asked.

“Oooh boy. I have A LOT to explain. But I’ll make it quick.” Twilight pulled away from Cadence. “Just bear with me.” Cadance and Shining sat down and Twilight began a rather short version of the detailed lecture Einuli had given.

Author's Note

Ooh boy, been under a lot of stress with a new job and the flu in the same week. Next chapter should be a bit longer, sorry for the lateness of my update. I can't promise anything but I'm going to try my hardest to get another chapter out soon.