Has This Happened Before?

Christians P.O.V.

“That was…” Aaron paused, “Weird…”

I gave him a look, ”ya don’t say?”

“I do say.”

We both shared a short laugh before turning to Twilight, "is there a checklist or something?"

"Yes, its right here." She levitated a scroll to me and Aaron, I took it and read it aloud as I noticed a lot of ponies are staring at us.

"Summer Sun Celebration Official Overseer Checklist:

Applejack and her family is in charge of the banquet preparations in Sweet Apple Acres,

Rainbow Dash is in charge of keeping the sky sky clear,

Rarity is in charge of decorations,

Fluttershy is in charge of music."

"That's it? Seems easy, lets check on the food prep first," Aaron declared as I gave it to Spike as we started walking.

Twilight decided to pick up some conversation herself for once. "I've been meaning to ask, how exactly are you two -literal mythological creatures- here right now? No offence but you shouldn’t exist right now.”

"Uh... we'll tell you later... for now, lets just uh... lets just say we aren't from Equestria..." I said nervously.

"Alright..." She was clearly suspicious but stayed quiet. Me and Aaron took a quiet sigh in relief. The rest of the walk was relatively quiet, but the staring was starting to unnerve me though, especially the look I’m getting from a mint green Unicorn mare. We made it to Sweet Apple Acres pretty quickly, mostly because it was somewhere outside of town and easy to find.

As we passed a gate, we saw a massive apple orchard across the field. "This is Sweet Apple Acres isn't it?" Aaron guessed. To the left of the entrance there were various crops in one field, to the right, there were a few pens and corn fields.

"Yeeehaaaaww!" The sudden yell scared the shit outa us. There was an orange coated mare with a blond mane and tail that both end with a ponytail ironically, she had emerald eyes and was wearing a brown Stetson, and her cutie mark was three red apples. She was running towards a tree head on. ‘Is she gonna headbutt that tree?’ She turned around at the last second and kicked the tree, somehow causing all of the apples to fall into the buckets placed at the bottom of the tree. She promptly held her head high and crossed her right foreleg over her left. ‘Show off.’

Twilight wore an unamused frown, "lets just get this over with." We started walking up to the orange mare. "Good afternoon, my name is Twilight Sparkle, thi-" She was cut off by the other mare shaking her hoof violently.

"Well howdy-do Miss Twilight! A pleasure makin yer acquaintance, ah'm Applejack, we here at Sweet Apple Acres sure do like makin new friends!" Applejack spoke with a heavy southern accent. ‘I swear to God i’m seeing a pattern here...’

"Friends? a-a-ctu-ally-y-y I-I-" Twilight stuttered before being cut off again by Applejack.

"So, what can ah do ya for?" Twilights hoof was still shaking rapidly so I stepped forward to take momentary charge.

"We're here to-” I was cut off by Applejack tackling me, and somehow, after rolling a bit, she managed to straddle me at my waist. ‘What the fuck?!’

“Don’t worry Miss Twilight! I’ll get rid of this varmin!” She cocked back a hoof.  I caught her hoof, and her eyes widened. She cocked another hoof, but before she threw the hit, Aaron picked her up and stared her in the eyes as she struggled.

“Stop!” She immediately stopped wide eyed.

“Ya’ll-”

“Yes, I can talk.” She stayed quiet. Twilight and Spike just looked on in fear of what might happen as I stood back up. “Now, if I let go are you gonna attack me or my friend?”

“N-no.”

He slowly put her down, and when she was on the ground, she lowered her head in shame. “Ahm sorry, ah wasn’t thinkin’...” she apologized, looking back to me, receiving a glare in response, but I sighed.

“It was a misunderstanding, I’ll let it slide this time.”

She gave me an appreciative smile. ”Thank ya…” she trailed off.

“Christian.”

“Thank ya Christian, ah’ll try ta make it up too ya.” She turned to Aaron who frowned at her. “And uh, sorry about attackin’ yer friend, um…” she trailed off again.

Aaron sighed too, “I’m Aaron, and if he can forgive you, then I guess I should too.” Twilight and Spike let out a sigh of relief.

She smiled again. “Thanks, and again, sorry but uh, back ta business.”

“Right, were here to supervise the Summer Sun Celebration.”

“Oh, so yer here for the food prep? Would ya care ta sample some?" she offered, eager to put this incident behind us.

"Sure, I haven't eaten in a while." I agreed happily as she shook our hands.

"This better not take too long..." Twilight said.

"Lighten up already."

Ring!

"SOUP IS ON EVERYPONY!" Applejack hollered, and the four of us were promptly trampled, it didn't hurt surprisingly, and when the dust settled we found ourselves at a table.

"How the fuck?" I heard Aaron mumble.

"Now, why don't ah introduce ya'll to the Apple family?" She announced, revealing a lot of ponies.

"Thanks but we're kind of in a hurry so-"

"No we're not," I cut in.

"This here's Apple Fritter, Apple Bumpkin..." I stopped listening because there were way too many names to keep track of. That and the rising pile of food was hard not to focus on instead of their names. Applejack finally stopped for a deep breath so I started listening again. "... Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom, aaand-" she shoved an apple in Twilight's mouth, "-Granny Smith, up an' adam Granny Smith, we got guests," she said, waking the old green coated mare from her sleep.

"wahhh? soups on?..." she continued mumbling gibberish as she walked up to the group. Twilight, instead of eating the apple though, spit it out.

"Ahaha... okay well... I can see the food situation is handled so we'll be on our way," Twilight insisted. ‘Trying to GTFO are we? Hell no.’

"Aren't ya gonna stay for brunch?" the filly that Applejack introduced as Apple Bloom asked, and gave her the most adorable puppy eyes I have ever seen.

"Sorry but we have an awful lot to-"

"We can stay for brunch, we're not in that much of a hurry," I cut in. ‘I can't believe she didn't give in to those puppy eyes. But, to be nice I’ll shorten this...’ The entire crowd went 'yay!' before added something. “We won’t eat ALL of this though, just one of each type because I can see more than one of each type of confectionaries.”

30 minutes later

"Foods all taken care of, next is weather." Spike said, checking off the food.

“Ahk pogaan hild,” (Too many apples,) I said with a heavy sigh and a full stomach.

“Hi dreh ni saag?” (You don’t say?) Aaron gave me a look.

“Zu'u dreh saag.” (I do say.) We both laughed and even Spike did too while Twilight just grumbled.

“You know,” Spike started, “who would have thought? Two living mythological beings show up, and have some surrounding legends that involve them just making weird chimp or ape like noises. While, instead of making said noises, they can speak not one, but two modern languages, a little crazy when you think about it.”

“I can speak three languages actually,” Aaron added.

“Really?”

“Da, deystvitel'no.” (Yes, really.) Spike looked at me.

“Sorry, he’s the only one that can speak Russian, not me.” Spike blinked. ‘Wait is there a pony pun for Russian…? Is it Prussian or something?’ “Uh… I mean… Prussian, sorry,” I corrected myself, Spike just shrugged and turned back to the list.

"Wait, there's supposed to be a Pegasus named Rainbow Dash clearing the clouds..." Spike wondered as we all looked to the sky.

"She doesn't seem to be very good at it..." I stated as we looked back at each other, right when a multi colored blur tackled Aaron right into a puddle of mud. In the puddle with him was a cyan coated Pegasus mare, rainbow colored hair, and velvet eyes, and her cutie mark is a cloud with a multi colored lightning bolt of the three primary colors. No doubt it was this 'Rainbow Dash' that was in the mud puddle with him. She just sat there, wide eyed before looking at what, or who she crashed into.

"Hehehe, uh... excuse me?" she said as Aaron pulled his face out of the mud. I snickered. "Hehe, here let me help you." She flew in another direction, then quickly came back... holding a cloud. As Aaron stood back up, she bounced on top of the cloud creating a small down-pour on the poor kid. ‘HA! The fuckin look on his face!’ "Haha! Oops, I guess I over did it. Uh... how about this?" She still continued 'helping' him by creating a vortex of rainbows, "my very own patented, 'Rainblow Dry'! No no, no need to thank me, you're quite welcome!" She boasted.

I can't even describe the look on his face, I can almost feel the hate from here. He pretty much looked fine though, even his clothes were dry somehow. They stared at each other until all of us started dying of laughter! Except Aaron of course, he's pretty pissed! He took a deep breath and somehow calmed down like nothing happened and looked at her.

"Your Rainbow Dash I'm assuming?" he said, to which the mare in question stood straight up with her hoof on her chest.

"The one and only! Why? Ya heard of me?” she asked, right in his face. “I knew I wasn’t only popular amongst Ponies."

"I've read that you're supposed to keep the sky clear," Aaron retorted, "I'm Aaron, that's Christian, Twilight, and Spike. Princess Celestia sent us to check on the weather." Rainbow Dash laid down on a cloud.

"Yeah, yeah, that'll be a snap! I'll do it just as soon as I'm done practicing."

"For what?"

"The Wonderbolts!" She exclaimed, pointing at a poster on a wall with some Pegasi in a bunch of flight suits.

"Who the hell are the Wonderbolts?" I asked, receiving an open mouth stare from Rainbow Dash.

"Are you kidding me?! They're only the most talented flyers in all of Equestria!"

"The most talented flyers in all of Equestria? Yeah no, they probably wouldn't accept a Pegasus that can't clear the damn sky!" Aaron exclaimed.

"Hey! I could clear the whole sky in ten seconds flat!" she retorted, he took out his phone, probably setting a timer. Rainbow Dash saw it and asked.

"What the hay is that?"

"Its my phone, I'm using it to set up a timer for ten seconds." He responded casually.

"I have no idea what that is," she deadpanned, "but I heard timer! are you really willing to bet that I can't clear the sky in ten seconds?"

"Yep."

"Your on..."

"Okay,” he pressed a few buttons on his phone, ”go!"

She immediately took off, destroying the cloud she was just on, we watched as she flew around the entire town with un-fucking-believable speed, but Twilight used the opportunity to observe Aaron’s phone. Rainbow Dash returned and landed just as his phone went off, which she heard.

"What'd I say? ten. seconds. flat. I'd never leave Ponyville hangin!" she bragged for the umpteenth time.

"Holy shit! You're almost as fast as Sonic the Hedgehog!" I exclaimed

"'Sonic the Hedgehog'? 'Almost as fast'?"

"Sonic The Hedgehog -my childhood hero- is a fictional character from where me and Aaron come from, and he can run faster than the speed of sound."

"Haha! You two are a laugh, I can't wait to see if we could all hang out some more!" Rainbow Dash said as she flew off somewhere.

"Wow... she's amazing!" Spike said.

“That actually went way better than I expected,” I chipped in as we continued on.

"Well, I guess that checks off the weather, Spike, what's next on the list?" Twilight asked.

"Decorations!" He exclaimed as we walked inside of a large building that looked like a town hall. "Beautiful..." Spike said dreamily as we looked up at the banners and streamers.

"Damn, somepony is dedicated to their work." Aaron mumbled.

"Yes, the décor is coming along nicely, we should be back at the library in no time. Beautiful indeed."

"Not the décor, her..." We all looked to see that Spike was pointing to a Unicorn mare that had an alabaster coat and a violet, styled mane, blue eyes, and her cutie mark is three diamonds. She was levitating multiple ribbons around her for some reason.

"No, no, no, oh! Goodness no, hmm..." She droned on, trying to decide what color to use for whatever the hell. Spike... looks like he's experiencing love at first sight, there are literally tiny hearts floating from him. Aaron seems to have noticed it too, and he tried to grab one like an idiot. ‘He actually has one in his fucking hand! What!?’

"Dude, look at this, its solid, what the hell?" He said, holding it between his fingers.

"Magic?" I guessed with a shrug. The heart suddenly popped, getting a 'huh' from Aaron.

"How are my spines? Are they straight?" Spike asked, still gazing at the mare, causing all of us to roll our eyes.

"Good afternoon."

"Just a moment please, I'm in the zone as it were," the mare cut Twilight off, still looking for a good color for whatever the hell- she chose red. "Ah, yes! Sparkle always does the trick, does it not? Why Rarity you are a talent." This is probably Rarity, seeing as she just spoke in third person. "Now um, how can I help you?" She asked Twilight, giving me and Aaron a weird look for a moment.

"We were sent from Canterlot to check on the decorations,” I answered before Twilight could, getting a yelp from Rarity when I first spoke, but beamed at the mention of Canterlot.

"Canterlot!? Oh, I am so envious! The glamour! The sophistication! I've always dreamed of living there! I can't wait to hear all about it! The four of us are gonna be the best of friends!" she exclaimed before walking into the other room after saying something about tea. ‘Honestly, I'm not looking forward to this one...’

"Quick lets go, I don't even wanna stay for this shit." I whispered, getting a nod from them as we ran out the door. Spike was daydreaming about something while riding on Twilights back, probably Rarity.

"Wasn't she wonderful...?" He asked dreamily.

"Focus casanova, what's next on the list?" Twilight deadpanned. Me and Aaron did a double take.

"What did you just call him?!"

"Um... casanova?"

"I never would have expected ponies to use that term..."

"What? I just called him a lover-boy, so what?"

"Oh, were we come from, casanova means something else."

"Like what?"

I paused for a second, "you sure you wanna know?"

"Yes."

I leaned down and whispered in her ear, "'A smooth-talking charmer who has mastered the art of finding, meeting, attracting and seducing beautiful women into the bedroom. Once he accomplishes his goal, he leaves the woman, er, mare in fear of having a relationship and proceeds to find his next conquest.' Basically, a man, er, a stallion-slut." I stood back up, instantly noticing the heavy blush on her face.

She just stood there. Aaron leaned towards me and whispered, "You think you broke her?"

She took a deep breath. "Movingon- Spike what's next on the list?"

"Music, its the last one."

I could hear something in the distance and my ear twitched and I saw that Twilight's did too. Soon, we could hear birds singing in a nice little rhythm. We turned a corner and saw a butter yellow Pegasus mare with a long pink mane, hovering in front of a tree with a branch packed with birds. Her cutie mark is three pink butterflies, and she seemed to be commanding the birds into singing in a chorus. One of the birds just started singing of key horribly, the mare noticed and hovered closer, I almost didn't hear her voice.

"oh my, um, stop please everyone. excuse me sir? I mean no offence but, your rhythm is just a teeny tiny bit off. Now follow me please. a one, a two, a one two three.-"

"Hello!" Twilight pretty much yelled as the Pegasus gave a yelp in surprise and her birds flew away. "Oh my, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to frighten your birds, we're just here to check on the music and it sounded beautiful." The mare just landed -her eyes were blue- and looked at the ground awkwardly and kicked her hoof. Twilight gave an even more awkward smile. "I'm Twilight Sparkle. What's your name?"

"Um. I'm Flut-" ‘What the fuck? Even I can’t hear her...’

"I'm sorry, we didn't quite catch that," I said, from the surprised look on her face I would say she didn't even know I was there, but her surprise, for some reason turned to excitement as she gasped and hovered right in my face.

"Oh, my! I've never seen such a sophisticated looking ape before! Twilight, how did you train them? If you, um, don't mind telling?" She opened like a damn book, she must like animals. ‘Wait... God dammit she thinks I’m just some dumb animal.‘

"Uh, I didn't train them, they don't belong to me." She and Spike giggled, getting a confused look from the excited mare.

"Oh, who do they belong to?"

"We belong to ourselves." I said, slightly irritated.

"Oh! you can talk! I've never met a talking ape before! I'm Fluttershy, what's your name?"

"Christian, that's Aaron," I said, pointing to said person.

"Also, we're not ape's, we're humans," Aaron clarified, getting another confused look.

"I've heard of humans... I thought they were ancient mythology?"

“Not anymore!” I said triumphantly, but calmed down, “it’s just the two of us though.”

“It’s just the two of you? That must be really sad...” Fluttershy said quietly.

“Nah, not really, we gladly left Ea-uh... our home, for Equestra.”

“What was that?” Twilight inquired.

“What was what?”

“You stopped yourself mid-sentence and said something else…”

"Look I'm sorry but I feel like we need permission from the Princess to tell you. Just in case."

"The Princess knows?" Spike said, getting another excited gasp from Fluttershy. ‘here we go again.’

"Oh! I've never seen a talking baby dragon before either!" Fluttershy exclaimed as her birds came back to the tree.

"I'm sorry but the music seems to be going good, and your birds came back so we have to go, bye!" Twilight called, trotting away with Spike. Me and Aaron followed because I actually want to go back to the library too, all this walking is starting to kill my feet and I'm tired of carrying this damn backpack everywhere. 'Wait... how did Applejack get me on my back like that when my backpack was on...? And how is Aaron's fine after being that mud puddle?!'