At Request of the Ancients

"... another world?" Twilight asks in a deadpan.

"Yaaa... that sounds a lot crazier out loud." Oh, who am I kidding. It sounds just as crazy in my head, and I'm the one living it!

"You expect me to believe that you're from another world?"

"... Yes? Look, I know how crazy it sounds but I'm telling the truth!"

"Mhm. Alright, if you are from another world, then tell me about it."

I blink, is she seriously going to give me a chance to convince her? I'm pretty sure I would have gotten thrown into the insane asylum if I was on Earth and told somebody that

"Uhm... right. What do you want to know?"

"Let's start simple. What's the name of where you're from?"

Hhmm... go big or go home, I guess. Let's see if I can remember this right

"My home planet's"-never thought I'd say that-"cosmic address is: Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, in the Observable Universe."

She raises an eyebrow at this, "Oook. Where did you live on this 'Earth'?"

I can't tell if she's starting to believe me or if she's just indulging me

"I lived in the United States of America, it's a country that was formed some 238 years ago after a revolution." As her slowly skepticism fades a look of curiosity and excitement takes it's place, along with a smile that make Jeff the Killer envious.

"Oh my gosh! A real alien and I'm the first one to contact it"-Twilight get's up off the couch and starts pacing-"*Squee*"-She does a little dance, hopping from one hoof to the other-"I can't believe aliens actually-"

"TWILIGHT!" I cut her off, "While I'm glad that you believe me: CALM DOWN!"

She stops dancing when I cut her off and looks down with an embarrassed look with a pink tinge on her cheeks, "Sorry Jack. Guess I got a little carried away."

I chuckle a bit at her reaction, "That's alright Twilight just calm down alright, I'm sure you have a lot more questions now, so let's play a game of 20 questions so we can both learn a bit, and then maybe I can figure out what the hell is going on." After she hears this she brightens back up, excited at the idea of learning more about where I'm from. I look around for a second, feeling like something's missing. "Hey Twilight, where'd Spike go?"

"Huh," she looks behind her, then around the library, "I guess he went to bed, that's all he seems to do if he's not doing chores or helping Rarity."

Hhmm, you'd think he would have stayed long enough to at least figure out what I am

"Alright-"I clap my hands together"-let's play 20 questions, I'll start: how are you doing that levitation with that quill and parchment?"

"You mean my magic?"

Magic..."Of course. Magic. Why not?" I say spreading my arms out for emphasis.

"Why do you seem so surprised?" Twilight asks.

"Well, where I'm from their is no magic."

"WHAT?!"

"Ok. First off, OW! Second, yes, no magic; the only 'magic' we have is slight of hand and trick of the eye."

"How do you survive without magic?"

"We're technologically advanced race. Also, that was technically two questions. So for my first question what races are all sentient around here? I didn't get very far in the book I was reading."

"Well, there are Minotaurs, Gryphons, Ponies, Changelings, Zebras, and Dragons. To name a few."

My eye's a wide at this point, "Geez, that's a lot of sentient mythological creatures, I'm gonna guess that Spike is a dragon," I mutter, before saying, "Alright second question: Who leads this country?"

"Princes Celestia and Princess Luna, who raise the Sun and Moon respectively." I struggle to keep the smile off my face, Geez, how long has it been since a human used that shtick to make it seem like they were chosen by the gods to rule? "Who rules A-mare-ica?"

I give her an irritated look, "1."- I hold up my pointer finger -"Never call it that again, it's pronounced America. 2."- I raise my middle finger as well -"It changes once every four years, if I remember right it's called a Constitutional Republic and the President is at the top."

"You said you were a technologically advanced race, just how technologically advanced could you be without magic?"

I give a smirk at that question, ponies don't seem very advanced themselves, "Well, to list a few of our greater achievements: we've managed to take flight without wings, split the atom, put a man on the moon, and created aircraft that can go over 3 times the speed of sound." As each one get's listed her jaw drops lower and her face develops a look of disbelief.

"How could you put a man on the moon or go that fast without magic?!"

My smirk grows. I put my hands in front of me and wriggle my fingers moving my hands to the side saying, "Technology."

We spend the next couple hours talking about all kinds of subjects, though after hearing their 'history'(I doubt it was as bloodless as the books make it out to be, if the Princess is as old as she says than she probably kept a lot of info out of the History Books), I kept to the better aspects of our history. Spike came down sometime during our Q&A Session and Twilight had him send a letter to Celestia and she got a letter back saying that her and Luna would be coming down tomorrow and requested Twilight let me stay in her guest bedroom until then (thank you Celestia) since it was late when Spike came down. We went over everything from culture to astrology, they thought Luna controlled the stars!. With my love of astrology, I couldn't let that stand so we got into a heated argument that lasted for a few hours until we just settled on agreeing to disagree (I told her I was agreeing to disagree but the second I got a second alone with Celestia and Luna I will be having words with them). So we decided to call it a night for now, I kept a decent amount of information about my species specifically hidden from her, telling her I didn't want to have to repeat everything the I remembered about the Human race itself.