The One With The Heart
Fitting in (Rewritten)
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Daniel and his sister have been flying for a few minutes and along the way she was asking him what the machine he made was for to which he told her that it was to help the diamond dogs and timberwolf improve economically, boost there military force and to collect information on this world for him and his sister so they don't stand out with there lack of understanding. As Daniel and Annabelle approached ponyville he set them down at the entrance to the forest where he met the yellow mare and they were about to continue to ponyville when something clicked in Daniel mind.
"We have not given ourselves names." Daniel realised but then also remembered he did not know what kinds of names the ponies had. "Well there princesses move the sun and moon and they are called celestia and Luna, so it seems there names go with their talent or their coat colour as from what scar told me about celestia her coat is pure white and Luna's is a kind of dark blue." Daniel decided to ask his sister about this only for her to say she want her name to be strawberry sprinkles, he thought that her name might just pass but now he had the difficulty of choosing his name and with him needing a name that's not unrelated to pony names would be a bit difficult, what makes it more harder is that so far ponies marks seem to mostly relate to there names in some way to there marks but Daniel did not want his to be seen. He thought for a moment and then he had a idea so he turned back into his human form and quickly looked at the map he kept in his hoodie pocket, to his delight the map mentions of other regions but does not show them so that means he could probably mention he is not from equestria if some ponies find his name suspicious and it would pass.
He thought for a moment and decided to choose related things to him and his mark, back home he liked to read about astronomy and his mark was related to space so he decided to try the name cosmos so he mentions it to his sister and she seems to agree with him. He was about to transform back into his pony for until he was strange coloured rocks around him and Annabelle that were not there before, they looked like normal rocks but they had smoke coming off them and they had a yellow liquid flowing out of them while they were glowing green cracks around it over the burned surface, he was worried there was something wrong so decided to play it safe and ask NOC off the bat.
"How did these stones get here."
"You Made them." Daniel did not remember he willed this to happen so he asked another question.
"How did I make them if I did not will them?"
"Back at the house you cleaned you're hoodie with you're mind without willing it like you have with things before, you thought about it being clean and it did become clean so as a results you're thoughts now become reality not you're will, if you want to change that to like it was before you can with the thought. As for how they were made, you made them when you thought about astronomy so you're mind made meteors."
Daniel closed his eyes and willed it be like before however he did not know if it was that simple so he did a test, after he willed it he thought about the meteors disappearing however he did not will it to be so, he also as the same time thought to himself that the only way it would work is if he willed it so with that he opened his eyes and the meteors were still there, he did the same as before but thought that he did not need to will them to make them vanish so when he opened his eyes again they were gone. He instantly thought about what he did before to make his powers work with will rather than thought as that could probably expose him and Annabelle sooner.
"Ok, so apparently I have a way to make my thoughts become reality without the need to will them, I need to be extra careful then."
With that out of the way Daniel transformed back into a pony and the two of them started to go to the town. On the way there Daniel was wondering what he should do for a house here, if he should just make one or buy one off by getting money from getting a job and while he did like the idea to just make one he had some conflicting feelings as it might be a bad thing if pony suddenly find a extra house that just appeared over night so he decided he will buy one by getting a job until he remembered he could just make money by using reality warping or changing the molecules in the air, only problem was he did not know what the currency of these ponies was or what it looked like.
Daniel was lost in thought he did not notice there was a pony trying so speak to him however Annabelle snapped him out of it when she yelled at him, when he was back to reality his sister said of how this pony tried to greet him while he was to lost in thought. The pony was a violate coloured unicorn with visible eyelashes so Daniel assumed this unicorn was female, she had a pink straight line through the centre of her hair and tail and her mark was a six pointy sided star, there was a awkward silence before Annabelle spoke.
"Brother did you not hear her?" He looked at Annabelle who was also looking at him before he looked back at the unicorn.
"Sorry about that I tend to get lost in my thoughts sometimes." She nodded with a smile then cleared her throat.
"Perhaps we should restart this. Good afternoon, my name is twilight sparkle." Daniel saw what looked like a lizard was standing beside her but he decided to be polite and give his name.
"Nice to meet you too twilight, My name is cosmos." At this his sister looked at him with confusion but quickly remembered that they were now trying to fit in so they have to use such names to avoid attention and perhaps suspicion as well then he walked up to his sister before turning back to twilight "and this is strawberry sprinkles, my younger sister."
"Nice to meet you cosmos." Twilight then realised that cosmos was wearing cloths which ponies don't normally do unless its a special event like the gala and while the summer sun celebration was going to happen tonight the cloths he was wearing were ones that were neither suitable for such a event or have been seen before, at least from what little she knew of clothing. "If you don't mid me asking, why are you wearing cloths, in fact what kind are they, I have never seen a kind like that before?" Daniel did change his clothing a bit before he arrived as now his hoodie was pure black like a midnight sky and his jeans were a bright purple. Daniel was hoping his story would pass and while he did not want to lie, he did not want let to know to much about him and his sister.
"I am not originally from equestria, I was born elsewhere and where I was from it was common to wear cloths" Twilight stopped looking at Daniel's clothing and looked at him.
"Are new in town too? I saw you and you're sister walk out of the everfree forest, why were you in there anyway?" She asked the last part with some concern in her voice.
"Yes we are new to this town and we were in the forest because we lived there for a while." Daniel saw twilights eyes go as wide as dinner plates and he was actually amazed they did not fall out of her skull while they were that size.
"You lived in everfree? How? Why?" Daniel did not know if her voice had amazement or confusion in it, possibly both, he was feeling very concerned for him and his sister as this is the first pony they have met and already they seem to be getting to much attention so he decided to answer those last ones and if it made her turn out worse then he would just get Annabelle and leave.
"It is quite easy to survive there if you know what creatures there is and we lived there for a while as we had nowhere else to go." This actually seemed to calm her down.
"Oh, Ok, well I am from canterlot and I am here to check up on the preparations for the celebrations." Daniel was relived that she seemed to not be in a panic state now and was hoping to look around town.
"Would you like to go around town with us?" The lizard that was with twilight asked him and by the sound of his voice he was a guy, twilight silenced him by putting her tail across his mouth then chuckled nervously before she took him a good distance away but Daniel could still hear the lizard clearly. "Come on twilight, the princess did ask you to try and make some friends." Daniel saw that twilight had a defeated look on her face at the mention of this.
"You're right spike, I might as well try." With that twilight walked back to him. "Would you like to go around town with us if this is both our first time here?" Daniel thought about this for a moment, While it was true that the machine he made at his house was at this moment no dough getting more information on this worlds history and the history of all the species that live on this planet he did not know when he would return to his home to check up on it, he did plan to do so soon but sometimes plans have to change so he decided to accept her offer and was confident he might learn something important along the way that will help him and Annabelle fit in with there society more easily.
"Hey Twilight, her comes somepony else if she is a residence of ponyville then both of you and cosmos might find something interesting to talk about." Spike said before he could answer so Daniel looked to the side and saw that there was another pony approaching them that was the pink, her hair looked a bit like cotton candy and her mark was of 3 balloons. Twilight seemed a bit nervous and Daniel could not blame her, he was usually the same when meeting someone new as there was times he tried to make friends in the past but it turned out very awkward. The pink pony stopped in from of them both and spike looked back at twilight. Daniel got his name from listening to there little discussion a few seconds ago.
"Come on twilight, just try." Twilight had her ears down and a nervous look on her face.
"Um....Hello." The pink pony reacted by looking at twilight then switching her gaze to Daniel then Annabelle then back and forth between them all for a few seconds before jumping up in the air with a giant gasp, stayed suspended there for a few seconds then flew off. He would have questioned how that pony did that if he did not decide to go along with weird when her merged with the HOTU. Twilight, Annabelle and spike all looked at where the pony flew off to and only Annabelle did not have a surprised look. "Well that was interesting alright."
"About you're question from before, I don't see why not, If you are here to check preparations then where do we go first?" At this spike pulled out a list and looked over it while they walked to there destination.
"Summer sun celebration, official overseers checklist, Number 1 Banquet preparations, sweet apple achers." They soon arrived at a farm, or Daniel thought it was farm by the look or it and the name but with this being a different world he can't be certain. The direction they were going seemed to be somewhere on the outskirts of ponyville and just like the name of the place there was apple trees that went very far along the land.
"Yee ha" When they heard that they all turned to the source of the noise which was a female earth pony by the sound of her voice and for the fact that Daniel did not see wings or a horn and her tail and hair was a tan colour who ran up and kicked a apple tree and a few seconds later all the apples fell into buckets down below where she stood close by with a proud look on her face.
"Lets get this over with." Twilight said after she sighed and her head was held low to the ground for a moment before she started to go and greet the other pony. "Good afternoon my name it twilight sparkle." Daniel then saw the other pony start to shake twilights hoof at quite a fast pace.
"Well howby do miss twilight, a pleasure meetin your acquaintance, am applejack we here at sweet apple achers sure do like makin new friends." Daniel was stating to feel somewhat sick of this place already, applejack just met twilight and already saying she likes making new friends so she probably thinks twilight is her friend now, he felt like he was staring to miss earth the more he stayed here, so much so he almost cried and he would have in Annabelle did not hug him which made him feel better.
"Friends? Actuale-e-e, I eh." She did not get to finish as applejack finished the hoofshake and walked towards Daniel while spike stopped twilights hoof which was still shaking and giggled a second later.
"Hi, mister and welcome ta sweet apple achers. Im applejack." She said while shaking Daniels hoof just like she did with twilights but to him it did not feel any different than a regular handshake except the hoofs part so he decided to shake her hoof in return which turned out to be a bit or a bad idea and he started to shake applejack to which she looked like a flag on a flagpole in the wind if the flag was on its side, he just noticed a few seconds later that applejack was actually off the ground so he stopped shaking her hoof and decided to apologize.
"Sorry about that applejack, I didn't mean it." He said to which to his confusion applejack just stood back up and looked at him with a smile.
"Whooow wee, you sure are a strong fella." Daniel never had much complements and as much as he could remember he has never had one from a girl before so he had a almost visible blush. "So what can I do ya for?" applejack asked and looked back at twilight and spike who both and there jaws on the ground and wide eyes as what they saw but soon shook there heads and there faces went back to normal.
"Well in fact I am here to supervise preparations for the summer sun celebration and you're in charge of the food." Twilight told applejack who was listening to her.
"We sure'a sugar are, would ya care ta sample sum?"
"Well as long at it does not take to long." Applejack rushed away and a few seconds later ringing was heard.
"Soups on everypony!!!" Daniel was starting to get annoyed at how they had words like that and wondered why they did not just say everyone as his race did not go around saying everyhuman so what was wrong with everyone but he was quickly snapped out of his thought as he was almost knocked over by lots of other ponies that were rushing passed which was also causing dust to start appearing and blocked his vision. When the dust settled he found himself, Annabelle, twilight and spike at a table but before he could start to think about how they got here or how the table appeared applejack appeared beside them. "Now why don't I introduce y'all ta the apple family?" Daniel looked around and there was lots of ponies staring at him that it made him feel very uncomfortable, so much so he put up the hood of his hoodie.
"Thanks but we need to get going." Twilight then tried to walk away but what stopped by a pony who offered some kind of food.
"This here is applefritter." Applejack said before applefritter put the food on the table and rushed off but another pony was on the other side of the table holding more food. "Apple bumkin." Daniel was actually getting scared of this as these ponies were being way to nice, it somehow made Daniel think about some fanfics he read or movies he watched where the killer would act like a saint only to kill them once there trust was gained and because he was in a world that had creatures in it that to him were supposed to be just myths he was unsure if that was the case until he remembered that here humans were myths and he was one so it would be a bit awkward to think that about them doing that to him and he would never do that to them. "Big Macintosh, applebloom and granny smith." Daniel was lot in thought he did not notice that the table was not stacked with food and he only got the name of the last 3 that were mentioned. "Up and attem granny smith." Daniel was looking for Annabelle and saw her looking at the table with wide eyes and a large smile on her face he was about to go up to her and tell her not to eat anything as it was the ponies food, not hers until he was stopped by what he heard applejack say. "Why id say there already part'a the family." Twilight spat out what looked like a apple that she had in her mouth and then chuckle nervously.
"Ok, well I can see the food situation is handled so we'll be on out way." Daniel was happy to hear that.
"Arnt ya gonna stay for brunch?" He was a small pony a filly he thought the name was, looking at twilight with a sad face and big sad eyes, Daniel swore that it was the seconds most cutest thing he had ever seen with the first being Annabelle when she was newly born.
"Sorry but we have a awful lot to do." When twilight said that they all awed in disappointment and he was that twilight was having a hard time going along with her word. "Fine" Daniel groaned inward in annoyance but all the other ponies around them cheered in happy ness.
"Before we start however, ah think a found somepony who can match mah brothers strength." They all gasped at this but applejack just turned to look and Daniel then she had a face or realisation on her like she remembered something. "Oh sorry sugar cube but ah didn't catch yer name." When she said that all the ponies looked at Daniel who tried to keep calm.
"My name is.....cosmos."
"That's ah nice name. Anyway are ya wanting to show just how strong ye are? So far nopony has been able ta match me bro." Daniel thought about this and while its true he did have enhance strength he did not know how strong he truly was so he decided to accept.
"Ok. what do I do." Applejack mentioned for him to follow and he did towards the load of appletrees along with all the others and the soon stopped near 2 trees.
"Its simple, buck a tree n see how much apples fall out, in fact big mac can a go first." She said to Daniel who looked at a giant red pony who then rushed up to one tree and hit it with his back legs which cause all the apples to fall out, after the baskets were full he stood there proudly. "Think ya can do it?" He heard applejack say to him to which he looked a bit nervous about this but went along with it so he ran towards the other tree and kicked it with his back legs with all the strength he could muster, while he ran towards it he could have sworn that time seemed to slow down before his kick made contact.
Daniel was not prepared for what happened and the tree he kicked was completely destroyed when his kick impacted it, not in the broken in half kind of way but totally destroyed like a rock through glass and some of the other trees close by were almost torn from there spot in the ground by the force from his kick. Daniel looked back at the tree to see it was completely gone and some other close by were bent from there spot in the ground, he then looked back at the others who were watching him only to see them all just like twilight was a while ago, with there eyes almost to big for there skulls and there jaws on the ground to which he chuckled nervously while rubbing the back of his head.
"Ha...ha...oops, sorry about that." The other were unmoving for a while before applejack spoke again.
"Wohoho, I knew yer were strong but not THAT strong, quite fast too." she said with a smile but Daniel was actual scared of himself now as he realised might unintentional hurt someone by using only his strength, no powers needed. Soon after applejack said that the rest of the ponies seemed to come back to reality and cheered.
A few minutes later they were all now back in ponyville to continue checking the preparations for the celebration, twilight looked like she could throw up as after he showed his strength they ended up being fed food by the apple family but twilight seemed to get most, probably because she is the main one who was tasked to check on the food.
"Foods all taken care of, next is weather." Spike said then looked back at twilight who groaned.
"I ate to much pie." Daniel was a bit amazed she was not struggling to walk in the slightest after she had all that food to eat. Spike had a look of thought on his face.
"There's supposed to be a Pegasus pony name rainbow dash clearing the clouds." With that they all looked up to the sky and saw nothing or no one there.
"Well she is not doing a very good job is she?" Daniel was about to question why twilight said she because when he thought of the name dash he thought about dash from the incredibles until he heard something coming towards them and by the sound of it, it was heading right towards them so he got Annabelle and walked backwards out of the way, he just managed to get his sister out of the way and was about to tell twilight until she was knocked to the ground and into a muddy puddle by a blue coloured pony with a rainbow tail and rainbow hair who he assumed was rainbow dash. Who then stood up and chuckle nervously and by the sound of her voice she was female.
"Excuse me?" She said looking at twilight who was still lying down in the puddle while still chuckling. "Let me help you." with that she flew away and twilight picked herself up but was still sitting in the puddle, dash arrived back in a few seconds with a cloud and place it over twilight before standing on top of it and then started to jump on it which caused a lot of water to drop on twilight who was now sitting in the puddle but all the mud was off of her. "Oops I guess I overdid it, un, how about this?" She then started to fly very fast around twilight, so much so that a small rainbow tornado was made. "My very own, rainblow dry. No, no don't thank me you're quite welcome." She said as she lowered herself to the ground only to burst out laughing when she saw twilights hair and so did spike and Annabelle, Daniel also chuckled a little as her hair looked like wild mike from barnyard just had a dance on her head however twilight was not looking happy at all.
"Let me guess, you're rainbow dash?" When twilight asked that rainbow stood up quickly and has a pose that looked like a self promotion pose.
"Thee one and only." She then took flight and went to twilights face. "Why you hear of me?" she head her head outstretched and a smile on her face.
"I heard you're supposed to be keeping the sky clear." Twilight then sighed. "I'm twilight sparkle and the princess sent me to check on the weather." Rainbow was lying on a cloud in a relaxed way by the time twilight finished saying that.
"Yeh yeh I'll do it in a jiffy, just as soon as I am done practicing."
"Practicing? For what?"
"The wonderbolts." When she said that she also pointed to a poster that looked like a military poster by the way the ones at the front were standing. "There going to preform at the celebration tomorrow and I'm gonna show them my stuff." She said that while flying in loops before settling back on the cloud.
"Thee wonderbolts?" Twilight asked with a smile, Daniel saw the smile and by the way she was talking she seemed to be getting ready to do something.
"Yup."
"The most talented flyers in all of equestria?" Twilight did not lost the small smile she had on her face.
"That's them." Rainbow was still on the same cloud and lying the same way.
"Pffff Please, they'd never accept a Pegasus who cant even keep the sky clear for one measly day." Rainbow looked at twilight with a look that more or less said that she could but can't be bothered to at the moment.
"Hey, I can clear this sky in 10 seconds flat." Twilights eyes narrowed at rainbow and the smile turned into a grin.
"Prove it."
Rainbow had a look on her face that almost looked like anger but it turned into a confident smile just before she took off and rapidly started kicking clouds which made them vanish all the while do tricks like loops and zig zags. The whole time she was doing this her speed cause strong gusts of wind to go in the direction she went. When she was done she hovered quite close to twilight just above a bridge. "wad I say?" She landed on the bridge. "10 seconds flat." As she said this she had a look of confidence on her face and waved her hoof in the direction of the sky. "I'd never leave ponyville hanging." When she looked at twilight she and spike had a look of awe on there faces, Daniel also saw this before looking back at rainbow dash, who flew up to him. "What did you think about that mr.....ehh. sorry I did not catch you're name." She said while looking at Daniel.
"Cosmos, my name is cosmos and this here is my little sister, strawberry sprinkles." He looking at Annabelle beside him when he mentioned her name. "As for what did I think of it, you're speed is good and you know fancy tricks so it was good." She narrowed her eyes at him as he said that.
"Good? Just good?" Daniel saw that she was a bit angry that he did not say something like you were awesome, so he decided to be truthful to her like he was with twilight but also not say anything that would expose him and Annabelle.
"I am not originally from equestria if you could not tell and I.... we have seen some scary things in our travels, things that would be awesome if they were also not dangerous so I am sorry if I offended you." Daniel saw dash look at him with a blank expression before she shook her head.
"Its ok, its not by best, but mark my words, you're mind will be blown when I do show my best tricks." She said that last part with narrowed eyes while smiling at Daniel.
"Looking forward to it." He said with a smile and then dash looked back to twilight and spike who was looking at twilight with a smile while she was still looking the same way she was before, with a expression of awe on her face. Dash giggled at this while flying behind her.
"You're a laugh twilight sparkle. I can't wait to hang out some more." She then looked back at Daniel. "Same with you Cosmos." She then did a loop and flew off.
"Wow, she's amazing." Spike said to twilight while pointing in the direction dash flew off in and twilight looked at spike when he said that than spike started to play with twilight's hair and giggled while doing it which apparently she did not like. "Wait it's kind of pretty once you get use to it." Spike said that while walking fast to catch up with twilight who just continued walking to what looked like the town hall.
"Hey twilight."
"Yes Cosmos?" Her expression change to a normal one instead of one of annoyance.
"How much is left more is left to check on?" At this question spike pulled out the list.
"Well there somepony who is in charge of the decorations and one who is in charge of the music." Someone who is in charge of decoration for such a event will probably compline about his cloths and might try to get him to ware something else which would not be good for him as they would see his mark so Daniel decided to go and see about the music.
"I will go and see about the music, where should I check?" Spike checked the list again.
"That's just the thing, it does not say where the music preparation is or who is in charge of it."
"Ok, I will go and check on the music, where do we meet up when it is done?"
"There is a library in town so when I am done I will wait outside of it so you don't get lost." Her expression was now one of a friendly smile.
"Ok, thanks twilight." With that Daniel and Annabelle went to see if they could find the music preparation.
As they walked Annabelle was looking all around the town and almost went hyper when she saw a building made of gingerbread but Daniel reminded her that they had a task to do which disappointed her, there was also a lot of ponies who were looking at them as they walked through the town which gave both of them a shiver in their spines.
They continued to walk through the town until they heard birds singing simultaneously and Annabelle closed her eyes and listened to it, Daniel wondered if that was the music that he was supposed to check on so he followed the sound and when he found the source he saw a lot of birds on one tree with a yellow Pegasus with pink hair and a pink tail flying in front of them who looked familiar to him, Daniel heard there was one bird among them who seemed to be singing just like the rest but at a higher pitch.
"Oh, um, stop please everyone." She then flew up to one of the birds. "Excuse me sir, I mean no offence but you're rhythm is just a teeny tiny bit off." Daniel was now convicted this was the music and was a bout to ask her how the preparations were going but was stopped for a moment when he remembered that the reason she looked familiar was because she was the one who understood what he was saying when he was disguised as mew but he continued to approached her after he got over that thought as it was only for a few seconds she saw him then and with a different form he should have nothing to worry about. "Now follow me please, a one, a two, a one two three."
"Excuse me miss." The moment Daniel said that she fell to the ground in fright. "Oh, sorry about that." Fluttershy picked herself up and looked away from Daniel with her hair over her eyes, "I did not mean to scare you, I am here to help with the preparations for the celebration and I was to check on the music." She still stayed quite and barely looked at him. I'm Cosmos, what's you're name?" He asked hoping to break the silence.
"I'm...I'm Fluttershy." Daniel managed to hear her say.
"Well fluttershy from what I heard the music is great so I will leave you to it." He decided to leave her along as she seemed to suit her name as she was very shy but just before he turned around she spoke.
"Excuse me, have we met before?" She was now a bit closer and looking right at him not trying to hide.
"I don't think we have, why?" She did not stop looking at him the way she currently was.
"You're eyes look familiar." Daniel was confused for a moment before he remembered something and was now determined to get out of here as this pony was giving him the same look he saw when he was disguised as mew and he was not going to take the chance of her finding a possible link as when he was in that disguise he saw his eyes were unchanged from one of his reflections in one of the old castle windows and when he made his pony form he also did not change his eyes, he then had a thought, did his voice change while he was in the other disguise, if not then this pony might find a link and that would be bad for both him and Annabelle.
"I have no idea what you are talking about miss shy, I, I, I got to go, more things to check up on." With that he ran towards Annabelle and told her it was time to go so they both took of towards the library, fluttershy was left still in her own thoughts.
"I swear I have seen those eyes before.....and his voice is familiar too." she was snapped out of her thought by one of the birds flying in front of her and tweeting. "Oh, you are right, we do need to practice more." She said and went beck to teaching the birds how to sing properly for the celebration.
Daniel and his sister were now looking for twilight as she said she would be the entrance to the library but they could not see her, they continued looking for a few seconds until they saw twilight running at high speeds with her hair back to normal and stop outside a building so they both walked to her to see if that was all that needed to be done.
"Hey twilight, how was the decorations." He said with a friendly smile but twilight just sighed.
"I don't want to talk about it." She was about to go into the building but stopped and turned back to him. "Cosmos do you know of nightmare moon?" Daniel thought for a minute and then remembered what king Thag said about her.
"I have heard the name yes, was she not banished by the elements of harmony?" Twilight looked at him with a face of surprise before it turned to a big smile but Annabelle spoke before twilight could.
"Brother where did you learn of them?" He looked down at this sister.
"I will tell you later strawberry." Then turned his view back to twilight who said what she was going to say before Annabelle asked him her question.
"Yes she was. I have done some research and I figured out that she might return tonight, Princess celestia said its nothing to worry about but I am not so sure. Cosmos, will you help me?" So far twilight has been quite nice so he could not find a reason why not to.
"Ok. what do you need help with?" She still had her smile on her face as she opened the door to the building. As Daniel walked in he saw the place was in darkness but also saw there was lots of others in it, he thought for a second until he realised that I was probably a surprise as why else would the lights be off and lots of pony in there, unless this is when the murder happens, he shook that thought and just entered the building with twilight.
"well first I need to find where the elements are located. If I cant convince the princess that nightmare moon is coming then I.....We will have to deal with it ourselves. Now where is the lights?" The lights suddenly turned on and all the ponies shouted.
"Surprise" Daniel had a more clear view of the place and it was a library but with all these ponies here and the surprise with confetti and honkers he thought this was going to be a large party and he never did like big parties as most of the time they were to loud or lasted to long. He and twilight both let out a audible groan as the same time and then looked at each other before chuckling. Daniel saw one pony he recognised and it was the pink one he saw not long after meeting twilight.
"Surprise. Hi I'm pinkie pie and I throw this party just for the two of you. Were you surprised her you, were you, huhuhuhuhu?" She asked as she jumped over twilight then Daniel.
"Very surprised, libraries are supposed to be quite." Daniel could tell twilight was annoyed with all that was happening.
"Well that's silly, What kind of welcome party would it be if it were quite. I mean Duh boring." Daniel started to think about his sister and him and what there options will be if they get discovered as he should have a backup plan just in case and then a idea clicked in his head.
"Could I make a pocket dimension, I mean I know how to control space, but that's just space, I might also need to learn more about controlling time. Hey NOC you said I can't make sentient life, what about flowers? Also what can you say to help me out with this plan?" If he was going to make a pocket dimension as a backup plan he might as well make it nice.
"Yes, you can make flowers and other kinds of plant life. Also you can make a pocket dimension but you will need to let you're body adapt to the amount of raw cosmic energy you put into you're space power as It could have a worse side effect like what happened when you made that A.I. and if you don't put time into the pocket dimension you are planning to make then everything will remain frozen in time."
"Ok, thanks NOC." Daniel decided to think of the other plans later and was now looking for twilight who was over at a table with drinks on it and drinking from a straw.
"-and invite everyone in ponyville." Daniel saw the others he had met before appear behind pinkie pie and Daniel was actually amazed that she said everyone instead of everypony. "See and now you have lots and lots of friends." That did it for him, this was becoming to sugar coated and he felt like he was going to be sick but he lost that feeling when he saw twilight as her face as she looked like she was crying but her mouth and cheeks were pure red.
"Are you alright sugar cude?" He heard applejack say before twilight jumped into the air with her hair and tail on fire before flying off somewhere.
"Aww she's so happy she is crying." Daniel saw twilight walk up the stairs and went up after her while pinkie pie ate a cupcake covered in hot sauce and Annabelle was eating some more cupcakes. When Daniel was up the stairs one of the ponies spoke.
"Who was that with the cloths?"
"That rarity was Cosmos." Rainbow dash answered her.
"Why does he wear them? we don't normally wear cloths and I have never seen a design like that before." She asked rainbow dash.
"He told me he is not originally from equestrian, so I don't know, perhaps he wears them because its common from where he is from or because they are comfy, I mean there is other ponies that are also not from here."
"Perhaps you are right, perhaps he will let me use that design, it certainly looks unique." After she said that they went back to the party.
Upstairs Daniel found twilight with her head under a pillow he thought that she was like this because she was probably not very happy about the whole party thing.
"Hey twilight. What's wrong?"
"Oh hi Cosmos, why are you not down the stairs with the others?" She asked him with a confused look.
"I never was one for parties as I always found then to loud or they lasted to long. But never mind that, should we not be trying to find these elements you mentioned?" She smiled at him but the smile was quickly replaced with a upset look.
"I can't study with this noise and what if nightmare moon does return tonight. I have not idea where the elements are." She was clearly upset and this nightmare moon sounded like a problem by how much she mentioned her.
"Hey, cheer up, things might not be so bad, if there is one thing that I know for sure is that sometime something can seem more worse than it actually is, if nightmare moon does return then will you're princess not deal with her?" Twilight looked at him with a small smile.
"I appreciate you trying to cheer me up but from what I have researched, only the elements can stop nightmare moon. I don't know what to do." She said before she put the pillow back over her head. Daniel was now determined to stop nightmare moon if she was a threat.
"If nightmare moon does attack, don't worry twilight, if you find her such a threat then she could be a very big danger not just for normal innocent ponies but also for me and my sister, if she arrives tonight and she is a threat then I will deal with her." He decided he would hide and change into his shadow form then deal with nightmare moon if he needed to but for now he might as well do some research while there was still time and he was in a library so why not. But there was one thing he wanted to know about most of all. "Hey twilight is there any books about humans in here?"
"I should be somewhere in the H section." Daniel looked around and found a few books on humans.
"Lets see what they know about my race." With that thought he opened one and started to read it.
A few hours later he felt like he finished reading the books, apparently humans were supposedly a myth as there was very few bits of evidence of a race that was before the ponies, the human myth appeared 1000 years ago when crystal ponies were free from slavery and mentioned of a ruin that sombra wanted destroyed and of how he mentioned the name human once. There stories were documented as the ruins were destroyed and the empire disappeared so while humans were mostly just a myth some of the ponies thought they were the predecessors of them. Other than that he found nothing else on his race at all and was a bit disappointed. He looked at the clock and saw it was very early in the morning then the door opened and spike entered.
"Hey twilight, pinkie started pin the tail on the pony, want to play?"
"No, all the ponies in this town are crazy." She looked at Daniel who looked at her when she said that. "You're ok Cosmos, you're not crazy." Daniel smiled and her and she looked back to spike. "Spike do you know what time it is?"
"It's the eve of the summer sun celebration. Everypony has to stay up or they will miss the princess raise the sun. You really should lighten up twilight. It's a party." Daniel then heard twilight speak gibberish in mocking voice.
"Here I thought I would have more time to learn about the elements of harmony but, silly me all this ridiculous friend making has kept me from it." After saying that she lay down in her bed while looking out the window but she soon got up and looked out her window. "Legend has it that on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid in her escape and she will bring about everlasting night." She said while looking at the moon then at a book and back to the moon again. "I hope the princess was right, I hope it really is just an old pony tale." At this the door opened and spike was standing there.
"Come on twilight and Cosmos, it's time to watch the sun rise."
They all walked towards the town hall and entered the building and there was lots of ponies within it that it was totally packed, so much so that some Pegasus ponies that were flying on one spot within the building or that might just be a habit. Daniel was standing next to twilight at the front with spike on her back and Annabelle by his side, then pinkie pie rushed over to them.
"Isn't this exciting? Are you excited because I'm excited, well except for the time I saw you walking into town and went, huuu, but I mean really who could to that?" A light switched on, birds started singing and a pony appeared at the front to address the crowd.
"Fillies and gentle colts, as mayor of ponyville it is my great pleasure to announce the beginning of the summer sun celebration." At this there was a big cheer from all the ponies. "In just a few moments our town will witness the magic of the sun rise and celebrate this, the longest day of the year. And now it is my great honour to introduce to you the ruler of our land." Daniel saw that twilight looked at the moon and now was looking more worried than he has ever seen her before. "The same pony who gives us the sun and the moon each and every day. The good, the wise, the bringer of harmony to all of equestria. Princess celestia." At this curtains opened at the top, trumpets were heard, the birds sang again and the light moved to the recently opened curtain but no one was there.
Daniel heard all the ponies gasp and then heard twilight speak.
"This cant be good."
"Remain calm everypony, there must be a reasonable explanation." The mayor said
"Oh oh I love guessing games, is she hiding?" pinkie said while bouncing and then started to look around the place from the spot she stood.
"She is gone." a pony from up top said which got a bigger gasp from the crowd.
"Oh she's good." pinkie said with a dramatic voice before screaming as there was blue mist that was appearing at the top where there princess was supposed to be.
"Oh No." Daniel heard twilight say as then a black alicorn wearing blue armour and had the mist as her hair and tail appeared. "Nightmare Moon." At this spike fainted and nightmare moon spoke.
"Oh, by beloved subjects. Its been so long since I have seen you preciouses little sun loving faces."
"What did you do with our princess?" Rainbow dash threatened and tried to fly up to her only to be stopped by applejack who had her tail in her mouth.
"Whow there nelly." Applejack said trying to hold rainbow dash and nightmare moon just chuckled before it turned into a laught.
"Why? Am I not royal enough for you? Don't you know who I am?" She asked in a threatening manner.
"Oh oh more guessing games, un pokee smokes? how about queen meanee, oh black snooty, black snooty." Pinkie pie was silenced as apple jack stuffed a apple in her mouth.
"Does my crown not longer count now that I have been imprisoned for a thousand years?" She asked looking at fluttershy. "Did you not recall the legend? Did you not see the signs?" She asked another pony while using her own hair to hold her chin.
"I did, and I know who you are, You're the mare in the moon. Nightmare moon" twilight said from the front and the rest of the ponies gasped when they heard this.
"Well, well ,well somepony who remembers me." She looked happy but then it quickly changed. "Then you must also know why I'm here." The crowd of ponies were all looking at twilight.
"You're here to.....to." She did not finish the sentence and nightmare moon just laughed.
"Remember this day little ponies, for it was you're last. From this moment forth, the night. will last. forever." After she said that her hair made a vortex and lightning started flashing around the place all the while nightmare moon was laughing.
Daniel was just looking at her with a eyebrow raised but when he saw that Annabelle was almost crying and hugging onto him tightly, when she did this in the past it was because she was scared so he decided to deal with this situation. He focused on nightmare moon and made a face of anger all the while glaring at her.
"Nightmare moon? More like Nightmare bitch." The moment he said that all the ponies in the building including nightmare moon looked and Daniel with a shocked expression and they all gasped again.
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