Mach I

I woke up feeling very peaceful and- and itchy? I stood up, the fell back over. I slowly opened my eyes to the blinding light of the morning sun. Oh yeah, we're ponies... Looking down I noticed where I had fallen asleep. Great, I fell asleep in a field of grass. There was a rustling to my side. A grey and red pony began to slowly, but steadily rise to his hooves. He looked at me sitting on the floor, half tangled in my own hooves.

"You really need to figure out your new body, it's not that hard." He said, then laughed.

"I glared at him, "Thanks for the advice, Neon. So how did we fall asleep?"

"I just saw you pass out and I guess I passed near you." He said

"That makes sense, so... let's get going again."

We set off to look for Twilight Sparkle's tree house, again. On the way we noticed some ponies like Lyra. I could've sworn I saw Derpy fly above us. About 20 minutes after we set out, we found ourselves in a strangely familiar location. "Sugarcube Corner!" I shouted.

"Yep, sure looks like it. Should we go in though? I don't know if we should really see Pinkie Pie..." Neon said, a little cautiously.

"I don't see why not, after all, Pinkie can give us directions to Twilight's tree house."

We walked into the large Gingerbread house and were greeted with the smell of fresh cupcakes and sweet scents of unimaginably good treats. The walls were a brown, almost chocolate color. There were candy canes as support for some cabinets around the shop. The wooden floor seemed to be a blueish hue. Best of all, every singe counter top was covered in delicious cakes, cookies, cupcakes, and other unidentifiable goods.

A blue earth pony walked in through a door behind the counter. Her mane was pink and was scrunched up above her head. I almost instantly recognized her as Mrs. Cake. "Hey, look Neon. Its Mrs. Cake!" I exclaimed.

She walked over to us and said "Hello there! Looking to buy any sweet treats this morning?"

Neon responded, "We are actually looking for Pinkie Pie."

"Oh, well she should be in the kitch-" At that moment, a pink blur shot out from the kitchen door that Mrs. Cake come from. A very excited Pinkie Pie landed straight in front of us. How did she do that? She stood up and said, "I heard someone call my name!" louder than what was needed.

I began to talk, "Uh, yeah we were hop-"

"Oh, oh, oh, ohohohohohohohoh! I haven't seen you two around Ponyville before!"

I tried to talk again, "Yeah, we just someho-"

"You must have just got here! I mean, I think. I know everypony around here!" Pinkie shouted.

Neon asked, "Eh... Could you PLEASE let us talk?"

"Okie Dokie Lokie, ohmygosh, I don't know your name!"

"I'm Neon, and this is Inferno."

"So what did you want to ask me Neon?" Pinkie exclaimed.

"We were wondering if you could tell us how to get to Twilight Sparkle's house."

"I sure can!" Pinkie asked, still ready to explode in happiness at any moment.

"Uh, so from here, how do we get to Twilight's house?"

Pinkie began to tell us the instructions, too fast at some parts so it took a little while longer than we hoped. "..and then you take one more left and now you are at Twilight's house!" Pinkie said, still holding in some kind of excitement.

"Thanks Pinkie!" I shouted before we exited the shop.

I felt my stomach begin to rumble. "You know, I could really get a bite to eat."

Neon looked quizzically at me. "You do realize we have no idea what ponies eat, and we have grand total of... 0 bits!"

"Alright, alright. Let's just head to Twilight's tree house and figure out why we're here." I responded.

We walked out into the sun, which warmed our coats and made my golden mane and tail shine and almost glow. "Yeesh! That hair of your is really bright!" Neon said, covering his eyes.

"Sorry, let me turn the brightness down a bit." I said sarcastically.

Ponies gave me a strange look as I walked by. I could not see my mane except for my unkempt bangs which occasionally blinded me. I was grateful every time I got to head into a shadow, that way my mane wouldn't blind any onlookers. Neon and I chatted about our lives before we got sucked into the land of ponies.

Ten minutes of walking later, we made it to the front door of a massive tree library. I hesitated for a moment. How would we explain our situation? Would they even help? Could they even help? My concerned thoughts cut away as Neon broke the silence I had created, "So... should we knock?"

"Yeah, sorry" I said.

I hit my hoof awkwardly on the wooden door a few times. I heard a voice yell out something, then the door opened. I looked down and saw a small purple dragon. Spike! "Uh, hi there." I said.

Spike looked up at me with a weird look on his face and said "Rainbow Dash?"

I gave him a strange look and said, "No, my name is Inferno. Can we See Twilight Sparkle?"

He hesitated then looked at Neon with an even weirder expression before he opened the door all the way to let us in. He shouted for Twilight, then walked to what looked like a kitchen. The inside of the tree house was made of a light wood. Bookshelves lined almost every wall that wasn't absolutely needed for something else. There was a staircase leading to what was probably Twilight's living quarters. The door at the top of the stairs opened and a purple pony walked out. Twilight Sparkle came to the bottom of the stairs and turned to look at us. She just stared at us for a minute in shock.

"R-Rainbow Dash?" she asked.

"Uh, no actually. My name is Inferno." Why did they both think I was Rainbow Dash? I don't look that much like her do I? She turned her head to Neon and shrieked.

"Whats the matter?!" Neon asked a bit frightened at her reaction.

"You look like- like- like me!"

"I do? Inferno! Why didn't you say that before we walked in?!"

"Sorry Neon, I didn't think about that..." I apologized.

Twilight spoke up, "Sorry to interrupt you two, but why do you sound like you barely know what you look like?"

"We are sorry to make you the one to deal with this, but we came here because... well... We aren't...." Neon stumbled over his words.

I decided to finish what he couldn't say, "We aren't supposed to be here. We are from... another world... We were hoping you could help us figure out what is going on."

She looked at us like we just punched her in the snout. "You came from another world, and you look like me and-" She turned to me "Rainbow Dash. Now you want me to help you figure this whole thing out?"

Neon began to talk, "Well, if you put it like that, yeah, pretty much."

Twilight looked at us and asked, "Why? Why did you come to me exactly?"

"We knew that you are probably the smartest pony in all of Ponyville, or Equestria for that matter."

She blushed a little. "Well, I don't know much about other worlds. Sorry."

"What about Canterlot? Aren't there like, secret archives full of really dangerous and forbidden magic and stuff?" I guess that episode where Twilight time traveled might pay off after all.

"I thought you just came from another world, how do you know about Canterlot's secret archives? How do you know me?" She looked skeptical.

I froze. Neither me, nor Neon were about to reveal that she is from a children's cartoon show in our world. I opened my mouth to speak, but no sound came out. Good job Chris, you just put yourself in the worst possible situation imaginable.