How and Why?

by LazyPone

Chapter 10: The Wrapping of Winter and Quinceaneras

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"I still would rather it be winter. I have always preferred the cold." Me and Aj were arguing over which season is the best. She said summer, obviously.

"Ah'm tellin' yah Streak, summer is the best part of the year."

"Agriculturally, yes. But emotionally, no."

"Don't use your fancy semantics to muddle the issue!"

"What issue? Don't you mean argument?"

"Whatever, summer is still the best season."

"Meh... At least I don't fume over it..."

"What was that?"

"I said: At least I don't get angry over an argument like that." I have a habit of challenging ponies. A bad habit I learned when challenging Filthy Rich. But i'll tell that story another time. You can pretty much guess why i' saving it for later.

"Why you!" She makes a move to pounce me. But instead of pouncing on me and pushing me to the ground. She just jump headlong right into my chest. It was the funniest thing to see that. Especially when ponie who know you do that. With the fact that I can do that to anypony, and that they never seem to learn that lesson to never challenge me. It's REALLY entertaining, downright the funniest thing ever, next to Pinkie's pranks. Her pranks are the best form of entertainment on Equestria. Anyway,

"Ugh, why do you keep makin' us do that?"

"Because you never seem to learn not try and hurt me. And it's the funniest thing, ever."

"Yeah, funny..."

"Aww come on Aj. Tell you what.], how about I help out with Winter Wrap Up?" She perks up at my offer.

"Really!? Yah'd do that!?" I nodded.

"Yeah, why not? And i'm going to love watching Twi help out."

"What do yah mean by that?"

"You'll see soon enough."

"Oookaay..."

"Don't act like you're still creeped out by my knowing the future, I know you're already used to it."

"Ah know ah know, but it's still a little weird that yah know the future n' all."

"Well, at least I don't try to change it. That would be reckless."

"What do yah mean by that?"

"Trying to change the future can have dire consequences."

"'Dire'?"

"Really bad things can happen if I mess with fate. I'd rather let fate decide what happends."

"Right..."

"Lets move on to another topic."

"How about life?"

"It's been good, especially since I meet you and the girls."

"What do yah mean by that?"

"My life was pretty dull before I was brought here, by magic."

"Really?"

"Yup, had a bad life, no friends, no family to talk to, basically no one was in my life, at all. That's why I don't plan on going back home, ever."

"Didn't Twi fuss over about gettin yah home at one point?"

"Yeah, but after telling her that I don't want to go back, several times, she stopped trying, plus I found a way."

"Really? How?"

"Let me show you." I show her by opening a portal that lead to some random place on Earth. The portal showed some busy city, most likely New York judging by the tall buildings and smog. I close the portal before some person got too curios and came through it.

"Wow... Is that really where you lived?"

"Yup, just like Manehatten here. But the air's filled with pollution and smog. It would be like smoking a pack of cigarettes to breath air there."

"Really? We have something' like that, but we call em' cigars. And they're actually pretty healthy."

"Not the ones we created, the ones we created were filled with chemicals that would kill you slowly if you smoke them on a regular basis."

"Oh..." Her face fell to a sad frown.

"But lets talk about my world, I really don't like talking about my world. Especially when I live in a world that doesn't have pollution and is not slowly dying. Oh! So when do you want me to show up to help clear the fields?" I said trying to change the subject. And it worked if the smile on Aj's face said otherwise.

"How does... Three days from now sound?"

"You know I never have a full like Twilight." She chuckles.

"Well, we're not supposed to start fer another few days."

"Ah. Ok, well in three days it is then." I think for a minute. "I'll see ya later Aj, I gotta go check on something."

"Alright, see yah later Streak." I wave to Aj as I walk away.


I'm at The Golden Oaks Library, wait for someone to open the door.

"Coming!" I hear the little pitter patter of a pair of feet. I take a step, a few milliseconds and the door slowly opens.

"It seems you finally stopped opening the door like the other times." He smiles sheepishly. "For that, here's a gift." I open my inventory panel, search for the ruby item and spawn five of them. "I know rubies are your favorite." He grins widely as I give the multi-thousand dollar gems for him to eat. Thank the universe that they have less value here than back on Earth. That would drive me insane. "Do you know where Twi is?" He nods.

"Yeah, she's up in her room."

"Thanks." He walks away so I let myself in and close the door. Dam, I think this is enchanted to stay at a cool temperature. As soon as I close the door it suddenly got warmer. I make my way up the stairs to Twi's room. Once I reach her door I knock on it.

"Come in!" I open the door and walk in. "Oh! Hi Streak!" I see her sitting at a table with small stacks of books on it. One book is held in her magical grip.

"Hey Twi, studying again?"

"Yes."

"What is it this time?"

"Equestrian magic." I light bulb goes off in my head.

"That reminds me. You know when you create a ball of magic it tells you what kind of magic you have?" She nods. "What's the most amount of types you've seen when somepony does that?" She thinks for a moment.

"Three, but that was a long time ago. Ponies commonly have one type. Sometimes two, and rarely there are three types. Why do you ask."

"Well, I was reading a book that had that subject and it got me try that. And this is the result." I channel the flow of magic within me to form a ball on my hand. Said ball was striped with every color of the rainbow. I guess I should explain how this works and defines what kind of magic you have. It's all color coded, like red is destrctive magic, blue is a passive type, purple is general, ect. And I had the fucking rainbow.

"What... how... That's not possible! It shouldn't BE possible!"

"I thought so myself. When I read those books the maximum number is three. For a pony, but seeing that i'm not a pony. I think that make me an exception in this case."

"But... but... Ok, I see the logic behind that. You are a pretty extraordinary creature afterall." I would of blushed if I had blood.

"Thanks for the compliment. But that's I came here for, I was actually wondering what you plan to do for Winter Wrap up."

"Oh! I don't know yet, i'm planning to see what I can do when it starts." I nod.

"Alright." Just as i'm about to walk away. An idea pops into my head. "You want to know what you actually do for Winter Wrap up?" She looks at me with full attention.

"Yes." Ok, that right there was fucking creepy.

"Ok, but in the form of a rhyme. Your place in the event is what you have spent your life on perfecting."

"Huh..?"

"You'll figure it out soon enough." I think the time I spent with Celestia has left me with some of her mysteriosity. Yes that is a word, look it up, you have the internet. With that, I leave the tree library with Twi to do some heavy thinking.


--------->>>>Three days of nothing interesting taking place<<<<---------

"Hey Applejack!" I yell as I run over to where she was. She was standing with a group of earth ponies, when I get there, the other ponies bow.

"Greetings Prince Golden Streak. 'Tis a pleasure to be in your presence." How did they know i'm a noble!?

"Um... Thank you? How did you know that i'm a noble?" Another pony responds.

"I was in Canterlot and there were rumors going around that a golden pony quickly rose to 'Highest Noble' status. And we connected the dots." Dammit, should've know that they wouldn't keep their anonymity promises.

"Oh. Well. Thank you for the greetings, but that won't be needed. I'm still the same creature before the wealth, so please no formalities."

"Whatever you say!" The group yells in unison. Aj pulls away form the group.

"What in the hey did they mean by 'Highest Noble statis'?" I decided to answer with,

"You know how the town suddenly had enough bits to renovate?" Her jaw drops to the floor.

"That was you!?"

"Eyup. Now, what are going to have me do?" It takes her a few minutes, but she regains her composure.

"Uh, right, you're helpin' the others clear the snow. Then you're gonna help them plow the earth." I nod.

"You finally caught wind to that I don't need rest. Good observation." She beams at my compliment. "But you still be hard-headed. Or stubborn." She scowls at me. "You and me, along with the rest of the town, know that it's true."

"Yeah yeah, ah know."

"Welp, lets get started then." I walk over to the group of ponies i'm supposed to help out. "Alright lets get started."

"Don't you need a snow plow." I smirk.

"Nah." My arms grow and form into a giant version of a snow shovel and plant it just above the snow covered dirt. The group, and some other ponies who in the area watching gape in awe at my stretchy powers. "Welp lets get this show in the road! Come on!" I pushed against the snow, collecting it with ease. I thought there would be some resistance to from the snow from pushing my plow. But apparently not! I was just casually walking, while clearing the snow. Some of the ponies tried to keep up with me, but failed, horribly. They looked like it wasn't any effort in the show. Weird, anyway, with me helping them out. It took about.... Huh, I don;t actually know how long it was, huh... Must've lost track of time. Same with plowing the dirt, I did that like a boss, using the appropriate plow of coarse. Hell, I even formed two of them! That impressed the ponies, they even thank me for helping them out, according to them. With me helping out and Twi getting things organized, Mayor Mare said that we finished ahead of time. Which was a really big achievement for the town. But it kinda sucked for because i've always love the cold. But ehh, waiting for it next year means I will never get bored of it.


One motherfucking day later.

You know? It's amazing how fast winter ended. It's just barely tomorrow and it's already considered summer, which sucks, a lot. Have I mention that while I love winter, I fucking hate summer? No? Well, now you know. I. FUCKING. Hate summer.

Anyway, it was also apparently the first day of school, as told to me by Rarity. She wanted me to take her younger sister, Sweetiebelle. I obliged of course, this gave me a chance to get a good look at the schoolhouse, and to get to know here better. After she stopped screaming yelling 'monster!' I just had to remind her of 'the creature that saved Ponyville from an Ursa Minor'. That seems to work for everypony who doesn't know me. Because she immediately calmed down and ran around yelling 'cool!' I guess she's not xenophobic. Like some ponies around here. Anyway, I took her to school, and... The schoolhouse looks pretty cozy, just like in the show. But... there's just something different about it, and I can't put my finger on it. Meh... i'll figure it out later.

"Here we are Sweetie Belle."

"Thanks Golden Streak!" At the sound of my name being heard, everypony looks at me. Word has apparently spread that I saved Ponyville, or something because they all immediately surrounded me, speaking excitedly. Have I also mentioned that I don't like attention like this? No, well, let me just say that last I got this much attention I passed out. Same goes for here, except I powered down for a few seconds, and fell to the ground. I powered back up to see Sweetie Belle looking at me worriedly, along with the crowed doing the same.

"Streaky? Are you ok?" I nodded.

"Yeah, i'm fine, just not used to that kind of attention." The crowed caught wind and back off a little, giving me some room to get up. "Anyway, i'll be here to pick ya up Sweetie."

"Ok, see you later!"

"Cya!" just as i'm about to walk away, some random pony walks up to me.

"Are you her father?" I was kinda cu=aught off guard by that question.

"Uh, no. Her sister just asked me to take her here and pick her up"

"Oh, I thought so because you're good with foals." He walks away.

"Ooooookkaay... Weird." I stand there for a few seconds, then I shrug my shoulders and walk off to my home. I discovered that my inventory has updated, and the are some techy shit from Earth. And I found out I can open a tiny portal and have it open for as long as I want. *INTERNET TIME!!!*


--------->>>>Six hours later<<<<---------

After six hours of some much needed internet fun, I walk back to the schoolhouse to pick up Sweetie Belle. I see that the school bell rang to let out all the foals and fillies. And I see Sweetie sadly cantering over to me.

"Hey Sweetie, you alright?" She nods. "Really, doesn't look like it, come on, you can tell me." She sighs.

"Ok... It's just that, these two fillies were making fun of me." I fake ignorance.

"For what?"

"For not having a cutie mark." My metaphorical heart drops.

"Diamond Tiara..." She looks up at me.

"What was that?" I shake my head.

"Bullies?" She nods. I think for minute, by this time we were already walking to the boutique.

"You wanna know somethin'?" She looks at me with curiosity. "When i'm in this form, I don't have a cutie mark." She gasps.

"Really!?" She looks at the side of my upper thigh. "Just.... HOW!? And what do mean by 'this form'?" I smile.

"Because I can change forms watch." A 'poof' and a cloud of smoke covers me, when the smoke dissipates, it reveals me in pony form. Sweetie gapes at me. "Pretty cool?" She nods. "Heh... Oh and another thing, I have a cutie mark in this form, but I don't know what it means." I show her my mark.

"How can you not know what your cutie mark means?" My face grows serious.

"You wanna know a secret?" She nods, getting closer to me to hear my whispers. "I'm not from this world." She gasps loudly. "Shhh!"

"Ehehee... Sorry. But, you're not from this world?" I shake my head.

"Nope."

"Does that make you an alien?" I think for a few seconds.

"I guess... Yeah, pretty."

"That is so cool! I'm talking to an alien!"

"Shhh!"

"Sorry."

"Anyway, anything else bothering you?" Sweetie nods. "Well..?"

"I've been invited to Diamond Tiara's Quinceanera." I fake ignorance again.

"Who?"

"One of the girls who called me a Blank Flank. And i'm scared to go there."

"How about I go there with you?"

"Really!?" I nod.

"Yeah, I can act as your big brother or somethin'." She hugs my legs, even if i'm a pony i;m still fucking tall by pony standards.

"Thanks Streak!" I hug her back with a foreleg.

"No problem 'Belle. Anyway, here we are, your home." We were standing in front of the boutique for a while. And Sweetie hasn't noticed for a while. "Come on, lets go inside." Me and Sweetie walk in when I use my magic to open the door.

"How can you do that!? You're not even a unicorn!"

"But i'm not a pony either." I poof back to human form.

"Oh yeah... Well, see you later Streak! I have school stuff to do..." She says begrudgingly. i chuckle inwardly to myself. *Just like me when I was still in school.*

"You really are good with foals." How did Rarity appear next to me?

"It seems so... How did you get there without me noticing?"

"I came that door over there." She points a hoof to said door.

"How come I never noticed that door until now? Oh, the coloring." At first glance the door look nonexistent. But when you take a good look you can see the outline. "Huh... Oh well. I guess i'll see you later Rares."

"Until next time darling." We both wave to eachother as I walk out the door.


Author's Note

Sorry for the delay, my family decided to drag me to do some stupid shit. AND NOW I'M BEHIND SCHEDULE. FUUUUUCK! Sometimes I can hate my family.

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