Chapter 4 – Meeting her friends

“And that’s basically what movies are.” Once I was done with my explanation, Twilight wrote down everything about what I said about movies.

At first I kind of thought it was unnecessary at first but I decided it was best to not say another word, less I get hurt or worst kicked out.

“Wow this is amazing. From what you told me, the entertainment business in your world is far more advance then what we have. It’s incredible.” Twilight said.

“I also think that it’s a strange coincidence that unicorns and pegasi even exist in your world even if it’s what you would call “a foal’s story”.

“Yeah, but people thought that they were just nothing more than legends, myths, or fairy tales. That is until I met you and what you told me about this place.” I told her.

“Well I’m glad that I’m the first one you’ve met in this world, otherwise everypony in Ponyville would have mistaken you for a monster.”

I look backed on yesterday that she wasn’t the first pony I met. It was that white unicorn with the purple curled mane. I have to say her mane did look attractive. BUT if she was human then that would be an entirely different story.

“Uhhhhh actually there’s something I should tell you. You see…”

One Explanation Later…

“Oh no this is bad, this really really bad. Somepony saw you. There’s no denying that she already told everypony that a monster is running amok in Ponyville.”

Twilight was freaking out that this situation is going to blow out of proportion.

(Seriously calm the hell down.)

“Relax it was just one pony no big deal. And besides, who’s going to believe her it’s not like she has photographic proof or anything to back up her story.

“Wait who did you say saw you?”

I tried to remember who she was. All I can remember was what she looked like but I never ask for her name then it hit.

“I think she owns this boutique and...”I was then interrupted by Twilight for the first time.
“We have to talk to her right now!” sounding like it was an emergency.

“Whoa I get that you’re scared that she might tell a few ponies, but I’m not going back to that place again.” Protesting to her that I want to stay in her house.

“Well too bad because you got yourself into this mess. But there’s another reason why we have to talk to her.”

“Oh and whys that?” Giving her an annoyed remark in my tone.

“She’s also one of my best friends so it might be best if we can tell her you’re harmless so she can avoid telling other ponies that you exist.”

I was thinking about her plan, how this could work out.

“Maybe it could work, but how am I supposed get to the boutique without frightening a few pony’s since I’m not one of you.” She looks at me knowing that I was right.

“Oh right.” Later she jolted back up.

“Oh wait a minute. We can teleport to her boutique so you don’t scare or cause a scene around other ponies.” I then think again if there were any flaws to her plan.

“Have you ever done teleporting before?” I asked her.

”Oh I have. A lot of times actually.” Answering with confidence in her voice.

“Ok I guess.” I mean she did say she has done this sort of thing before right? So I thought to myself why not. Twilight then closes her eyes trying to concentrate on doing her transporting spell. I saw a purple aura coming out of her horn which kind of freaked me out a little since magic never existed in earth.

As I was staring at her horn, a burst of bright light flashed before my eyes I was then temporarily blind for about a few seconds.

“We’re here David. I told you I’ve done this before.”

I then rub my eyes, trying to get my vision back. After about a few seconds have past, I manage to see that we were no longer in her tree house but outside next to a building. The same building that I stopped by yesterday.

“Wow. Now that’s what I call fast travel.” Still amazed that Twilight can actually do magic.

“I learned from the best. Now we should head on over inside before somepony see’s you.”

“Oh yeah we should go in. I don’t want to give somebody a false sense that I’m some sort of threat or monster.” Remembering that I’m not some ponies what you call “normal”.

“You’re not a monster; you were just surprised that we can talk.” Trying to sound reassuring.

“Yeah, I know but it’s kind of unbelievable that there’s another whole new world besides Earth. Now I know that “Aliens” do exist, wait till I go back home and tell Vincent that…”

I suddenly remember what happened on yesterday. I stopped talking for a second.
“What’s wrong? Are you ok?” Twilight trying to get my attention.

I snapped out of my thoughts and rubbed the back of my head. “Let’s just go inside shall we? “ Trying to get away from the subject.

“Oh yeah right.” She replied looking at me with a puzzled look.I walked ahead of her and opened the door first so she can go first. What? Just because she’s a magical talking pony doesn’t mean I can be a nice guy once a while.

“Thanks David.” I look at her with a scorned expression.

Before she can go through, I felt a breeze brush right next to the left side shoulder then later heard a smashing sound behind me.

(Did someone just throw a vase at me?) I thought to myself.

“AGGGGGGHHHHHHH!! It’s you again. Spike, get me something to use as a weapon quick!”

I looked inside of the building and I saw the white unicorn again, peeking out behind her counter. I was chuckling for a second, but then things began to turn for the worst when she levitated a few objects behind her. That’s when I know this was going to be a battlefield.

Without hesitation, I ran to the nearest cover I can find and saw a desk full of cloth and needles. I then flipped the table side ways and duck behind it. I heard objects hitting behind the table and I laughed as the objects smashed the table behind me.

“Nice try, but you’re aiming sucks worst then a storm trooper!” Taunting her.

“Then come out of those covers you brute so I can hit you!” Yelling, still trying to throwing stuff at me.

As the battle rages on, I peeked out to see what she was planning to do. As I peeked, I saw something coming out of a door right next to her side. It was a tiny purple dragon with green scales that kind of looks like a Mohawk and was purple all over its small body.

I would say it was cool and that it could be Spike that twilight was mentioning a few moments ago, but he was holding some sort of umbrella.

As I stopped peeking, I waited for more objects to be thrown from her, but after about a few moments later, it stopped. I then I peeked out of the desk and spoke.

“What‘s the matter? Giving up already?” Trying to sound tough.

I look up and I saw her coming at my direction levitating an umbrella at full sprint. I looked around trying to find something to defend myself I looked at one of the manikins or ponykins and had a crazy idea it just might work.
I lifted up the ponykin and put it towards me and it blocked her swing. I backed up a little bit and ran around trying to find something else I can use.

As I was running, I found a broom that was lying on the floor. So I picked it up, and I was ready for combat. She was standing from one corner, trying to catch her breath, while I was waiting for her to make the first move.
Then after about a few seconds past, she came charging towards me with a battle cry. I also ran towards her with a battle cry of my own, one that fits perfect for me.

“LEEEEERRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOY JEEENNNNKKKKIIIIIINNNNS!” I yelled.

As we were heading for one another, we prepared our swings and were ready who was going to swing first. As we were close at range, we both swung our weapons simultaneously but during that time we both froze like statues, then a voice broke out.

“THAT’S ENOUGH OF YOU TWO!”

I turned my neck to see if I can move it and I can. I turned and looked at Twilight who was now pissed off.
“Twilight? What in Celestias mane are you doing? Get me out from this stasis so we can finish off and get rid of this… this… abomination.” The white unicorn pointing her hoof at me.

“Look who’s calling the kettle black, you ungrateful bitch!” I yelled back at her.
“You… you think I’m ugly?” said the unicorn that was almost to the verge of tears.
“If the horseshoe fits.”

Biggest. Mistake. Ever

I immediately regret saying it to her because not only was she about to cry, something popped out behind the place she was hiding. It was the purple dragon with the green Mohawk again and he looked pissed.

“You’re going to pay for what you called Rarity!” as it was coming at my direction with sharp claws ready to shred me to pieces. I was trying to struggle getting out of whatever Twilight put me in, but I can’t break free from her magic.

(God if you’re out there, PLEASES DO SOMETHING!!)

Right as he pounces to my direction, only about a mere few inches, a purple aura was surrounding his entire body while flouting in midair. I give a sigh of relief, knowing that Twilight used her magic to stop him from attacking me. As I turn my direction to Twilight, she looks even more pissed off. I thought for sure she was going to scream at the top of her lungs, but instead she took a deep breath and exhaled.

“Ok let’s just calm ourselves and be responsible adult’s ok everpony? “ I wanted to correct her on the “everpony” sentence since I’m not a pony and that we have a dragon that’s also not a pony. But by the look on her face I think I should keep that thought on my mind.

There was a long awkward silence for a while, until finally I had a plan that can either help or hurt my impression with Rarity.

“Look for all the things that just happened I’m sorry for scaring you from the beginning and that I had no right to call you ugly. You’re… beautiful and …. Also…” I let go of the broom which was floating too and dug into my pockets and took out two handfuls of jewels out of my hand.

“I like to return these gems to you. They belong to you right?”

Everyone in the room was surprised that I had gems that were inside my pockets. Even Twilight herself didn’t know about this till now.

“I know these gems belong to you when I first came in and Twilight knew they belong to you and she told me to return these to you, right Twilight?” Looking at her direction giving her a wink, giving her a sign to play along with this.

As she was still surprised, she shakes her head and begins to talk.

“Yeh, it’s true he wanted to give back something what he stole from you, and that I lead him the way to you boutique so he can give it back to you and apologies.” Giving a smile trying to not look like she’s lying.

The white unicorn then looks at both of us trying to figure out our lie. Then she breaths in then speaks.

“Well since you apologize and that you’re retuning what you stolen from me, I suppose it should be fair for me to apologies for attacking you and calling you a monster.”

Twilight then gives a sign of relief and drops all of us down from the air. When I dropped first I was trying to catch my balance because I still couldn’t handle what Twilight put me thought not once but twice.

When I finally found my balance, the white unicorn trots over to my direction trying to get a good look at me.

“Hmmm, from closer aspect, you don’t look like a monster or a brute but a sort of a…gentle giant.”
“Umm thanks.” was all I could say.

I know I should say something to her I had one comment but I hope she doesn’t take it for real. So I crouch down to her level and said to her

“And from a closer point of view, you are sort of cute, especially the eyes.” As I said that, she then covers her mouth with one of her hoofs and starts to giggle.
“Why thank you.”

Something jumped on my back and started choke holding me but I was strong enough to break the hold of whatever something was trying to chock me. I pulled the culprit and it was none other than that small purple dragon.

“Hold on for a second, I thought we already established that I wasn’t dangerous. What’s with you trying to hurt me?”
“It’s because I don’t trust you. How can I be sure that you didn’t brain wash Twilight and Rarity?” struggling to get out of my grip.
“If I did brain washed them, then shouldn’t I have brain washed you and made all of you forget ever seeing me.”

He finally stop’s struggling to consider my theory.

“Hmmmm…. you do have a good point. And ummm can you put me down now; you’re starting to hurt me a little.”

I come to realized that I was holding him a little too tight so I put him down. As I did that, he runs over to Twilight’s side and I finally got my answer.

“I’m guessing your name is Spike right?”

The dragon looks at my direction with a surprise look knowing that we never introduced ourselves.

“How do you know my name?” I cracked opened a smile and told him how I know his name.
“Two words; Psychic Powers.”

He then asks me what he was thinking about and later on I told him that the whole psychic powers thing was just a bunch of bull. After that, Twilight tells him why he didn’t come home early with the breakfast she told him to pick up for her.

As it turns out, he explained that when he was coming back home, he noticed that Rarity was moving around inside her window and that he was concerned about her so he walked inside the store and ask her what was wrong.

She then tells him that yesterday a monster came into her store and tried to “attack” her and that she noticed that the gems in her treasure chest were a few short. How she noticed that her gems were stolen is beyond my understanding but none the less, she knew they were a few short.

Spike then helps her find the lost gems she’s so desperate to find and after minutes of trying to find them they
give up. As they were taking a break, Rarity then sat down next to a window and saw Twilight and me appear seconds later, she began to panic and hid behind her counter.

I think what Spike was telling me is that the reason she was hiding was that when she sat down to take a break she must have saw Twilight and me outside her door and must have panic that I came back.

“Again sorry that I tried to throw objects at you. If I had known you were Twilight’s uhhh friend then I would have never overreacted.” I kind reacted to what she would call Twilight and me “friends”.

“I wouldn’t consider her a friend more like an acquaintance or a companion. I mean she did nurse me back to health today and yesterday.”

“What happened to you after we met? Last we met you weren’t covered in bandages.”
I explained to Rarity that after I ran from her store yesterday, I climbed up Twilights home and took a nap on one of the branches. After I told her I fell from the tree, she then comes to realized why most of my clothes now are tattered, ripped and why I’m bandaged up.

“Oh my goodness no wonder you look like you fell from the sky because you actually fell.”
“Gee thanks” I tell her sarcastically.
“These clothes simply will not help you feel good if you don’t look good. I suggest you should let me fix those clothes for you.”

I then come to realized that these clothes are the only things I brought for my “trip”. I had to make up an excuse and fast before I have to strip down.

“Uhhh I can’t because I don’t have any money. In fact, I don’t even know what sort of currency you ponies have here.”

(This excuse should get me out of this situation.)

“Oh don’t worry this will just take no longer then just a few minutes and besides think of this as a way of saying I’m sorry for what I did to you early and for yesterday.”

After she was done with her explanation her horn then glows into a purple aura and as that was happening, my hoodie was taken from me then my shirt begins to float a little to show a little of my bandages.

I then pull down my shirt and tried to make up more excuses but every time I do so, she then counters them with her own explanation on why she wants to help. During our battle of wits, more of my clothes begin to try and strip out of me and I catch and hold on to them to make sure they don’t go anywhere. Then things began to turn south.

“That’s it! If you can’t let me take your clothes, I’ll rip them out of you.” I then look at her with an evil eye and told her

“You wouldn’t dare.”

I don’t know how she was able to tear all my clothes, but she did it somehow. A few of them flew away in different places and slipped from my fingers. Most of the fabric that did slip through was still on my hands. As of what happened I was now wearing nothing but my boxer, shoes and the bandages that covered my stomach and arm. I sunk my head in defeat that all this was for nothing.

“Fine if you solely want to fix my clothes be my guest, but can I get my things out of my pants before you fix them?” She then tells me its fine by her as long I didn’t try to put was once my clothes. I agree and I go to the place where my pants were. Good thing it landed on her sofa otherwise the contents would have been damage.

I dig into my pockets and took my phone, my ds, my packet of gum, and finally my knife. I then take my things and go to a door and look inside. It looked at kitchen and there were four chairs. I could at least sit there and wait inside, that way if somebody comes inside her store, they won’t be frighten by me standing somewhere else.

I look back at the two ponies and one dragon and told them if they needed me, I’d be in Rarity’s kitchen playing my games. I then close the door behind them and walked to the nearest chair and sat on it. As I did so, I turn on my DS and waited for it to warm up.

I look at the screen and saw the time it said is 12:15. I then look at the bottom screen to see what game did I bring and it was Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. I was happy that I brought it along with me because I was on my fifth case and I was close on finishing it.

As I touch the screen it goes to the game and as I was about to press continue, something spoke behind my back.

“What’s that?” I jump in front and fell from my seat. I turned around to see Twilight with a puzzled look.
“Oh I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to startle you. I was just curious what sort of items you took from your clothes.

I then stand up and let out a sigh and responded with calm annoyed tone.

“If you must know this is DS lite. This little device lets me play all sorts of video games while I’m on the go.”
Twilight was astounded by what I said and told me that video game cabinets actually exist in this world. But she never expected that games can be portable.

(Well at least video games still exist in this world.)

Anyways I then tell her the other item I was carrying which was my phone.

“This other little device, it lets me talk to all sorts of people around my world. Unfortunately, it won’t work because the only way I can talk to people is by via satellite which is back on Earth and as you can tell were not at Earth so it’s hard to show you its potential use.”

Twilight looks at me with a disappointed look on her face or muzzle if you want to call it that. I then had an idea which could cheer her up.

“Although, it not only lets me talk to people, it also plays all sorts’ of music I brought over the past. If you want I can let you listen to few of them.”

Her expression changed from depression with happiness knowing that she gets to see what sort of wonderment my phone can do. Seriously if she knew how old my iphone5 is then she wouldn’t care. Oh well, can’t keep her waiting.

I turned on my phone and touch my music app and scrolled down which song would be suitable for her. After about a few seconds I thought I was going to give up because most of the songs I have are hip hop (the good kind), songs from the 80’s to 20’s or are from video game soundtracks.

I was still looking but once I found a song I can play, Spike came into the kitchen with a frighten look in his expression.

“Twilight we have to leave now.”

Twilight goes up and asked him what was going on in the other room. Before he could answer, all of us were silent as we heard more voices from the other room.

That’s when Twilight began to panic quietly. “Oh no more ponies are here, just as we finally settle things down here.” Twilight having yet another spaz attack.

I myself however was calm about this until after a few seconds I remember I’m still half naked. Not only will they think I’m a monster but also a pervert. Great I thought monster was bad enough already.

As Twilight was trying to think up a plan, I however cracked open the door only to the point where I can sneak a peek at how many there are. There were three more ponies in this store.

One was an orange pony who had her mane tied like a ponytail (how ironic) and had a cowgirl hat not to mention she had freckles on both her cheeks. She also had a mark on her behind. It had three red apples on them.

The other one had a cyan color coat and that her mane was the color of a rainbow.
(Wow talk about showing off her pride). She also had wings on her back that must mean she’s a Pegasus.”

(WHAT THEY EXIST TOO?! I swear I have to get photographic evidence before I leave this place because if I get at least one photo of one of these creatures I’ll become famous.)

And lastly, there was another Pegasus only her coat was different from the other one. Her coat had like a sort of creamy yellow color and her mane was long and was bright pink as well. From what she looks, she’s one of those shy girls back at my world. How I know this is because if you’re friends with someone who avoids conflicts at all times, you can detect cowards and chickens. But this one’s different somehow; I don’t know it’s just a feeling.

As I was still peeking, I caught a glimpse on their behinds and they all have different images of tattoos. “Wait those aren’t tattoos… I remembered about two years ago that my sister said something to me about these marks. What were they called again?” I try to remember what it was called until my train of thought was disrupted by what might have been the most frightening moment of my life.

“Hey Rarity who’s that behind your door?” said the orange mare. On cue, I immediately close the door and ran around looking for anything I can hide. Twilight then looks at me with frightful look she knows what’s happened.

“They saw you didn’t they?”

I nod my head answering her question.

Then an idea hit me. I run to twilight’s direction and whispered to her ear and told her what she should do. I told her that she should go out first and introduced her friends to me, that way if one of them reacts in a bad way, she’ll just use her magic to stop them before they can do anything to me first.

After I was done telling her, I look at her and she agrees to my plan. So I sat down in the middle of the room, grabbed my DS and started playing it. Twilight goes out and my plan is initiated.

I turned down the volume and listen to what they were talking. What I heard was kind of vague but it sounded like she was explaining something.

“Good she must be talking about me.”

Then after about 2 minutes later, the door is open and out comes the cyan Pegasus.

“Please Twilight how can he possibly make me overreact? “

When she finished her sentence she turned her head to my direction and was shocked by the look of me. It was awkward for a second until I utter a simple

“Hi?”

No more when I blinked and she came charging at me with full speed. Luckily the purple aura was surrounding her. I predicted she would have reacted first, but what I didn’t account was how fast she was.

She and I were face to muzzle about a few mere inches when that happened I fell back from my seat and yelled out “Jesus F$@king Christ!”

I recovered from my mishap but no long when I heard hoofsteps coming at my direction. I looked at where the sound was coming from and it was the orange pony coming at me.

“Not again!” I covered my arms waiting for whatever she was planning. Then later, the noise came into a halt. I put my arms down and saw that she too was surrounded by purple aura.

I gave out an exhale and stood up and looked at Twilight. “Thanks Twilight.” She nods her in agreement.

“Don’t mention it. Now as for the both of you…” She then brings the two ponies on each side and gives them a disappointing glare.

“I told you girls to not overreact and what do you do?”

Just as she was about to scold them, the yellow Pegasus fly’s at my direction and tackles me, landing on my still recovering stomach.

I reacted by covering my face, closed my eyes and shamelessly said “Not the face!” As I was waiting for what she was going to do I didn’t expect her to say these words. “Oh my gosh are you hurt?” after she said that she just hugged my chest.

I opened eyes, slowly pulled my arms down and said the first thing that popped out of my head “What?”

END OF CHAPTER 4