Author's Note

Enjoy. Meep. And from now, the chapters will be longer, I just wanted to get this one out before I would forget to put this little bit in.

Up A Wall

Twilight's Pov.

"Well, Twilight, what are you gonna do?" Duncan asked me as me, him, Applejack, Spike and the rest of our friends were filled on what our resident visitor was attempting to do in the event my plan, which was carefully thought out to get him introduced to Ponyville. "Cancel or go ahead like you planned?"

I frowned, my eye twitching. Why can't he just listen. . . he's the human here, we're the ponies, he has no real ground to stand on. The sooner and more effectively we do this is the easier it'll be to try and do the impossible. "We're still doing it, guys," I said, not wavering. "We all can serve to learn from this, even Mayor Mare, after convincing her I wasn't lying was open to talking to him and setting up a town meeting to see if this would go good."

"I don't know, Twi," Rainbow shook her head, hovering in the air. "That would be good, but all those ponies versus him? They both might get overwhelmed like we did. Do you really want to see that outcome?"

No, cause it wouldn't be good.

"No, cause it wouldn't be good," I paced back and forth, trying to find some common ground. "But we can't just sit around and let him fade in the background, what if there's a chance he could go home with his people," I tried to get them to see we need to get Duncan home, but also try and get some information that can help for the books, for me, of course.

"Darling, haven't you been listening? It appears that young Duncan, while being a human is not a Equestrian Human, rather he came from their actual home, Earth." Rarity said, making me huff. Even so, still he needs to go home. And if what he said is right, Equestria would be better then Earth, ergo; this is his home, now.

Now the question is, would it be here, or wherever the rest of the humans were exiled?

"Mmmm, I don't know," Pinkie hopped over to see me writing a letter to Princess Celestia. "Whatcha doing?"

"Writing Celestia. If anypony should know, it's her." I plainly said. "She'll know what to do better then us."

Just need to sign, like I always do, and we'll be-

"Noooo!~" everypony, even Duncan leaped over to me, almost crushing me to death with their weight. "Don't!"

"Mmmmm. . .G-Get~ off!~" I grunted, clawing to try and get away. "O-One reason. . .why I. . . s-should not!~" my lungs felt like a deflated balloon.

Duncan, of course, spoke of, pointing to himself as he untangled himself from our friends. " In case you haven't noticed, I'm human. Based on what you told me, Celestia if that's her name, might not take to kindly to knowing there's one she quote on quote 'missed', and I ain't trying to die a second time," then he thought back to when he got here. "I guess technically, I mean I felt dead for a second. But besides, the point. You're literally asking her to fuck with me for the rest of my life."

That is not what I meant.

"Now, Duncan, that's not the slightest of what I meant to say to Celestia. I was just going to explain the situation to her and-"

"-And the mortician why he has a dead human on his table," Duncan's mouth curled into a firm frown. "Are you so sure she won't try and kill me the second she sees me? Did you consider that?"

"Of course I have," I smiled, proudly. "As far as I know, Princess Celestia has never had a reason to do that unless absolutely necessary. You should be, good Duncan. Do you think I would lie to you?"

Duncan just looked at me, unmoving as everypony looked at me.

What? I couldn't be sure about this, even if I really wanted to. Well. . . this is getting nowhere, and the longest we put this off is the worse it'll be later on. I don't want anything to happen to Duncan. Sure, he's a little strange, but he's my friend, he's a friend to us all. He just needs to trust me.

"I know you're scared, Duncan," I looked at him to scoff at what I said. I understand his thoughts at this, I can't fault him for feeling this way, not even a little bit, he's just unsure on what to do and with nobody he can really relate to to help make that choice. "In a way, I kinda am, too but this is better then nothing. . . besides, Ponyville isn't as bad as you think. Right guys?" I asked my friends.

"Nope" Pinkie said, smiling. "Everypony is super nice and calm, before you know it, it'll feel like home to you, Duncy," she giggled and bounced around him.

"It's wholesome to say the least," Applejack said, shrugging as I hoped to gauge his reaction. "Honest place, honest ponies."

See, it's nowhere near as bad.

"You'll find with a little bit of time, the town will be like one big family to you, darling," Rarity nudged Duncan and lead him up the stairs to look out of one of the windows to see the little bit of Ponyville that he could. Come on, girls, keep going; convince him.

"Plus-" Rainbow, being loud and assertive, poked him in the chest and laughed. "You can't stay in here forever, before you know it, you'll be here long, you'll end up being part of the library, like Twilight here," she pointed at me, flashing me a grin.

"Hey!" I joked, learning to take Rainbow's jokes with a grain of salt, I knew she meant it but not in a hurtful way. "But are you starting to see what it is we're talking about, we wouldn't press this if we didn't think we knew what we were talking about?" I hoped to break through the wall of resistance.

After what seemed like forever of looking outside and seeing what he could, he finally relented. "Fine, fine, fine. . .fine." he said. "We will try it your way, at first, but I don't want everyone there at first," he folded his arms and negotiated some terms. "Just have the people who have the most influence in the town there, and make sure that all of you guys are there. Do that. . .and we got a deal."

"Great, great!" I beamed, smiling, turning to Spike and Fluttershy. "Can you guys go and talk to Mayor Mare and let her know that things changed a little?"

"Mmm-hmm!" The pair went off to get this ball rolling on this.

"I hope I don't regret this," Duncan sighed, his face srunching and him pulling at his hair. He leaned against a wall and slid down until he sat on the floor in his dark blue collared shirt and black pants. "I really hope I didn't get shot for nothing. . ."

Same here, I hope I don't regret not telling Celestia right away.