They Walk Among Us

Phew!

Twilight had a long day.

Since the morning of that day, she had been working hard to complete three tasks- The first one was given by Princess Celestia, which was to write a three thousand word essay on pre-Fireheart the Mighty Ponyville History to be put in the Canterlot Archives. The second one was given by Professor Lemondrops in Canterlot, which was to help him prove that alien  life not existing was a 'highly ludicrous hypothesis based on nothing but bat faeces'. The third task she had to do was to train Rainbow Dash's pet, Tank, for the Great Tortoise Race to be help in Fillydelphia the next day (his record time was 2 hours and 47 minutes to run 5 miles).

Of course, she was the Twilight Sparkle, so she had already planned the day's activities precisely and perfectly, leaving enough time to eat, bathe, and stargaze.

As she usually does when she's tired at night, she looked through her giant, ultra powerful telescope and looked through outer space. She was always fascinated by the fact that there maybe other worlds out there, each as large as the other, and all of them bearing strange, never-before-seen creatures.

She looked where she usually looked every night- first at the Alexandrite Galaxy, where she could see tiny planets floating about, then she looked at the planet Miter, the nearest planet to Equestria, and finally to the-

"Twi? Are you there? Twilight? Twilight? It's me, your bestest friend, Pinkie Pie! Please open the door, Twilight, I'm really really REALLY really tired from hopping at full speed all the way here, so please open this door super duper fast, please?

Twilight ran towards the door and opened it as fast as she could to stop Pinkie from talking again.

"Hey, Pinkie. What are you doing coming here this late?"

"Well, I was at Sugarcube Corner tending to the foals, when all of a sudden, they started crying really REALLY loud, so as I always did, I took a sack of flour and tore it open above me to cover myself in that flour to cheer the little ones up, but-"

"A sack of flour?"

"-they were still crying, maybe even louder than before, so I tried everything: I broke dishes, pat them on the back, tried to make them burp, turned on some Cherry Chaplin, said 'kumquat' around thirty times... Which reminds me, don't you think 'kumquat' is a funny word? In fact, it's so funny that it's my FAVOURITE funny word, which would make my second favourite word 'codswallop', which is-

"Um... Pinkie?"

"-also a funny word, but 'kumquat' definitely beats it, which brings me to my next point- why is there only one language in all of Equestria, and why don't we have a name for it? I mean, when someone says something I don't understand, I can just go: "By Celestia, speak Ponish",  or "Speak Ponese," or something-"

"PINKIE!"

"Yes, Twilight?"

"Get to the point!"

"Oh, I guess I need some milk for the foals."

Finally, thought Twilight.

"OK, Pinkie, come in. I think I have some milk left over."

"Oh, thank you thank you THANK YOU, Twilight. I've searched all over Ponyville, but no one seems to want me talking to them. I wonder why..."

I don't... thought Twilight.

"Ooh, nice telescope you got here, Twi! What'cha looking at?"

"Just the moon, Pinkie. I mean, even YOU should know what the moon looked like."

"Um... Twilight?"

"Yes, Pinkie?"

"Why is the moon colorful?"

Twilight froze.

"What are you TALKING about, Pinkie? The moon is just white, it's definitely not-"

She shoved Pinkie aside and looked through the telescope.

"colorful?"

Twilight looked around the other parts of the galaxy. According to where all the other celestial bodies are, what she (and Pinkie) were looking at was definitely the...

The Moon.