"Alright girls" Twilight began, garnering the attention of her five other friends. She pointed to a large circular metallic device that was hooked up to some other machines by wires. "This is an quantum interdimensional portal that has the ability to go to other dimensions, or for other dimensions to visit us" she stated with a smile.
"Now i'm sure you're all wondering how I managed to do this, well it's simple really I-" "Holy buck Twilight!" Rainbow shouted, cutting off Twilight's rant. Twilight turned to face her friends, who wore a mixture of stunned to irritated expressions.
"What's wrong girls?" Twilight asked with a tilt of her head.
"What's wrong? Twilight dear, do you have any idea how dangerous this can be?" Rarity asked, stunned by the simple stare the Twilight gave her. Rainbow Dash took to the air to go hover by the machines to take a look at them.
"Well maybe.. but-"
"Twilight, it's certainly impressive an' all, but y'all don't think yer overdoin' it a bit?" Applejack asked.
"What, how can you even say that? Rainbow, you're the stuntpony, is this dangerous?" Twilight asked, turning to face Rainbow by the portal.
Rainbow Dash faced her with a serious expression, "Sorry Twi, but this is definitely dangerous. Have you ever seen a movie or read a book where a portal doesn't lead to something dangerous?"
Twilight pondered for a minute before raising a hoof to speak, but then stopped herself and lowered her hoof. "Exactly" Rainbow followed up with.
"Does Celestia even know you're doing this?" Pinkie asked, more serious then she usually is.
"Well... no... but I was going to tell her" Twilight stated sheepishly.
"a-are you sure about this Twilight?" Fluttershy whispered, who had approached Twilight without a peep.
"Well... I don't know. I already managed to set up one dimension though and-"
"Twilight.." Applejack simply said.
"I put a lot of work into this!"
"Twilight.." Rarity said.
"I haven't slept in days!"
"Twi.." Rainbow said.
"Please!"
"Twilight.." Fluttershy whispered.
"PLEASE!" Twilight shouted.
All of the girls audibly sighed at their friends pleading. "Fine!" they all said unison.
"You get one shot though Twilight" Rainbow sternly said.
Twilight happily cantered across her crystal floor over to the machines where she immediately starting pushing buttons with her purple aura. As she did Applejack leaned over to Rarity's ear.
"This isn't a good ah-dea is it?" Applejack whispered to Rarity.
"Absolutely not" Rarity whispered back.
As Twilight wrapped up with her typing she grabbed a clipboard in one hoof, and slowly lowered her other hoof onto a comically large lever. "Ready girls?" Twilight asked excitedly.
"No" Rainbow simply stated, causing Twilight to give her a quick glare before pulling down the lever.
With this the large circular ring ignited with electrical currents traveling through the coords and throughout the outer rim. As a few sparks began to shoot back and forth inside the ring a tiny blue hole could be seen forming in the center, in thin air. The electric currents stayed more stable and attached onto the blue hole with started to grow, making it appear as though the electricity was pulling and stretching it until it finally filled the ring.
What stood before the ponies was a large glowing blue portal with some white mixed in, the electricity had started to subside.
"Now girls, we must simply wait and try not to- do you hear that?" Twilight asked, as a vocal noise grew louder and louder from the portal. As it grew it could be clearly identified as someone screaming, and as if to prove her theory right, two creatures came flying out through the portal screaming their lungs out until they hit the floor with a grunt. The portal closed behind them sealing their exit.
Two oddly shaped creatures were now laying on the ground to the surprise of everypony around them.
"Holy buck Twilight! What are those?" Rainbow shouted.
"Well I believe they're from a dimension ruled by... Humans they're called" Twilight stated as she read her clipboard.
"You sound unsure, did you not research these creatures beforehand? Rarity asked in surprise.
"Well I couldn't know anything for sure just basics. They don't grow very big, not like dragons. Instead an average adult is about the same height as a large stallion like Big Mac. Though they stand on two appendages instead of four like us so it's expected. I believe they should also speak the same language as us if my location setting was correct" Twilight explained.
"Y'all don't even know if they're dangerous!?" Applejack shouted in her face, causing Twilight to stagger back nervously.
"Well no, but we've faced worse" Twilight said sheepishly.
"Twilight you're usually the 'spick and span everything needs to be perfectly organized and managed' type. How did you not plan all of this out?" Rainbow asked.
"Yeah I know, but how else do you make great leaps in scientific advancement? By experimenting" Twilight simply stated, causing some of the girls to scowl at her. Though the ponies quickly turned their attention to the two creatures who grunted a bit as they started to get up.
The baby faced one got up first and looked around instantly at all of the colorful ponies awkwardly staring back at him.
"What the fuck dude!" it shouted, causing the ponies to all step back a bit. The bearded one got up just after him to look at what his friend was seeing.
"Holy shit! Where are we, what is going on!?" he shouted. They simply stared at the ponies who stood gawking at them, until Twilight stepped forward slightly.
"Uh.. hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie" she explained while motioning her hoof to each pony as she said their name.
The creatures simply looked at them before turning to each other.
"James are we wearing Vive's or something?" Aleks asked, nervously.
"No, we only had one at the house anyways. Whatever the hell is happening is real" James said as he turned back to face the ponies.
"Uh.. y'all ain't gonna eat us are ya?" Applejack awkwardly asked. James and Aleks just looked at the farm pony with a puzzled expression.
"What? no. Are YOU going to eat US?" James asked back.
"Wasn't plannin' on it on tha' account that we don't eat meat" Applejack stated, giving and James and Aleks a slight bit of comfort.
"You two are probably wondering about what's going on" Twilight stated only to receive a harsh glare from James.
"Well yeah maybe that's why I just fucking asked 'what's going on!?" he shouted, causing Twilight's ears to fold back.
Twilight frowned "Oh uh.. yeah sorry. It's actually not that long of a story. I developed an interdimensional portal that has transported you two from your dimension to our dimension, in our country, Equestria. Our species are known as ponies, and I believe you are known as... humans?" she stated, but it came out as a question when she said humans.
"Uh yeah, but from where were from ponies don't talk, you're animals" James said, causing Rarity to glare at him.
"How dare you call us animals" she said the last word with disgust. "I for one am of high class unlike you two uncouth creatures!" Rarity shouted, stomping her hoof and turning her head away in a prissy way.
"What? You know this guy right here makes 7.7 milo from where were from!" Aleks shouted with a laugh, causing James to punch him in the arm. "Really, you're making jokes right now?"
"Rarity! Don't be rude, and technically both of us are animals, technically mammals" Twilight stated with smile, only for the other ponies to groan at Twilight for being informative.
Twilight sheepishly continued "I understand this must be very confusing for you, this was simply all part of an experiment. We can definitely send you back if you'd like" Twilight tried to rationalize.
"Alright yeah, just get us back home" Aleks said, looking around, and then walking over to the circular ring.
Twilight quickly trotted over nervously "um yeah of course, but... are you sure we or.. I.. can't ask you a few questions?" Twilight asked nervously, causing Aleks to glare over his shoulder at her.
"In the name of science" she added. "No" Aleks replied motioning for James to come over, but he stayed where he was.
"Honestly... you know we could stick around for a little. Even just a few hours" James said, which made Twilight instantly perk up, only to frown again when Aleks replied with "No way James, we gotta get back. We don't even know where we are or if these ponies are evil or something"
"Evil!?" Pinkie shouted, while magically appearing up from behind Aleks who staggered away as she scared him. "We're the Elements of Harmony, and she's the princess of friendship, how could we be evil? silly" she asked.
Aleks gave her deadpan look and answered her with a simple "because you could just be lying" causing Pinkie to scratch her head curiously. "That's true actually" she replied.
"Twilight Barkle or Darkle or whatever, can you just open that portal, and James come on, seriously" he said, causing James to relent and walk over to him.
"Fine, but you know this is kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity as weird as it is" James stated, causing Aleks to frown a little, before setting those thoughts aside.
"Yeah well it's better not to take the risk" Aleks simply said, before looking over to Twilight expectantly who was pulling the lever back and forth over and over.
"Uh, it should have turned on by now.." she muttered nervously. Rainbow Dash quickly flew over and pushed Twilight aside, "here I got this!" she boasted, and quickly started switching the lever back and forth at a quicker pace. She put force into it and kept pushing and pulling, Twilight looked from the lever to the wires noticing little electric currents on them that were growing more and more rapid.
"Wait Rainbow stop!" Twilight shouted, but it was too late. The lever started to spark as well as the console and the electric currents instantly surged out to the ring causing electricity to build up around it's rim.
"Everypony down!" Twilight shouted as she ran and slid away from it. James and Aleks went wide eyed as Rainbow Dash flew off in her signature speed, and the two quickly looked to each other and then immediately sprinted in the other direction. As they ran the sparks reached their breaking point and a fire instantly spread around the ring and ignited. James and Aleks slid down on the ground as they ran to take cover as the ring exploded. It sent out blazing fire which narrowly avoided landing on James, and the smoke had spread out from the explosion covering the room.
Aleks was the first to get on his feet, looking around in the smoke trying to find his friend. "James! James are you alright?" he shouted in-between coughs.
Twilight coughed as she tried to speak "Rainbow Dash! Can you clear this smoke out!" she shouted, and went back to coughing hysterically.
"Got it Twi!" Rainbow shouted back, and took off into the air and immediately put her speed to use. She quickly went flying right into high speeds and started doing fast laps around the library. As she picked up speed, the air current followed her and circled the room helping to clear away smoke. The wind started to blow all around the library quickly dispersing the smoke out through the chimney and any open windows that were available. After a couple of minutes Rainbow had completely cleared the smoke, and she landed back on the ground beside Twilight.
"Is everypony alright?" Rainbow asked, and received several "yes's and yeah's" from around the room.
As James got to his feet he pointed towards the machines, "were good but what about that" motioning towards the small fire still lingering.
Pinkie Pie gasped and instantly reached behind her and whipped out a bucket of water from thin air. "Pinkie Pie is on it!" she said and she saluted before doing a few cartwheels to make her way over to the machines. As she prepared to toss the water Twilight had teleported over and grabbed Pinkie by the shoulder and pulled her back.
"No Pinkie! It's an electrical fire, water won't help. Dash?" she said looking to the pegasus who had already flown over knowing what she wanted. Rainbow rapidly flapped her wings blowing wind onto the small fire until it died down.
After that Twilight sighed, "alright so now-" "Goddamnit!" James yelled, cutting her off.
"How the fuck are we gonna get home now!?" he shouted, stomping over to Twilight.
"Oh well.. I can fix this.. although.. its gonna take a few days" she muttered, her ears drooping as she spoke.
"A few days!?" James yelled, but was stopped by Aleks' hand on his shoulder. "Relax James, I'm mad too but what else are we gonna do about it" he said.
James sighed as he swung a hand up to slap himself in the face. "Unbelievable.. a few days" he muttered. He then turned to Aleks with wide eyes. "Dude we can't just leave Trevor and them to do Cow Chop alone, we don't have much of a backlog for videos"
"Like I said dude, what else can we do" Aleks said.
"I'm really, really sorry about all of this. I promise, give me three days and I can get you two home" Twilight offered, which helped to ease James slightly.
"*sigh* fine"
"Well isn't this what you wanted anyways?" Aleks asked.
"I was thinking more of like, a few hours. Now were stuck here" James replied.
"It ain't that bad y'all, just a few days. Plus like you said, when else are ya' gonna have an opportunity like this?" Applejack asked, giving her the attention of James.
"Yeah, I guess thats true, but what are we gonna do for three days?" James asked.
"We can get to know each other!" Pinkie shouted excitedly.
"Hay yeah we can, this is just as much an opportunity for us as it is you" Rainbow said.
"Oh.. uh.. well what do you wanna know?" Aleks asked, a bit uneasily.
"Well I wanna know about your arms, are those tattoos?" Rainbow asked.
Aleks looked down to his arm "uh yeah.."
"Awesome!" Rainbow exclaimed as she flapped over to him to get a closer look. Aleks held out his arm to show her, "these look rad!" Rainbow complimented.
"It looks like all of you guys have them" Aleks said, pointing to some of the girl's flanks.
"Huh? Oh these are' our cutie marks. It's a lil' different from what y'all have. These here are magically given to ponies when they discover their talents" Applejack explained. Aleks nodded in understanding, "but we do have regular tattoos here too" she followed up with.
During this Pinkie Pie had managed to sneak up behind James and snatch the beanie he had off of his head, causing James to swipe at it with a "hey!"
Pinkie simply bounced back a bit to admire his hair. "Sorry grumpy pants! I just wanted to see what your hair looks like" then as she looked she gasped, and her eyes went wide. "It's just as big and poofy as mine!" Pinkie shouted in delight.
"Yeah, yeah" James muttered as he walked up and snatched his beanie back, placing it over his hair again to flatten his hair.
"Do y'all have apples from yer' from?" Applejack asked, causing Rainbow Dash to roll her eyes.
"Uh yeah.." James answered.
"Do you all wear clothes?" Rarity asked, admiring Aleks' hoodie.
"Yeah, why do you guys wear clothes?" Aleks' asked, wondering why she even knew what that word was.
"Yes, but only sometimes. Like dresses for occasions and such" Rarity replied.
"You have a cow on your shirt, d-do you like animals?" Fluttershy meagerly asked, as she looked at James' Cow Chop logo shirt.
"Uh.. well it's kinda like our company logo I guess you could say, but yeah we like animals. We have pets back home" James answered, and Fluttershy smiled happily after hearing it.
"Do you have books?" Twilight asked, once again making Rainbow roll her eyes.
"Yeah, but most people are more interested in TV and Movies" James replied, causing Rainbow Dash to laugh.
"Told you books are lame Twi!" she laughed while floating above them.
Twilight yanked her down by her tail with her magic, "Oh well then would you care to explain why I find you in the library section reading Daring Doo every week" Twilight countered smugly, causing Rainbow Dash to frown at her.
"Well i'm sure there is plenty more to talk about darlings, but it is starting to get late, and it's also been quite a day" Rarity stated with yawn and nodded towards the burnt control panels.
"Okay fair point, you two can stay in my castle if you'd like. It's definitely big enough" Twilight said with a chuckle.
James and Aleks nodded, and Twilight turned to her friends.
"I'm going to send a letter to Celestia about this tomorrow, but in the meantime maybe you girls should head home" Twilight explained.
"You sure Twi, they seem nice and all but we just met them" Rainbow whispered to Twilight while eyeing James, who eyed her back. Taking this as a queue, the other girls walked over to form a huddle.
"I think they seem nice" Fluttershy added with a soft smile.
"Yes, they do seem nice enough, but you never quite know for sure. What if we split them up? One goes to stay with one of us girls and the other stays with another. They wouldn't try anything if they knew the other could be put at risk" Rarity stated, earning nods from the other girls.
"Alright, how about James stays with Fluttershy" Twilight began, Fluttershy squeaked when her name was mentioned.
Rainbow nudged her friend "It'll be fine Flutters, you said it yourself, they seem nice" Fluttershy only nervously nodded in response.
"and Aleks can stay with Rarity" Twilight continued, making Rarity's eyes shoot open as wide as dinner plates.
"M-m-me?" Rarity asked, bewildered.
"Hey, ya' were the one who came up with tha' ah-dea" Applejack pointed out, causing Rarity to huff with a "fine then". With that the huddle broke apart and they all approached the two humans who had apparently formed their own little huddle.
"You heard them, they think were dangerous" Aleks whispered.
"Yeah but to be fair wouldn't you be" James whispered back.
"That's true but still, can we trust them?" Aleks whispered.
"Dude, they're a bunch of friendship ponies it'll be fine. They seem nice, and if you were listening they thought we seemed nice too. They were making jokes just before. I'm sure both sides of this are just cautious, let's just go along with it" James whispered back, and backed away from Aleks as the ponies turned towards them.
"The castle arrangements aren't going to work out, we have...um... fumigators coming. So instead, Aleks will stay with Rarity and James will stay with Fluttershy" Twilight explained while motioning to said ponies.
"Alright that works" James said nudging Aleks.
"Well not to rush you all, but Spike should be getting back from the ink and quill shop soon. I'd rather explain this to him in my own time rather than him get all crazy when he sees you two" Twilight said while pointing at James and Aleks.
"Who's Spike?" Aleks asked.
"Oh, he's a dragon" Twilight stated, causing James' and Aleks' eyes to shoot wide open.
"Holy shit! A dragon!?" James shouted.
"Yes but a baby dragon!" Twilight shouted to calm their nerves.
"He's only a kid, he doesn't even have wings yet" Twilight explained.
"A kid? Oh yeah we've got one of those, his name his Trevor" James said with a laugh, and Aleks laughed with him.
"Oh.. so you two are.." Rarity stumbled off her words awkwardly.
"Huh? What do you... oh.. oh no.. no no no definitely not!" Aleks explained, but James only laughed and slung an arm over his shoulder.
"What do you mean Aleks, i'd be proud to be with you" James laughed.
Aleks shook his arm off of him, blushing slightly, "no were not together, were not even gay, and if I was...." Aleks trailed off as he looked at James. "I could do a lot better than him" Aleks continued, and was punched in the arm by James. Everypony else laughed at the joke though, except Fluttershy but especially Pinkie.
"You two are so funny! Were gonna be REALLY good friends" Pinkie grinned at them.
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It was just after they had left Twilight's castle, the girls had all split off to head to their respective homes, some with their new "friends" in tow. Rarity and Aleks had just reached her boutique when Rarity stopped dead in her tracks at the door. Aleks raised an eyebrow at her before she turned around to face him.
"I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but I have a little sister" Rarity stated, much to the confusion of Aleks.
Rarity watched his face and assumed that he didn't understand her meaning, "and she's most likely home by now" she continued.
The gears turned in Aleks head and he realized the slight problem here "Oh, okay I got it. So how exactly do we uh.. introduce me?" Aleks asked.
Rarity raised a hoof to her chin in thought, "hmm, well she is just a filly so she might be scared of you, maybe even run off. Let me go in and talk with her first, and then i'll let you in to meet her. I really do hope she doesn't get scared.." Rarity said as she trotted up to the door and slipped inside, shutting it behind her.
Aleks stood outside anxiously. He noticed that through the lit up windows he could see the two ponies shadowy outlines through the glass. He heard a mumbled talking from inside and saw the smaller pony happily skipping up to Rarity. Aleks waited and listened for a minute of their talking which he couldn't understand from outside. At one point the smaller pony's shadow turned, and it seemed like she was looking towards the window.
As Aleks waited he heard clip clopping noises from behind him, he whipped his head around to see a unicorn walking by with a mint colored coat alongside a pale colored pony with dark blue and purple hair. They chatted happily unaware of the human in the corner of their vision. Aleks acted quick on his toes and dove into a bush in-front of Rarity's home.
The two ponies stopped, "did you hear something?" Lyra asked, glaring at the bushes by Rarity's boutique. "No why?" Bon Bon asked cautiously.
"I swear to Celestia I just saw a human.." Lyra muttered, Bon Bon only rolled her eyes. "Yeah okay... were not doing this again" she sighed, and took Lyra by the hoof to pull her along.
Aleks only sighed in relief when they had left and saw Rarity's door now open as it was basking some of the outdoors in the indoors' light. Rarity's head popped out and looked around, "Um.. Aleks.. are you out here?" she asked.
Aleks climbed up out of the bushes to Rarity's left causing her to jump back a little, "oh my! What were you doing in my bushes?" she asked quizzically.
"Hiding from some ponies walking by" Aleks answered, while watching realization strike Rarity's puzzled expression. "Ah.. yes. We'll have to be careful not to let any random ponies see you or else it might incite some sort of panic" Rarity stated, and while she did so she waved her hoof to welcome Aleks in.
As Aleks stepped into the doorframe Rarity started talking "Now Sweetie Belle, don't be alarmed but.." "Wow! He looks so cool!" Sweetie Belle shouted, immediately rounding in on Aleks. She stepped right up to face him, "wait so are you like an alien then? I heard you suck ponies juices out of them with a straw" Sweetie casually mentioned, while invading Aleks' personal space in the meantime.
Rarity grabbed Sweetie Belle and pulled her back a bit, the embarrassment clear on her face from her sister's antics. "Ha ha... um i'm sorry about that, I honestly wasn't expecting her to be so forward" Rarity explained.
"Nah it's fine, and actually we do suck out ponies juices" Aleks stated, causing Rarity's eyes to go wide in shock, and Sweetie Belle to look even more interested.
"W-wait what? You..." Rarity was dumbfounded until Aleks laughed a little.
"No i'm just kidding" he explained much to the relief of Rarity, and the now boredom of Sweetie Belle.
"Can I show you my room?" Sweetie Belle asked innocently. "Uh.. sure" Aleks responded as he got an approval nod from Rarity while being practically dragged away by this little filly.
"But we sometimes do eat ponies" Aleks muttered as he followed Sweetie Belle down the hall, causing Rarity to look stunned again. "Oh.. uh.. another joke i'm assuming?" she asked, turning to Aleks, but Aleks had already turned the corner with Sweetie Belle. Rarity just nervously laughed after that.
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"Are you fucking kidding me! I am not going over there!" James shouted, causing Fluttershy to wince at his language. James stood just before Fluttershy's little bridge leading to her cottage.
"Oh please... I promise he isn't dangerous" Fluttershy said, as she looked at the bear laying in her yard ahead. He was rolled over onto his back with his limbs stretched out wide, obviously enjoying the sunlight.
"It's a goddamn bear! Me and Aleks have run into a bear before and i'm good with not doing that again" James explained.
Fluttershy simply sighed and fluttered over to the bear to poke him. "I'm sorry Henry but do you think you can go move further over that way, it's just that my new friend here is afraid of you" Fluttershy said. The bear stood up to look at her and roared a few times, Fluttershy nodded each time he did. "Yes I know, but he's had bad experiences with bears. So can you maybe.. um.. just move over there out of the way a little" Fluttershy politely asked, the bear nodded and walked off in the other direction.
James simply stood back slightly amazed that she had just talked to a bear. Fluttershy flew back over to him, gently landing by his side. "Okay he said he'll move"
"Wait a minute, so you ponies can talk to animals?" James asked, which caused Fluttershy to do a double take.
"Oh um.. no.. it's really only something I can do." Fluttershy said.
James just shook his head a little in bewilderment, "oh well, either way it's pretty incredible" he said as he carried on to her cottage. Fluttershy hesitated for a moment, a blush growing on her cheeks from the compliment, but she soon followed after him.
As they entered into the house James hesitated at the sight of all the new animals, Fluttershy noticed this and instinctively put a hoof on his shoulder.
"Sorry I should have told you there were more. Although these ones um.. aren't as big or scary they're just rabbits and squirrels and other little animals.... Harmless little animals" she added at the end when poisonous snakes crossed her mind. "They won't hurt you though"
"Uh alright... this shouldn't be too bad then. I actually had a good experience with a squirrel" James added, Fluttershy smiled again to hear that this person liked animals for the most part.
Losing her usual nervous tone, she asked "Oh really? What was it's name?" she lead James over to her couch as she asked.
James sat down as Fluttershy sat beside him eagerly waiting for an answer.
"Wendy, it was squirrel who came by the house a few times and we fed her peanuts. Although we didn't really see her for a little while after the first few times. Some of my friends actually said they saw a dead squirrel a few weeks later so..." James trailed off awkwardly as he noticed Fluttershy's expression shift from happy to sad.
"Oh.." she sadly mumbled, James could have sworn he saw a few tears building up. They didn't have time to be unleashed though because James was quick on the recovery.
"Anyways! Me and Aleks also both have dogs, his dog's name is Mishka and mine is Ein" James stated happily, which caused Fluttershy's smiled to return in full force.
"Those are very nice names" Fluttershy complimented.
James smiled at her "thanks, yeah it's pretty cool because were able to actually bring them to work with us, and they get to be in videos" he explained.
Fluttershy's curiosity peaked, "They're in videos? What kind of videos do you do?" she asked, surprised at herself that something caught her attention more than animals.
"Uh well it's kinda hard to explain. We usually do videos about us playing video games.. do you guys have video games in this dimension?" James asked.
"Oh uh yes, we have arcades where there are a lot of games. I don't really play them though... i'm not very good at them" she mumbled.
James smiled "that's fine i'm not good at them either, that's the point. People watch us play video games because we joke around and aren't very good at games, but it's mean't to be funny" James explained, Fluttershy nodded, mostly understanding what he mean't.
"Not to sound rude, but do you only do video game videos?" she asked.
"No you're alright, uh... no we do some other stuff too. It's honestly a little weird" James laughed, nervously rubbing the back of his neck. He wasn't sure if talking about the other stuff they've done would be this pony's cup of tea.
"Like just recently we uh... filled a pool up...." his voice trailed off a bit but Fluttershy motioned with her hoof for him to continue. "and uh... we filled it with... with 55 gallons of passion lube.... and played in it.." James finished. Fluttershy blushed at the words "passion lube"
"Oh... oh my... um... it um... sounds like... fun?" but it came off sounding more like a question than a statement.
James chuckled at her nervousness, "no it's fine, we know it's weird, but that's just kinda how comedy works sometimes. Weird stuff is funny" James said, Fluttershy nodded.
"Oh yes, our friend Pinkie Pie is sort of the jokester in our group, and well... she can be a little odd at times too.." Fluttershy said nervously, but tried to make sure it didn't sound like an insult. "Oh but it's very funny!" she quickly added making James laugh.
"Oh don't tell her I called her odd" she said, making James laugh even more. Fluttershy blushed a bit and was hiding behind her pink curtain of hair. Though his laughter helped make her want to peak back out of it. "his laugh is very loud" Fluttershy thought, but she couldn't help but find it infectious nevertheless. Fluttershy giggled a little along with James. As James finished laughing he wiped a few tears out of his eyes and looked to Fluttershy.
"So Fluttershy, you girls all seem to very uh.. "friendship" oriented here, like every things all about smiles and rainbows" James stated, but it was mean't to also act as a question.
"Oh um.. well yes Equestria is sort of known for it. They're are other countries though like where the Griffons live, and they're a little bit more mean over there" Fluttershy stated. "Oh but don't tell them I said that!" she added once again causing James to laugh a bit, but he kept himself under control.
"Yeah well it's really not this nice where i'm from. I mean people are polite and stuff like you and your friends but everythings usually not as peppy and perfect as it seems here" he explained.
"I understand, but things aren't always this happy. Usually they are, but they're have been wars in the past where things haven't been as cheery" Fluttershy explained, for some reason she felt very confident around him. It just seemed really easy to talk to him and speak her mind.
Fluttershy courageously carried the conversation forward, "Do you care for your friends like how we do here?" she asked.
"Uh yeah I mean friendship is friendship anyway you put it I guess. Like Aleks i've known for awhile now and he definitely means a lot to me. We've been through a lot ever since Sly introduced us awhile back. Plus, I mean i'm kind of in a position career wise now where i've achieved most of what I've wanted to do, and now the only thing that really matters to me, legitimately, is to make sure my friends are taken care of" James stated, causing Fluttershy to smile at him.
He can be very sweet, even if he does get a little angry sometimes Fluttershy thought.
"Well that's very nice to hear.... um.. but I should probably go get your guest bedroom setup, excuse me" Fluttershy said as she got up from the couch and walked off to the staircase. As she did James heard her whispering, "I knew he was nice" she mumbled.
James smiled at what she said and relaxed a bit into the couch. Even going as far as to put hit feet up on her coffee table. As he did so a bird swooped down and landed by his feet and started pecking at his new OLLOS brand shoes.
"Ow!" James cried out as he quickly pulled his feet off the table as the bird flew off. Just after that a white rabbit hopped up on the table with a duster and wiped where his feet had been. Afterwards the rabbit turned to him with a quick scowl before bouncing off into another room.
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So there he was, Aleks was sitting down at a dinner table along with Rarity and her filly sister, Sweetie Belle.... two colorful ponies, Aleks honestly didn't know what was happening to his life. He was actually wondering what James was up to right now, and if Fluttershy was any less annoying than this Rarity was, who had already made a big fuss about washing his hands before eating.
Aleks broke out of his stupor when said pony began speaking again. "Darling, it's rude to have your elbows on the dinner table" she said, Aleks simply looked down at his elbows and back up to her with a glare. Rarity wasn't having any of it though, she glared right back at him in return. Aleks wasn't sure how it was happening but this unicorn actually had a pretty scary glare when she needed to, so he slowly and reluctantly lowered his elbows off the table. Rarity then smiled and went back to her salad with a triumphant hmph noise.
As Rarity focused on her food Aleks noticed the filly out of the corner of his eye. As he turned to look at her she gave him an awkward shrug of the shoulders with a slightly scrunched up face as a way of saying "yeah sorry, that's just kinda how she is...
Aleks smiled at her and she couldn't help but giggle a little. Rarity's head snapped up towards Sweetie Belle "and what's so funny about elbows on the table missy?" she asked in a stern, almost military sounding voice which Sweetie Belle picked up on.
"Nothing, nothing at all commander Rarity!" Sweetie Belle responded formally, along with giving a military salute along with it. Aleks burst out into laughter and Sweetie Belle even began laughing along with him. Rarity scowled at her sister as she was able to bond so easily with this hooligan.
"Ha ha, yes very funny. Speaking of funny things, I have to insist that you take a shower after dinner" Rarity said.
"Why's that funny?" Aleks asked
"Because based on what my nostrils are telling me I feel as those you haven't showered in months" Rarity stated with a laugh, only to receive a mean glare from Aleks.
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After dinner was over and plates were washed, Sweetie Belle led Aleks upstairs into their bathroom. "So if I were you and I wanted to live, I would avoid using any of Rarity's fancy shampoos and conditioners. I would just stick to the water and that soap right there" Sweetie Belle explained she pointed towards a pink bar of soap.
"Alright, that's fine. Oh and thanks Sweetie Belle, you've been a lot more polite then you're sister so far" Aleks said as he went over to the shower.
"It's no problem, but to be fair my sister is actually really nice. She actually represents the element of kindness believe it or not" Sweetie Belle explained.
"Yeah well i'm gonna choose not to believe that" Aleks countered while he turned the shower's knob to let the water run. Sweetie giggled a little at the remark.
"Trust me, once she knows you better and trusts you more her element will stand out much clearer. Although yeah, she can be kind of annoying when it comes to keeping perfectly clean at all times, and looking as perfect as a model 24/7" Sweetie Belle added, this time making Aleks laugh a bit.
"Yeah she seems like a pain the ass with that stuff" he said.
"I heard that! and i'd rather you not use that sort of language around my LITTLE sister!" Rarity yelled from downstairs.
Sweetie Belle then walked up to Aleks so she could talk a little quieter, "It's fine trust me, me and my friends have heard worse while were out crusading, just don't tell Rarity" she said, and finished off with a wink before turning and exiting the bathroom.
As Aleks went to take off his clothes for the shower he looked again at Rarity's fancy bottles of shampoo. A very sick and twisted idea popped into his brain, one that he was sure James would be proud of once he found out about it.
