Multicolored lights started flashing all around the exterior of the container. The pipes that connected the alien's frozen prison to it's surroundings started spewing out freezing cold air. The temperature in the room must of dropped down to 40 degrees. Everypony started huddling together for warmth while they watched the cylinder continue to come to life.

All the different sized pipes and wires that connected themselves to the frozen entity disconnected and were pulled back into the roof of the container. The thick orange liquid that kept the alien off the ground quickly drained through the floor, and the creature slowly fell down to the ground.

The door opened, and the creature flopped out onto the floor in front of everypony. The extraterrestrial started groaning, and put it's slender 'claws' on the ground to push itself up. Instead of stopping at eye level like Twilight expected him to, he kept on ascending until he was fully on his hind appendages. When it stopped, it looked two feet higher than Twilight and four feet higher than Spike.

'It's a biped?' Twilight thought to herself, wanting to write down additional notes, but realizing this was not the time for it. The alien was staring at her, not only making her feel uncomfortable, but it made her feel... Terrified.

Twilight and Spike slowly walked up to the towering biped that stood on the opposite side of the freezing room. He was probably the size of Princess Celestia herself, give or take an inch or two. The figure didn't make any sign that he didn't desire making contact, he just stood in wonder at the appearance of the rest of her friends. Twilight's friends did the same, they probably weren't expecting for him to be so tall.

"Greetings, we come in peace..." Spike said, reading the notes he had wrote down for this very moment.

Everypony else stood behind Twilight and her assistant, waiting until the visitor proved it was hospitable or hostile. The being waited a few seconds, probably enjoying the tense moment before showing a wide, intimidating smile and quickly concealing it.

"Quid est?"

Everypony glanced at each other in confusion, then looked back at the biped.

"Does he not understand Equestrian?" Rainbow Dash asked Twilight, slightly disappointed.

"Gotcha!" The alien shouted out, smiling wide and chuckling at his own 'joke'. Everypony's faces stayed blank and straight, not amused at his humor.

"Oh... That one never gets old." He laughed, crouching down to see his guests on eye level.

"So, you're not going to hurt us?" Rarity asked, peeking her head out from behind her friends.

"Hurt you? Of course not, I've come to--" The being stopped mid-sentence, groaned, and took an index card out of his pocket and read aloud. "Benefit your planet by sharing my extensive knowledge of technology and-- yadda yadda yadda, you get my point, right?"

"Uh- sure, are there any more of you on board?" Twilight asked, a little surprised at how informal this first encounter was going. She hoped the Princesses would be tolerant of his casual behavior whenever they met him. That wasn't a meeting she was looking forward to.

"Oh no, I'm the only one here, I prefer to do these kinds of things on my own."

"Y'know, we haven't properly introduced ourselves..." Applejack said, trotting up to the visitor.

"My name's Applejack, this is Twilight and her assistant, Spike."

Spike was amazed how well this was going, and waved at the alien. Twilight was a little off-put by his extensive grasp of their language.
'Maybe he knows a little more than he's letting on?' She thought to herself, smiling at the visitor when Applejack called her name. He looked half ready to turn around and go back into his freezing prison.

"That over there's Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash." She continued, pointing with her hoof whenever she introduced another pony.
Pinkie Pie jumped out from behind her friends, and bounced over to the alien to shake his 'claw'. Rainbow Dash flew over to him and slapped his hand, which he took as a 'high five'. Rarity approached the being, walking as if she was on a runway. The creature wasn't impressed, but was thankful that at least one of these technicolor ponies bothered to put clothes on.

"And she's Fluttershy." Applejack finished, using body language to tell the pony to stop being timid and say something to the visitor. She even pushed her over to the front of the extraterrestrial.

"We're really glad that you're not here to harm us, Mr. Alien..." Fluttershy whispered at a barely understandable volume. The entity stared at the yellow pony that stood before him, and smiled at how cute and cuddly she appeared.

Fluttershy's heart skipped a beat when she got a good look at his teeth. Those teeth... She had seen them before with carnivores. She immediately started putting distance between herself and the meat eating alien, making a mental note to keep away from him as much as possible.

"You haven't told us your name, I guess we could keep calling you Mr. Alien, unless you don't want that?" Pinkie Pie shot out while shaking his 'claw'.

"We don't have names where I come from, I'm just me. " He explained, still writing down all of the names he heard on the back of his index card.

"Well, how do you know when somepony wants to talk to you then?" Rainbow Dash asked, getting a bit too close for comfort to the alien, even feeling his clothes and hands.

"We just talk to someone, but if you have to call me something, 'Anonymous' will suffice." The entity told everyone while pulling his hands away from the curious Rainbow Dash.

"So... Anonymous, It was a pleasure meeting you, but we can't stay up here forever, would you like to come with us to Ponyville?" Twilight asked with a smile on her face. Whenever she got to sit down with him in Ponyville is when she'd ask the questions she's been waiting for.

"Ponyville? What, is that where you all live?" Anonymous inquired, considering the ridiculousness of naming a town after their species.

"Yes, It's right below your grandiose Flying Castle." Rarity answered.

'Flying Castle? I think I might enjoy these creatures...' Anon thought to himself, chuckling.

THE THIRD DAY "TRANSPORT MODULE" 10:34 AM

Anonymous walked over to the Terminal, and pulled out a flat board out of the wall below the display. Rainbow Dash got a glance at the board and saw how it contained the characters of the alphabet, although they were all out of order. She noticed how the disorganization didn't affect Anon, since he didn't need to look at them to do whatever he was doing with them.

The Terminal started changing, the area that once showed what was underneath them took up the entire display, and the metal doors closed. Anon made a cracking sound with his hands, (much to everyone's disgust) and started pressing the letters even faster, making a click-clack sound.

"So, where should I put us down?"

Spike looked up at Twilight with a puppy face that she couldn't say no to.

Twilight smiled at Spike's efforts. "The Golden Oak Library, over there." Twilight said to Anon, pointing with her hoof where it was.

"The tree?" Anonymous asked with a slightly concerned face.

Twilight nodded.

"Alright then..." He replied in a skeptical voice, trying not to laugh over how weird this place was getting.

A few more click clacks later, the sound of a generator turning on could be heard throughout the small waiting room. Then a large clanking sound came from the metal doors, which Twilight now knew was the Mini-Screw disconnecting from The Flying Castle. The walls started slowly spinning just as they had when everypony came up. The weight of gravity decreased, it was an enjoyable experience, especially for Pinkie Pie who took advantage of it to have fun.

Fluttershy was sitting next to Rarity on the couch, keeping a close eye on Anon. He hadn't mentioned that he ate meat, which only made her more suspicious of him. What if he really came here to feed the rest of his planet? Fluttershy tried not to whimper at the very thought of it. She'd tell somepony about it later, just not here. She didn't want to cause a panic.

"I've been meaning to ask you, Anonymous... Why did your castle look like an office on the inside?" Rarity asked, expecting more information than Anon provided.

"That building wasn't meant to be a ship, it used to be a research facility." Anonymous said, focusing on the keys he was pressing, and keeping an eye on the display that was zooming in on Twilight's library. He opened his mouth to say more, but closed it after remembering something.

"So, Anon... Why did your spaceship stop over Ponyville?" Spike was beginning to question who let them aboard if Anon wasn't awake to do it himself.

Anonymous let out a big breath, and took his eyes off of the Terminal. "I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, Spike." Anon pulled Spike close and whispered something to him.

"I'm not the man in charge."

If that was true, Spike wondered who was in charge...

Spike started sliding across the floor towards the couch. The ponies who were on the couch were already up on the wall.

"My fault!" Anon shouted, trying to keep his footing while he made more click clack sounds, and put the Screw level with the terrain.

Everyone regained their balance, and some of them shot Anon upset looks.

"As long as everyone's asking questions, why do you have those pictures on your rears?" Anonymous asked, pointing at the three apples tattooed on Applejack's flank, using his peripheral vision to see.

"These are called 'Cutie Marks', a pony gets them whenever they realize what they're talented at." Applejack explained to him.

"What if you aren't talented at anything?" He replied, still focusing on the Terminal.

Applejack was stunned, "Well everypony's talented at something!" She then realized that Anonymous didn't have a Cutie Mark. "What are you talented at?"

Anon groaned. "Something you wouldn't understand, because I don't have enough time to explain-- I mean, look at this!" Anon shouted and pointed at a large crowd of ponies gathering around Twilight's library.

"I guess everypony wants to make your acquaintance, Anon." Spike said, inspecting the hundreds of ponies that had gathered themselves in the half-hour they were gone.

"The Princesses?!" Twilight yelled, looking at the metric tons of royal guards that guarded the white and blue monarchs who were separated from everypony else. 'I guess that conversation is happening sooner than I thought...' Twilight started brainstorming what she would say to the Princesses to convince them that Anonymous was harmless.

The Mini-Screw touched down just feet from Twilight's front door, but the screw was blocked with Royal Guards who crowded around the now powered-down UFO. And as if the situation couldn't get any worse, the exit to the Mini-Screw was faced right at the Princesses.

Anon groaned. "Ugh... I don't want to play politics right now..." He massaged his temples, trying to work off the headache being frozen gave him.

'I could always play the 'I don't speak that language' card...' he thought to himself.

Author's Note

Writing this chapter took longer than I expected, probably because I have to make realistic conversations.