Mysteries Behind a Pony

   Next chapter everypony! This chapter is actually going to be a pleasure in all honesty. I would like to thank you all again for staying with through this story, and maybe my other story. I'm going to stop asking for likes and favs and comments for now because someone actually commented, so Im happy. So lets get on with the story shall we?

  Brad opened his dreary eyes to the sound of someone knocking at the door. He looked out the window and saw that the sun had just made it past the horizon.

" Who would be here this early in the morning..." he muttered as he tried to go back to sleep.

More knocking.

" Just ignore it." Brad mused to himself.

The knocking just got louder.

Brad finally slid out of bed knowing that he couldn't ignore someone at the door and quickly trotted down the stairs. He took a long sigh, and put a smile on his face. He opened the door and immediately was assaulted by a burst of confetti.

" Its about time you opened the door silly! I was just about to jump through the windows!" Pinkie Pie squealed as she trotted inside with Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity.

" What are you all doing here...?" Brad said dazed as he tried to recover from the sudden burst of colors and the group of ponies trotting in.

" Don't tell me you forgot about your, Welcome-to-Ponyville-Party already!" Pinkie Pie said as she helped Brad up. Brad's mind flashed back to his first day in town when he suddenly met the bright pink and energetic pony.

" Oh, right, that." he said still a bit drowsy,

" Terribly sorry to come so early in the morning darling," Rarity said as she yawned.

" But when Pinkie is throwing a party you know it's gonna be worth it to go!" a pegasus with a rainbow colored mane said as she hovered above everyone else.

" Is that so?" Brad said eyeing the pink pony, but then something came to his mind, " Wait, how did you manage to find me. As far as I know you went bouncing off down the street after you said that you would throw me a party."

" I followed you of course!" she said with a playful, if not creepy, smile.

" Even the when I got into a fight with that lion thing yesterday?" Brad asked a little astounded at how she had managed to stay out of his sight so effectively.

" What's this about a lion thing?" Twilight said as she trotted down the stairs.

" Shit." Brad thought as Twilight came to greet her friends.

" We'll talk about this later." Twilight whispered to Brad.

" So, you ponies were talking about a party?" Twilight said as she looked around. Brad followed her gaze and he saw that where the regular library decor had been a few seconds ago was replaced by trays of cupcakes, streamers, a couple of 'Welcome!' banners on the walls, and balloons had been spread around the simple and plain looking library.

" Okay that is just impossible..." Brad said in awe as he looked around to the new decorations.

" What are you talking about silly?" Pinkie Pie said with a mouth full of cupcakes,  " Of course parties are possible!"

Brad took a moment to judge if Pinkie Pie had been serious or if she was just playing a practical joke on him.

" No not that, the whole setting it up the party in five se-" Brad started but had a cupcake shoved in his mouth. For a couple of seconds Brad tried to cough out the pastry,but he finally chewed and swallowed it. Immediately his taste buds had been assaulted by the multiple mix of different flavors. The cupcake itself had a soft and chewy texture, and the frosting had a sweeter taste than a bowl of sugar, but somehow that seemed to compliment it just fine. He also tasted some cinnamon hidden deep inside the batter, nutmeg inside the pink frosting, and other various spices. He stood there keeping the wonderful clash of tastes that danced across his tongue in his mouth for a couple of seconds, but then he snapped back to reality.

" Wow..." he muttered after eating the delicious cupcake.

" Pinkie's cupcakes do leave an impression on you." Twilight said with a smile and grabbing a cupcake of her own. Again, like Pinkie Pie's smile, Brad couldn't tell if that small comment had been intended to freak him out or comfort him. He decided to go with the latter.

" Heheh, you can say that again!" the rainbow maned pegasus said as she whipped a cupcake up in the air and caught it in her mouth. As she began to chew she pretended to be a feather floating down and eventually she came upon the couch and kept on chewing. Brad was just about to question how she had done that when it seemed almost physically impossible but he felt a slight tap on his side.

" It's good to see that your leg is healing nicely." Rarity said. Moments of silence went by.

" I don't suppose you've forgotten me already?" she said after she saw the blank look on his face. Then the memory had finally come back to him.

" Oh your that one with the pretty dresses right?" he asked, " Your name's Rarity. I think."

" Yes it is, but i'm afraid I didn't catch your's last time we met." she said with a smile.

" Oh, my name is Brad, its nice to meet you again Rarity." he said sticking out his hoof, but instead of her shaking it like a regular handshake that he had remembered from the human world, she lightly tapped his hoof with her own.

" Okay then..." he thought awkwardly as she trotted away to catch up with her other friends. After that little talk with Rarity, he figured he might as well patch things up with that yellow pegasus. When he trotted over to her, she had been in the middle of a conversation with Twilight. When they were done talking he asked if he could talk to Fluttershy for a few seconds. Twilight had no objections and made her way to her other friends across the room. Fluttershy had just looked away from Brad's eyes, and he couldn't tell if it had been because she was too shy, or if she didn't want to look at him in disgust of their last 'misunderstanding.'

" You know," Brad started, " You took me into your home, took care of my leg, gave me a map that I would've been lost without and I don't even know your name." he nudged his head to make the point clear that he was asking for her name.

" Well, my name is Fluttershy," she said in a whisper, " As for taking care of you, it wasn't that much of a hassle or anything. In fact you were much easier to handle than some of the other animals I take care of."

" That's good to know," he said scratching the back of his mane, " By the way about that whole 'eating' thing that one morning a couple of days ago, that's just a way to compliment someone back where I come from. I never really wanted to eat your little bunny friend."

" Oh," Fluttershy said, " Then I think Angel could eat you up too."

Brad could barely contain his laughter as an image of that small bunny carrying a knife and twisted smile went across his mind.

" Did I say it wrong?" Fluttershy said in a quiet voice, wondering what she had done wrong.

" No, don't worry about it." he said wiping away a tear from laughter, " Anyways it was good to clear that up with you, I'll see you around." he said waving to Fluttershy as he trotted his way towards the rainbow maned pegasus who had been in the middle of a lecture about the importance of keeping your mouth closed during mid flight, and when she had finally finished Brad decided to make an impression.

" Hello." Brad said with a smile.

" Hi there." Rainbow Dash responded, not sure of what the green stallion wanted.

" So, i'm guessing you like to fly?" Brad asked awkwardly.

" Gee nothing get's past you eagle eye." Rainbow Dash said teasingly as she ate another cupcake.

A twinge of annoyance flashed across Brad's face, " Make a good impression..." he thought to himself over and over again.

" Good one... So what's your name?" Brad asked trying to let her last remark slide.

" Oh my name's Pinkie Pie! Didn't I already tell you that?" Pinkie Pie said as she bounced next to the green stallion on her tail.

" Not you," Brad said almost falling over from Pinkie Pie popping up out of nowhere, " I was talking to her." he gestured his hoof over to the blue pegasus still in the middle of eating a cupcake.

" I'm Rainfow Fash," Rainbow Dash said with a mouth full of cupcakes, " The fest flyer in all of Efestria!" she flew up and struck a pose.

" Rainfow Fash huh?" Brad said skeptically.

" When did you change your name Dashie?" Pinkie Pie said, " Oh I'm sorry I mean Fashie."

Rainbow Dash swallowed the cupcake before she began to talk, " No Pinkie Pie, my name is still Rainbow Dash, and i'm definitely still the best flyer in Equestria, followed closely by the Wonderbolts of course." she did a couple of aerial loops, and since she had been in a small area in the first place only made it more impressive when she pulled them off with ease.

" Sorry, i'm not exactly sure who these 'Wonderbolt' guys are." Brad said watching Rainbow Dash's movements as she swished through the air. She stopped dead in her tracks and looked at Brad with a giddy smile.

" The Wonderbolts are some of THE best flyers ever! They all have their own super amazing stunts, like Spit Fire's 'Roaring Flame Spin' or Soarin's 'Sky Blue Dive'!" Rainbow Dash squealed as she went on to explain all of the Wonderbolt's signature moves and tricks.(Basically im too lazy, and I dont know most of the other Wonderbolt names to make their own little moves. Dont like it? Bite me)

Brad had never really seen the appeal in flying, he knew that a lot of people found comfort in the sky and that they had loved being air born, but he never really found it interesting. Even though Rainbow Dash had an almost completely different  opinion on flying, he still listened to her go on and on about the Wonderbolts and their amazing stunts.

" Sounds like they're nice people." Brad concluded after Rainbow Dash's speech.

" Yeah," Rainbow Dash said as she started to brandish her hoof on her chest and look at it, " I may have saved their lives a few times too."

Brad cocked an eyebrow, " By save their lives, you mean that they would be ass up in their graves if you weren't there to save them. Right?"

Rainbow blinked her eyes at the new word that Brad was using, but she got at what he was asking her, " Well just a little I guess..."

" It's yes or no."

" Y-yes."

" And your not one of these, 'Wondercolt' guys?"

" Wonderbolt, and no i'm not."

" Well what the actual fu-" Brad almost shouted, but a loud knock at the door cut him off. He looked to Twilight and he saw that she had been enjoying herself with her friends so he decided to answer it. " We will continue this conversation later." he said as he trotted away from Rainbow Dash and to the door. More knocking came from the door, except it had been louder this time.

" Yeah yeah i'm coming keep your pants on...or would that be horse shoes." before Brad could go into further detail about everyone in this world not wearing pants, he opened the door to a dark purple unicorn with dark red eyes.

" Wow Twilight Sparkle, I never imagined you to be so, colt-like." another blue pegasus said behind the purple one.

" That's not Twilight Sparkle..." the purple one responded putting his hoof to his face, " From the description from Princess Celestia, and Twilight Sparkle's letters, he has to Bret."

" It's Brad actually." Brad muttered.

" Quiet Bret." the purple unicorn snapped, " Anyways, is Twilight Sparkle home?"

Brad heard the unicorn's voice waver, but he decided to just let it pass as nothing, " Yeah, she's a bit busy at the moment, want me to take a message?" he said with a smirk.

Before the purple pony could make a retort, which probably would have been a straight smack across Brad's face, Twilight showed up next to Brad.

" Is there a problem?" she asked wiping a bit of cupcake frosting off her cheek.

" Good to see you're still hard at work." the purple pony said with thicker sarcasm than the winter snow.

" And who's to say i'm supposed to be working?" Twilight snapped back with confidence that Brad had never seen before. Well, he had only known her for about 3 days so there, and he had never really gotten on Twilight's nerves. Save the whole, not telling her about the manticore from the day before of course.

" Princess Celestia ring a bell?" he answered with a straight face.

All the braveness and confidence completely rushed out of Twilight's face at the mention of her mentor seeing her right now. She made a small 'Eeep' noise as her horn glowed and the party behind her had disappeared in a flash of light, leaving her friends dazed and confused about who exactly had been so important to interrupt their good time.

" Hey, isn't that Celestia chick your boss?" Brad whispered to Twilight, still unsure on the story behind Celestia.

" She's everypony's boss!" she whispered back.

" May we come in?" the purple pony asked.

" I have to admit, I'd like you better out there." Brad commented.

Twilight shot Brad a poisonous glare. " Of course come in, please." Twilight said welcoming them inside.

First to walk through the library door had been the purple unicorn. He had been a couple of inches taller than Brad. He had a dark purple coat with a pitch black mane, he had every strand of that dark mane in perfect alignment as it shifted when he walked, and he had a bold red pare of eyes that seemed to peer right through Brad. Another thing that Brad had noticed other than the purple one's eyes giving him a death glare, had been the weird tatoo like mark on his flank. Branded on his flank had been a shield with a burst or star of some kind in the middle.

The next visitor that had trotted through could've been the purple's exact opposite. He had been a pegasus that had a deep blue coat, he had also been about as tall as Brad, hazel green eyes that craved for something more exciting than the dull job he had been given, and a sort of shaggy mane that looked like it hadn't had a cut in some time.Along his flank had been a musical note of some kind.

" Don't like Danny either?" he whispered to Brad as he passed by, " We're goin' to get along just fine." he made a playful grin and quickly followed after Danny.

One last pony trotted inside, and Brad couldn't realize how he had missed him before. The last one had to have been bigger than Big Mac by a couple a feet. He had deep brown eyes, like Brad's, but his eyes seemed to not care about anything as they just stared off into the distance barely giving Brad or Twilight the slightest glance. He had a dark gray coat that also receded along the hoof like Danny's but instead of being cut it had been natural, his mane had also been a shade of light brown, and on his flank had been a sword, but instead of a hilt like a regular sword would have, his mark had branched off into a key on the other end of the blade.

He didn't say a word as he walked by Brad and sat down next to his friends. Pinkie Pie, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Brad also sat near them, while Rainbow Dash hovered in the air. Both groups had just stared at each other. The mane six were obviously annoyed at how three random ponies barged into their fun party and stopped it with no reason whatsoever, but even with the glares that the three had received, they all sat there blinking not disturbed by the looks the six mares were giving them.

-Awkward moment of silence-

Eventually Brad decided to break the tension building in the air.

" Anyone going to talk or can we go back to the party?" he said taking a long yawn.

" I second that idea!" Pinkie chimed in.

" Third." Rainbow Dash called, missing the flavor of those cupcakes that Pinkie had made. She started to wonder about what they had been made out of. Definitely sugar that much was assured, but something about it tasted familiar. Or maybe a feeling that had been familiar. Was it the feeling of seeing a rainbow that the flavor reminded her of? She would have to ask Pinkie Pie for the recipe later. (Yeah Yeah I know im a bastard for putting this in here, but it was too good to let it go by.)

" Well I guess introductions are in order," The purple pony said clearing his throat. " My name is Danny Darklight, and these two are my closest friends, and my partners. We're here from direct orders from the princess herself."

" The name's Coltin Silvernote, and playing music is my game!" the blue pegasus said after Danny was finished, " But you guys can just call me Silvernote."

" Hello." the bigger gray pony said in a deep, gruff voice, " My name is Matthew Swiftsteel, and I don't like ponies. Including unicorns and pegasai."

"Pony" Silvernote whispered which earned him a slug on the shoulder from Matthew.

" Doesn't that mean you hate yourself?" Rarity asked, confused by the stallion's words.

" No I'm a horse, there's a difference damn it." he replied giving Rarity a dirty look.

" Of course there's a difference darling." Rarity squeaked as she moved away from Matthew by a couple of feet.

" Wait, you said that you are from direct orders from the princess." Twilight said, ignoring the currently frightened Rarity hiding behind her.

" That is correct." Danny replied flatly.

" But I was told that only the captain of the Royal Guard was given missions from the princess." Twilight said, " And you colts aren't even in the Royal Guard uniform, much less captain's uniform."

" We are apart of Celestia's, inner circle. We go beyond what the Royal Guard can do. We handle the 'messes' that Celestia doesn't want to let out to the public." Danny said and he gave Twilight a look that said that was the end of the conversation.

" So why are you here again?" Brad asked, taking a gulp at what he thought the answer was going to be.

" Oh don't worry, Brad," Danny said, " We are not here to kill you or anything like that."

" And how do you know my name?" Brad said, " Hell I didn't even know it till a couple of days ago."

" We learned what we could about you through Twilight Sparkle's letters."

" Letters?" Brad said looking to Twilight.

" Every night I have to give a report to Princess Celestia about my findings on friendship, and leaving out a green stallion that I found wounded and on the brink of death in the middle of the Everfree Forest be a very good report. Besides didn't you do that where you are from?"

" Yeah it's called a text message, but we don't put a list about all the people we meet on it." Brad muttered, he turned back to Danny, " So what are you here for then?"

" We're here to merely keep a close eye on you." Danny said in a calm and in control voice.

" Sorry, but i'm not a big fan of being watched." Brad snapped back.

" Those sound like fighting words." Matthew said starting to get up, but Danny put a hoof out to stop him.

" Whether you like it or not is none of our concern." Danny said still calm, " You should consider yourself lucky, Celestia never usually gives somepony the benefit of the doubt like this. Usually the order is just 'make it look like an accident.'" he said with a sly grin.

Brad decided it would be better not to continue the conversation about the group of stallion's past jobs and try to change the subject.

" Call me stupid, but I still don't understand why you're here to watch me." he said.

" We're here to make sure you don't do anything stupid. Besides a random green stallion with no memory and seems to be from a different world could very much cause mass hysteria among Ponyville." Danny replied.

" Oh who would cause mass hysteria, little ol' me?" Brad said as he batted his eyelashes and put on his most innocent smile.

Danny didn't crack a grin.

" Okay okay I swear I won't go around scaring your pony friends." Brad said.

" So it looked like you guys were having a party..." Silvernote said distantly, but no matter how distant it may have been, Pinkie had heard him.

In a matter of seconds the party had been back on with a simple swish and boom from Pinkie Pie's party cannon.

Silvernote had just gone absolutely wild, and probably brought the whole party to the actual party. In the middle of the library had been his dance floor and he was showing it absolutely no mercy. Eventually Brad thought it would be fun to try and join in, but he soon realized that any type of human dance in a pony body must have looked absolutely ridiculous because by the time he was done doing 'Stayin alive' all of them had been trying to catch their breath.

" Dude, you have got to show me those moves sometime!" Silvernote said clapping his hoofs together after Brad had been done.

" Yeah maybe." Brad said stroking his mane in embarrassment.

Across the dance floor, Danny and Matthew were having a private conversation.

" So, we gonna tell 'im what we're really here for?" Matthew said looking at the green stallion making a fool out of himself.

" No need to spoil the mood, besides he can stay in the dark for now." Danny replied blatantly.

" Then you want to join them?" Matthew asked.

" Why should we? The job description said nothing about dancing." Danny said.

" Looks like they're having fun." Matthew said again.

" I really hate it when you're right..."

" You must hate me all the time then, anyways stay here and do what you want, i'm gonna show these ponies how a real dancer does it."

Danny raised an eyebrow at his partner as he trotted away to Silvernote and the green pony. Matthew rarely ever talked like that.

Danny began to lose himself in thought, and as he lost himself he failed to realize the currently lavender pony standing next to him.

" Well you look like you're having fun all by yourself." Twilight said giggling.

" Oh...um." Danny stuttered.

" Look, I think we got off on the wrong hoof before," Twilight said with an apologetic look, " But how bout a dance to make up for it.?"

Danny felt his heart skip a beat.

" Oh of course why not." Danny said following the lavender pony onto the dance floor.

Alright there's your chapter everypony >:C. Sorry it took so long, but NOW school is starting up so the wait may even be longer. Really sorry but school is school and I would rather not fall behind. Again thank you for reading and I hope you have a nice night/afternoon/morning.     -EuropaBrad