The second week passed without much excitement for Michael. He hadn’t done much besides reading some of the 50 or so books that Twilight had assigned to him as “homework”. They covered a lot of topics such as, the history of Equestria, modern day politics, various plants and animals, and several books on magic and its underlying mechanics. He had also talked quite a lot with princess Luna as he was more of a night owl than an early bird kind a guy. They had gotten into a routine of sharing a midnight snack whilst talking about all manner of things.

He was currently heading to Celestia's studies as she had requested his presence after his house arrest. She had mentioned that they would talk about what would happen to Michael now and how she would help him make a living in Equestria. He had initially doubted whether or not he was going to succeed as a musician in this world. After all it was basically all he knew so he wouldn’t know what to do otherwise. The vast majority of his life had been about music. He had worked as a choir leader, music teacher, performing pianist, piano teacher. His initial doubt had faded when he had found something that could help him greatly. He carried a smile as he reached his destination and knocked.

“Come in.” Came Celestia’s reply.

He went inside and greeted her.

“Morning.” He bowed before he added. “Your majiness.”

Celestia raised an eyebrow as she looked at him. “You seem to be in a good mood. I take it you have given our conversation some thought then?”

Michael seated himself opposite of Celestia by the fireplace as he smiled towards her. “I have. I was having doubts about how I would manage, but I think I have a solution that will benefit not just me, but you and maybe even all of equestria.”

“You certainly seem confident in yourself Mr. Happer. I’m all ears.” Celestia said as she summoned some tea for the both of them.

Michael gathered his thoughts for a few moments before he spoke. “Do you remember that you suggested that I should relocate to...what was the name? Ah Ponyville. Your idea was to let Twilight help catalog everything that I know about earth so that it can be preserved.”

“I do.” Celestia stated as she took a sip of her tea. “Am I correct in assuming that you have found something that will ease this process?”

Michael just smiled as he opened his laptop. “Not only ease it, but make it redundant.”

Celestia gave him a quizzical look. “What do you mean?”

Michael moved over and seated himself next to Celestia as he opened a program the laptop. “After our conversation I had this nagging feeling that I had forgotten about something and I was right. This right here is an encyclopedia, by the name of Wikipedia, that contains not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of articles about about earth, mankind, religion, math, physics, politics, works of fiction and much much more.” He finished as he looked over at the solar monarch who carried a look of sheer bewilderment and disbelief. “5.3 million articles to be more precise.” He added with a smirk.

Celestia just stared at the laptop for a few moments before she spoke. “I must apologize. It is not often words do not come easy for me. I’m a bit shocked to be honest. You have both told and demonstrated that technology from your world is ages ahead of anything currently in equestria, but to think that humans have come up with a way to store this much knowledge on something so small?”

Michael chuckled to himself before he spoke. “You look like I did when I first saw Luna raise the moon.”

Celestia just giggled. “I can imagine that I do, but tell me. What do you plan to do with all this knowledge?”

Michael took a deep breath. “I want to sell this information to you and in exchange I want your help in setting up a living for myself. I do not expect you do give me a lifetime worth money for this, but I do hope that you will be willing to help me get on my feet, as it were. Once I have set my plans in motion I do think that I will earn more than enough to make it on my own, but I have nothing to fall back on and I’m hoping that this will act as a fail safe. At least for now.”

Celestia took in his words and thought them over for a few minutes before giving her answer. “I would be a fool to deny such a generous offer and although I doubt that you are lying. I would like to see some proof of your claim. If you are right I can provide you with a decent income for your first year here in equestria as well as provide counsel should you find the need for it.”

“That sounds fair enough. As for proof I’m obviously not going to go through all 5 million articles with you, but ask me any question you might have about my world and I’m fairly certain we can find an article about it.”

The next half an hour was spent going through various articles that Celestia thought Michael would have no knowledge about and after briefly going through about 10 articles she was convinced.

“I must say that I’m am very impressed by this Michael. I, of course, know that not all information stored in here will be beneficial to equestria, but, as I said previously, I would be a fool to deny such a generous offer.” She paused for a moment as she sipped her tea. “I would still suggest for you to relocate to ponyville. Twilight is more than capable of going through this encyclopedia and extract anything that might prove useful to equestria.”

Michael remained quiet for a few moments before he spoke. “There is one things that you should know about wikipedia.”

“That being...?”

“It is an open encyclopedia. Meaning that anyone can edit the articles. This means that certain information might not be accurate. It is still, however, far more accurate than anything I could recall from memory, but one should keep in mind that not everything in it is 100 percent accurate.”

“That sounds like a manageable drawback that can be easily overcome.”

Michael looked down and sighed before he continued. “Another...well I wouldn’t use the word drawback, but something to keep in mind is that this encyclopedia describes human history quite accurately. Both the good and the bad and from what little I have read about equestrian history humans have done far worse things.”

Celestia noted how Michael's shoulders slumped as he told this. He was clearly uncomfortable talking about this. “Equestria has a long history of both prosperity and war. I have my doubts that ponykind is either worse or better than mankind.”

Michael had his doubts about that, but choose not to comment on it. After a few moments of silence Celestia decided to ask Michael what he planned to do with the money he would acquire.

“Well..I haven’t worked out the details of this, but I’m hoping you’ll be willing to help me. I want to get in contact with someone who will be able to build me a custom piano. I have actually played the one in the big ballroom. The keys are way to big for me though so I’m hoping that someone would be able to build one, specially made for me.”

Celestia looked impressed as she contemplated her next words. “I am sure that something along those lines can be arranged Michael.”

They spent the next hour discussing the details of Michaels plan.

“So it's a deal then?” He confirmed as he sipped his tea.

“It's a deal. I'll inform you when everything is ready. It will most likely take a few weeks to set everything up, but I will do what I can to speed up the process.” She said as she took a rather generous serving of cake that she had summoned at some point during their conversation.

“That's good. I must remember to thank Luna for this. She talked me into this after all.”

“Really? You two are certainly hitting it off well.” She teased.

“We've been talking quite a lot this week actually. She's been teaching me the star signs and telling me stories about Equestria. I've been telling her a lot about my own world. It's too bad people still seem to mistrust her for what she did. She's really an awesome person. She even shares my passion for music.” He said with a smile.

Celestia couldn't help smile at this. It was heartwarming to hear someone talk about her sister this way after so many years of hateful comments. It didn't matter that it was spoken by a non pony from another dimension.

“You do not judge her then?”

“Judge her? For something she did centuries before I was even born? In a world that isn't even mine? I'm not even entirely sure what she did. Why she did it, or what caused it. To judge her for that? That's just beyond moronic.” He proclaimed as he took a serving of cake. He was surprised to see a tear flowing from one of Celestia’s eyes when he looked up. “Are you alright?”

“I'm perfectly fine Michael. It just brings me joy to hear someone speak so kindly about my sister.” She wiped the tear from her face. “I don't think you realise how much it would mean for my sister to hear that. She already thinks rather fondly of you so you should tell her.”

“I will and thanks for the help.”

“I'm glad I can be of assistance and I'm looking forward to the results.”

They continued their small talk for a while until Celestia had to be elsewhere.

With nothing else to do Michael decided to take a walk in the garden. He walked along the outside of an enormous hedge maze when he rounded a corner and saw his favorite statue. A chimera with a mismatched set of limbs. He still had the eerie feeling that it looked right at him, but decided to ignore it. He stepped closer and looked for any kind of information about the statue, but was a bit disappointed when he couldn’t find any. After a little while he continued his walk through the garden. Eventually he reached a high tree that looked quite easy to climb. He smiled to himself as he decided to climb to the very top of the tree and enjoy the view. Unbeknownst to him a certain midnight blue alicorn had watched him climb the tree with a mischievous smile on her face.

Michael sat at the top of the tree and relaxed as he observed the surroundings. Suddenly he felt something lightly tap his right shoulder. He looked over in that direction and was confused when he could only see the enormous hedge maze that he passed earlier. When he turned back he instantly froze as he saw a pair of reptilian eyes stare at him with malice a mere few inches away from his face. Michael screamed, rather high pitched one might add, and panicked as he felt himself falling of the branch. He continued screaming for a good 3 seconds before he realised that he was no longer falling, but suspended in a light blue glow that surrounded his entire body. Surprised, he looked back and saw princess Luna laughing triumphantly as she sat Michael back onto the branch. He hyperventilated for a few moments before he managed to compose himself enough to get angry at Luna who was still laughing at his predicament.

“You...you BASTARD. I thought I was gonna die.” He continued to breath heavily before he added. “Good one though...bloody good one.” He said as he started to laugh himself. Luna joined in as they shared a good laugh for a while. After they both calmed down they looked at the scenery below them when Michael suddenly punched Luna in her shoulder. “Never do that again.”
Luna, barely even noticing, simply raised an eyebrow. “Physically assaulting royalty? My you are a brave one.” She said with a smirk.

“Serves you right you...royal bastard.”

Luna just giggled before she continued. “As much as I enjoyed seeing you shriek like a frightened mare. I came here to inform you that your transport to ponyville will be ready momentarily. Shall I take us there?”

“I didn’t shriek like a...” He stopped as he saw the sceptical raised eyebrow of Luna as she just smirked triumphantly. He just sighed in defeat. ‘No point in arguing with a demigod horse’ Thought michael. “...never mind. Let’s go get my stuff first.”

“You need not worry. It has already been taken care of. Now I shall take you to your transport.” She said as they both vanished in a flash of light.

As soon as they reappeared Michael collapsed on all fours as he the content of his stomach had a sudden urge to evacuate. Which they did rather spectacularly. Michael finished his undignified exercise for a few moments later as he breathed rather heavily as he looked up at Luna, who smiled sheepishly at him as she cast a spell to remove Michael's little accident.

“Luna...I thought we agreed on a no out-of-the-blue-teleportations policy after the first time. Or perhaps you are growing senile in your old age hmm?” Michael smirked as he, somehow, managed dodged an incoming hoof strike from the midnight princess. He waved a finger in a disapproving manner. “Ah ah. You scared the living crap out of me. I get to insult you at least once for that.” He said triumphantly only to receive a hoof strike in the back of his head.

“We don’t recall agreeing to such an arrangement. Therefore we have no obligations to comply with thine demand.”Michael just grumbled in response.”Besides, the transport is ready.” She said as she gestured towards “The transport”. If one could call it that. It was a open wooden carriage with two pegasi guards strapped into a harness that was attached to the transport. Michael gulped as he realised that they were supposed to fly him to ponyville. There didn’t seem to be any kinds of safety to this at all.

“They are not gonna fly me to ponyville. Right?” He said as he eyed the guards loading his belongings onto the flying death trap.

Luna just chuckled before she spoke. “I can assure that it is harmless despite what you may think of its appearance. Numerous enchantments have been cast upon this transport to prevent one from falling out of it. I assure you that your journey will be safe.”

Michael still eyed it suspiciously for a few moments before he spoke. “Ok I’m gonna trust you, but if I die I’m coming back to haunt you for the rest of your eternal life.”

“I’ll hold you to that. Safe travels Mr Happer”

“See you around Your majiness.” Michael said as he gave her a hug that she happily returned.

A little under 15 minutes later he arrived in ponyville. The guards stopped in front of a large oak tree that seemed to have been hollowed out. Michael would have been impressed had he not been busy feeling sick after the, less than smooth, ride to ponyville. He would, probably, also have noticed a certain lavender unicorn who stood outside to greet him. She noticed that he had taken on a shade of green that she couldn’t remember him having when they last met. She walked up to him.

“Hello Michael. Are you alright?” Michael just chuckled.

“Define “alright”. I have felt better, but I will be ok.” He said as he stood up on unsteady legs and stepped out the smooth grass with wobbly legs. He was about to reach for his stuff when they were surrounded by a purple glow and hoisted into the air.

“I’ll carry your luggage. Come on. You’re going to stay in the library with me.” She said as she headed for the door of the hollowed out tree and it wasn’t until now that Michael noticed the library in question. He looked up at the building in amazement.

“Wow you live here? 10-year old me would freak out. I used to climb trees a lot when I was young. Still do to be honest.” He said as he admired the tree.

“I’m glad you like it Michael. It’s even better on the inside. Come on.”

Had he been paying a little more attention he would have noticed that Twilight shuffled around a little bit as if trying to hide something, but he didn’t and when he entered the library he was welcomed by an ear shattering…

“SURPRISE!!” He jumped high into the air and landed in an undignified heap on the floor as he could hear several ponies laughing at his predicament.

He swore a little to himself as he lifted himself up from the ground and looked at dusins of colorful ponies looking at him with big smiles. A pink pony with ridiculously fluffy hair and three balloons for a cutie mark approached him and started speaking at hypersonic speeds.

“Hi I’m Pinky Pie and I’m Ponyville's number one party pony. I was gonna ask if you were surprised, but then you were all like GASP” She jumped up in the air and stayed there as she continued her rapid fire explanation. “And then you were like CRASH” She fell down and made a very impressive imitation of the undignified heap that was Michael mere seconds ago. “And then you were all like “grumblegrumble” and that’s when I came up to you and you looked all confused and I said: “Hi I’m Pinky Pie and I’m Ponyville's number one party pony. I was gonna ask if you were surprised, but then you were all like GASP And then you were like CRASH And then you were all like “grumblegrumble” and that’s when I came up to you and you looked all confused and I said: “Hi I’m Pimmrph mmmrph.” She was abruptly interrupted by a cyan blue hoof that stuffed her mouth.

“Heh heh! Sorry about that Pinkie likes to talk a lot. I’m Rainbow Dash fastest flyer in Equestria.” She said as she reached out a hoof for Michael. He simply raised an eyebrow as he looked down at the pegasus. She was cyan blue with a striking rainbow coloured mane. Her Cutie mark was that of a rainbow coloured lightning bolt.

“Names Michael Happer. Fastest human in equestria.” He said as he gave her a mock bow.

“I bet I’m faster.” Rainbow said proudly as she pumped her chest.

“I think it would be reeeeally embarrassing if I a beat you in a race.” He said as he gestured towards Rainbow. “You have 4 legs and a pair of wings, but to be fair a athlete level human could probably outlast you in a marathon.” He said to aggravate the pegasus.

“Oh yeah. Wanna try me.” She said as she stepped closer to Michael who only chuckled.

“Simmer down sugarcube. He’s just messin with you. Howdy, names Applejack.” Applejack had a bright orange coat and a long blond mane that was tied up in a loose ponytail. She wore what Michael would classify as a stereotypical cowboy hat. Her cutie mark was three red apples.

“Pleasure to meet you. My names Michael Happer.” He said as he reach out his hand. A gesture he regretted not one second later. The orange country mare shook his hand so violently he thought he would dislocate his shoulder. When she let go his hand was still shaking so much that he had to forcefully stop it with his other hand.

“Ow...that’s...quite a handshake.”

“Hehe...I’m mighty sorry. Here let me make it up to you.” Before Michael could protest Applejack shoved an apple fritter into his mouth.

“Mmphmph.” Was his response.

“You’re welcome sugarcube.” She said as she trotted over to Rainbow Dash who just laughed at Michaels ordeal.

Despite a rocky start Michael found himself enjoying the party. He talked to several of the ponies that lived in Ponyville. He had an interesting meeting with a certain green unicorn, named Lyra, who became absolutely fascinated with his hands for some reason. He also encountered Applejack's older brother who went by the name of Big Macintosh. He meet a dragon by the name of Spike who was, apparently, Twilight's assistant. They had known each other since Spike was hatched from an egg. After a several hours the party died down and as everyone were leaving Michael noticed a shy looking pegasus that he hadn’t spoken to yet. She had a cream coloured coat with a long pink mane that covered one of her eyes. Her Cutie mark was that of three pink butterflies. She spoke to Twilight before glancing over at Michael before quickly exiting the library.

“So...Michael how did you like the party?” Twilight asked quite excitedly.

“It was great and just what I needed. Thanks.” Michael said as he sat down in a sofa and looked around the room. He hadn’t really taken the time to examine the library. The room he was in now was a rather large circular room with bookshelves that covered most of the wall. On one side of the door a staircase hugged the wall as it spiraled up towards the second floor. On the other side of the door there were two doors, one leading to the kitchen and the other lead to the basement.

“Oh this wasn’t my doing. This was all Pinkie Pie.” Twilight said as she took a seat next to Michael.

“I must remember to thank her the next time I see her.” He let out a sigh.
“By the way, where am I going to sleep?” He asked Twilight.

“You’ll be sleeping in the guest bed in my room.”

“Sounds good.” He stood up and let out a big yawn. “I’m gonna go to bed now actually. It’s been a long day.”

“I have a few things that I need to do before going to bed, but I’ll be sure not to wake you up when I’m done. I’ll just need to go up and get a few things.” Twilight said as she got up and followed Michael up the stairs.

They entered the bedroom. “Here we are. That’s your bed over there. I hope it will be comfortable for you.”

“I’m sure it’s fine.” He said as he sat on the bed and started to remove his clothing.

A moment later Twilight was about to ask a question when she noticed that he was already out like a light. Twilight giggled a little before she went downstairs.

Author's Note

Disclaimer: I do not own Hasbro's My little pony
Claimer: I own my OC character Michael Happer