First day with Twilight *Edited*

Twilight was stunned, though she understood the reason for wanting Simon to stay with her she didn't know if she'd be able to handle another day with him let alone a week. "I don't understand Princess, wouldn't it be better if he stayed here at the castle where there are guards to keep an eye on him?"

Celestia looked down to Twilight, offering her a slightly sympathetic glance. "I'm afraid not, this familiarity magic that radiates off of him might work its way into the guard's minds, which is why it needs to be you. You know as well as I that the stronger one is at wielding magic the less likely it is to affect them. That is why I chose you to be the first that he stays with, as you are easily the most skilled magic user I know of in Equestria." Twilight, blushing at the compliment, nodded doing her best to accept her teacher's decision, if nothing else she couldn’t fault her logic.

Nearby, Simon had finally changed back into his normal clothing, though not without some minor alterations. Apparently, Rarity had taken to sowing Twilight’s cutie mark onto his shirt. She had originally wanted to include the rest of the girls marks but there only had enough time on the train for one. Still, she figured she might have to get the shirt back some time to put apply the rest.

"Yes, I understand Princess, Celestia," Twilight answered her teacher before turning around. Upon seeing Simons shirt she stopped in place, her eyes zeroing in on the mark. "What is that." While her tone didn’t suggest any kind of hostility it was apparent Twilight was a little unnerved or uncomfortable at the addition to Simon’s clothing.

"Oh that? Well, I figured that he only had a limited time here so I thought it might make a good souvenir.I was actually going to put each of our cutie marks on his shirt but there was only enough time for one." Rarity answered a bit embarrassed at the situation, before turning to Simon. "I would like to ask if I could have the shirt back when you’re not using it, I do hate to leave a project unfinished."

"I'm not sure if that's such a..." Twilight started to speak but was cut off by Simon.

"I like it," Simon pulled his shirt up a little bit, giving him a better view of the mark that was currently stitched to his shirt. The sight of suddenly exposed skin caused Twilight to blush slightly. Twilight was about to try and object again to his shirt when Luna spoke up.

"I think that is a wonderful idea." Luna clopped her hooves together. "You must add Celestia's and mine to the mix as well." Simon seemed alright with it and Rarity eagerly nodded, happy to accept the princesses request.

"Now I'm sorry to rush you all but we do have other appointments we need to attend to. However, do not worry, I will make arrangements for a place of residence for Simon should all of you decide that he is not a threat. In addition to that, tomorrow morning I will make an announcement to Ponyville about Simon and hopefully placate any concerns or fears anypony may have," Celestia stated.

"Does that mean I have to wear that disguise until tomorrow," Simon asked, his dislike of the disguise written all over his face.

Celestia giggled, "No, I don't think that will be necessary. As much as we appreciate everypony's discretion we think that you just traveling with the bearer of the Elements of Harmony will be enough to calm ponies as is. Just remember to be friendly and answer any questions about yourself and things should remain peaceful." Simon and the girls nodded each of the girls turning and bowing to the princesses before leaving while Simon just waved and blew a kiss to each princess before he found himself being dragged telekinetically out of the room by a visibly annoyed Twilight.

The gesture however, didn’t go unnoticed as it caused a light blush to form around Luna’s face, while Celestia simply giggled, not used to being addressed with such familiarity, at least not in such a recent time. The moment they were out of the throne room Luna turned to her sister, her expression having quickly shifted.

"So sister, how much information do you think he was withholding," Luna asked her sister in a serious tone.

"I feel that there are many things he is keeping from all of us, though that is to be expected given he likely hasn’t fully trusted us yet. Hopefully that is something we can rectify, though I find myself more concerned for the things he did not tell us about himself," Celestia answered.

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In an Unknown world

A large man with long black hair quietly made his way into a room that seemed to be adorned at every wall with some form of machinery. Men and women with white lab coats running here and there all over the place, with two individuals standing out amidst the chaos, clad in regular clothing, their attention focused on magic flowing from them into a large circular machine in the middle of the room. "How is the portal coming along?" he inquired..

A small man with short, blonde hair made himself known as he approached. "As you can see my lord we are making progress." The small man motioned to the center of the room where sparks of electricity could be seen, culminating inside the large circular machine. "However, without Simon here to make the proper calibrations to his portal machine progress is slow going, but we believe we have identified the signal that the other world is using to detect our portals, so we may soon be able to open a new portal without them knowing."

"Good and has word gotten out of Simons disappearance yet." The large man looked down to the smaller man.

"No sir, only a select few of our own are even allowed to know." The small man mentioned looking around and speaking carefully just to ensure no one but the two of them heard it.

"Let us keep it that way, we do not want Rolf or his God to find out." The large man spoke carefully, receiving a nod from his associate as they glanced at the still forming portal.

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On the train between Canterlot and Ponyville

"I still don't understand why those guards were giving me strange looks on the way out," Simon spoke up as they sat in one of the trains normal sized cars, where the headroom was considerably larger than the private cars. Of course, this also meant the occasional pony would glance in his direction, though only the foals would stare for an extended period before their parent would discourage their ‘rude’ behavior.

"Simon, you do realize that was because you disarmed five of Celestia's personal guard in the same amount of time it took for them to treat you as a threat, all without moving an inch." Twilight had leaned in closer to Simon to whisper to him. While this was going on, Pinkie had practically shoved her way next to Simon and now had her head comfortably situated in his lap so Simon would scratch behind her ears.

"Hey, I didn't start it," Simon spoke, defending his actions, only to find himself ignored by the girls, who seemed more interested in other discussion topics.

"Tell us, darling, you mentioned that the fighter deities were the ones that got sent to the other worlds yet you referred to yourself as a creator deity. Why were you the one sent here?" The girls all nodded as if wondering the same thing.

Simon smiled. "You all already know why, it's the reason I'm only being allowed to stay with each of you for a week at a time." He sat back and waited for each of the girls to figure out why.

Twilight was the first to speak up, "You mean the magic that makes you seem familiar."

“Yep, that's it. Though back home, we are not sure why but I am the only deity to have it." Twilight was about to ask another question when she was suddenly silenced by Simon putting a finger in front of his lips and making a shushing noise. A colt suddenly walked up to their group from the aisle, stopping next to them with his attention mainly focused on Simon. Rarity and Applejack recognized him as Pipsqueak a classmate of Sweetie Belle and Applebloom.

"I know you," Pipsqueak said looking at Simon and showing signs of thinking really hard. "You’re Sweetie Belle's older brother right." Simon just gave a somber smile and nodded, while all the girls especially Rarity were shocked by this statement. "That's so cool" Pipsqueak added, "You should come to school with her one of these days I'm sure you would be super popular." Simon shrugged then nodded this seemed to satisfy him as he excitedly moved away and ran back to his seat. All the girls turned to Simon, with Rarity having the most surprised look on her face.

"Sweetie Belle’s older brother?" Rarity questioned causing Simon to simply maintain his apparent carefree shrug response. This upset Rarity further to know that he had somehow found out about her little sister and was using her with his familiarity magic to protect himself. "Do you even know who Sweetie Belle is?' Rarity's thoughts on the matter starting to become more clear. Simon shook his head in the negative, thankfully diffusing a bit of Rarity's anger as she looked at him confused. "How could you not know, didn't you just use that name with your magic." It was Simon’s turn to be confused as he looked to Rarity.

"Oh, I think there is a misunderstanding. I don't have control of what connections are created." Simon stated, "You see, in my world we did study this magic to try and learn how to replicate it. One of the things we learned is that it will connect me to someone that they know of but don't know that well." Rarity instantly calmed, finally understanding that it wasn't his choice though this caused another question to pop into her head.

"Well, Sweetie Belle is my younger sister and if you were her older brother that would that make us siblings as well. Though, are you her older brother because we are together?" Rarity smiled at Simon looking at him with half-lidded eyes trying her best to have some fun by pretending to flirt with him.

Simon smirked at her. "Oh, you know we are the greatest of lovers." Simon gave a playful growl in her direction. The girls all looked to Rarity, who had expected a response but not one that suggestive in manner.

"I...I...I..." Rarity stuttered slightly embarrassed trying to come up with a retort but she was at a loss for words. "Anyways, moving on, why is it that you choose to use that magic on the young colt anyways?" Rarity questioned trying to change the subject while both Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie snickered.

"Well, truth is I did but I didn't." Simon shrugged.

"What do you mean," Fluttershy asked tilting her head quizzically.

"Well, I actually don't control it at all, it's an ability that works on its own but it only affects the ones that don't know me which is why it’s no longer affecting all of you." The train came to a slow stop at Ponyville station, just outside their window they could see that it had become late into the evening. This was for the best as the girls wanted to ensure there would be almost no chance of being stopped by some random pony who’d fall under Simon’s unintended influence. Still, the girls quickly made their way to the library to avoid any ponies still wandering outside.

Twilight was the first to enter the library calling out, "Spike we're back." The door was left open, allowing everyone else to enter before Spike came down the stairs, obviously having just woken up if his half-asleep state was any hint.

"Welcome back Twilight." Spike yawned. "What took you girls so long? I thought you were just going into the Everfree Forest to close some vortex thing?"

"Uh, about that, we kinda had a small hiccup," Twilight answered motioning towards the door, resulting in Spike getting his first glimpse of Simon as he ducked through the pony-sized doorway.

"That seems a bit bigger than a small hiccup," Spike starred, now wide-eyed at the creature. Simon however, simply offered a friendly wave at the small drake once he was inside and standing at his fully height. "Umm, would any of you like some food I can whip something up in a jiffy." The small dragon doing his best to avoid coming across as potentially rude to Simon.

"Oh, thank you Spike, that would be wonderful," Fluttershy mentioned looking towards Twilight to make sure it was okay with her. Twilight gave a nod and the rest of the girls all gave their thanks to Spike as he made his way into the kitchen to prepare something. However, he paused just before reaching the door, turning his attention back to Simon..

"Umm, what do you eat." he asked Simon "I’m sort of in the dark about what you like.”Simon smiled wide for the first time, allowing the girls to take note of his teeth. Fluttershy was the first to notice he had canines, teeth specifically for eating meat. Naturally this made them a little nervous though they assumed it would be something Simon would mention himself at some point. Simon opened his mouth to answer giving the girls a better view, though they still couldn't see the back teeth because of the height difference, they could only assume.

"No thanks, I don't need anything right now, but I appreciate the gesture." Simon walked with the girls as they all sat down at Twilight’s table, though Simon had to sit on the floor just to be near the same level as them.

Applejack was the first one to break the silence once they were all seated."What all do you eat anyway?" Applejack asked, but was unsure if she really wanted to know, all the girls were starting now anxious for the answer.

"Oh my species are omnivores," Simon stated he hooked a finger into his cheek pulling it to the side as far as it could go and turning to show off the rest of his teeth. They could see that indeed while he had canines on the sides of his incisors he also had premolars and molars just like they did. "So I can eat whatever I want, though I don't have to eat anything as long as I have magic in my system. So nothing really to worry about" Simon tried to give them a comforting grin. The explanation did seem to calm their nerves about his dietary needs, a few moments later Spike came back out with some bowls.

"I wasn't sure how long you all were going to be gone so I prepared some food just in case," Spike commented bringing bowls to the table and setting one out in front of each of them before bringing out a larger bowl that was full of salad and setting that down in the middle of the table.

"So you don't need food because you ate that magic flower earlier," Applejack asked. Spike was dishing out the salad to each of them, when he gave Simon a surprised look, almost as if he could believe what he’d just heard. However, he was quick to shake his surprise off and continue, while some of the other girls were taking slow bites, their attention still focused on Simon.

Simon nodded. "Well what I had was refined magic, it was just a coincidental that it had enough power to retain its shape." Spike had finished giving everyone food and was taking a seat at the table next to Rarity but was still tired enough that he was quickly falling asleep where he sat.

“Just how long can you survive on that amount of magic," Twilight asked.

Simon closed his eyes and thought to himself for a while. "Well, it's not an exact science but judging from the size of it if I keep magic to a minimum I could probably last about a month or survive at least one fatal wound." His last words shocked all of those present, causing all of them to stopped eating and leaving them staring wide-eyed at Simon.

"What do you mean by that?" Twilight asked.

"Oh, in my world the only way to get to a higher rank is kill a deity that was higher in ranking than you," Simon spoke casually as if it wasn't a big deal. "I mean, it wasn't that bad if your God liked you, they would just make sure you have enough magic to come back to life."

"That sounds simply barbaric." Rarity spoke aghast.

"That's the worst thing I have ever heard of." Applejack said.

"Haven’t you humans ever heard of friendly competition." Rainbow Dash added, Simon simply shrugged, seemingly unable to understand why they were so surprised.

"Well, I’ve lost my appetite." Rarity said with all the girls nodding in agreement.

"So Twilight, would you like it if all of us stayed over tonight like a sleepover." Pinkie Pie asked, deciding to shift things to a more pleasant subject.

"Yea that sounds like a nice idea, that way we can keep on eye on him while he is awake." Twilight nodded all the girls agreed in staying over.

Twilight quietly levitated the now sleeping Spike and quietly took him back up the stairs to her room to put him to bed. "I'll grab some blankets and we can all stay together in the main room." All of them had gotten up from the table, the girls arranging themselves around the room. While Simon was walking around a bit looking inside of the different doors like he had never heard of privacy before. When Twilight returned Simon had moved over to one of the bookcases and scanning the different books, running his hand over each text.

"Simon we don't even speak the same language I doubt that we have the same written language." Undeterred, Simon had grabbed a random book off the shelf and opened it. For several moments, he stared intently at the pages before he started laughing hysterically.

"What is it, can you really read our language," Fluttershy asked.

Simon shook his head. "Nope not a single word." Simon was still giggling to himself as he kept flipping through the book

"Then what is with all the laughter?" Rarity asked

"It's your writing." Simon had to hold back more laughter looking at it. "It looks like what some lazy animator would come up with just so they could just get the words out of the way and work on the rest of the scene," The girls looked between each other not confused about what Simon was talking about it but accepting it as another difference in worlds. Simon kept laughing even as he put the book back and made his way over to where all the girls were laying down, sitting down on the floor near them. Twilight was handing each of them a blanket that she had brought down with her.

"I hope it's okay Simon but I don't have any blankets your size," Twilight spoke hoofing him a blanket that would maybe only cover half of his body. Simon simply shrugged, sliding back against the nearby wall he sat with his legs crossed and threw the blanket on himself from the shoulders down it covered him pretty well like that.

"So I have been answering all of your questions all day so how about you girls tell me about yourselves and your world for a while," Simon said, leaning against the wall. The girls all looked at each other and nodded.

Twilight was the first to speak up, "Well, I grew up in Canterlot, which is the town we went to earlier, where I went to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns..."

The rest of the night carried on with each of the girls telling him their respective stories along with some of their past achievements. Eventually, Simon had fallen asleep against the wall and the rest of the girls figured it would be safe to follow suit..

The next morning, Twilight found herself awoken by the smell of food being prepared. Lifting her slightly stiff neck up, she quickly noticed Simon had changed his position and was now laying on the floor the blanket covering his entire upper half just his legs were visible. Pinkie was still asleep, having had scooted up to Simon, with her back against his covered side. Fluttershy and Applejack were both already awake as Twilight had expected since the two of them were always early risers, looking around she saw that Rarity was also already awake and Rainbow Dash was of course still asleep. Twilight decided to let the three sleepers just stay as she moved to the kitchen. Entering Twilight saw her missing friends and Spike all in there working together to make some food for the group.

"Are you sure about this Applejack?" Spike asked, not looking back from the large bowl where he was mixing ingredients.

" Not really, I mean all we know is that he said that he could eat anything and apples are always a good choice." Applejack spoke from where she was unloading a box of apples that she apparently went out and retrieved from her farm with Fluttershy’s help.

"Oh, good morning Twilight." Rarity turned her head spotting Twilight enter the kitchen. From what Twilight could see, she had been arranging and measuring the ingredients that they would need for the food.

"Good morning to you too. Though I’m a little confused, what are you guys up to?" Twilight asked moving more into the kitchen. Spike and Applejack both looked to Twilight a little surprised by the question but didn’t dwell on it.

"We thought that it would be nice if we prepared a special breakfast for our guest today," Spike answered.

"Well, why didn't you wake the rest of us up, we could have helped," Twilight asked looking between the three of them.

"We tried to wake Rainbow but, we’d have had better luck trying to wake up an actual rock. I don't think a train running next to her could wake her up." Rarity answered.

"Pinkie pie is sleeping too close to Simon for us to risk waking her and Simon up," Applejack added.

"And from what I heard you were the last one to go to sleep so it was my idea to let you sleep a little longer. Hope that was okay" Spike looked over to Twilight, a little nervous given how familiar he was with Twilight’s propensity for schedules and time management.

"Well, I'm awake now. So I’m more than happy to lend a hoof," Twilight said, happily moving over to where the three of them were working.

"Some of these apples could use mushing." Applejack pointed to some of the apples that she had laid on the counter. Twilight nodded and moved over to where the apples were getting started on helping them with the food preparations.

An hour later Applejack smiled "I guess it's time to wake everyone up, the food is almost done now."

"I'll do the honors, you can get the food together and bring it out to the table." Rarity moved out of the kitchen and to where they were the rest of them were sleeping. "Alright everyone it's time for food."

They could hear Rarity say from the kitchen about a min later they could hear Rarity again. "Umm everypony come out here we may have a problem." Applejack, Spike, Fluttershy and Twilight came out to see Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Pinkie Pie standing where Simon was sleeping. However, moving over they noticed the problem, underneath the blanket was not Simon but one of those puppets that he had placed his pants on to make it seem like he was still there sleeping.

Twilight quickly looked out the window near her door. "Okay everypony, let's search the house I don't think he went outside otherwise there would’ve probably be a panic already." Twilight looked back to all of them. "Let's split up, this place isn't that big so it shouldn't be that hard to find him." Everyone nodded and quickly split up, looking all over the library for about half an hour before Spike yelled out.

"Ummm, everypony, I think I might know where he is at." All the girls came running to where Spike had yelled out he was back in the main room staring at the door to the broom closet.

"Well, where is he?" Twilight asked Spike just raised his claw and pointed at the closet door. Twilight looked over at the door and noticed that the door had changed. It was now a silver in color and definitely not made of wood anymore. Twilight carefully approached the door, her friends at her back. Looking at the handle it was definitely made for somepony with hands, since it was knob instead of a latch. Using her magic, she slowly turned the knob, only for them to be met with a sudden loud noise, bursting into the room, causing some to jump and Fluttershy becoming stiff as a board. Twilight, after composing herself, notice the noise seemed to be music, though the language clearly indicated it was from Simon’s world. Once everyone had calmed down Twilight opened the door the rest of the way, revealing a much larger room filled with various types of unusual clutter, most notably several of the puppets from earlier. At the very back of the room, with his back towards them, was Simon. If the flashes of light were any hint he was working on something but also seemed to be singing and dancing with the music at the same time. All the girls, after breathing a sigh of relief in finding him, giggled at the scene that Simon was putting on as they all entered.

Fluttershy, having gotten over her shock ,flew over to a glass case inside, which seemed to contain a pair of strange stick like objects that seemed to be fighting each other. Spike had moved over to one of the junk piles and was digging through it, looking for something interesting. Applejack and Rainbow Dash had moved over to the wall of puppets. A quick glance revealed that while some of them looked like the ones from the forest, others were in a sad state of disrepair with many pieces missing. There was even a small collection that looked almost human, not unlike Simon. While it did unnerve them somewhat they found themselves poking and prodding the puppets, while Rarity found herself digging through several clothing piles, her attention and interest completely captivated.

Twilight, meanwhile, had moved over to a very large bookcase and was quick to pull out a few select tomes only to find she couldn’t read a single word. There were a few hand drawn images she could make out, suggesting they might have been research journals but there were hundreds of them. Twilight knew that even working at her fastest pace with no rest at all, to fill this many journals would take thousands of years. if this was true, then he would very well be older than Celestia and Luna put together.

So lost in the potential implications, Twilight almost didn’t notice a photo slipping out of one of the journals. Picking it up, she found a picture of a a scarless Simon with a much smaller human on his shoulder and another human with much softer features, likely a female, standing next to him. The most striking part of the photo was the large smiles adorning each humans face, smiles that Twilight had never seen on Simon since he’d arrived. More curious than ever, she debated pulling Simon away from what he was doing to ask, only to find he had abandoned his early activity and was now dancing with Pinkie Pie, who was doing her best to try and adapt to dancing on two legs. Still curious, she quickly teleported the photo to her room, opting to inquire about it later in the day. For now, she made her way over to the dancing duo, and gave Simon a questioning glance. .

Simon, knowing he had some things to explain, put his pink dance partner down, much to her disappointment and turned down the music this, getting the attention of the rest of the group. They all moved over to where Simon was and he spread his arms in a wide gesture. "So, welcome to my fourth-dimensional space." Simon gestured to the entire room causing them to all to stop and stared wide-eyed around the room

"So, this is where you store all that stuff that you pull out of nowhere," Applejack asked, with Simon simply nodding.

"Well that explains that, so why were you in here not out in the library. You know you scared several of us with your puppet of yours." Rarity said.

Simon scratched the back of his head, offering a weak chuckle. "Yeah, sorry about that, I lost track of time. I had planned to be back before you all woke up, but hey, what can you do."

"How long have you been awake." Rainbow Dash asked, looking at him accusingly.

"Oh, I never went to sleep. I don't actually need to sleep so I decided to work on a project instead while you all slept." Simon motioned to his desk.

"What were you working on in here," Twilight lifted her head up a bit trying to look at the top of the desk that the flashes were coming from but it was pretty much at eye level for her so she couldn't see very well.

"I was working on these." Simon reached over and scooped up something from the desk before holding it out to the girls. To their amazement, they appeared to be similar to the translator device, though they now looked more like clips and each had markings on the side. "You see I personalized each of them with your individual tramp stamp."

"I'm sorry our tramp what," Rarity asked feeling insulted despite not knowing what the word ‘tramp’ meant.

"You know, your tramp stamp, your butt tattoo, the marking on your hindquarters," Simon pointed to their cutie marks.

"Oh, you mean our cutie marks." Pinkie commented, not the least bit offended by the somewhat crass nicknames he gave what was basically the sign of their individuality. Same couldn’t be said for the others, whose facial expressed varied between shocked, annoyed and slightly disgusted.

"Yea, that's what I meant." Simon handed out each of the devices the girls, who each took one and gave it a look over..

"What's this other mark on it," Fluttershy asked, pointing to what appeared to be an outline of a heart with two symbols inside. One of the symbols appeared to be a line that curved back, forward and then finally back again while the other was one straight line going up and down then a second straight line that went left to right connected at the corners on the bottom.

"Oh, that's my symbol, I put it on everything that I make. Sort of a personal touch," Simon commented the girls nodded their heads in understanding.

"Well it might be cold by now but we prepared some food for breakfast that we were going to surprise you with before you disappeared on us." Applejack commented heading towards the door that they had come in. Simon and the rest of the girls following suit once outside most of the girls walked towards the kitchen to bring the food out, Twilight stayed behind to watch Simon as he closed the door he grabbed a key that was in the lock and gave it a turn before pulling it out. Once it was out the door a wave a magic rippled across it, effectively returning it to its original state.

"Could you teach me how to do that," Twilight asked, positively giddy at the prospect of learning magic from another world.

"What do you mean," Simon asked looking down to Twilight.

"Could you teach me how to use your fourth-dimensional magic," Twilight asked waving her hoof in the air for emphasis.

"Hmmm." Simon thought to himself as he looked Twilight, who suddenly felt very embarrassed at being looked over by someone.

"Probably," Simon said as he shrugged and started walking towards the table where all the food had been laid out, leaving Twilight to both get excited and ponder about his response.

Author's Note

If anyone is curious the song Simon was listening to was cha cha slide. and sorry it took so long I was a good deal done when my cat decided to walk across my keyboard and it caused me to loose a lot of the work I had completed. also, I would love to hear all of your thoughts and comments on the story.