My New Equestrian Life
Chapter 4: Welcome to Equestria
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAs we were on our way to the train station with the train tickets that Twilight had for all of us, Pinkie couldn't stop blabbering about the welcome party that she was gonna throw for me when we get back to Ponyville.
"I'mgonnathrowyouthebestpartythatI'veeverthrownforanypony, er, uh .... what'sthenameofyourspecies!?" asked an overly-excited Pinkie Pie.
Hoping it would keep her quiet for a while, I answered her question in a way that only a school geek would.
"There are actually 3 different names for the name of my species, 2 legal names, & 1 scientific name," I start out.
"REALLY!? Hold on for a bit," replied an interested Twilight as she pulled out an ink quill & notepad as if to take notes. "OK, ready."
Before saying anything, I looked at the others, each with a face that reads there she goes again as they were interested in hearing what they are. I have a feeling that it might not work on getting Pinkie to stay quiet. With a sigh, I started with the scientific name, since that seemed to excite Twilight.
"The scientific name for my species is homo sapiens,” I explain. “The 2 legal names are the human being, or just human for short, & Terran."
"Hmm, interesting, I'll have some questions to ask you when we return to Ponyville," replies Twilight.
Curious, I asked, "How many exactly?"
I instantly regretted saying that when she had answered.
"Oh, just enough for me to learn everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. So, yeah, it'll be a lot," she told me with the creepiest excited face I have ever seen in my life.
Hoping it might work in finding an easier way to do that to save me the effort, I asked: "Is there, like, an easier way for that, like some sort of memory scan perhaps?"
That had left Twilight thinking for a bit, pondering my question. Then she finally replied: "Well, there's not exactly an actual spell that can scan through memories, but I could try to focus a normal magic scan on your memories, that could probably work."
She then lit up her horn, glowing with purple magic, and tried focusing it on my brain.
A few seconds later, she said, "It's working! I'm seeing your memories!! WOW!!! There's so much stuff I've never even heard o----Huh? AAAAHHH!!!!" she yelped as she instantly shot back 15 feet away from me, looking at me with another fearful look, but this time it was more intense from the one last night.
"What? What's wrong?" I asked, feeling concerned.
"H..how can y..you turn out so nice and k..kind when growing up in a world f..full of c..corruption, despair & v..violence?" Twilight asks.
"I don't know," I reply honestly. "I guess I was just able to. Anyways, we better keep moving. We shouldn't keep the Princesses waiting."
"Oh, yeah. We better get back on track, oh, and Pinkie, you better make preparations for his next party for tomorrow. He'll be turning 18 years of age," said Twilight, as she walked back over to the group and continued walking to the train station.
"REALLY! THAT'SLIKE2PARTIESINAROWINJUST2DAYS!! YOU'REONELUCKYTERRANXAVIER, CAUSETHAT'SLIKETHEFIRSTTIMEI'VEHADTOTHR0W2PARTIESINA----" Pinkie Pie blabbered so fast that no pony could understand her before Applejack interrupted her.
"WHOA there, Pinkie Pie! Turn it down a notch before ya hurt yerself."
Right at that moment, Pinkie's tail started twitching.
"Uh oh," she said with a worried expression. "Everypony take cover!"
Then they all ran for cover as I was the only one left confused.
"Take cover from wha---" I started to say before I got cut-off.
"WATCH OUT!!!" I heard somepony yell as I suddenly get hit by a speeding Pegasus so freaking hard, it knocked me back 20 feet before I stopped rolling.
"DERPY!" Twilight yelled. "What were you told about coming for a landing at an angle when going real fast!?"
"To not to," Derpy replied.
Twilight then walked over to me.
"Hey, Xavier. Are you alright"? She asked.
I then replied with the weirdest response I could have ever said in my entire life.
"But granny, I don't wanna wear the pink dress to preschool today! I want to stay home make toe-jam from cat scat during the 4th wall break inside a 4th wall break with you!!!"
"What the hay!?" Twilight said with a confused/weirded-out expression. "Could somepony get me a bucket of ice-water?”
"I'll get it," replied Fluttershy as she went to go get it & came back with it in her hands & poured it over my head. Right away in contact with the water, I immediately snapped back to reality.
"Whoa!" I exclaimed. "What happened?!"
"You got hit by Derpy when she came flying in too low," Rainbow Dash answered, followed almost right away with Derpy's apology.
"So sorry for running into you, mister, uh ....."
"Xavier," I tell her my name.
"Ah, Xavier. I am very sorry for knocking you over with my flying," Derpy apologizes.
"It's alright, it ain't your fault. I should've taken cover when Pinkie said too," I tell her.
"No, it is,” She replies. “I'm cross-eyed, so my vision kinda fails me at times, messing up my flight pattern."
"It's both our faults then, mine for not taking cover when told, & yours due to your cross-eyed vision," I say, trying to cheer her up a bit.
Getting me, Twi, Dash, Rarity, Pinkie, AJ, & Fluttershy moving again, I say: "We better keep moving Twinkie, we've already wasted enough time."
"Yeah, we better keep mo.... wait, what did you just call me?" Twilight asks with a weirded out expression.
"Twinkie......ah.....Twilight! I meant Twilight, sorry, I don't where I got that. I didn't mean to say twinkie, sorry Twi," I answered with an apology.
Accepting the apology, she & the rest of us started moving at a quicker pace to get to the train station.
On the train ride to Canterlot, we all sat in groups of 2 as we were all talking (except for me, since I've never been used to being in a conversation) about where I'm gonna be staying in Ponyville if Celestia decides to let me stay in Ponyville while staring out the window, watching the scenery.
At some point, I suddenly felt myself being shaken by one of the mares.
"XAVIER! Are ya gonna answer?!" yelled Applejack.
"Uh, yeah. I'd answer if you'd said my name nicely!" I yell back, slightly annoyed that she shook me like a maraca.
"I did," she replied, "five times, but ya didn't answer. Ah thought ya were supposed ta be nice."
Realizing why she shook me like that, I calmed down, then explained that the reason why I didn't respond the first 5 times, was because I spaced out while watching the scenery.
"Oh, okay. Next time ah'll just tap yer shoulder when ya don't respond right away," Applejack replied.
"Anyways, was there something you wanted to ask me Applejack?" I asked.
Applejack's eyes suddenly went wide, realizing that she forgot what she was gonna ask me
"Oh, ah almost forgot!” she exclaims. “Well, we were wondering if it'd be alright with ya if ya stayed with one o’ us fer the time bein’ ‘til ya get yer own place?"
Thinking about carefully, I realized that it would be for the best since they were the only ones who were quick to be friendly to me. Even though I'm not of this world, they were quick to be friends right away.
"Yeah, I'm cool with it," I reply with a slight smile. "It's probably the smartest choice to stay with a friend until I'm able to get a house of my own".
Applejack smiles gladly.
"Ah, good. Now we origi..... wait, did ya just say friend?" she asks.
"Yeah, you girls were the first to quickly act so kind & friendly when any other pony here probably wouldn't. What else would I call you girls for being so kind towards me upon arrival?" I tell them as they blushed a light red.
"Gee, ah guess we kinda are already friends with ya!" Applejack replies.
Applejack & the others slightly smile as they look towards the floor as Applejack goes back to the topic from before to get it settled: who would I be staying with during my time in Equestria?
"So anyway, back ta which one o’ us you'll stay with during yer time here ‘til no longer needed," AJ starts off.
"We originally agreed it would be Twilight since she loves ta learn new things, even new creatures,” she explains. “But since that was completely handled on the way to the train, she already knows everything about your world from what you have in yer head. In fact, she even showed ta us jus’ 5 minutes ago. We’re now thinking maybe Fluttershy, since, like ya both have in common, she has a fondness for animals & taking care of 'em."
Acting cool about it, I replied with a simple: "Yeah, sure. I'm cool with that."
They all smile widely as they heard my response to the question, feeling somewhat a little awkward about the current situation I'm in.
I couldn't help but smile too, as we headed for Canterlot, to await the judgment of Princess Celestia & Princess Luna (the one that I kinda made a fool out of myself in front of the other night.
Droplets of sweat fell down my forehead as I strode down the hallway with Twilight, Rainbow, Pinkie, AJ, Rarity, & Fluttershy (who, in my personal opinion, was really cute & pretty, especially with her shyness). Thinking what the princesses will be like.
"What kind of mood will they be in? Are they gonna be a little soft on what to do with me? God damn, I'm so nervous. There are so many thoughts going through my head right now!" I was thinking to myself when I felt a finger tap my shoulder.
"Hmm?" I respond as I turned my head to see Fluttershy leaning toward my ear as if to tell me a secret.
"The princesses are waiting for you to speak," she quietly says.
I look forward and see the two princesses, one white with a multi-colored flowing mane, & one dark blue with a dark-colored flowing mane.
Before I could say anything, the white one (which I'm pretty sure is Celestia) asks, "Are you going to introduce yourself?"
Quickly responding without thinking, I reply, "Greetings your majesty," I do a quick one-knee bow. "My name's Xavier John Wilson, but you can just call me Xavier, or whatever you want to call me, X-man, X-miester, X-dawg, X, whatever. You must be Celestia."
Smiling at my little pun, she nods her head then says with an angelic voice.
"Yes, I am Princess Celestia. And this my little sister Luna,” says Celestia. “I have heard that you are new here & have arrived from falling out the sky. And from the knowledge of your world that my most trusted student Twilight had shown Luna & me. You come from a world full of corruption, deception, violence, & hate. But yet, you have managed to shape a kind, honest, loyal, & generous personality.”
“So in all recent events,” Celestia states, “it has been decided that you are welcome to live here in Equestria, in light of the events from what you remember of how you got here."
I smile in gratitude &, frankly, relief.
"Wow!" I exclaim in my head. "That wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be, I can't believe that I was nervous for nothing."
"But there is one thing that has yet to be fixed," said Celestia.
I froze, worried that maybe I spoke too soon.
Waiting for Celestia to state the one thing left to do, she states: "Last night, I heard that you & my sister sort of awkwardly met improperly. I believe you should probably try again at a proper greeting, now that you're no longer freaking out," She giggles at her last-minute comment.
Holding my breath, I step up to Luna, & give it my best try.
Starting with another bow, I say: "Greetings your highness, name's Xavier, honor to meet you & your sister. I'd like to apologize for last nights occurrence, for I did not mean to make a fool of myself in front of your royal presence. I merely acted out of instinct, something I do often when I find myself in such situations."
Smiling with my well-mannered greeting, Luna replies: "Greetings to thee too, Xavier, but thy honor is mine & Celestia's since we've nev’r hath met a creature like thee ere. I accept thy apology, though thither shan't beest any needeth of an apology, thee hadst every right to has't acted thy way thee didst last night. For thee too, cameth face-to-face with a creature that no one from thy world hath ever seen. Which I'll admit, I too probably would've freaked out if 't be true that ever hath happened to me. But no pun for thy greeting?" Luna asked with a smirk. Me, Twi & the others, & Celestia giggled.
Thinking of a pun, I say "In that case, beings your names Luna, does it mean that you represent the moon, or does it that you are one with the moon itself?"
Every pony in the room, including the princesses, burst laughing at that pun.
"Oh my gosh! That's a good one. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! That's pretty funny, that's more of a joke than a pun," Celestia puffs out. "Huuuhhh-heeeehhh. Think you can do one more joke before you head back to Ponyville?"
I think for a moment, then I got a good one. I then act it out while explaining the joke.
"OK, there's one super crazy psycho guy who has another guy cornered, literally, in a corner, cowering, only 15 ft. away. The crazy guy was finally able to defeat his arch-nemesis, and he was gonna blow him up with an M4-GL. With his finger on the GL trigger, he asks his foe 'HA-HA-HA! It's the end for you, Frank! You're unarmed with no way out, any last words before I blow you to bits!?'. Then Frank replies in a panicky tone 'Yeah, 7.' Then without sounding worried at all, completely calm. 'You're holding it the wrong way, Carl.' Then Carl says thank you as he turns it around, then pulls the trigger, but ends up blowing himself up. Frank then walks over to Carl's lifeless corpse & says 'Oh, oops. My bad, I guess you were holding it the right way from before, ya big dumb idiot'. The end."
Then they all laugh even harder from before.
Pinkie, trying to regain her breath, says, "Th-th-that i-is h-hi-hil-hilarious! I-I've never h-heard any-anything s-so funny before! Ohhhhhhhh! You're really funny! Can you teach me how to be that funny?" Pinkie asks.
"Easy,” I simply reply, “just be spontaneous, when you're given a statement, just come up with a quick silly reply without even thinking about it, for example, someone says that there's a guy with a gun in the room, & without even thinking about it, I quickly say the very first thing that pops into my head, 'Oh, sorry Mr. Miller, I accidentally grabbed my son's toy squirt gun, you're on your own.'"
"Well, that seems easy enough!" Pinkie replies as the rest begin to stop laughing.
"Anyways, me, Twilight, & the others better get going," I say before I slowly start to leave.
"We don't wanna miss the train back to ponyville. Let's go, guys, er, uh, girls. It was nice meeting you, Celestia & Luna."
"Nice meeting you too, Xavier" both Celestia & Luna reply at the time, still smiling yet at my joke.
"I have one last thing to say before you go," said Celestia.
"Yeah?" I reply.
Celestia then states out: "Like Twilight & her friends, I like to have her to write me a letter when she learns something new about friendship, explaining the friendship lesson that she learned. And beings how you never had friends in your world, you're now able to start anew, to be able to make friends. So I'd like you to do the same. Only when you learn a lesson in friendship."
"Sure," I reply. "I can do that."
With that, Me, Rainbow, Pinkie, AJ, Rarity, & Fluttershy went back to the train station. Twilight said we can go on ahead, she wanted to quickly talk to Celestia about something, she'll catch up later.
On the train ride back, I got nervous again, but this time, with anticipation, since I'm gonna live in a new world where I'm the only human. For once in my life where I'm not dreaming, I was actually happy. I was able to start over with a clean slate.
Author's Note
Here's the chapter you've all been waiting for, sorry it took so long, I've been getting a lot of delays whilst trying to work on this chapter. Hope you guys like it. Oh, I also decided not get into the explanation of Pinkies 'Pinkie Senses" since I've already typed enough about the part where they're heading to the train station, & I didn't want to waste too much of my creativity in the first portion of the chapter.
And at the part where it took 5 times for AJ to get Xavier's attention, the reason why was because he spaced off into his own little world, and when Twilight did the memory scan, she steered away from most of his personal life memories, the only life memories she looked through were the ones that were his core memories, the ones that help shape his personality, & the ones where she now knows that he's better off in their world since he was absolutely hated in his world, & the ones that feed her the history, science, & culture of our world.
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