As Time Passes by

It was good to rest at least. My mind was clear of any troubling dreams and I actually managed to sleep until morning.

I was just waking up to the mild morning sunlight streaming in through the windows as I heard two female voices from somewhere in the house. Probably upstairs since the bedrooms are located there. I couldn’t understand what they were saying, but one of them was more prominent than the other and it seemed as if they had an argument, judging by the tone of their voices. But that was none of my business, so I laid my head a tad deeper into the pillow and successfully entered a state of half sleep as the voices ceased.

Not too long after this, at least I think that it was, my state of mind was rudely interrupted by the heavenly scent of pancakes.

“Hmmm… Pancakes.” I muttered from within my blanket.

“Must follow sweet aroma and eat source.” I said in half dizziness, throwing the blanket aside and walking up to the kitchen, where the aroma was luring me in to.

Now I’m not really one of the best persons to talk to in the morning when my stomach fuel was running low, or in this case, when my stomach tried to digest itself to give me any form of nutrition, but I managed to focus long enough to, once again, acknowledge the ponies sitting at the kitchen table as being the ones that took me to their house and rescued me after I made a break for it into the forest nearby.
And being the sensible person I am I leaned against the door frame and interrupted the beginning of their breakfast with a little question.

“Hey there. Got anything left for me to munch? My stomach is kinda making the rumblings right now.”

Both of them immediately froze in place and dropped their folks, which they held with their magic, I assumed, since the glow around their horns was matching the glow on the utensils used, to the cold hard tiled floor in order to properly gape at me.

We stayed like this until their eyes slowly went down my body and they both developed a heavy blush. I was a bit puzzled at first, as to why they would just blush when I’m standing in front of them.
It’s not like they developed a sick interspecies fetish while I was asleep on their couch or something.
And then it dawned on me. My eyes widened, my pupils shrank and my gaze wandered down my own body for the confirmation of my fears and, clear as day, my pride was not only hanging out, but instead I just walked in on them in my Adams costume. And it was lacking the most important part, the leave.

My cheeks turned beet red in an instant and we all simultaneously began to scream. The two unicorns girly screams because I was standing before them, flashing what I got and I for forgetting to put something on or around myself as well as being incredibly ashamed.

Waking up with an utterly empty stomach and running in the kitchen with two females I had known for all but two minutes at most, if seeing them counted, sitting at the table just about to start their breakfast and me interrupting them stark naked? Sounded like me on an empty stomach and sleepiness still fighting over my consciousness alright. Yay me!

The two of them immediately spun around, hiding their faces behind their front hooves and ears snapping back as their blushes were intensifying tenfold.

I on the other hand fared far better than them. I dropped my posing, clutched my hands in front of my privates and hastily blabbered out some apologies.

“I’m sorry! Totally forgot I was naked! Sorry! I… I’ll be back in a second! Please don’t be mad at me!” I forced out, turning on my heels to sprint back to the couch to grab my safety blanket.

As soon as I was there I swiftly recovered the view obscurer and wrapped it around me. After that I ran back to the kitchen and was about to blurt out more apologies and show them that I wasn’t showing off anything anymore, as my adrenalin sunk to the critical mass and the pain from my wound was coming in like a sledge hammer hitting my back full force.

Just as I reached the door I fell over on my hands before the pain shot through my arms into my back and I rolled onto my side, a few whimpers escaping my mouth.

The unicorn mares heard that and turned around again, spying through the gap between their hooves and gasping at my winding form on the ground.

“Ow! God damnit!” I swore loudly. “That hurts like hell!”

The blue one sprang into action at first; leaping from her chair and over to my body.

“What are you doing? Your wounds are not healed enough to be running around just yet. Wait a second. I’ll cast a painkiller spell on you.” She all but shouted in my direction as her horn began to glow a deep dark blue.

I felt the pain subside as it was giving way to a lingering tingling sensation I could deal with easily.
My muscles unclenched themselves as I heaved a sigh of relieve and laid mostly still.

“Thank you. That felt good.” I thanked the mare in front of me with a smile on my face.

But instead of answering, her worried expression slowly slipped away from her face and was replaced with another blush and eyes widening in alarm. I looked past her to ask the other unicorn what was wrong with her friend, but she hadn’t even moved an inch and had the same expression on her face as the other one, staring at me wide eyed.

“What? Is something wrong? I said I am grateful that you eased my pain. Hello?” I added, waving my hand in front of her face, but she didn’t react at all.

Well, that was awkward.

A minute passed with neither of them moving and I slowly grew antsy.
I snapped my fingers in front of the blue unicorn sitting before me and managed to get her out of her stupor at last.

“Huh? Wha…?” she tried to say unintelligibly.

“I said thank you for helping me out. The pain was really bad.” I said again.

“Oh. Uhm. Sure.” She replied blush still lingering on her face.

“Uhm. Not to interrupt you or anything,” I said, propping up my head and steadying my body with my left arm, “but is there a reason why you are blushing again?”

The blue mare in front of me suddenly snapped back to reality completely and gave me a death stare with eyes and cheeks practically burning.

“Yes there is you pervert!” she yelled, pointing an accusing hoof at me. “You don’t go around flashing your… your thing in a mares face when you are in the mood for something! That’s just gross! Do you have any kind of decency?!”

“Uuuum… Come again?” I replied

“And then you get off from me casting a spell on you! Males! All the same!” the mare began to seethe.

“Wait.” I stopped the oncoming verbal onslaught of the mare, holding my free hand in front of her face to which she moved her head back slightly.

“Why would you think I was flashing anything on purpose? I was just waking up when I smelled those pancakes and my body went on autopilot. Before I knew what I was doing I already stood in the door frame and addressed you two. It simply slipped my mind that I wasn’t wearing anything. And how come you think I’d get off to your magic? More so when it’s directed at my back and not down there.” I finished with my hands making all the necessary movements.

“Really? Are you that stupid?” the green one finally groaned and joined in on the discussion.
“We were cleaning your wounds when we got back here and your clothes were in the way, so we took them off with our magic. That alone was enough that your member came out of its sheath. And now that Colgate applied magic directly at you, you play innocent?” she rested her case, eyebrow arched; front legs crossed and blush still present on her face.

“Wait. What do you…?” I started, but my mind clicked in place and the wheels began turning, setting everything together.
“Oh. You think that I… And then assumed that… Concluding that… Bwahahahahaha!” I broke down laughing, slamming my right fist on the ground rapidly as I tried to regain my composure.

Good thing she cast that painkiller spell on me or that would’ve been a short laughing fit.

“What’s so funny about you being a perverted sicko?!” the green mare, still sitting at the table, asked in an highly annoyed tone, her face starting to morph into a frown.

“Let me answer that with a question.” I wheezed, slowly coming down from my high. “Did you ever see anything like me in your whole entire lives or have any information on the subject?”

That shut them up for good. They tried to come up with something and rose one of their front legs several times and making an aha face, just to stop in mid movement and sink back down with a look of contemplation on their faces.

After a few minutes of inner debating they looked at each other.

“Got anything Lyra?” The blue unicorn named Colgate asked the green one which name was Lyra apparently.

“Nothing. You Colgate?” Lyra asked back.

“No. I got nothing either.” Colgate replied.

They were both turning to me again, now with slightly puzzled expressions.
“We’ve got nothing. You are a new species as it seems. But we can’t be too sure since we are no zoologists.” Colgate addressed me. “Why is that so important?” Lyra added, head tilting slightly to the side.

“Because, my dears, that means you know absolutely nothing about my anatomy.” I confronted them, grinning slightly all the while.

“No. You don’t mean to say…” Lyra started, eyes widening and head centering itself.

“Yes?”

“…that what we thought was flashing us was just how your body is and got nothing to do with our magic?” Colgate finished for the other mare.

“Exactly! You win a new skateboard!” I exclaimed happily.

I don’t know what it is, but with those two I seem to be happy. Don’t know why though.

They both gave me bewildered looks and worked their jaws, but nothing came out.

If anything their blushes were deepening once again and they looked down in embarrassment.

“You treat my wounds and the first thing you assume, even if you have never encountered something like me before, was that my body reacted in any way with your magic, because you thought that because of it my thing came out of my sheath?” I asked them sitting up on my behind and arching an eyebrow myself.

“Uhm… Kind of.” The blue unicorn mare admitted; face now glowing red with embarrassment.

Both of them were now looking away from me, ears drooping and looked like they would want to crawl into a hole until nobody would know them anymore.

“Oh that’s so rich!” I laughed, tears forming in the corners of my eyes, as I couldn’t keep the straight face anymore.

And again, both of them looked at me with bewilderment in their eyes.

“You are not mad at us?” they asked me in unison eyebrows moving up.

“Why would I? It’s too hilarious!”

“Bu… but, we misjudged you and even offended you. And you laugh about that? Why?” Colgate cut in.

“Well.” I breathed deeply to calm down again. “First of all, I’m a laid back guy. Offending me is no easy feat. Second, you made assumptions and that is what everybody makes if confronted with an alien life form. And until you have further proof of what said life form is you only have those to go by. In my case you could ask me but that is not always a given. And considering my out cold state for most of the time we spend together, asking me was a bit out on the left field. Third, I just feel happy when I’m close to you. I don’t know why, but it is the case. And you are just too cute for me to be mad at you for longer than point five seconds.”

The sight my eyes beheld was glorious. With each passing word of mine their jaws went lower and lower until I was afraid they would fall off. But at least their ears went up again and weren’t stuck to their heads anymore.

Now that my little explanation was over, they came to and both shoved their mouths shut with a front hoof, making a clicking sound.

Now still with a light blush, though I think it is due to me calling them cute, they stare at me, mouths opening and closing like a fish sucking in food.

“Logic’ed.” I laughed, stood up and walked to the kitchen table to sit on a chair.
While doing this I saw the mares slowly processing what I just said until Colgate finally snapped out of it.

“Uuuum… Yeah. That was pretty much on the spot.” She replied, with a sheepish grin forming on her face.

“Then you can clearly tell us why you ran away from us even though you knew we were sapient and could talk with you. In the same language even.” Lyra butted in from the side lines, brows furrowed and mouth in a slight frown.

Now it was my turn to feel embarrassed.
I rubbed my neck with a hand bowed my head slightly down and stared on the wooden table like it was a very rare and interesting sight.

“Well… To tell the truth, I didn’t know who you were, and still know next to nothing except for your names, and wasn’t so sure about your intentions. For all I knew you took in a creature that, by the looks in your eyes, you’ve never seen before and let it crash on your couch. Now I don’t know how that is here, but waking up in a house that is not yours isn’t really considered a good sign to someone where I come from. It actually mostly means that you’ve been kidnapped and some sicko is going to do weird things. It’s extremely rare that an individual is nice enough to do what you did and just take me in. So since I’m more used to the aforementioned sicko, I rather fled the scene to escape a possibly ugly fate than to stay and have my fears confirmed. And there was also the possibility that you could’ve gotten the government involved. And I don’t like things poking me and being an interesting test subject. No sire I kindly decline.” I told them, face turning red in the process.

“Uhm, you mean foalnapped? We’re ponies not deer you know. And why would anypony poke you with things or why would you be a test subject?” Lyra asked totally taken aback by my statement and clearly shocked my mind would wander to such places.

“Because that’s how government works like from where I am. When there is something new they never encountered before the first order of business is to assume that it can bring the end of all civilization as we know it. And until it is a proven fact that it’s safe in any way or form possible, it remains locked up and is being tested on. Doesn’t speak a language that they know or isn’t able to talk at all? Quarantine. We are generally a paranoid kin. But don’t think on it too much. You’ll only get puzzled.” I clarified.

“Okay. The Q&A time has to wait until later. We still have things to do and can’t concentrate on you too much. And as long as you stay inside everything should be fine.” The green mare argued, levitating the forks off of the ground and over to the sink with a soft golden glow appearing around her horn and the cutlery.

“Aaaw, but I wanted to know more about him.” The other mare whined, standing up and walking back to her previous seat.

“Well. It seems like I’m stuck in this here house for some time, so I guess you can ask me lots and lots of questions when you have some free time. And even though I’m kind of trapped here, I won’t take advantage of your hospitality. I could do the house routine. You know like cleaning, cooking…” I offered them generously.

“That’d be good.” The blue unicorn answered with a little smile. “You okay with that Lyra?”

“As long as he behaves himself and isn’t seen by anypony except us it should work out. Just know I’m watching you.” The green mare stretched the words as she fished new forks out of a drawer, taking them in her magical grip.

As we all sat at the table, there was suddenly a sound like a cat arguing with another, what kinda sounded like baby screams when they got louder, and everybody instantly turned their head to me.
Those noises came from my stomach, which I’ve been neglecting all that time and now it decided to take it to the next level and moan loudly.

“Uhm… About the pancakes again...”

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After the two unicorns gave the creature some of their pancakes to stop the unholy noises his stomach was bringing forth, they cleaned up the dishes and sat down in the living room together.

“So. Now before we go out we have to set some things straight.” Lyra began, sitting down on the couch with Colgate, while the creature sat down on a chair with the back of it turned to them and sitting with his arms crossed on it, chin resting on the crossed arms.

“Shoot when you’re ready.” He disclaimed lazily, looking at the two unicorn mares.

“Okay so first of all, what are you and what’s your name?” the mint blue mare asked away enthusiastically and received a dirty look from her comrade for just blabbering.

“Hey. I don’t want to always refer to him as a creature and when we know his name we can address him properly too.” She defended herself, turning her head back to him.

“Totally understandable and reasonable right?”

“Yep. That it is.” The creature answered smiling.

“Aaaw!” the other mare groaned frustrated. “Alright. Just get it over with quickly so we can get started on the important stuff.”

“Right, right. So first order of business. My name is Robert and I am a human. And since I know you probably don’t have the slightest idea what in the name god that is I’ll tell you that too. A human is a, as you can clearly see, bipedal being. We originate from either a god that just set us on the world or evolved from apes. You know what apes are right?”

“That we know.” Lyra assured bemused. “Now continue we have a schedule to keep.”

“Jeeesh Lyra. Why so antsy? We’ve got enough time for this.” Her teammate cut in, giving her a flat look.

“Alright. Just get it over with. He’s not that interesting.” The mint green unicorn harrumphed and lay down on her stomach.

“Good. Now that she’s out of the way,” Colgate said and promptly received a nudge in the side for this. “Can you tell us what happened while we were away? I want to know how you managed to wake up and get out. I mean the invisibility spell was still on you, but we met a mare that saw you entering the Everfree Forest, so you must’ve had something to disrupt the spell.”

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘managed to wake up’, I just did. I was sleeping and woke up like normal. No big deal.” Robert replied, shrugging.

“But I had a sleeping spell on you that should keep you from waking up and causing a commotion.”

“Well, it didn’t. I also tried to find something to drink when I woke up and tried the sink in the kitchen. Being lucky old me, there was no water pressure on the pipes, so no water there. After that I looked for another sink and found one in the bathroom upstairs. At that point I thought that, maybe, you were just a dream and some of my kin found me on a shore and took me in. That was until I looked in the mirror and saw nothing. My reflection was missing. I jumped back and down on the ground in shock and digested that for a moment. After a minute or two of recovering I stood up again and found my reflection being there again. I thought my mind played tricks on me and splashed water in my face. Then I heard the noises from the street coming in through the window and assumed that I stranded in some kind of medieval town. You know vendors on the streets and the rustic smell. But when I looked out and saw pegasi flying around, unicorns carrying their bags without touching them and the normal ponies pulling carts and stuff, all with bright and colorful coats; I freaked.”

“I knew you were not a dream and panicked. I wanted to run out and away for good, but my rational part caught up to me and told me it would be bad to attract attention. I knew you’d come back eventually and opened the back door. Then I hid in the closet in the hallway at the front door and waited for you. And just when you ran to the living room, Colgate, I slipped out through the door and sneaked my way through town until I was in the clear.”

“But that shouldn’t be possible!” Colgate shouted in shock.

“You should’ve been asleep and invisible the whole time we were away! That shouldn’t be possible!” she erupted, throwing both her front hooves in his direction.

“Oh but as you see it is. You saw me wide awake and fully visible in the forest beating those stick-wolves. Don’t know what they really are though.” The human cut in, yet again prolonging the discussion.

“Yeah, we saw you. You were getting marehoovled by them. And until we shot them, you looked like their early lunch to me. And for your information, those were Timberwolves. Nasty things. Don’t go near them or their territory if you cherish life.” Lyra retorted with a sharky grin.

“Gee. I wonder if I can remember that somehow. Oh if I just had a reminder of this encounter that would stop me from doing such foolish things again.” The man wailed in fake despair, holding the back of his right hand to his forehead, closing his eyes and turning slightly away with his head.
He held that sarcasm dripping pose for several seconds before he lowered his hand again and turned to the mint green mare with a flat look.

“Oh come on. Don’t give me that. You ran into there on your own and we even rescued and patched you up again as best as we could. Give me a break.” The annoyed unicorn snorted, waving it all away with a front hoof.

“I didn’t say anything!” Robert gasped in mock surprise that Lyra would accuse him for his foolishness, lifting the hand that he just used for his little drama show to lay his fingers on his chest.

“Colgate my dear, did you hear me say anything?” he asked the mint blue mare with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

The mare caught on what he was doing and just barely suppressed a giggle. “No I didn’t. Lyra? Are you certain that you didn’t misinterpret anything?” she asked her teammate, barely keeping a wide grin from creeping up the edges of her mouth and turning into full blown laughter.

“Oooooh! For Celestia’s sake Colgate! You side with him?” the mare facehoofed and dragged her limb slowly down her face, rage slowly boiling up inside of her.

“Okay, okay we’ll stop.” The man assured waving his hands in front of him in a defensive manner.

“But back to the subject. Yes I was awake and visible. You said I shouldn’t be and I have not the slightest idea why I wasn’t anymore. It could be that I’m a natural magic repellant or that I just react differently on it. Maybe it just doesn’t affect me that much because I’m dissolving it. Whatever it is I have no idea whatsoever.”

“That could all very well be, but we can’t say for certain until we know more about your nature.” Colgate mumbled; hoof stroking her chin while she was thinking.

“But that’s not really important right now.” The mint green mare said calmly, addressing the human.

“The important thing is that nopony sees you or hears you until we are ready to break the news to Princess Celestia. She’ll want to know about you since you seem to be an unknown being that just appeared out of nowhere. And I assure you that she is the fairest ruler you’ll find anywhere. So don’t worry and try to run away again.” She said in a soothing tone.

“Nah. Won’t do that again. And besides I think I can trust your judgment on this one. I’m not here to cause any trouble and I doubt she’d do something to me when I’m no threat to her subjects. Besides. When she should go bonkers because of whatnot, you two will get in and get me the hell out of there right?” he clarified his actions and demands.

“That is acceptable, but if the princess wants you imprisoned for whatever reason, we can’t do anything about it. We can always try to argue with her to make her see that you mean no harm to us, but that’d be the only thing we could do when push comes to shove. We will however try to get through this without causing a panic. Now if it is all the same I think we should be going. We have quite the week ahead and I don’t want any nasty surprises waiting for our guest of honor when the preparations for the ceremony are in the final stage. Just remember; low profile.” The mint green unicorn said, holding out a hoof to Robert.

“Take it or leave it. It’s your decision.” Colgate threw in from the side, wearing a small comforting smile.

“I’ll take it.” The human said, grasping Lyra’s hoof in his hand and shaking it. “It’s a deal. I keep a low profile like being invisible and mute and will do chores in the house and you help me out with other things like food and getting through that minefield called monarchy.”

“Good.” The mint blue mare threw in. “Just a question. What is a minefield?”

“Doesn’t matter. It’s a saying from my place. Means moving in dangerous territory.”

“Well, whatever. We have to get moving. See you when we get back… Robert was it?”

“Yep.”

“Hmmm… Strange name. Well, none of our business. You coming Colgate?”

“Yeah. Let’s go.”

The two unicorn mares stood up and headed out the front door into the Ponyville morning, while Robert got up too and walked over in the kitchen to clean the dishes.

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The mares walked through the waking town, sun just a little bit above the horizon and morning dew glistening on the grass. The early birds were chirping in nearby trees and a few stray salesponies walked about, getting goods to their shops.
Over their heads some pegasi were already arranging the weather for the day and between them a derpy eyed grey coated and blond maned mailmare with a blue vest and hat of the same color with little wings on it and postal saddlebags on her back, flew from house to house, dropping letters or packages in mail boxes. Whenever she’d meet a pony just exiting the building she was delivering mail to, she would stop for a moment and talk with them before waving goodbye and taking off to the next mail box.

“Hey Colgate, isn’t that one of the mares the major warned us about?” Lyra asked, pointing her hoof at the now hovering pegasus.

Following the hoof of the other mare the mint blue unicorn chocked her head slightly and eyed the mailmare more closely.

“Yes, I think that’s her. I think hers was the M word. But she looks a bit lost.” Colgate replied, beginning to walk in the direction of the seemingly confused pegasus.

“Hey. What do you think you are doing there?” the mint green mare questioned her comrade.

“Trying to help her out. She’s obviously lost and when we help her we gain points with the ponies here and they will accept us faster.” The mare reasoned with her head turned halfway backwards to the other unicorn, as she was approaching the still hovering pegasus mare.

Rolling her eyes Lyra followed her teammate to the mailmare.

As they got to her, the mare was still looking around now with a package in her hooves and reading the label on it, oblivious to the presence of the two newcomers.

“Excuse me Miss.” The mint blue unicorn mare began. “You seem a bit lost. Is there any way we could help you?”

The pegasus mare jumped slightly in the air, being ripped away from her thoughts and blinked several times, before looking at the two unicorns.

“No, no. It’s okay. I’m just… Wait. You are the two mares that moved here from Canterlot right?” She held the package up to her face. “Lyra and Colgate.”

“Yes we are, but how…” Colgate started to say, but was interrupted by the mailmare.

“It was easy to figure out. Nopony calls me Miss. My name is Derpy Hooves, but just Derpy is fine. Everypony in town calls me that. So with you addressing me the way you did I knew right away that you just recently came here. And for your names; they are on the package. When Pinkie Pie gave it to me this morning she said that it was for the two new unicorn mares in town. So I counted two and two together.” The grey mare replied, smiling slightly.

“Well, that makes sense.” Lyra stated dumbfounded. “Wait. The package is from Pinkie Pie? What did she send us?”

“I don’t know.” Derpy answered shrugging, holding the package out to the two mares in front of her. “We are not allowed to open packages or ask of their contents. It’s one of the most important rules in the mail delivering business.”

“Thank you.” Colgate said, grabbing it with her deep blue magic aura and set it down in front of her.

“No problem. Now I have to go. Have a nice day you two.” The grey pegasus answered, flying away from them and waving goodbye.

They looked at the leaving mare until she made a one eighty turn in the air and came straight back to them.

“Uhm… Just for the record. Where is your house again?” she asked sheepishly grinning.

“We were told it belonged to a stallion named Lucky Slevin before he went away to Las Pegasus. Do you know where that is?”

“Oh yeah. He was a nice stallion. I know where it is. Thank you. Now I can replace his name on my route with yours.”
She flew away again and now the two unicorn mares were sitting in the middle of the street with a package from Pinkie Pie in front of them.

“What do you think?” the mint green mare asked.

“Hm?” the other mare hummed as she was broken out of the strange situation that was still running through her head.

“About the package? What do you think she send us?”

“I don’t know. And I’m not sure that I want to find out in the middle of the street.”

“You’re right. It’s still early. Let’s go to the park and open it there.” Lyra said, taking the package in her gold colored magic and went in the direction of the park.

Ten minutes later the two unicorns had found a bench that was standing next to a little pond and right under a cherry blossom tree. The sun was casting a long golden glow over the surface of the pond and several petals fell from the tree as a gust of wind blew through its branches.

Sitting on the bench with Pinkie Pie’s package in between them, the two unicorn mares looked at each other.

“Ready?” the mint green mare asked, engulfing the flaps of the package with her magic.

“Ready.” The other mare answered, staring intently at the light brown cube in front of her.

“Okay. Here goes nothing.” Lyra said, opening up the box.

The flaps lifted up and inside of the box, they could see two cupcakes sitting in it, together with a letter.

Pulling the letter out with her deep blue magic, Colgate ripped it open to see what the crazed pink party pony had written, but suddenly a cloud of confetti, streamers and even some balloons popped out of the envelope, scaring both of them half to death.

“GAAAAH!” they both yelled as the magic around the envelope vanished and it fell to the ground.

After that encounter the mares were holding one of their front hooves to their chests, trying to keep their rapidly beating heart under control.

A minute passed and Lyra regained her breath. “What the buck is wrong with this mare? How did she even do it? I mean I was expecting something like this from the box, but not the envelope!” she wheezed, pointing an accusing hoof at the envelope lying on the ground.

“I don’t know and I honestly don’t want to.” The other mare replied still a bit out of breath.

“On second thought I don’t want to know either.” The mint green unicorn added. Her face trapped in between rage and confusion.
“But now I want to see what she wrote.” She said, grabbing the envelope, taking out the letter inside and reading it aloud.

“Dear Lyra and Colgate,
I hope you remember that there is still a ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ party waiting for you and that you’ll have to give me a time and place to set it up.
Oh. And those cupcakes are a little pre party pastries for you to enjoy. Don’t want you to have to get through your first days in Ponyville without at least a bit party spirit until your party.
I was so sad when Fluttershy came to me and told me that your party would have to be cut short, because you had something very important to do.
A fast reply would be superduperific.

Pinkie”

“That mare.” She groaned as she finished the letter and put it down; hoof slowly connecting with her face and being dragged down.

“I think we should reply as fast as possible.” The mint blue mare stated. “Who knows when she’ll send the next package.”

“You’re right Colgate. We should think of something. Hey. Maybe we can have our party at Sugarcube Corner this afternoon. What with our situation at home and all. What do you say?” Lyra asked her.

“Sounds good enough for me. If we are allowed to take the party there that is.” The mint blue unicorn replied.

“Sure thing. That’s no problem. I’ll send out the invitations.” Pinkie Pie’s voice came from the envelope just before she herself jumped out and ran towards town.

“I… Wha… Did she just…? Nope! Not going to think about it. I simply can’t care enough.” Lyra shook her head and walked away snatching one of the cupcakes up with her magic.

Colgate in the meantime had her eyes wide as dinner plates and was gaping at the tiny piece of folded paper, mouth hanging wide open. Upon hearing her teammate leaving in confusion she automatically began trotting after her, taking the box, envelope, letter and her cupcake with her.

“Let’s never talk about this ever again.” The mint green mare stated as the other unicorn caught up to her.

“Mhm.” Replied the other one, still staring blankly ahead and trying to wrap her head around what just happened.

The two walked in silence until they were at the gates of the Ponyville Park. That’s when the mint blue mare broke the serenity of the rustling leaves and soft gusts of wind with her voice.

“Did Pinkie Pie just come out o…?”

The mare suddenly felt something in her mouth blocking any more words from spilling out. She looked down and saw a mint green hoof stuck there. A glance towards its owner assured her that she should shut her trap immediately.

“Never again.” Her teammate hissed with brows furrowed. “Let it be.”

The unicorn mare nodded slowly and the hoof was drawn from her mouth, a little saliva still sticking to it.

“And now I think we should head home and take a nice long day off until the party of this crazy pink party pony starts. I think we’ll need it. Desperately.” Lyra sighed as she rubbed the excess saliva into the grass beneath her hooves.

“B…But the princess’s pupil will be here soon. We can’t just take a day off.” Colgate argued her ears falling flat on her head, thinking of the punishment that awaited them if they’d slack on their duties.

“That’s not a problem.” The mint green unicorn reassured her teammate with a nudge in the shoulder. “Our task is to find out if there are any dangers hiding in Ponyville that could threaten Princess Celestia’s star pupil. And with a big you know what going on we can investigate on the matter even better. We know that Pinkie Pie throws, that, for Everypony new in town and that a good percentage of it is probably going to come to it since she is scary even in her happy demeanor. And when we are there with Everypony else we can ask them how it is to live here and if there is something dangerous we should know about the place. If they refuse to talk we can still use a mind reading spell and get the information we need that way.”

“You are probably right.” The mint blue unicorn sighed, head drooping low and eyes closed. “I’m just worried you know.”

“Don’t be. We are two mares of the special force of the Royal Guard. We can take on far bigger things than some commoners slacking in means of manners. Besides. Do you want to go through town time and time again just to snuff up the tiniest bit of information when the wielders of the information are coming to us willingly?” the mint green mare snorted, laughing at the thought.

“No. You’re right of course. But it feels like we are going slack on our duties. No matter how easy it’ll become to gather the required information.” The other unicorn frowned, shifting a sad eye in the direction of her mint green comrade.

“We’re not!” Lyra protested, tail swishing behind her viciously, making the other mare lift her head. “With the party we can gather information and gain the trust of the townsfolk easier. And the princess said we should befriend them anyways. The better we’re fitting in the better we can fulfill our task.”

“Well. When you look at it like that you do have a valid point.” The mint blue unicorn mare answered, a sly grin spreading on her face. “It seems your brain is useful when you’re using it once in a while.”

“Yeah I know I’m go… Wait. What do you…? Oh just wait till I get you!” the mare shrieked, turning to the other unicorn to get back at her, but found herself facing a dust cloud.

“As if that’ll ever happen!” Colgate yelled over her shoulder while she galloped off into the distance, giggling like a school filly.

“Gaaaarhg!!!” the mint green mare screamed in feigned anger and set into a fast sprint to catch up with her teammate, a grin spreading itself on her face.

The two mares chased each other down until they reached their house again, manes billowing in the wind and hooves digging into the ground.

Once they reached the doorstep they skidded to a halt and breathed heavily through their mouths while they fell to their haunches.

“We clearly have to exercise more Lyra.” Colgate wheezed out, still laughing a bit even though her breaths were ragged. “We’re just not in form anymore.”

“Right you are. But we can begin training when we are through with the whole ordeal of the princess’s student coming here. Now I’m more concerned about us resting up for the thing Pinkie Pie is planning for us this evening.” The mint green mare stated, fishing out the key to their house and opening the door to let them in.

Once they were inside however their jaws popped open in amazement and saliva threatened to drip from their muzzles.

The inside of the building was so clean that one could eat from every surface and the scent of fresh baked bread wafted through their nostrils.

“We were gone for three or four hours and he managed to do all that?” Colgate asked, more to herself than the other mare standing next to her.

“Seems like I underestimated him big time.” The other unicorn whistled and stepped forward, placing her saddlebags in the closet by the door.

“Both of us.” The mint blue mare gaped, slowly setting her own saddlebags aside, entering the house properly.

As the two of them walked into the living room and set the package from Pinkie Pie, with the muffins still untouched, on the table residing in the room and called out in unison.

“Robert? Where are you?”

“I’m here!” the voice of the human spilled from the kitchen.

The mares turned to it and walked in the tile floored room. The male was sitting sideways on one of the chairs, with his clothes back on and arms lay on his knees with his face to the oven and looked at a little kitchen timer on top of it.

“You are back early. Is something the matter?” Robert asked; head turning in their direction as her heard the first hoof hitting the tiles.

“Our plans changed and we decided to make it a lazy day until we head out in the evening.” Lyra told him, sniffling deeply. “So you’re baking fresh bread.” She continued.

“Yes I am. After I cleaned the house I had nothing to do and thought you’d appreciate a little fresh made something for lunch. I hope you like cinnamon rolls.” He replied turning his head back to the timer.

“But you didn’t have to do all this. And besides, what about your wound? You can’t just walk around and do things like that with something like this weighing you down.” The mint blue mare scolded, voice full of concern.

“Ah, don’t worry. I can’t feel it anymore so it should be better.” The human answered with a dismissive wave of his hand.

“Wait a second. Oh horseapples! The painkiller spell is still active!” Colgate yelled, startling the other two occupants of the room. “Take your shirt off! Now!”

The male did as he was instructed, still a bit puzzled drawing up his shirt and tossing it aside.

There it was. The wound on his back was not healing properly, but instead widened due to the work the human did in the absence of the two unicorns.
They both gaped at it and their eyes grew wide and then shrunk to mere pinpricks in seconds. Their ears flinched backwards and their tails tugged themselves in between their legs.

“It’s gotten worse!” The mint blue unicorn mare screamed in shock and the human panicked.

“What? It’s gotten worse?!” he snapped in terror and froze.

That’s when the mares felt it. It was like a surge going through them, making them dizzy for a moment or two, before Robert let out an ear piercing scream.
Both of them rushed to the now kneeling human in a heartbeat.

“What is it? What’s wrong?” the mint green mare asked concerned.

“Th…The pain. I…It’s back.” He pressed out between gritted teeth clutching his barrel tight.

We have to do something! Fast! We have to heal him!” Colgate yelled igniting her horn and lowering it to the wound on the humans back.

“Not you alone.” Her comrade cut in, lowering her glowing horn to the same spot. “You know that we use up our own life energy when we cast this spell.”

Both of them let the magic seep deep into the tissue of the man crouching on the ground and the wound on his back slowly but constantly closed. As it was but faint scars that would vanish with time, both of them groaned and cut off their spell, falling in a sitting position beside the human.

“Let’s not do this again so soon.” Lyra coughed in her hoof. “We spend a good amount of energy on that spell and it would’ve knocked you out if you tried it alone.”

The scolding of her teammate reached Colgate’s ears, but all she managed to do was nodding her head weakly in approval.

Meanwhile Robert took his hands from his barrel and moved a bit. There was no pain in his back anymore and when he stood up and looked in a mirror, he saw what the mares had done.

“You healed me! That is awesome!” he exclaimed happily. “Thank you so much.”

“Not a problem.” The blue mare grinned and stood on shaky legs.

“Hey. What’s wrong with you? Do you feel unwell?” he asked bowing down to examine the mares closer.

“Haven’t you heard what I said earlier?” the mint green unicorn asked him, eyebrow quirked and legs as shaky as the other mares. “I said this spell directly takes energy from our life’s energy and helps others heal. So it’s only natural that we are a bit winded after what we just did.”

“But why? Why would you do that?”

“Well. Seeing as you were suffering in pain and we are just beaten like a full day of work now, I think it was a good decision. Although somepony was not too thoughtful about it.” She replied giving a sideward glance to the mare lying next to her.

“I get it. I get it.” The mint blue unicorn wheezed. “No healing severe injuries alone.”

“Good. Now could you give us something to get our strength back? We are quite literally starving.”

Not a second after she finished that sentence, the timer on top of the oven rang and a small grin spread on the man’s face. “Care for some cinnamon rolls and apple juice?”

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A few hours later the three sat in the living room, a hot cocoa placed on the table for each one of them.

“Thank you for the cinnamon rolls again.” The mares bowed their heads and took a sip from the mugs held in their magical grasp.

“No problem at all. You are giving me shelter and even healed my wound. It was nothing compared to the generosity you are showing towards me.” The human nodded and blew on the steaming hot cocoa.

“We still appreciate it.” Colgate said, taking a whiff of her drink. “But there is one thing nagging on my mind still.”

“What is it?” asked the other mare, taking a long sip from the drink and sighing contently.

“The moment after Robert panicked and before he started screaming, I felt something like a wave passing through me and making me dizzy for a moment. If I didn’t know any better I’d say it was an anti-magic field nullifying the painkiller spell and rustling our inhabitant magic. At least that would explain why the pain in his back came crashing in again and why the dizziness set in. But that would mean somepony did that. And nopony can. It would counter with their own magic and cancel it again.” The mint blue mare stated matter of factly.

“It couldn’t come from a magic user. That we know. But that’d only leave Robert in the equation.” She mused, tapping her chin with a fore hoof.

“Hey. Maybe it is me.” He offered, shrugging. “At least that’d explain why I woke up before you lifted the spell and went visible. The shock in my dream caused your sleeping spell to break, and let me wake up. And the second shock when I was staring at the mirror and seeing no reflection broke the invisibility spell. As far as I know I’m coming from another world altogether and that could mean that I can repel magic whenever I want if I focus hard enough.”

“You think that might be possible?” The mint green unicorn asked, eyebrows rising in interest.

“Yeah. I mean it is the best I have. And we can always test it.” Robert offered giggling.

“What do you mean with ‘test it’?” the mint green mare asked head cocked to the side. “We’re not going to put you to sleep or turn you invisible just for the sake of it. That’d still cost precious energy I’d rather keep.”

“No. Nothing of that sort. I thought if you knew something like levitation or something easy that can be seen if the magic is broken, I could try to focus and dispel the magic. If it works then we know I can break your spells whenever I want.” Robert told the mares, smug grin plastered on his face.

“Hah! We’ll see about that! Levitation is one of the easiest spells and each unicorn learns it when they learn to manipulate magic at will. Furthermore it is hardly taxing. I bet I can hold you in the air easily.” The mint green unicorn boasted, standing on all fours and puffing her chest out.

“Okay. Challenge accepted.” The man replied with a smug expression himself. “But don’t lift me up too high. Just like a hoof above the ground. That should be enough. Don’t want to hurt myself again after you two fixed me up recently.”

“Okay then. Here goes nothing.” Lyra smirked and a golden glow engulfed her horn and the human, lifting him about a hoofs width in the air. “Let’s see you getting down from there.” The mare nickered.

Robert floated there, readying himself for the impact on the ground and shut his eyes in concentration.
The man seemed to be in deep thought for about five seconds until he opened his eyes and a wave, just like the one running through the unicorns in the kitchen, came forth from his body, immediately breaking the spell around him and making the mares dizzy once more.
He landed on the ground with a thud, waving his arms a bit for balance and stood proudly before the two mares with their eyes still spinning from the dizziness.

“Well. Looks like it was really me.” The human snickered hands now lying on his hips. “Hey! That means I can repel magic! How cool is that?”

“What does low temperature have to do with it?” Colgate scratched her head with a front hoof.

“Hmmm? Oh, sorry. Saying from my world. It means that something is good.” He replied waving a hand dismissively. “Don’t think about it too much. Just go with it.”

“We’ll try. But back to you being a magic nullifier.” Lyra cut in with a raised hoof pointing at the non-pony occupant of the room. “It’s a bit unsettling to have someone like you around. You know, no offense of course, but we don’t know if your ability only comes to light when you want it or if it just happens. It is just too risky. I mean, what happens when somepony comes to visit us and your nullifying field is activating itself? They’d feel it like we did and I’m not sure if we can play it off as just dizziness that happens sometimes, like when you jump up from a nap. And that wouldn’t be the worst of it. If you’d be invisible and it’d happen you’d be discovered and there’d be a panic for sure.”

The mare threw herself in a frenzy, thinking up scenarios left and right, until Robert laid a hand on her head, which prompted her to stop her rambling and look up to him.

“I wouldn’t be too worried about that Lyra. I willed the field into existence every time and until now nothing outside of them happened. So I’m fairly certain that I have full control over this. Would’ve been good if I knew that earlier. I could have stunned those… Timberwolves it was?” he asked looking at the unicorns with a questioning gaze, to which they nodded their heads in approval. “Yeah, Timberwolves and got to this town in the forest. I already saw the shapes of ponies milling about just before those suckers cut me off and I had to turn around again.”

“Wait. A town in the Everfree Forest? I never heard of something like this. All I know of is the ruins of the old castle of the princess. But never was there a town closer to the borders of the forest than Ponyville. Are you sure you are not mistaken and saw things as you hightailed away from the Timberwolves?” The mint green unicorn mare asked concerned.

“I’m absolutely sure. There was a town in the woods with ponies going about their daily business. Or better yet nightly business. Why is that important?”

“Well…We’re kind of part of a special forces team that ensures the safety of Equestria and we happen to have to investigate this here town. If there is any danger we are to erase it if possible and call reinforcements if not. And you just gave us a reason to worry. We don’t know why there is a town in the Everfree, but it is a matter of concern. I say we see to it tomorrow and if what you say is true, will investigate further. But for now we need rest. We have to go to a party this afternoon and want to have enough energy for it.” Colgate summed up and was about to stand up as a knocking came from the door.

“Hey! Lyra! Colgate! It’s me Pinkie!” the cheerful voice of the pink party pony echoed through the house. “I’m here to give you your invitations!”

The human looked up with a bewildered look on his face and was about to say something, as he saw the expression of horror on the faces of the two mares.

“Oh no! It’s her!” Lyra hissed between clenched teeth. “What do we do? She can’t see Robert!”

“Turn me invisible again!” the man answered her in the blink of an eye. “Fast!”

“Okay, okay.” The mint green mare hurried over to the human and began casting the spell. “Colgate, answer the door and block her out somehow. I need a moment.”

“Alright. I’m on it.” The other mare nodded and walked to the door. “I’m coming Pinkie!”

As the mare reached the door and opened it, a bouncing mass of pink pony came into her vision and she followed the movements with her head. “Hiya Colgate! I heard you talking with somepony in there? Is it a new friend of yours? Or an old one? Huh?” the pink mare bounced happily in front of the unicorn.

“I don’t know what you are talking about.” The unicorn mare gasped slightly; sweat appearing on the back of her neck. “It’s just me and Lyra in here. Nopony else.”

“Nuh uh. I heard a male voice coming from inside.” Pinkie Pie stated with a wide grin. “Can I see him?”

“Now’s not the best moment for that. We’ve things to do and…” Colgate started but was interrupted by the earth pony bouncing past her, giggling all the while.

Meanwhile inside Lyra heard what was going on at the front door and came to the conclusion that Pinkie would come here one way or another. And she had heard Robert, which means turning him invisible was not an option anymore.

Luckily she had built up enough magic to add just a bit more and perform a different spell. It was hard redoing it just like that, but she managed to alter the influence the magic would have on the man.

Just when she was halfway through, she heard Pinkie bouncing on the first floorboards in the hall. Now it was too late to complete the spell she was about to perform and so she decided to cut it short and hope for the best.

“I’m sorry Robert.” She silently muttered under her breath as her magical aura engulfed him and with a little flash completed the spell.

The man had no time to ask what the mint green mare did to him, as Pinkie Pie bounced around the corner and her eyes went wide as she saw him.

“Ow. Was that really necessary?” Robert whined with a voice too high for it to be his own.

“Yes it was.” Lyra said in a stern voice, like she’d scold a child. “We said no swearing and you swore. So I had to do this.”

Robert was completely taken aback as to why Lyra would say such things. He only knew of a sore spot on his hide that he kept rubbing as he sat on the ground rubbing it.

“Hi Lyra!” Pinkie beamed as she bounced over to the two. “Why did you discipline the little cutie? I’m sure he didn’t mean it and it just slipped out. Maybe he doesn’t even know what it means. You know; colts his age trend to pick up language from everywhere and use it.” The party pony added, ruffling Robert’s mane.

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To be honest, I was kind of surprised that the pink pony just bounced over and defended me. On the other hand Lyra scolded me for something I didn’t do and even talked to me like I’m a child. The nerve!
But I must say that it felt strangely good as she ruffled through my mane.

…

Wait a second. Mane?
Now that I think about it, why is she taller than me and why is…she…referring to…me as a… No!
No! She didn’t do what I think she just did!

Luckily I remembered that I’d have to act like a child in front of that pink mare as to keep my secret hidden.

I tapped on the hoof still rustling my mane and the earth pony mare looked at me.

“What is it little one?” she asked, baby blue eyes staring at me in wonder.

“Uhm… As nice as the petting of my mane is, I think I have to go to my room.” I told her in a downcast tone drooping ears and all. “Right mom?”

How I did the thing with my ears? No idea. Why I called her mom? Revenge! Plain and simple.

Oh the look she was giving me. So wonderful, so real, so shocked.

I barely caught myself from laughing then and there and kept my downcast mien.

I shakily rose to my newly acquired hooves and made my first attempts at walking. Let me say the change in perspective is not the only thing that is new to you when you are in my predicament.

I wobbled a bit and managed to completely regain my footing. Or should I call it hoofing now?
Luckily for me Colgate came in and saw me standing between the two mares.

I looked her in the eyes and a new idea sprang to life.
Slowly and quietly I sat on my rump again and began to tear up and sob.

Tell me those acting lessons were for naught one more time. Hah!

Whatever. My quiet sobbing got louder by the second and soon I was a teary wreck with hiccupping here and there.

“Auntie *sniff* Auntie Colgate! *hic* Mommy Sp…spanked me too *hic* hard, and now *sniff* my…my butt is all stingy.” I bawled like my life depended on it.
“Can you take me to my room? Please?”

With wide, pleading eyes and a quivering bottom lip for all real ponies to see I sat there and stretched my front hooves in Colgate’s direction, waiting patiently for her to pick me up.

The flabbergasted mare, standing in the doorway, quickly saw that it was me being a little colt and for all but a second her gaze zipped to the mint green spawn of Satan who put me in this measly body.

The look she gave my ‘mommy’ was one that could tame a bull if he was unfortunate enough to get into its range. And then I saw what I wanted to see all the time. A nearly unnoticeable twitch in her mouth that indicated a grin well hidden.
Now looking the accused mare in the eyes completely Colgate was in the act and started right away.

“Lyra! How often do I have to tell you to be more careful with your punishments! Your poor colt is going to walk funny for the rest of the day again! You should be ashamed!” the mint blue unicorn huffed, gesturing between me and Lyra with one of her front hooves.

“But I didn’t. I mean I haven’t…” ‘Mommy’ protested totally confused.

“No buts Lyra.” Colgate interrupted the other unicorn and I could see her horn glowing with a faint dark blue color. The next moment I felt something on my hindquarters as my ‘auntie’ looked at my ‘mommy’ with a stern gaze. Then the glow on her horn brightened and I was levitated in the air beside her, with my butt directed at the other two mares standing in the room.
“I know you had to punish him a bit, but look at what you’ve done! His hindquarters are all red again. You should really keep your emotions in stock when you do this. I’m going to take him to his room and you can think about what you’ve done in the meantime.”

I know she was referring to Lyra turning me into a little colt instead of making me invisible and not spanking her child. It was like an inside joke. Well, for the two of us. Lyra on the other hand had a stern looking pink pony standing next to her and no means of escape.
Not my problem. I could hear that the earth pony mare sighed, while Colgate was carrying me upstairs and out of sight. Once we were around a corner at the top floor she sat me down again and we both listened in on the mares below. Oh eavesdropping you guilty pleasure.

They went for the front door and, for the sake of being in this body I’ll stay with my version of their names, auntie and I heard mommy saying goodbye to the pink mare.

“Goodbye Pinkie. It was nice of you to come by. But now I have to take care of my colt.”

“Okie dokie lokie. But don’t forget that your party is in a few hours. And now it’s even an ‘Oh-my-gosh-three-new-ponies-in-Ponyville-welcome-party-party’. And don’t forget to bring the little cutie with you. I’m sure he’ll find some new friends there.” Pinkie said in an enthusiastic tone.
Upstairs I and auntie froze in place and I’m sure the same thing happened to mommy at the door.
We looked at each other and cold sweat ran down both our faces.
I only hoped that mommy wouldn’t make a horrible mistake and say that I’d co…

“Sure. He’ll be there with us. But be a bit patient with him. He’s a bit shy.”

Aaaaaw shit.

“Wohoo! I’m sure he’ll have lots of fun!” the pink earth pony mare exclaimed happily and a shudder ran down my spine.

“I’m sure he will. See you at the party Pinkie. Goodbye.” Mommy said, closing the door.

“You too.” Came the reply before the door fell shut.

The following silence was nearly deafening.
None of us spoke a word as auntie levitated me in the air again and we went downstairs. Once we got there we saw mommy still standing in front of the closed door, staring at it as if the end of the world would await her, would she dare to open it again.
Auntie Colgate tapped her on the shoulder as she passed her by and went in the living room again and mommy followed.

Once we were seated on the couch we all deflated.

“Well. Seems like we are all going to a party.” Mommy sighed with her eyes distant and full of worry.

“Are you nuts?!” I yelled into the silence. “I don’t even know how to walk on hooves! How am I supposed to survive a party? That’s insane!”

“No it’s not.” Colgate said calm and collected. “And even if it is, we can’t do anything about it now. Pinkie Pie knows of you and I bet it would be suspicious if we’d come to the party without you in tow. And walking on hooves is not that hard to learn. We can show you how. Just please play along for a while. Maybe they’ll accept you easier if they know how you are before they know who, or better what you are.”

“I’m still not sure. It’s not like I want to avoid everyone. Making friends here might help me getting back home. But directly jumping full front into a party where I’m a total stranger. That seems contra productive to me.”

“Oh. But it is not.” Mommy countered. “We ponies, for the most part, are very social creatures. On get-togethers like this party we can meet new ponies and tighten bonds we already had. Sure the way Pinkie does it is, very uncommon and a bit disturbing if you ask me, but I’m sure it won’t be too bad.”

I thought about her words for a minute or two. On one hand she was right and gaining the trust of the citizens and their friendship could do wonders when I reveal myself, but on the other hand the consequences that could possibly arise were not to be looked past.

“Alright. I’ll go to this party with you.” I hold up a hoof to their grateful faces.
“But.”

“But?” they asked as one, leaning closer to me.

“But you’ll have to show me how to work this body correctly and I’ll refer to you as my mom and aunt at all times I’m in this body. You know who is who already so I’ll jump the explanation. Any problems with that?” I stated flatly, looking them both in the eyes deeply.

“Why do I have to be your mother?” Lyra whined with her ears lowering back against her head.

“Because, my dear mother, you made me. Well, you created the body I’m in now and because of this you’ll have to shoulder the punishment of being my mother for the time being.” I retorted, grinning at her.

She looked at me like she was about to lose it.

“But I did my best! It’s not my fault that Pinkie Pie was too fast and I had to change spells on a Bit. I really wanted to turn you invisible, but Pinkie heard you and was on her way to us. So I couldn’t turn you invisible anymore. And since I had no time, gathering more magic to create an adult body was impossible. And that’s why I had no choice but to turn you into a colt. I’m sorry for that, but who could know what would happen?” she rambled, eyes pleading me to understand her and watering a bit.

“Ungh. Okay.” I groaned. “Since I’m in this body and we don’t want any pony in this town getting suspicious I’ll play along. And from the looks of things I think I’ll have to attend school here. At least I saw a building that looked like a schoolhouse to me on my way in the forest. And I assure you that I’m okay with that too. It gives me the opportunity to learn more about your world. And you’ll have to teach me the basics of what I should know before I go out there. I think my speech pattern might be a bit strange to someone when they hear me speaking.”

Both of them looked at me in shock as to how easy I seemed to adjust to the situation.

“Sure. We’ll do that.” Auntie Colgate answered. “Uhm. I think we’ll start with the walking and go over to the history lessons and speech patterns along the way. Is that acceptable for you?”

“That’s fine.” I reassured them. “Oh. But before we forget it. I think I’ll need a new pony name. I don’t think ponies will be accepting Robert as a normal pony name. Any ideas?”

The two mares looked at each other for several seconds until Colgate spoke up.

“How about…?”