Interdemensional Magic and Loyalty, plus Sarcasm

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes lazily to see clouds above her, and she was lying on her back. She didn't feel like moving, she simply watched the clouds roll across the blue sky above her. Eventually her half asleep brain worked out a thought.

'those clouds... are really high...'

Following her astute observation she reached upwards towards one of the clouds. No pastel blue hoof attempted to fluff the cloud though. A peach colored limb ending in, oh, what did diamond dogs call them... hands, yes a hand did in its place. Rainbow waved the limb lazily in front her, It was nearing a minute before she realized it was her limb. If she wasn't in as much shock as she was from her discovery, she would have screamed. (Not that RAINBOW. DASH. was scared. She'd NEVER be scared of something so stupid. Really.)

Thankfully for Rainbow Dash's pride, her brain kicked into egghead mode and recalled the request from the Princess, volunteering with Twilight, Luna's warni--. Wait.

'Twilight!' Rainbow sat up quickly, looking frantically for her fellow interdemensional traveller. She caught a glimpse of a violet stripe on deep purple to her left and quickly turned to see if it was the aforementioned.

Well, It had Twilight's hair, but no pony was underneath it. A creature, after a quick self inspection, much like herself was instead. Rainbow, still thinking at a rather nice pace, deduced it must be Twilight, since Twilight would have transformed the same way she herself did. Therefore, Rainbow did the only logical thing.

*poke*

"Twilight, wake up..."

*poke* *poke*

"Up and at'em Twi..."

*poke* *poke* *poke*

*poke* *poke*

"Ooo... Squishy..."

*poke* *poke* *poke* *poke--

"Stop itttttttttttt!" Twilight bolted upright, rubbing her cheek. She quickly noticed that the hoof she was rubbing her cheek with wasn't a hoof, and her eyes went wide with panic. Rainbow once again turned to logic and dove on top of Twilight, newly discovered hand over the latter's mouth. She then watched Twilight's face go from confused to more confused, to angry then to realization, at which she slowly reached for Rainbow's hand, taking it off her mouth, so she could speak.

"Ra...Rainbow?"

"The one and only!" Rainbow internally exhaled in relief that egghead was back, and outwardly flashed her trademarked cocky grin. This garnered a smile and laugh from Twilight and Rainbow quickly did the same. The two continued for quite a while before Rainbow rolled off of Twilight and Twilight got a good look at who she was now. Or what, depending on how you look at it. She sat up and began running over last night's conversation with the Princesses in the throne room in her head while simultaneously digging through the portable library others may refer to as her brain for relevant information. As watching Twilight think, as amazing as it is, is incredibly boring, Rainbow began to experiment with her new muscles and body. Her ears weren't something she could express with anymore, but even if her face was now flat her facial features were the same. 2 eyes, one nose and mouth. Her body still seemed rather athletic, strong. 'Maybe it's just athlete's intuition' she joked to herself. Her wings were... wait...

Twilight had also came to a world shattering conclusion at that very moment, which just like Rainbow, she felt she must share. However when the two spoke at once...

"Twi-nbow, we wings humans missing!"

The two both stopped. Then Rainbow tried speaking and Twilight had the sense to wait. 'Not like Rainbow is ever patient...'.

"Twilight, my wings are missing!"

"So is my horn. Rainbow Dash, did you actually think about Luna's warning? That we'd be changing forms? That meant we might not have horn or wings. Which she was right about."

Rainbow Dash pouted. She's done it before. But for some reason it was more expressive, more effective. So much so, even Twilight was affected. Twilight tried, but she eventually sighed and gave in.

"We'll... We'll look into it once we have our bearings here, okay?" Twilight compromised. Rainbow nodded in agreement after a moment, then motioned for Twilight to say her two bits (badumtish).

"Right! I know what we are now, Lyra came in to the library the other day asking about human myths! We are humans!" Twilight exclaimed, her scholarly side taking over, Rainbow stared blankly.

"So... what's that mean?"

"I'm glad you asked. Let me explain..." And so Twilight recited.

MEANWHILE a perfectly normal teenage boy walked through the very same park on ex-pony was explaining humanity to another. He had dirty blond hair and a bored expression on his face. He wore a black deep v neck hoodie and a pair of faded blue jeans and he was also carrying a messenger bag. His thoughts did not make him stand out either, only listening to the birds tweet, idly. If one were to ask why he is any different than the other people in the park, it would because of the conversation he just caught wind of.

"And those are humans." A soft, feminine voice said matter o‘factly.

"Twilight... did you just spend ten minutes explaining that humans evolved from monkeys?" A second female voice responded, though it was slightly lower, making it sound like a tomboy. But why would should he judge?

"Well... yes."

"Ugh, Twilight! Important information only!" Her frustration was audible. 'Or would it be exhasperation?' he thought to himself. After a pause the other voice quietly replied.

"Sorry. You know how much I tend to over explain..." 'Daw. She sounds pretty cute when she's timid.' But that thought was only in passing.

"Twilight... It's okay. But let's try asking somepony else. Like... that guy!" The boy's face made a smirk, visible to no one. "Hey, you! With the blond and black mane!" The boy stopped his pace along the path, and turned to the meadow where he was called from.

The two girls, looking to be around 17 years old, were beyond interesting. The first girl was soft featured, probably the owner of the soft voice he heard. She had black hair with a violet stripe through it, and her bangs were pretty much straight across her forehead. She wore a large deep purple v neck sweater which sleeves nearly gulfed her hands and a long white skirt. The clothes don't reveal much in the way of her figure, but she seemed quite pretty. Especially if her soft face was an indicator.

Her companion was equally amazing... no, the correct word seemed to be awesome. She had a cool pale blue hair color, cut right around neck length, and it had one section that was rainbow color. Her strong featured face clearly showed her excitement, and her posture was one of an athlete. Her clothing consisted of a blue windbreaker over a red and white baseball T with blue jeans. Her figure was only slightly more apparent than her companion’s, but it was definitely one of an athlete, matching her posture.

All in all, it was quite a different sight for the boy, who was simply walking back from school like any other day. He nodded to them as he reached speaking distance.

“What can I do for you two ladies?”

“Explain humans. Like, what are they?” He had never had to try so hard to not make a wisecrack, smirk, and laugh. Truly, it was just as interesting as he expected.

“Let’s see. Humans are the most advanced race on the planet, and pretty much the only truly sentient ones. We use tools to make more tools to advance our technological capabilities and skills, as well as to make life easier. We vary between countries, from our culture to political views. This had caused wars in the past and will inevitably do so again. How's that?" He felt it was pretty good, for an answer he made up on the fly.

His feedback was delayed, by the fact his audience was still staring at him attentively. The athletic girl's face, the one who asked, read 'processing, please wait'. He let a small smirk float through his friendly demeanor.

"Hello...?"

"Oh, oh!" The soft featured girl must have just realized the description was over. She looks pretty bookish, probably just had gotten wrapped up in thought.
"Thank you very much. Sorry for the strange question." She smiled apologetically.

"No problem. It was the most interesting question I've been asked in months." He smiled back before turning around and slowly heading back to the path, same pace as earlier,

"Let's follow him!" Rainbow said. She had made motions for it to be a whisper, but her voice still carried.

“Why Rainbow?” Twilight didn’t bother with trying to whisper.

“Um... Right, he might lead us to something interesting. Like what we’ve been looking for, the sah-” She stopped short, covering it with a cough. “a library. You could get lots of stuff there right? Books. And stuff. You know.”

Twilight stared straight at Rainbow. For Rainbow, it felt like an eternity statue’d like Discord. Finally Twilight smiled.

“You’re right! When did you become such a sleuth Rainbow Dash? After the MMM mystery?”

“Um...” Rainbow looked away from Twilight and unconsciously rubbed the back of her head. “Fluttershy.” She was spared another scrutinizing gaze. Rainbow internally grinned; she got away with using a line from Daring Do on Twilight! This one will have to go down in the record books when she gets home.

“Ah, right. Don’t want to lose him.” Rainbow said mostly to herself, and she stood on two legs like he did. Then she copied his walking motion. His leisurely pace hadn’t gotten him too far, so Rainbow could complete see how he was doing it.

But she still fell. Face first, off the first step she took. Twilight gasped, and stood to get to her fallen friend. She crashed just as quickly, right on top of Rainbow. The boy, who had still been within earshot (especially when they weren’t whispering in the slightest) turned and jogged back to the two.

“Jeezus. What did you two do, try and stand while your legs were asleep?” Twilight had rolled off of Rainbow, and the boy extended a hand to Rainbow. She took it begrudgingly, and stood once again.

“Best thing for sleepy legs is to move em a bit.” He jogged in place, as if to get Rainbow to. She took the chance to watch his movements and copy him, quickly mastering it. She is an athlete, after all. While she jumped around a bit, he crouched next to the sitting Twilight and offered his shoulder. She placed her arm on it, and he propped her up. She took a bit longer finding her balance, but he stood there to she’d have something solid to grab on to. ‘A kind gesture’, she thought absentmindedly.

“Seemed like you had it worse.” He said with a small smile. She returned it, thanking him and doing a small jog herself. Rainbow ran back over, and the boy waved once again to leave. Then he apparently decided against it, and turned back to them.

“I don’t mean to be forward or anything, but would you girls like to grab some late lunch?” The two looked to each other, and Twilight opened her mouth to speak. Her stomach spoke for her though. She blushed, and nodded.

The boy unconsciously smirked as he turned back towards the path. “I know a decent place a few blocks from here. Shall we? The name is Trey, by the way.” Twilight made an important connection as he introduced himself, and Rainbow entirely missed it.

“Yeah! I’m Rainbow Dash.” She gave him a lopsided grin, though he entirely missed it. Twilight on the other hand, facepalmed audibly, quite impressive for someone who doesn’t know what a palm is.

“Twilight Sparkle.” She said, mixed with a sigh. ‘Oh well.’ She thought. ‘Maybe only he has a strange name.’ Ever positive, , she moved to catch up to the energetic Rainbow and the nonchalant Trey.

~~~

Trey had a headache. He’d lived in New York City for a few years now, he was used to that noise. The noise that gave him this borderline migraine was actually quite simple. So simple, it could be summed up into two. Horrible. Words.

“What’s That?!” Ever since he left Central Park with the two girls, they’ve been asking that god awful question. At first, he tried to answer. Then he was cut off by another one. And another one. And so the pattern continued. Around the 5th attempt to answer the hellish question he gave in, steeling himself for the longest 3 blocks he’d ever walk.

Finally he reached the promised land. Behind him he heard one of them comment; “Rarity would love this place”, but he ignored it. He decided to gamble on the theory he was mulling over on the way here, and he would do so with flair. So when he stopped infront of the door, he looked over his shoulder.

“This is a pretty nice place. I think you’ll like it.” A mild pleasantry with a smile, then... He turned back to the door before finishing.

“Oh. And I can tell you really aren’t from here at all. You know, this world.” With that, he walked in and began speaking to the staff.

~~~

Rainbow gulped next to Twilight. Twilight was stuck on loop, caught in her own thoughts.
‘Princess said don’t let anyone know where we’re from, Princess said don’t let anyone know where we’re from, Princess said don’t let anyone know where we’re from...’ was all that was going through her head. Through the haze of repetitive messages, she saw Trey wave for them to come inside, being lead off by the serving staff of the restaurant. Rainbow stepped forward, bravely venturing in to the fine dining establishment after the guy who senses ponies. Twilight followed on auto pilot, still thinking about the Princess’s disappointed face.

They approached the corner table where Trey had been directed. Rainbow sat down opposite him, Twilight next to her. Twilight had a short distraction from her looping thoughts in the object Trey was fiddling with; a small black rectangle, with one side emitting light from behind a glass pane. He put it away after the girls sat, which once again left Twilight with the tormenting thought of failure.

When Trey looked up from his phone, he got a look at the chaos he caused. Twilight’s face was stressed, worried, and ready to cry all at once and Rainbow’s was firm; though it didn’t match her personality, making it feel like a front. He sighed.

“Jeez Twi. I figured you would ask about my cell the minute I took it out. What’s eating you?” Twilight had to fumble with her response.

“You... were supposed... just... how... how did you find out?” She stammered. He smiled in response.

“Relax Twi. Just a hunch that by some ungodly lucky chance proved true, at least judging by your reaction. Most, no, even more than most wouldn’t even harbor the thought two random girls in Central Park were from another world. I just thought it would be interesting. It is, for that matter. But don’t worry. I’m not about to bust you to the mass media or anything.” Twilight thought about what he said, particularly on the judging by your reaction part. Gears whirred in the unicorn’s head, to the point where she voiced her thoughts.

“You... were just gauging our reactions...? And then as they kept coming back positive...” she mused.

“Bingo. You-” He stopped the conversation as the waitress came over. He took on a practiced, respectful tone when conversing with her, ordering 3 waters and a salad for the two girls. He also ordered a cheeseburger (this word baffled the two ponies, but they expected different food in another world) for himself before she left.

“You are correct. Before we continue, go get your food. The sign over there, that says salad bar? It’s buffet. Trey realized a possible error. “You... do know what those are right?”

“Well duh.” Rainbow said as she pushed Twilight of her seat. Twilight tried to keep to talking to Trey, but she was dragged to the food before she could even formulate a sentence. She gave in and surveyed the salad bar. Most of the food was a familiar sight to her, though she wondered where the sunflowers were. They only had the seeds. She began with a plate, taking note of the container of metal objects next to then. It looked familiar to her, but she couldn’t place where she had seen the pitchfork like objects before. She racked her brain as she made a salad. It clicked when she was putting the final touches (the aforementioned sunflower seeds) on.

“Forks!” She said aloud, happy she remembered the strange tools used by the Canterlot elite when eating. She only saw them when she was a filly after all. She then noticed just how loud she said it, the rest of the patrons at the salad bar were giving her a funny look. One boy, younger than her judging by height, was even pointing to the forks innocently. Twilight blushed and grabbed two (expect Rainbow to have never heard of them before) before quickly heading back to her table.

She smacked her head with her offhand when she turned the corner to the table. Trey was barely concealing his roaring laughter at the sight of Rainbow attempting to eat a salad with her, well face. She watched Rainbow slowly make the connection that didn’t work without a muzzle, which made her face grow progressively more and more red. She finally looked up at Trey, completely red.

“Wha... What?”

Twilight never saw someone stop laughing that fast. He averted his eyes from her and mumbled out an apology within seconds. Twilight though she saw a bit of red on his face now. She (ever oblivious) sat down and showed Rainbow how to use a fork and Rainbow quickly regained her composure. It was a little different from using magic with one, but it wasn’t hard once you tried it for a bit. Trey eventually (what felt like quite a long time later) sighed and rested his head on the table.

“I... didn’t expect that. They both have such expressiveness... Hell, that face could take out an army...” He muttered. With a final sigh, he pulled himself back up to earn quizzical looks from Twilight and Rainbow. He ignored them.

“Anyway. Why don’t you tell me about why you’re, shall we say visiting? That might be a good place to start.” Twilight nodded.

“Just, well probably just yesterday, It depend on just how long the skip was from between midnight when we left and when we woke-”

“Twilight. Important information only.” Rainbow cut her off before she resumed eating with gusto.

“Ah. Right. Sorry. We are from Equestria. It’s a land of peace, populated by ponies of earth, pegasi, and unicorn variety. Last night, as far as we know, the Princesses Celestia and Luna called the two of us and our other four friends to the capitol, Canterlot. She told us that somepony... someone, you said right?” Trey nodded. “Someone had stumbled on that this world here had joined ours on the magical leyline.” She gave Trey’s slightly confused look a sympathetic smile. “I’ll explain in detail later. For now, it just means that we’re interconnected in some ways. Granted, it takes the Princess a month to gather enough energy to really send more than two ponies extra dimensionally. She asked us to come here and... observe a bit. We haven’t had a war in a thousand years, and if this world that just connected to the leyline was a warring type... We’d have to, shall we say adjust. Plus, it’s always good to know your neighbors. Such as if they’ll be coming for a visit anytime soon. Though...” She paused, thoughtful. “I don’t think you have magic here, so it isn’t very likely. With that, we’re mostly here as a study on the culture, and in case of danger to forewarn the Princess. We weren’t supposed to let you know we were here though...” She looked down, slightly depressed. She shook it off only a moment later though. ”Anyway, after some pointers on dimensional travel, and warning that we might not look the same on the other end...” She paused and stared at her hands. Trey could guess by the sad smile she wasn’t quite as happy about being human than she had been expressing. “We left at midnight, when Princess Luna was strongest. She has affinity with the moon, raising it nightly and all. We’re to go back with these necklaces” She raised hers, a starburst pendant, “at the first sign of danger. If we don’t come back in a month, the Princess will send the rest of our friends here to help us with the research. When we arrived we woke up in that park and, well...”

“I know the rest.” Trey smiled and finished for her. She returned it and began eating her forgotten salad. Trey’s food came at just the right time to let poor Twilight eat some of said salad. Trey finished talking to the waitress in short order, and stayed quiet for a bit. He spoke after a few minutes, once Twilight sated some of her hunger.

“Well... I get the gist of it. Magic huh?”

“She’s the Princess’s private pupil. Her special talent is magic, she’d know plenty about it.” Rainbow pointed a thumb at Twilight. Trey wondered where she picked up the motion from. ‘No, no. Important information only at the moment.’ He thought.

“Heeeh. Regardless, I’ll be honored to show you... humanity. Though I get the feeling it won’t be half as interesting as your world, I’ll show you as much as you need to know.” Twilight visibly sighed with relief, and Rainbow continued to look bored. Trey could tell she wasn’t the type for long exposition long before now, and his suspicion had only proven correct.

“Well, number one. We eat meat here.” He pointed to his cheeseburger. “Ponies don’t right?” Trey expected utter shock and possibly some magic death attack in his face. Sure, Twilight looked a little sick and Rainbow made an unhappy face... But no death ray. Rainbow spoke up.

“Well... it’s definitely not in our diet. But we aren’t the only creatures around. I had a friend when I was a filly in flight camp, a griffin. I saw her eat meat. It’s life. Fluttershy’s animals eat meat, and so do all the creatures in Everfree forest.” She grinned. “Thought we’d flip out?”

Trey smirked. He went to speak, only to catch himself. He had to deal with the unconscious urge to say whatever had floated into his head for a minute before continuing.

“N-no. Just warning you. You two have the teeth now to eat meat, and it’s common place in the world. People live without out here, vegetarians, but they aren’t too common.” He took a bite out of his lunch to demonstrate that he wasn’t one such vegetarian.

“That’s... alright then...” Twilight’s green coloring fade out.

“Oh, so if you’re good with magic you must be a unicorn, right Twi?” Trey said between bites.

“Yes. Rainbow was overemphasising before though, I’m not that good.” Twilight said modestly. Too modestly, Rainbow was mouthing ‘she’s lying, she’s amazing’ out of Twilight’s line of sight, and Trey was inclined to agree. Though he choose to let her think that until he saw for himself. If he ever did. “And Rainbow is a-”

“Pegasi, and not just an ordinary one! I’m the winner of the Best Young Flyer competition, future Wonderbolt, and the fastest in all of Equestria!” Rainbow Dash was leaning half way across the table as she listed off her skills. Trey smirked once again, and just has before he seemed to have to stop himself from saying something. It earned him quizzical looks from the best young flyer and the modest magician.

“Ah-hem.” He recovered. “I see. Now, why you girls? Don’t the Princesses have other people... Ponies who could do this job? Like, ones old enough to live on their own legally?”

“We all live on our own...” Rainbow said, confused. Trey let a little shock show through his face.

“Wow. Equestria must be a lot different in more than a few aspects. I’m still in school at 17, and you look the same age as I do. If not younger.”

“We’re all 16. Well, except Fluttershy. She’s a year older.” Rainbow clarified.

“Heeeh.”

“And as for why us...” Twilight started. “We’re the Elements of Harmony. There’s a whole adventure as to why, but the six of us represent the six aspects that make up the power and magic of Harmony. Fluttershy is the aspect of kindness, Rarity the aspect of generosity, Applejack is honest, Pinkie Pie is laughter, Rainbow here is the aspect of loyalty and I’m the aspect of magic. Our friendship is one of the most powerful magics in the world.” Rainbow picked up after her.

“And because something need a reminding of Harmony, like the Spirit of Chaos Discord... We run into some pretty strange situations. Hence, we get called on for the really crazy stuff, instead of the Royal Guard or Twilight’s brother or somepony.” She finished, pride leaking through her voice. Trey smiled, he could imagine just how much Rainbow Dash enjoys being a help in those crazy situations. But one thing they said hung with him.

“Friendship... is magic?” He asked.

“Yes!” Twilight was ecstatic. “I didn’t believe it either till I made such great friends. Now I do research on that for the Princess, and it’s so much fun!”

“Alright, I have to hear this one. Tell me the adventure behind friendship being magic, please.”

~~~

The girls retold the adventure that brought them together throughout the rest of lunch. They even had time for the story about Discord during dessert. Trey watched them happily describe their stories, relishing the good and the bad moments with each other. He too found himself laughing with them, enjoying the story and memories they were sharing. Time (and the end of the cookie sundaes) brought an end to the story telling. Trey handed a card to the waitress with the check, and turned back to the girls.

“So. Here’s another important question. What are you two going to do for a place to stay?” Rainbow spoke first.

“Well duh. I can just sleep... on a... clo...ud....” She realized halfway through her remark that she couldn’t fly to the high clouds she saw before. She flashed a sheepish look.

“We haven’t gotten that far yet. It was all so short notice, I didn’t even have time to make a checklist...” Twilight pouted like that was the more important issue. Trey sighed.

“Alright. It works I guess. I have a spare room in my apartment. I’m on my own for a few reasons, though my parents still foot the bills.” Trey took a second to mentally note the irony, him using living on one’s own as a difference between the worlds when it in fact wasn’t a difference at all in his case. “You two can stay there while you are here.” Twilight’s eyes lit up.

“Thank you! You’re too kind. Or should I say generous.” That innocent smile forced his next statement to be blunt and to the point.

“So thing number two bout Earth. Never accept an offer like that from a stranger. Not all people are good and kind here. You don’t have any reason to trust me, do you?” He said much like a wise old man.

“You helped us up.” Rainbow responded immediately. Trey was expecting something weak as an argument, but he was taken aback by that.

“That’s... that’s it. All it takes for you to trust someone... is that they give you a hand.”

“Yep. Besides, I know a liar when I see one.” She said that with such an air of confidence he knew she completely believed that she was a human lie detector.

“Besides. Would someone bad tell the target their intentions, even in an ambiguous fashion?” Twilight said with a wink. Trey lost to that cold logic. ‘She must have read books on social engineering. That has to be it.’ Trey thought to himself while he sighed.

“Okay. Fine. But it’s still important advice.” They nodded like they hadn’t just destroyed the meaning in 10 seconds flat. The waitress came back with the receipt, and Trey stood.

“Well. We could just go to my place, but what fun is that? How about we walk the city a bit? Just keep the questions to a pace I can answer them in.” The two girls agreed, and they left the restaurant in a much happier state than they had entered; with a new friend instead of someone who discovered their secret.

With the questions at a manageable pace, Trey actually began to enjoy himself walking the city in the girl’s company. Cars were first, and Trey never thought he’d be explaining cars the way he did. That lead to explaining fossil fuels which was a little more challenging, but Rainbow saved him by asking why humans all wear clothes. Trey’s response was blunt, frank, to the point, and left no room for argument.

“Humans always wear clothes. This is not optional. We never go around naked, ever.” Rainbow paused for a moment.

“B-”

“Ever.” He cut her off. It earned him a death glare from Rainbow Dash.

“BET Rarity would love that, T-Wi-Light.” Trey smiled a bit at the childish over pronunciation to make a point.

Twilight nodded absentmindedly, before switching the topic to electricity. That conversation lasted a long while. Trey had to test his knowledge of electrical engineering and electronics answering Twilight’s varied and complicated questions. The conversation only slowed when Twilight stopped to think about something, or Rainbow had a question. Some of which were on topic, usually asking for clarification on what the things were that Trey mentioned, such as TV and toasters. The others were about things she saw on the crowded streets, billboards, and even a few people’s T-shirts. From baseball to Broadway to Dr Pepper.

“A doctor that makes drinks? He sounds fake.” Trey couldn’t help but laugh before clarifying.

A few hours later, after some window shopping and the view of Times Square, the trio boarded the subway. After explaining briefly (with their new knowledge of electricity and prior knowledge of trains, it wasn’t much to grasp) they sat down and the subway left. For the first time today, Twilight seemed exhausted of questions. It didn’t surprise Trey. He’s only read a few books on electronics and electrical engineering, and he had to use everything he read to answer Twilight’s questioning. He actually thought she knew more than he did now, that she had managed to reverse engineer concepts from his descriptions. Trey slumped into the seat at that. He glanced over at the duo, Twilight deep in thought (per usual, it looks like) and Rainbow people watching. He felt no motivation to sit up till the passed the first stop on the way. He pulled out his smart phone.

Even with explaining electricity to them, the phone still took a while to grasp. They passed another stop before they finished. Trey didn’t mind however; it was interesting to hear a viewpoint on cell phones from someone who didn’t grow up with one. He described just about everything on the phone, though he intentionally left out the Internet. He had a hunch that the net would blow Twilight’s mind, and felt it better to wait before showing her that. She’d try and read the whole thing like this.

Trey eventually showed the girls Angry Birds. He did so mostly to tease them a bit with the exploding birds. They were a bit shocked that he nonchalantly blew up a bunch of birds and pigs, but no where near as much as he expected they would be. Then they turned it around on him, understanding that it was only a game only seconds later. Hell, Rainbow asked to play. Trey gave her the phone, and she quickly picked it up. He watched with interest, she wasn’t very good with the touch screen yet so it was quite amusing. Twilight was mumbling something while she watched, what Trey though might have been the quadratic formula. Whether or not it was the formula, Trey had no interest in understanding just what she was calculating. Partly because he wasn’t sure he could keep up with that brain of hers. Well. At least not without a calculator.

~~~

The sun was setting as they reached the door to Trey’s apartment. He deftly unlocked the door and led them inside. It was an average two bedroom apartment. To the left of the entrance was a small kitchen. It wasn’t a chef’s setup, but it had a lot of the things you’d need. Past that was the living area. It was scarce at best. Nothing hung on the walls, the only furniture was a coffee table, and armchair, a sofa, and a black box the girls recognized from the description earlier as a TV on a stand. A couple of boxes were wired to the back of the TV, with other things wired to them. The things were quite strange, Twilight couldn’t even figure out what to guess they were. They hung a right before actually entering the room though, into a very small hall with 3 doors, one left, one right, one forward. The one on their right was open, it was a nice little bathroom. Trey stopped with his hand on the knob of the left door.

“Um... it’s a bit of a mess but...” He opened the door.

It was a bedroom, yes. It had a bed, a pair of dressers, and a desk. However there had to be close to a hundred books everywhere, on top of things, the floor, anywhere they wouldn’t fall. Twilight’s eyes just shined brighter and brighter in the door frame.

“It’ll need some picking up... My parents keep sending me books ‘cause the think I might be interested in whatever it is...” Trey trailed off. Rainbow Dash sighed.

“Twilight, we’re stacking them in the corner. No, you can’t read any until we’re done.” Rainbow marched into the mess. Twilight quickly followed, quietly telling Rainbow to be careful, and treat the books right. Trey had his doubts on how gentle Rainbow was going to be, but it wasn’t important.

“I’ll be right back, k?” Trey left the door open, and the girls heard the front door open, but not close. A half minute later they could hear Trey talking to someone.

“Hi, Principal Gibbons right? God you work late. Don’t you have a family to go home to?” “Special circumstances. You know me, I’m not about to do anything unless something interesting is happening.” “I’ve got two out of town friends staying with me. I want you to tell the teachers for 3-A that they’re allowed to shadow me for a while. They want to see our prestigious school.” He said prestigious with a rather heavy dose of sarcasm. “Ugh, spare me the great school story. I know the truth, I go there. That will be a yes then?” “Don’t give me that, trust me, they’ll fit right into your perfect school daydream.” ”Why? One is smarter than I am. She has a better understanding of advanced electronics than I do, and I was the one who taught her them. She knows more than I do now, she reverse engineered what I told her to understand topics I don’t even know about.” Twilight blushed at his words. Though she didn’t think she knew more than him... “The other is a top notch athlete, if you’re lucky maybe she’ll train our wonderful sports teams.” “Heh. No, I may not be polite with you principal, but I don’t lie. That’s all true.” “Yeah yeah, I wouldn’t bring you trouble. I owe you that much. Thanks.” “Don’t push your luck, sir.” The sir dripped with sarcasm as he reentered the apartment.

The girls quickly scrambled to resume cleaning, they stopped without realizing it as they listened. He rejoined them and helped out. With the three of them, the books were quickly stacked nicely in the far corner of the room. Trey dusted himself off and stood up.

“You heard all that?” Twilight shook her head frantically while Rainbow shrugged. A soft chuckle escaped Trey. “It wasn’t a private call, relax. I was only going to tell you the result anyway.”

“That’s why we couldn’t hear the other person! You used the phone!” Twilight put two and two together excitedly, before she realized she admitted her eavesdropping. She looked down and smiled sheepishly. They started walking towards the living area.
Trey resumed. “So I got the principal to give you permission to visit. Humans spend the first 21 years or so of their lives in school, it’s the best place for you to learn culture.” He settled into the armchair, letting the girls share the couch. “Oh, and sorry there’s one bed. It was only a storage room before now so...” Trey gave them an apologetic smile.

“No trouble. Just like a sleepover at the library, right Twilight?” Rainbow shrugged.

“Yep! Those are always so much fun!” Twilight giggled in response. “And you’ve been kind enough as it is, not everything can work out perfectly. The odds of that are...” Twilight paused.

“Twi, don’t bother. Really low is sufficient.” Trey remarked. Twilight smiled sheepishly again.

“Jeez egghead. Just use the expression.” Rainbow teased, laughing a little. They all laughed a bit, and conversation broke out.

They spoke for hours, comparing schools in Equestria to Earth schools for a while before Rainbow decided to share the time Twilight snapped about being late for a friendship report. Twilight founded the retelling just as funny as the other two, and the night wore on. There was a short break so Trey could get up and brew some coffee (black for him and Rainbow, milk and sugar for Twilight) but soon midnight loomed and Trey felt it time to sleep. They said their good nights, and split up.

Trey stared at his desktop monitor, the screen saver bouncing around like it was all day. He knew he had some research he had to do, but he decided to wait till tomorrow. He smirked as he thought about tomorrow.

“It’s going to be... very interesting.”

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Omake (Bonus Page)

Transcript: Rainbow: Are you thinking... what I’m thinking?
Twilight: I... think so.
Both: Isn’t sleeping in your clothes... Rather silly?
Bottom: They thought too hard on Trey’s warning

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A/N: I’ll spare people the crap about how in no way in hell I ever thought I’d write a fic, blah blah blah etc. Cause I didn’t.
Some... I don’t know, self justifications.

Forks: I looked in a few episodes. I never saw anyone with one. Either only unicorns eat or they just didn’t feel like showing the forks. Whatever, it’s really just a mild thing anyway. I thought’d it be a funny joke.
(Speaking of that, can anyone guess the restaurant? =P)

I’m kinda playing alot of emotion jokes here and there. One, I’m not a good writer so they don’t sound good AFAIK, two, i figure humans have a bit better range of emotions. However, ponies are more expressive. So really expressive + more expressiveness? Rainbow Dash’s pout became so ungodly powerful she could start a war. It also means they hide their emotions less if at all tho.

No way in hell will this involve shipping. If it DOES, future me will be rebelling against current me’s opinion. And he’ll pay for that.
I’m a primary anime fan. Hence I’m sure, if they haven’t already, plenty of anime tropes might slip in. The goal is to not let that influence anything though. If they are there it’s one thing, if the story keeps calling to them as, shall we say crutches, it’s a massive problem. Mostly cause half of us bronys don’t have the dual background. =P

The Omake is one of those ^. They’re usually joke strips at the end of a long story line or the back of the book. I was bored (and by that I mean prepping to fail the final) in my summer class and doodled that... I’m in no way a good artist, but hay. I keeping doing it.. Hopefully it didn’t burn your eyes out. Cause then you couldn’t go read a better fic. =P

If you want a decent rendition of human Rainbow and Twilight, the one’s I’m basing off of are

http://applestems.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-Sparkle-Human-307022622?q=gallery%3Aapplestems%2F30482447&qo=7 the middle one, though not the clothes.

http://applestems.deviantart.com/art/Rainbow-Dash-Human-306103036?q=gallery%3Aapplestems%2F30482447&qo=8 and the middle one.

You’re an awesome artist Applestems. Hence why I felt like giving you props. =P

However much we love and tolerate, I can’t tolerate subpar work. So be cruel if you must in any commentary. If it’ll make me suck less, I can’t complain.

Here’s to Hasbro and Lauren Faust and all the people out there who made the show. You guys rock. Credit to you guys for Twi and Dash, and everything else pony.

Oops, Author’s notes became author’s page. Tehehe.