Equilibrium, Book 1: The First Human.

August, 1st, 1000 C.E.
Ponyville.

1:37 P.M.

"Hello, you two!" Fluttershy smiled as she greeted the two guests at her door. John smiled while Dash waved. Fluttershy let them in and closed the door behind them. Then giving john a comforting smile she sat down on her sofa and beckoned her two friends to do the same.

"So are we going to have company for this session?" She asked John as he sat down and took a sip of tea. He looked over at Dash. She just shrugged.

"If you two are ok with it." She said as she got comfortable on the second sofa in Fluttershy's living room. She and the other's always did wonder where John got off to in the week he had lived here. He would disappear for hours on end sometime's. They didn't freak out all that much mostly because after the first time it happened Fluttershy had come over and told the other's that she was keeping close tab's on there new bipedal friend. As they all got settled into various state's of relaxation john propped himself up on Fluttershy's recliner and took a deep breath.

"Ok so to begin where we left off," Fluttershy said as she took a cup of tea in her magic and took a sip. John mulled over her statement.

"Home." He answered. Fluttershy nodded.

"Good." She then took out a notebook.

"And what about home?" She asked as she took up a quill.

"I mostly wonder if I'll ever be able to get back." He said as he reclined the chair and took another deep breath. Fluttershy jotted down some notes for later.

"And what do you think would happen if you couldn't get back home?" She asked noting how a small scowl made its way across John face for a split second. It was gone as he huffed out a sigh.

"Honestly I don't know. I mean don't get me wrong I like it here beyond belief but I just don't know about living here long term." He said feeling like he was leaving something out.

"And what would be so bad about living here in the long term?" John just sat there thinking it over.

"Honestly the only thing I can think of is finding someone to settle down with." That got both of the female's attention. John just sighed.

"I feel like its stupid to worry about that at this point in time." He said as he rubbed the sweat from his face as it began to heat up. Remembering who he was with tho calmed him down. He was in the presence of Fluttershy one of the sweetest, kindest, and gentlest of ponies in all of Equestria.

"So why do you feel the need to think about this?" She asked as Dash began to shift around on her sofa. Fluttershy eyed her a little bit noticing how uncomfortable she was getting. She held out a hoof.

"One-sec dear." She said as she turned to Dash.

"Is there something wrong Dash?" she asked concern evident in her voice. Dash just looked around the room.

"Um yeah, I just remembered that I have an appointment to get to." She said not at all convincingly. Fluttershy nodded and just before Dash bolted out the door she looked over to John.

"Hey big guy I'll see you later ok?" she asked. John gave her a thumbs up from his position on the chair. Dash then nodded to Fluttershy who gave her a smile and nodded back.

"Hey, John I'll be back in a sec ok?" She said as she gave his cheek a soft nuzzle.

"Ok." He said as Fluttershy went outside with Dash. Once they were a few steps away from the door Dash let out a breath she was holding.

"Ok, so I might have run afoul of his custom's earlier today." She said as she began to fidget a bit. Fluttershy fixed her with a mild glare.

"How so?" She asked in a level voice. Dash just chuckled nervously.

"Well, I might have sent him to the shower's without telling him they were open to the public." She said and winced as she expected Fluttershy to be in her face. Instead, she looked at Fluttershy who was tittering a little bit.

"That's all?" She asked as Dash stood there dumbstruck.

"You're not mad at me?" She asked now feeling out of the loop. Fluttershy just smiled.

"No. In fact, I've been suggesting that he take a step outside of his comfort zone so he can understand our culture a bit better." She said feeling relieved. Dash let out a sigh of relief.

"Good for a second there I thought I was going to get a lecture from you about violating his personal space." She muttered under her breath."

"What?" Fluttershy asked not quite hearing her. Dash laughed nervously.

"Oh, nothing Flutter's nothing at all." She said as she looked around Fluttershy's cottage. Fluttershy, on the other hand, was scanning the surrounding forest. She felt the telltale signs of an intruder and no one trespassed in her territory. Her eye's narrowed.

'Hey Dash can you go and tell John that I'll be right back. I need to go check on my perimeter real quick." She said as her wings snapped open. Dash gave her a nod.

"Sure." She said as Fluttershy took off. Dash let out another sigh.

"Well, Dash you dodged a bullet and didn't make a complete fool out of yourself in front of Equestria's first human. Good going." She smiled as she entered Fluttershy's house and saw that John was still sitting in the chair. She trotted over and sat down on the sofa next to him.

"Hey, there big guy." She said as she got comfy.

"Fluttershy said -" She stopped when she heard a light snore escape John. Leaning closer she saw that he had fallen asleep. She smiled and then smirked to herself.

"Let's see he's asleep. Does Fluttershy have any ink around here?" she asked herself as she looked around. Her smirk turned into a devious grin as she spotted a writing desk nearby.

"Oh, he is so going to kill me later." She cackled as she made her way over and grabbed a bottle of ink.

2:00 P.M.

Fluttershy landed on the outskirt's of the everfree forest scanning the tree line as she did so. Her eyes detected the heartbeat of a pony who had concealed themselves in a tree. Ever so slowly Fluttershy landed a few trees away and looked around the clearing she found herself in. Scanning it once more she soon found a family of squirrels that looked none too pleased.

"Oh hello there." She said making her way over to them. They chittered a greeting back before they slowing looked over to the tree same tree she to was focused on, angry scowled adorned there little faces.

"Oh, what's the matter?" Fluttershy asked as she played it cool.

"Don't want them to know that I'm on to them." Meanwhile the P.I. hiding in the tree was livid with fear.

"Don't find me, don't find me, don't find me!" She silently begged as she looked around for a way out. Luckily for her, she was near the forest line of trees.

"Yes!" She silently cheered to herself as she began to scramble her way down the tree. Her plan in mind she set about making it a reality. That was until she looked over and saw that Fluttershy was now carrying the squirrels on her back and walking towards her tree.

"SHIT!" Her brain screeched as she tried to high tail it out of there. Unbeknownst to her Fluttershy began to wore a sinister smile as she picked up on her quarry fear.

"Now let's see what brings her all the way out to the edge of my forest." She smiled to the squirrel family as she trotted over to the tree. Looking up to it's top she smirked as she saw the pony who looked as if she had tried to camouflage herself. It would have worked if she was a normal pony. trotting over to the base of the tree she knelt down to allow the squirrels to scamper off her back and sit next to there home. Giving her little woodland friends a wink she trotted up to the tree.

The pony inside of it gave an involuntary shiver as Fluttershy's gaze swept over, and past her.

"All right you three can go on home now. Whoever was there is gone now." Fluttershy said as the little family scurried back up the tree. Fluttershy smiled at the family as they ran up the tree and turned around to leave. The pony in said tree let out a breath she was holding and let out a little laugh as Fluttershy continued to trot off.

"That was a close one." She sighed as she continued her decent of the tree only to suddenly get violently thrown from said as it was hit with an unimaginable force of strength. A cry of surprise graced Fluttershy's ears as the pony was thrown out of the tree and lay there sprawled out on the ground. Slowly the bespectacled unicorn rolled over groaning as she did so.

"Oh, my snout." She rubbed it oblivious to the presence of Fluttershy as the latter scanned her thoughts.

"Oh no. The Boss is going to be furious!" Fluttershy raised an eyebrow. Putting a smile on her face she held a hoof out to the pony.

"Oh, I'm sorry were you the one that poor family of Squrral's was talking about?" Fluttershy asked faining ignorance. The pony in question finally got her thought's straight as she looked up at Fluttershy.

"Uhh?" She couldn't fathom how Fluttershy had known she was in the tree nor could she figure out how she had hit it with such force. To say that she was scared was an understatement, but a small part of her was curious as well.

"Oh uh yeah sorry about that?" She said as she took Fluttershy's hoof and pulled herself up.

"So what's your name?" Fluttershy asked still wearing her false smile.

"Oh um my name's Joy. Joyful Spring's." She said thinking up a name on the spot. Fluttershy smirked.

"And you are?" Joy asked Fluttershy. Fluttershy gave her a snide grin as her fangs began to pop out of her mouth. She then chuckled as she smelt Joy's fear grow.

"Oh, I'm just the last pony you want to lie to Ms, Silent." She said as Silent Entry began to back away from Fluttershy who now sported a pair of crimson eyes and bat-like wing's. Silent's scream's of horror rang out throughout the forest before suddenly being cut short.

3:00 P.M.

Dash had left Fluttershy's as soon as she was done with John's face. As much as she wanted to see his reaction she really was behind schedule and decided to ramp up her usual routine to compensate for her late start. She started off with a quick lap around ponyville as a warmup and then went straight into her advanced curriculums. With all of her focus spent on perfecting her routine for the upcoming airolympacs Dash hadn't noticed her little group of admirers until she was done and in a panting state of euphoria settled back down on the ground.

"Wow dash that was amazing!" Came the voice of scootaloo. Dash fell into a heap as Scootaloo and the rest of the group of filly's and colt's all dog piled her. Laughing all the while Dash tried to stand up and found that she was still being used as a mobile jungle gym by the kids.

"Ok, ok so what are all of you doing here?" she asked as she trudged back to Ponyville. Pipsqueak piped up as they crossed the bridge into town, Dash getting a load of smirks from all the passing mare's and stallions as she opened her wings to help balance out all the little foal's clinging to her.

"Well, we were all going to the park when we saw you, Ms. Dash." He said as he steadied himself on her left wing. Dash just chuckled.

"So you all stopped to see me in action huh?" She smiled as they all nodded.

"Well, who could blame them when the one and only Rainbow Dash is putting on a free show?" The voice from above started Dash who thanks to her lightning reaction time avoided dropping anypony.

"No way!" She exclaimed as a yellow coated, red-maned pegasus shot out the air and landed right in front of Dash and her group of admirers.

"Well Dash I know it's been a long time but I never thought I see you speechless." Hot Shot smirked as he strode up to the little group. Dash meanwhile got her voice back.

"Yeah, it's been what 4 years since you went off to go join the guard?" Dash said as she trotted up Hot Shot who gave her a soft nuzzle. Scootaloo then piped up asking what all the foals were thinking.

"Hey Dash who's the boy?" She asked as Dash giggled as Scootaloo found a new perch on the top of her head. She leaned down so Scootaloo could get a better look.

"This everypony is the one and only Hot Shot." She smirked as he struck a pose causing the foals to giggle and Dash to roll her eyes with a smirk as the two began to trot and talk.

"Hey care to join me for a bit of an after workout snack?" She asked out of the blue. Hot Shot laughed.

"Sure thing Dash." He said as he fell in step with his friend.

"He and I went way back in junior speedster's flight camp," Dash told the group as Hot Shot chuckled.

"Aww, the good old day's." He said reminiscing about his time there with Dash and Gilda.

"You still haven't changed a bit Dash." He said shooting her a smirk one that Dash returned.

"Oh yes, I have." She said as all of the foals jumped to the ground.

"Oh, really how so?" Hot Shot challenged. Dash just smiled as the foals oohed. Hot Shot paused and held the door open.

"I've gotten better." She said as she trotted into the diner Dash's cargo of foals in tow. Hot Shot caught a glimpse of her perfectly toned ass as she entered and smirked.

"I have no doubt about that Dash." He said as he followed Dash and her entourage into the sweet's shop.