Me and Rainbow Dash zipped along across the fields of Sweet Apple Acres, racing as fast as possible. We both where not going to lose, and we both knew it. The only problem I knew I had, was that I would have to slightly follow Rainbow Dash, as I didn't know were the town hall was. With that in my mind, I let her pull ahead slightly from me. Luckily, she was flying low enough that, when we hit Ponyville, she was also having to dodge houses and other pegasi, as I had to dodge earth ponies.

Rainbow Dash looked back at me and grinned, before pouring on more speed and turning a corner at an intersection. I sped up and turned the corner to see a large building up ahead, with Dash a quarter of the way to it. I sped up again as I didn't accept that I was going to lose. I started to gain on her, little by little, before being neck and neck halfway. I looked at her and laughed, before the world started to stretch just ever so slightly, as I started to warp a little bit of the world to amuse me even further. I laughed as equations started to flow by me, ignoring them and imposing my idea for space to help me get to were I needed, making space fold just a tad, putting me ahead of Dash, for the final quarter of the race. I saw Discord and Pinkie waiting for us, cheering us on, Discord holding a checkered flag. Dash had seen me warp, pushing herself faster, catching up just as we both screeched to a halt to stop ourselves from running into the town hall, both placing our hands on the wall, at the same time.

"What... was the... warping... for... you jerk. That is cheating." Rainbow Dash complained. I transformed back to my human form and started talking.

"Your right. I only meant to put myself ahead by about three inches, not an entire chest length. I really am sorry. How about we say you won, since I did cheat. And, you get one free favor from me, redeemable at any point you want. Okay. Because I like you and don't want to lose a new friend." I beg, honestly not wanting to lose a good exercise buddy and friend. She relents and says.

"Fine. Anyways, here is the town hall. Go on in and talk to the secretary, and she will put in a word for a meeting with her. I need to go get ready to bring in the new storm cloud shipment we are getting tomorrow, for the storm on Friday." She says, and then waves goodbye as she flies off. I then turn to Pinkie, who was standing their with Discord, who just walked away after I said hi, and asked her what day it was.

"It's only Thursday. I decided to help you with the house buying, as everyone has some things they need to do. Also, Rarity wanted to talk to you after this is over, to get your measurements. Then we can go furniture shopping." Pinkie then walks in to the town hall, and I follow after her.

The interior of the building is just like what you might find in a meeting hall of most small towns, large open room with rooms in the halls behind. We head to the back of the main room and through a door on the right side. Once through, we see a desk occupied by a pleasant looking mare, who greets us.

"Hello, Scroll Kick, is Mayor Mare busy. My friend here wants to talk to her about citizenry and houses." Pinkie asks the nice mare, who takes a look at a schedule nearby.

"Yes, she has an opening in ten minutes, she is in with another pony right now. If you want to wait or comeback that's fine. How long do you think this will take to do? She has a meeting in about forty minutes once she is done with the pony she is with." Scroll Kick says, trying to see if their is anything she can move to help us.

"We will stay. I don't mind waiting, and it's not like I have anywhere to go at this time. I will be listening to music though Pinkie, if you need to wake me or talk." I say, then deciding something. "Actually, do you wanna listen with me? I can let you have a bud to listen with?"

"No need to worry silly. I always carry two sets of headphones and a split jack. That way, if I run into Vinyl, one of my friends, we can both listen to hers or mine music. I believe you know how they work. They are over the ear phones though, so is that alright?" Pinkie offers up, pulling said headphones and jack split out of her hair.

"Sure. That's perfectly fine by me." I say, then pulling out my phone and bringing up my downloaded music. We put the headphones on and listened to my music for the ten minute wait. After we saw Mayor Mare come out of her office, we stopped the music and stowed everything away.

"Hello, i'm Mayor Mare, how can I help you?" The gray maned mare nodded to her office and we followed her in to sit. We told her everything. How I came to be in Equestria. How I had helped the town and had a recent duel with Discord. And ended with coming here to get a house, and citizenry. She mulls it over, before heading over to her filing cabinets behind her, opening several drawers, and pulling out some folders before closing them, and turning back to us.

"Well, here are the citizenship papers," handing me a small stack of papers. I look them over, trying somewhat to understand most of the legalese on it, happily noticing that the pages are fairly simple and easy to understand. "And here is a few houses we have on the market at this point in time. All of them are well built, with some being semi furnished to unfurnished, the bit prices will be pretty low this time of year, under two thousand. That should help you out." Handing me several sheets of paper with houses printed on them, and specifications for each one.

"Is it okay if I come back with all my answers tomorrow? I need some time to think on the houses, and to fill out the citizenship forms." I say putting all the papers into different slots of my hammerspace.

"Of course. Take your time, but not to long, please. We do want you settled in quickly, as things get rather odd around Ponyville most days. We want you to be able to have a safe place to stay in case something might happen. Go ahead and take them with you, but bring them to me at your earliest convenience." The mayor said, showing me and Pinkie out the office and waving as we left.

"So, wanna go get something from Sugercube Corner, then head on to Twilight's for the Dude Story. Or just head to Sugercube Corner and grab a bite to eat." Pinkie Pie starts to drag me towards her work place, as I was told by the girls when at the party earlier.

"Are you asking me on a date Pinkie? Cause I gotta say, I don't mind going to Sugercube Corner with you." I say while casting a glance at Pinkie Pie. She gets a small blush, but dismisses most of the reason why with her next words.

"No. I'm just wanting to go get something sweet. You are the one who wanted a date. Get your mind out of the gutters, Cameron. I just wanted to go to the bakery."

And that is what we do.

Author's Note

I meant to have this out yesterday on my birthday, but I had to do some stuff to help my mom and the kids, so I had a long and boring birthday. However, I did feel better when I came to finish this, so I'm good.

Have a Jivin day!