Author's Note

Bear with me during the start of this, it’ll get better as the story continues. All of this, is basically a hard transition of introducing the characters, trying my absolute best to make it flow in a good way. Currently, I’ve (at least I think) got a good handle on Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash’s personalities, hopefully. Currently making a action, reaction list of what Hawk would do, and what their most likely reactions would be, making a base on those. Also, I’m trying to get a handle on if I’m using, “(Name) said” or things like that correctly.

Entry Three, Sweet Apple Acres

“What in tarnation did ya do?!” the orange and slightly peeved mare yelled. I put my hands up with a surprised look on my face, not expecting (in reality I should’ve) to face this mare so soon. With silence, I shrugged. “Ya don’t know? You don’t know!? What do ya mean, you don’t know!? You just destroyed one of our precious trees!”

“Hey Applejack, what’s going on-oh...” said the purple mare, pausing when she laid her eyes on me.

“Why ah oughta buck you to next Tuesday!” yelled Applejack in righteous fury, pawing her hoof on the ground, about to charge. This caused me to be defensive.

“Applejack wait!” Twilight yelled, as she looked at the pile of wood around me, then spotted the blood on the ground. “It’s hurt, so I don’t think it did this on purpose. Did you, or can you even understand me?” she asked me expectantly. I shook my head. “Okay, you can understand us. That’s a relief, so what happened?” I was about to tell her, but realized I couldn’t speak. Scratching the back of my head nervously, I then had an idea. I pointed to my throat, and then made a zipped lip gesture. “You... can’t talk?” I nodded. “Oh, then how can we...” I made a writing gesture, as if I had a notebook and a pen. “Writing?” I nodded.

“Twi, are you sure we can even trust that thing? It destroyed one a’ the elements, and it sided with Nightmare Moon!” Applejack mentioned, to which I shook my head.

“I don’t think it did that on purpose either, or even knew what was happening then. We did scare it,” the other side of the argument pointed out. “It also tried to defend us, so it at least could’ve been on our side the entire time. Right?” she asked my way, to which I nodded.

“If ya say so...” Applejack relented, with a suspicious glare. “But I got mah eye on you.” I simply nodded again, accepting it.

“Well... do you think you can tell us what happened to the best of your abilities?” Twilight asked. I thought then nodded. I walked over to the wood pieces, picked up what I assumed were the lower and bottom parts of the jaw, and snapped the two together. “Wood?” I shook my head, as I then made what I thought looked like a monster pose. “Monster. Wood and monster, did it look like a wolf made out of wood?” she deduced quickly. I nodded, which caused her and the mare of apples to gasp.

“Ya mean you took down a timber wolf?” I shook my head, then held up three fingers, hoping they would get it. “Three?” I nodded, and then made my hands to gesture small to large. “Then they grew?” I nodded, which incited wider eyes. “And I’m gonna guess you used that weird lookin’ sword of yours to fight them off,” to which I nodded. “Well, I don’t think yer lying, so thank yer kindly fer that.”

“Wait, that sword, I swear I saw that before... That’s the Crucible! One of the most powerful weapons! How’d you get your hooves, er, claws on that!?” Twilight blurted out. I put my finger up on my head, imitating a horn, and flapped my arms like wings. “Horn, flying, Nightmare Moon gave it to you?” I nodded, and shrugged with a shake of my head. “I’m guessing she didn’t give you room to talk.” I gave a shrug of indifference. “Alright, why don’t we get your gash checked out before-” I held up a finger as I pulled up my shirt, to show the gash had already healed, causing the two mares to go wide eyed again.

“Ah don’t believe it. Th-the scar’s there, but the... How?” Applejack gasped. I shrugged.

“Well, why don’t we introduce ourselves, I’m Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight introduced.

“And I’m Applejack, nice making your acquaintance partner,” Applejack greeted, holding her hoof out, to which I shook. Make it known, ponies are really trusting, with just one good deed. “Now, we’ll need a name for yah, do you even have one?” I shook my head no. “Well-”

“Why not Hawk!” suggested an excited pink pony that anyone would know a mile away. Pinkamena Diane Pie, or otherwise known as, Pinkie Pie. The party pony. Agent Pink Pony 3.14-wait I’m not even writing this!

“Pinkie? Why Hawk?” Twilight asked.

“Well, it makes sense since he seems to be as observant as a hawk, and the hawk on the back of his jacket,” Pinkie explained. I went wide eyed as I tried to check the back of my jacket, spinning around a bit, before just taking it off and and seeing that indeed, there was the image of a hawk on the back. It was designed as a white, wing spread hawk in front of a shield. After looking, I placed the jacket back on, ignoring the rip in fabric.

“Hawk... I guess it fits. Great idea Pinkie,” Twilight implored. I then heard flapping of wings, as I quickly turned and held my arms in front of me as hooves impacted said arms, before the UFO then was batted into the pile of lumber. “Oh no...” Twilight said as the two mares, excluding the shaking, bouncing, smiling, pink epitome of energy. Both mares face-palmed, (face-hooved?) with a sigh. The pile exploded as the angry pegasus flew out and was about to go for round two, until she was engulfed in an aura of purple magic.

“Twilight! What are you doing!?” Rainbow Dash, fastest pegasus within Equestria, and future Wonderbolt.

“I’m stopping you, because you might get yourself hurt!”

“What do ya mean? I can take this guy, no problem!”

“He just saved us from a pack of hungry Timberwolves,” Applejack replied, to which Rainbow gave a surprised look my way, before crossing her hooves and mumbling something under her breath. I just gave a “It’s okay” gesture, to which that seemed to be the key to calming everything down.

“Wait a minute, where’d you even go after we beat Nightmare Moon? You just vanished,” Rainbow asked. I thought a minute, before pointing to my neck, and making a gesture of circling my neck.

“The elements.” Twilight guessed. I then made a explosion gesture with my hands. “Explosion.” I then made a covering gesture with my arms. “Covered... You were... covered by rubble!” I nodded. Leave it to Twilight to guess correctly. “But, for that long... How’re you still alive?” she asked concerned, to which I shrugged. This just left everyone flabbergasted. “Well, why don’t we head back to the library?”

“Ah’d love to, but I gotta stay an’ clean up a mess somepony made,” Applejack said with a glare sent my way.

“And I have a new, “Welcome to Ponyville” party to make,” Pinkie exclaimed.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea, at least until he’s used to his surroundings, and the rest of the citizens are used to him,” Twilight objected. “Come on Hawk, let’s go.” I obliged, and walked behind her into the town.